Fintech Energy - Team
At Fintech Energy we track over 200,000 fintech startups and over 1,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 FinTech companies in California. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top FinTech Companies & Startups (California)
Credit Sesame
| Founders | Adrian Nazari |
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Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated.
Electric Capital
| Founders | Avichal Garg, Curtis Spencer |
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Electric Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on the cryptocurrency, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces industries.
Affirm
| Founders | Jeffrey Kaditz, Max Levchin, Nathan Gettings |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
B Capital Group
| Founders | Eduardo Saverin, Howard Morgan, Raj Ganguly |
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B Capital Group is a venture capital firm that backs global entrepreneurs in the field of information technology.
Plate IQ
| Founders | Bhavuk Kaul, Ram Jayaraman |
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Plate IQ saves restaurants time and money by automating their invoice processing and accounts payable.
Neo.Tax
| Founders | Ahmad Ibrahim, Firas Abuzaid, Stephen Yarbrough |
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Neo.Tax builds a tax filing and automation software for businesses to claim the R&D tax credit.
Aspiration
| Founders | Andrei Cherny, Joseph N. Sanberg |
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Aspiration offers retail banking and investing services that enable customers to spend and save their money in ways that protect the planet.
Kyriba
| Founders | Jean-Luc Robert |
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Kyriba offers SaaS-based treasury solutions that enable treasury departments to plan for market volatility, regulation, and opportunities.
Block
| Founders | Buzz Andersen, Jack Dorsey, Jim McKelvey |
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Block is a merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company that aims to simplify commerce through technology.
Empower
| Founders | Justin Ammerlaan, Warren Hogarth |
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Empower is building the best mobile-banking experience in the world.
HomeLight
| Founders | BC Broussard, Drew Uher, Jason Zhang |
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HomeLight is a real estate platform where users can buy or sell homes.
Incode Technologies
| Founders | Ricardo Amper |
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Incode Technologies is a real-life verification company that specializes in omnichannel biometric identity.
Multis
| Founders | Thibaut Sahaghian, Théophile Villard |
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Multis is an all-in-one application to help Web3 organizations manage their crypto finances.
Secfi
| Founders | Frederik Mijnhardt, Wouter Witvoet |
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Secfi works with startup employees and founders to provide equity planning and stock option financing.
Deserve
| Founders | Kalpesh Kapadia, Michael Hallinan |
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Deserve offers fair credit products for young people and a cloud-based credit card platform for businesses.
Plastiq
| Founders | Daniel Choi, Eliot Buchanan |
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Plastiq offers a bill pay service for businesses to better manage their cash flow.
Sunbit
| Founders | Arad Levertov, Ornit Dweck-Maizel, Tal Riesenfeld, Tamir Hazan |
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Sunbit is a buy now, pay later technology of local service providers and retailers.
Even.com
| Founders | Cem Kent, Jon Schlossberg, Quinten Farmer, Ryan Gomba |
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Even is the leading responsible on-demand pay platform helping companies reimagine the way they pay so people can live the lives they want.
Eco
| Founders | Andy Bromberg, Garrett Camp, Henry Ault, Joey Krug, Ryne Saxe |
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Eco provides a digital cryptocurrency platform that can be used as a payment tool for daily-use transactions.
Wells Fargo
| Founders | Peggy Reingold, Perry Abbonzino |
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Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified financial services company with $1.3 trillion assets providing banking, insurance, and investments.
Truework
| Founders | Ethan Winchell, Ryan Sandler, Victor Kabdebon |
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Truework is a one-stop platform that helps banks, lenders, and others verify income and employment.
Ladder
| Founders | Jack Dubie, Jamie Hale, Jeff Merkel, Laura Hale |
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Ladder is a digital life insurance company that offers flexible term coverage in minutes saving policyholders up to 40%.
Alt
| Founders | Leore Avidar |
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Alt is an alternative asset platform that allows people to buy, sell, and store sports cards.
Branch International
| Founders | Daniel Jung, Matt Flannery, Random Bares |
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Branch offers mobile financial services across emerging markets to spur human potential.
SFOX
| Founders | Akbar Thobhani, George Melika |
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SFOX is a cryptocurrency prime dealer for professional traders and institutional investors.
Rain
| Founders | Alex Bradford, Gilberto Garcia, Jennifer Terrell |
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Rain offers early wage access and financial wellness benefit for mid market to enterprise employers.
Drip Capital
| Founders | Neil Kothari, Pushkar Mukewar |
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Drip Capital offers trade financing product targeted towards SMEs in developing markets.
Listo
| Founders | Sam Ulloa |
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Listo is a consumer financial services company offering insurance and loans via retail and mobile experience.
ProducePay
| Founders | Ben Dusastre, Pablo Schwarzbeck |
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ProducePay is an agriculture fin-tech start-up providing financing, analytics, and marketplace tools for the fresh produce market.
Sureify
| Founders | David Belgum, Dustin Yoder, Greg Yoder, Jacob Ruiz, Mark Radanovich, Philip Blatt, Ryan Swanson, Sulu Velugu, Vijay Kumar Thoduponoori |
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Sureify is an industry leading SaaS platform for Life and Annuity companies.
Payactiv
| Founders | Ijaz Anwar, Safwan Shah, Sohail Aslam |
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Payactiv helps put financial wellness within reach.
One
| Founders | Bill Harris, Brian Hamilton |
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One is a provider of banking services intended to make banking experience better.
Xignite
| Founders | Stephane Dubois |
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Xignite provides cloud-based financial market data distribution solutions to fintech companies and financial services providers.
Riskalyze
| Founders | Aaron Klein, Matt Pistone |
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Riskalyze helps investment advisors to capture a quantitative measurement of client risk tolerance to find investments that fit them.
LunarCrush
| Founders | Joe Vezzani, Jon Farjo |
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Social Intelligence for Crypto
Northstar
| Founders | Matt Matteson, William Peng |
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Northstar is a financial wellness benefit that makes it easy for companies to offer personalized financial advice about comp and benefits.
agentero
| Founders | Inaki Berenguer, Luis Pino |
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Agentero enables agents to do digital customer servicing, cross-selling and up-selling.
Karus
| Founders | Aaron Travis, James Harrison, Paul Kostoff |
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The AI Engine for Auto Finance
Symphony AyasdiAI
| Founders | Gunnar Carlsson, Gurjeet Singh, Harlan Sexton |
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Symphony AyasdiAI empowers financial institutions with a complete picture of customers through unparalleled, predictive insight
Hummingbot
| Founders | Carlo Las Marias, Martin Kou, Michael Feng, Yvonne Zhang |
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Hummingbot is an open-source crypto trading bot that enables decentralized market making; liquidity mining for centralized exchanges.
Kiva
| Founders | Jessica Jackley, Matt Flannery |
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Kiva is an international non-profit organization that enables families to make small loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Juvo
| Founders | Steve Polsky |
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Juvo is a developer of mobile identity scoring software designed to establish financial identities who are creditworthy.
Perch Credit
| Founders | Ayush Jain, Michael Broughton |
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Perch helps users build their credit score for free by turning recurring payments (like rent) into creditworthy payments.
Swan Bitcoin
| Founders | Cory Klippsten, Yan Pritzker |
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SwanBitcoin is the best place to buy Bitcoin with your bank account using automated savings plans.
OppJar
| Founders | Daniel Castro, Noramay Cadena |
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Fintech
Corevest
| Founders | Andrew Drauschak |
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Brokerage-Validated Social Trading Platform
interface.ai
| Founders | Srinivas Njay |
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interface.ai is an award-winning out-of-the-box Intelligent Virtual Assistant(IVA) for Banks & Credit Unions.
Midas League
| Founders | Veronica Lee |
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Midas League is a technology platform that connects family offices with venture capital funds for co-investments.
Simple Disability Insurance
| Founders | Amanda Lettmann, Ted Stearns |
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We use technology and big data analytics to disrupt the way disability insurance is sold.
Ondot Systems
| Founders | Bharghavan Vaduvur, Rachna Ahlawat |
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Ondot enables card issuers to offer in-the-moment convenience with control and transparency to their physical and virtual cards.
Remote
| Founders | Job van der Voort, Marcelo Lebre |
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Remote offers international payroll, benefits, and compliance services for employees and contractors.
