Top Financial Services Startups in 2024

The Marqeta Platform is the world’s first fully documented, open API issuer processor platform, built from the ground up with no legacy infrastructure for flexibility, scalability and performance. Marqeta has re-engineered how physical payment cards, virtual payment cards and mobile wallets should be developed and deployed.

Dwolla, Inc. is a fintech company helping innovative organizations digitally transform their payments. Dwolla’s robust platform and low-code API simplifies the complex process of integrating with the various payment networks. Since 2016, businesses have white-labeled Dwolla’s modern payment technology to program payments in real time, the same day or to a debit card. Today, the most innovative companies are programming their payments with Dwolla—or they should be. Developer resource - developers.dwolla.com Business resource - dwolla.com/resources

Finix is the smartest way for businesses to own, manage and monetize payments. Created by payments experts from First Data, PayPal, and Worldpay, Finix is trusted by companies like Lightspeed POS Inc. and Clubessential. to build and scale their payments infrastructure. Headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Cincinnati, Ohio, Finix is a privately held company funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Homebrew, Insight Partners, Aspect Ventures, Visa, Precursor Ventures, Class 5 Global, and Village Capital.

Airbase is the only truly comprehensive spend management platform for small and midsize companies. It brings together accounts payable automation, corporate card programs, and employee expense reimbursements without expecting companies to compromise on functionality for any of these areas. Airbase automates accounting and operational processes for a faster close, and real-time reporting for all non-payroll spend. Finance teams often handle complex payment flows using a combination of siloed software products, spreadsheets, and manual workarounds. Airbase eliminates inefficient workflows and messy tech-stacks. Airbase frees up finance teams and eliminates wasted capital while providing tools for better decision-making and budget control. Learn more about why innovative companies like Gusto, Segment, Doximity, Getaround, Netlify, and more trust Airbase at airbase.com

Knab is an online bank founded in 2012. It's based on the conviction that the financial world can and in fact must do things differently. Instead of products and rules, we prioritize the customer. Knab focuses on innovation, human service and transparency. We've literally flipped the script on all the other banks: bank - knab.

Kunai is a safe workplace for brilliant minds in the fields of software engineering & architecture, business development, recruiting and strategy. We specialize as an agency for fintech organizations ranging from unicorn startups to Fortune 500 companies. Our team of 120+ individuals is dispersed all around the world, which organically builds diversity into our culture's DNA. Our mission is to take care of our people so that together we can all do the best work of our lives.

Lendflow provides embedded finance infrastructure for vertical SaaS platforms. Combining a vast marketplace, contextual product placements and powerful data services that include data aggregation, orchestration, decisioning, monitoring and standardization, Lendflow enables every tech platform to build, enhance or embed financial products within their ecosystems. With Lendflow, SaaS platforms can increase customer engagement and retention, lenders can expand their reach and increase operational efficiencies and SMBs can quickly access capital to power their growth.

We offer a personalized investment management API as a service

Our mission is to increase the success rate of small businesses. Traditional banking has been a growth limiter rather than a growth enabler for business owners, and we’re changing that. Relay is the all-in-one, collaborative money management platform. We’re building for employer SMBs and their finance function, internal and external, and are focused on delivering a human-centric customer experience. Ultimately, we help SMBs be ‘on the money'.

Tokensoft provides enterprise services and tools to the leading blockchain foundations. Since 2017, we’ve helped approx. 100 projects raise $1 billion through our platform and we are currently the volume leader in compliant token sales. Our clients include Avalanche, The Graph, Acala, Moonbeam, Tezos, and Hedera Hashgraph. Our software is trusted by blockchain businesses, foundations, and projects of all sizes as a leading token events and compliance hub. We were founded to provide issuers with a compliant, stable, and secure option for launching a token sale. Our founding team has built foundational technologies in the blockchain industry such as the first Ethereum multi-signature web wallet, the first in-browser micropayment system for Bitcoin, and the first viral application on the Lightning Network (Satoshi's Place). Beyond helping projects raise funds, the Tokensoft platform also provides configurable and white-labeled solutions for launching and managing events such as community grant programs, hackathons, OTC deals, private token sales, equity raises, post-sale claims, airdrops, incentivized testnets, core team distributions, and more.