Top Financial Services Startups in 2027

Brookfield Asset Management is an asset management firm focused on property, renewable energy, infrastructure, and private equity.

Nomura is an investment banking and securities firm that serve the needs of individuals, institutions, corporate and governments. Nomura is a financial services group and global investment bank. Based in Tokyo and with regional headquarters in Hong Kong, London, and New York, Nomura employs about 26,000 staff worldwide. It operates through five business divisions: retail (in Japan), global markets, investment banking, merchant banking, and asset management. Nomura with a nationwide network of branch offices, call centers and Internet services, the company continues to provide world-class products and services centered on consulting-based sales, and implement a series of strategic initiatives to ensure we remain a trusted partner to its clients. Asset Management achieves stable and sustainable growth as an asset management company that is trusted by investors around the world and will contribute to an increase in earnings by expanding the client franchise of the Nomura Group.

Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc. (“DCMA”), was incorporated in 1964. DCMA is a New York-based registered securities broker-dealer, a futures commission merchant, a primary dealer of U.S. Treasury securities, and a member of the New York Stock Exchange and other major U.S. exchanges. Our main focus is on the sales and trading of Japanese, Asian, and U.S. equities, fixed income instruments, financial futures, and investment banking for institutional customers. DCMA’s ultimate parent company is Daiwa Securities Group Inc. Mission: Building upon Daiwa Securities Group Inc.’s corporate principles, DCMA recognizes its mission is to contribute to the development of society and the economy through its daily operations. This is essential to the success of our mission and sustainable growth with society — deepening the bond of trust we have with our stakeholders, customers, shareholders, employees, and communities.

Cartera Commerce delivers the industry's most comprehensive, fully-managed, performance-based offer platform for card issuers, airline frequent flyer programs and merchants. Cartera works with two of the three largest financial institutions, all five of the largest airlines and hundreds or merchant advertisers to power personalized, omni-channel shopping and marketing programs that build consumer engagement and loyalty, maximize card spend and create new revenue streams. The Cartera offer platform delivers relevant offers via multiple digital marketing channels including website, online banking, email, mobile, and social media. The company is headquartered in Lexington, MA.

inVesti is a financial management platform utilizing participant data to encourage success and wellness. We share that data across our Financial Advisor Partners and our Plan Administrators to deliver a holistic communication system for efficiency and measurable outcome.

Metal does machine learning embeddings as a service. Embeddings are what AI models use to represent meaning. They capture the relationship between concepts, and they’re at the heart of every generative AI application, like ChatGPT and DALL-E. As the data format of machine learning, embeddings are critical to every AI application. But there are no existing tools that help developers use them. Metal is a fully managed service for developers to build applications with embeddings. We handle all of the infrastructure, provide out of the box operations, and simple APIs.

Global Banking for Africans; Eliminating currency barriers for a truly borderless banking experience. Pay, get paid, and manage finances in multiple currencies.

Promethist is a deep-tech company building the next generation of enterprise conversational AI. We combine conversational AI with psychological and behavioral expertise to create Relational agents that enterprises deploy in production, at scale, to enhance performance, and engagement across customer service, HR, employee care, education, and beyond. Our technology is live inside large enterprises, including a leading European bank scaling a deployment from hundreds to thousands of seats. We care about human-centric design, real outcomes, and being a voice worth listening to in the AI conversation, not another vendor adding to the hype.