Top Financial Services Startups in 2027

Garuda Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-focused firm run by operators-turned-investors. Through Garuda, we invest in ambitious founders building the iconic companies of tomorrow. If this sounds like you, we'd love to be your first investor.

EP is the global leader in entertainment payroll, residuals, tax incentives, finance, and other integrated production management solutions with 15 offices in the U.S., Canada, London, and Tokyo. Combining unparalleled industry expertise and resources, EP strives to make the complex simple and collaborates with clients to help them produce the most cost-effective and efficient film, television, digital, and commercial projects. Its VISTA accounting systems and Movie Magic Budgeting and Scheduling programs are the industry standards. The EP Financial Solutions group is the industry’s most experienced production incentives team, assisting productions all over the world. Casting and payroll for background actors is handled through its legendary Central Casting division, a Hollywood icon since 1925. Established nearly 40 years ago, EP is a 100% employee-owned company.

Galaxy Digital operates as a technology-driven financial services and investment management firm that provides institutions and direct clients with a full suite of financial solutions spanning the digital assets ecosystem. Galaxy Digital operates five synergistic business lines: Trading, Asset Management, Principal Investments, Investment Banking, and Mining.

GIC is a global investment firm established in 1981 to manage Singapore's foreign reserves. A disciplined long-term value investor, GIC is uniquely positioned for investments across a wide range of asset classes, including equities, fixed income, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure. GIC invests through funds and directly in companies, partnering with its fund managers and management teams to help world-class businesses achieve their objectives. In tech investing, GIC seeks to be a lifetime partner to the companies it invests in. GIC has investments in over 40 countries around the world. Headquartered in Singapore, GIC employs over 1,700 people across 10 offices in key financial cities worldwide.

At Vested, we are on a mission to make global investing accessible to all Indians. We provide seamless access to a wide range of international assets - including US Stocks & ETFs, Global Funds, Private Markets and Managed Portfolios. Since 2019, we’ve empowered over 3 lakh Indian investors to diversify globally and build smarter, future-ready portfolios. With ₹6,000 Cr+ in Assets Under Management, Vested is now a thriving and fast-growing community of global investors. We believe in constantly challenging the status quo and creating products that people in India have never had access to.

FlexTrade Systems, Inc. provides algorithmic trading platforms and execution systems for equities, foreign exchange, and listed derivatives. It offers equity trading solutions for black-box trading, real-time drop copies, order management, database updates, risk management, real time market data access, and historical tick data access. The company also offers electronic foreign exchange solutions, as well as futures and options trading solutions. In addition, it provides information platforms for the financial markets community. The company provides FlexSpread, a cross currency spread program for the equity markets in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. It serves investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, commodity trading advisors, and institutional brokers. FlexTrade Systems, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Great Neck, New York with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.

In-Q-Tel identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions.