Top Financial Technology Startups in 2026

Founded in 2010, we have grown from a united vision shared between two people to a team of over 140 across London, Toronto, New York and Singapore. We have achieved scale by building the best-in-class surveillance tooling, where our analytics bring the front office risk mindset to the compliance function. Though we have developed in the trade surveillance arena, we have always been more than that. At heart, we are a finance-focused big data firm. Our goal is to continue creating the world’s leading financial markets analytics platform. If you are a hard-working, highly motivated and driven person who enjoys facing complex challenges head-on then we might be just the right fit.

Modern finance calls for modern tools. Planful’s Continuous Planning platform marries finance’s need for structured planning with the business’ need for dynamic planning, enabling your organization to elevate the financial conversation, and make better decisions more quickly, confidently, and strategically.

Alloy is a smart identity solution that helps companies in financial services and other regulated industries safely onboard more “good” customers without introducing any additional fraud into their systems. We’re a five-year-old, fully funded financial technology startup based in NYC and backed by venture capital firms that have taken countless companies to IPO like Bessemer Venture Partners, Primary Venture Partners, Eniac Ventures, and others. We’re the leading provider of digital identity management and support innovative FinTech companies, and top tier banks to manage KYC, AML, and other components of client onboarding. Alloy’s single API enables its clients to access over 50 third party data sources in real-time to improve decision-making and streamline client experiences.

The financial regulation era is here, and it only takes one false move. With that in mind, Shield FC developed a solution that addresses the challenge of increasing number of eComms platforms and data sources used during the trade lifecycle. Shield delivers powerful analysis and investigation capabilities, covering the scope of record-keeping, including GDPR enablement, compliance archiving, compliance investigation, best execution reconstruction and supports operational performance. With out of the box detection modules and Machine Learning capabilities, we help compliance teams to identify and prevent that one false move.

We’re on a mission to improve the reliability, transparency, and efficiency of our energy systems, fostering a future with sustainable and abundant energy. To accomplish our aims, we’re leveraging state of the art statistical learning and convex optimization methods (AI) to build the financial rails of our future energy systems that will accelerate the deployment of clean energy resources.

PayMaple is a best in class platform company that assists organizations to lower costs and increase profits with proprietary payment and data warehousing solutions. Our foundation is built upon transparency, and we set out to help businesses better understand how their operation is run.

Our highly experienced FinTech & FinServ team is changing the way employers, employees, benefit providers and registered investment advisors offer and manage investments for retirement. In short, we make it simple, cheap, and safe to offer a retirement plan to companies and their employees. Our platform is a front-to-back retirement management platform. We create the asset allocations, select the products, handle the onboarding, education, investment services, tax reporting, all while taking on full legal responsibility on the company's behalf, at a fraction of cost of a traditional retirement plan provider. Our clients are small to large business working with independent RIA's that can white label the platform for their own clients. Vestwell is scaling the retirement investing of defined contribution plans, while saving each employee close to $500K in fees they would otherwise lose over their career to traditional retirement providers.

Four Eyes Financial is a Regulatory Technology (RegTech) company based in Saint John, NB. We are at the forefront of change in how Wealth firms think about their data and their compliance functions. Our proprietary Intelligent Compliance Platform, with multiple compliance solutions, streamlines interactions between Advisors, Clients, and Head Office. We have a diverse team of bright and high-performing people and we are in growth mode. You’d fit in well if you thrive in a fast-paced environment, have a thirst for learning, enjoy improving systems and processes, and focus on excellence in everything you do.

Electronic Trading System for Fixed Income and Currency Swaps. US company headquartered in Charlotte NC with operating units in Tokyo, London & New York. Global regulatory approvals. Japan's Nikkei Group is a major investor in the company.