Top Investment Banking Startups in 2024

CB Insights fuses machine learning, algorithms, data and visualizations together to help large enterprises ask, answer and articulate compelling answers to difficult questions - about growth, about competition and about the markets and technologies of the future. Our machine learning technology mines vast numbers of unstructured documents such as patents, earnings calls, news articles, company websites, regulatory filings, social media and more to derive insights into the future of the global economy.

FE International is an award-winning global M&A advisor of SaaS, e-commerce and content businesses. It has completed acquisitions for thousands of founders, owners and acquirers, and is the preeminent valuation thought leader in the industry. Its team includes experts in exit planning, valuation, accounting, legal and more. Founded in 2010, FE is known for its extensive network of pre-qualified international investors. With headquarters in New York and regional offices in Miami, San Francisco and London, FE is an international company serving clients worldwide. It was named one of The Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies in 2021 and 2020 by The Financial Times and is also a two-time Inc. 5000 company. Take a peek into the M&A industry by reading our Mid-Year Report. It contains data from tens of thousands of FE valuations and over 1,000 acquisitions. We’ve combed through this information line by line to give you detailed insights into the M&A landscape, including what happened in the first half of 2021 and what you can expect in the second half of 2021. feinternational.com/mid-year-report-2021 For more information about FE International visit feinternational.com.

BitGo provides the most secure and scalable wallet solutions for the digital asset economy, offering regulated custody, staking and trading, and core infrastructure to investors and builders alike. Founded in 2013, BitGo pioneered the multi-signature wallet and is the first digital asset company to focus exclusively on serving institutional clients. In 2018, it launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets and established BitGo New York Trust in 2021. In 2022, BitGo launched institutional-grade DeFi, NFT and web3 services. BitGo secures approximately 20% of all on-chain Bitcoin transactions by value and supports more than 700 digital assets within its platform. BitGo provides the security and operational backbone for more than 1500 institutional clients in 50 countries, including many regulated entities and the world’s top cryptocurrency exchanges and platforms. For more information, please visit bitgo.com

Pepcorns allows everyday people to support founders solving the problem or ideas they believe in. It's our belief that this community driven approach will soon emerge as new startup culture, where a significant amount of thriving ideas will get funded by peppy investors turned evangelists who truly want to see them succeed. We aim to fuel the Indian startup space, reducing wealth disparity & boost the economy; together with your help and efforts, we will achieve this. Join Pepcorns, and be part of the change!

Firmex is a global software-as-a-service provider with corporate headquarters in Toronto, Canada. The company’s Firmex VDR service is the world’s most trusted virtual data room, having been used by over 120,000 companies worldwide to share confidential documents for due diligence, litigation and compliance. Our global HQ in downtown TO’s Fashion District is easy to get to by transit, bike, or car.

Uniquely passionate entrepreneurs. We back the best and most ambitious entrepreneurs and help them make their ideas real and lasting. The entrepreneurs we team up with were born to build their businesses -- it is their life’s mission. Working side-by-side with these visionaries makes us incredibly optimistic about the future. Full attention of our partnership. To us, providing full-service means giving you the full attention of our partnership. We structurally de-emphasize individual partner achievements to provide you with the full partnerships’ collective experience and expertise. Access to one means access to all. Global ambitions. We believe that passionate entrepreneurs can come from anywhere. We’ve supported consumer and enterprise technology entrepreneurs in 39 cities around the world and have helped them as they grow into new regions.

Fintech start-up Valutico is a web-based company valuation platform providing the financial services industry and valuation experts with data-driven tools to perform accurate company valuations in a fraction of the time while solving the issue of complex tools, lack of data sources and time consuming reporting. With the world’s leading valuation methodologies to choose from, Valutico accelerates business valuation processes by 30-50%. Valutico’s software solution currently comprises three different modules and a marketplace. The modules address specific valuation requirements for private/listed enterprises and provide access to industry and country specific valuation parameters. The marketplace brings together valuation experts and customers in need of valuation expertise. With our product offering we especially address valuation experts in Advisory (e.g. Corporate Finance, M&A, Tax and Audit), Investment Management (e.g. Family Offices, Private Equity, Venture Capital), but also Corporates (e.g. Strategy, Financial Reporting, IR). By combining advanced technology with expert corporate finance know-how, we support our clients to overcome the high and expensive requirements of the valuation process, which demands technical/industry know-how, access to expensive financial databases and time.  Our team of 40 employees is globally distributed and serves both national and international clients in over 25 countries including the US.

Financial Technology Partners ("FT Partners"​) is the only investment banking firm focused exclusively on the financial technology ("FinTech"​) sector. We broadly define the sector as the dynamic convergence of technology-based solutions and financial services. FT Partners was recently recognized as "Dealmaker of the Year"​ and "Investment Banking Firm of the Year"​ by The M&A Advisor. The firm was founded by Steve McLaughlin, Managing Partner, formerly a senior investment banker in Goldman Sachs & Co.'s Financial Technology Group and Financial Institutions Group in New York and San Francisco. The firm's senior members are all highly experienced investment bankers formerly with the financial technology, M&A and investment banking groups of principally Goldman, Sachs & Co. Clients want and deserve the best in overall investment banking services, industry knowledge, relationships and senior level experience. In the complex financial technology sector, we believe no other firm offers a higher set of skills, expertise and mission critical advice to leading CEOs and industry decision makers. When you want to explore your firm's full potential, consider FT Partners'​ full suite of strategic and financial advisory services. With years of transaction experience on some of the largest transactions in history, we bring our unique approach to your firm to maximize value to your shareholders.

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Thunder is a tech-enabled investment bank that is transforming what it's like to raise capital for your company or fund. Thunder uses AI to identify relevant opportunities for capital raisers and capital allocators to connect with a high success ratio. Thunder saves both sides time, money, and headache by getting to the goal post faster with more transparent and relevant information to close deals faster. Investors get access to great deals while there is still allocation to be had. Founders get warm intros to VCs that are statistically more likely to invest in their venture. At Thunder, we believe fundraising should be more about the value you're creating at your company/firm and less about who is in your network, let Thunder solve that problem for you. It's completely free for investors and founders to create a free account and see what opportunities exist that are relevant to you.