Auditoria.AI
| Founders | Adina Simu, Gaurav Bhatia, Rohit Gupta |
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Auditoria is a provider of AI-driven automation solutions for finance teams.
Lofty AI
| Founders | Jerry Chu, Mark Keane, Max Ball |
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Lofty AI lets you invest in tokenized rental properties for only $50 and sell any time
Gusto
| Founders | Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, Tomer London |
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Gusto provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses.
Chisos Capital
| Founders | William Stringer |
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Chisos Capital writes checks of $15K-50K to invest in idea-and early stage-startup businesses.
Aella
| Founders | Akin Jones, Wale Akanbi |
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Aella helps africans get credit, invest, get health insurance, and make payments.
Productfy
| Founders | Duy Vo |
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Productfy is a secure and advanced platform for building financial applications.
Carpay
| Founders | Brandon Cavalier, Nick Swezey |
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Lending enablement platform for BHPH
Coin
| Founders | Kanishk Parashar |
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Coin is a consumer electronics and financial technology company.
BrightPlan
| Founders | Marthin De Beer, Robert Wallace |
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BrightPlan provides Total Financial Wellness for all employees by creating a plan to achieve their financial goals.
Cloud Lending
| Founders | Darpan Saini, Rajendra Badadare, Snehal Fulzele |
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Cloud Lending is a company that develops software for the financial lending industry.
Kava Labs
| Founders | Brian Henning Kerr, Ruaridh O’Donnell, Scott Stuart |
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Kava Labs is a developer of Kava, is the most trusted DeFi platform by financial institutions
Long Game
| Founders | Ashby Monk, Lindsay Holden |
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Long Game is the mobile personal finance app that uses games with cash prizes to help users win the savings game.
Keeper Tax
| Founders | David Kang, Paul Koullick |
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Discover the tax write-offs you’ve been missing
FalconX
| Founders | Prabhakar Reddy, Raghu Yarlagadda |
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FalconX is a blockchain, cryptocurrency, and fintech-focused cryptocurrency brokerage and digital asset trading platform.
Ulu Ventures
| Founders | Clint Korver, Miriam Rivera |
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Ulu Ventures provides early-stage investments to enterprise cloud and smart data companies.
ThreatMetrix
| Founders | Alisdair Faulkner, David Jones, Scott Thomas |
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ThreatMetrix is an integrated digital identity platform that allows its users to transact their businesses without friction.
River Financial
| Founders | Alexander Leishman, Andrew Benson |
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River Financial is a Bitcoin financial institution allowing long-term investors to buy, sell, and manage Bitcoin.
Olivia
| Founders | Cristiano Oliveira, Lucas Moraes |
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Olivia is an AI financial assistant that learns your spending patterns, predict your purchases and recommend ways to get more for your money
Donut
| Founders | Neel Popat |
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Donut is the easiest way to save and earn a high yield with DeFi.
Pngme
| Founders | Brendan Playford, Cate Rung |
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Pngme, they believe everyone deserves equal access to finance.
Wholesail
| Founders | Christopher Pennello, Corey Reese |
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Wholesail modernizes the invoicing and payment process for food distributors and their buyers.
Arca
| Founders | Phil Liu, Rayne Steinberg |
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Arca is an asset management firm that creates and manages institutional grade products using crypto and blockchain technology.
Draper Goren Holm
| Founders | Alon Goren, Josef Holm |
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Draper Goren Holm is a fintech venture studio focused on incubating and accelerating early-stage blockchain startups.
Neighborly
| Founders | Jase Wilson, Josemar Luedke, Patrick Hosty, Patrick Hosty |
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Neighborly designs, finances, and constructs open access fiber-optic networks to connect communities across the United States.
Charlie Finance Co.
| Founders | Ilian Georgiev, Ivo Parashkevov, Robert Luedeman |
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Charlie Finance is a financial services company that helps ordinary Americans worry less about money and get out of debt faster.
PrizePool
| Founders | Franklyn Chien, Joe Woo |
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PrizePool is a savings startup that offers savings account that makes saving money fun and even exciting.
Omniex
| Founders | Hu Liang, John Burnett, Kamal Mokeddem |
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Omniex develops software infrastructure that integrates front, middle, and back-office services to simplify access and remove fragmentation.
BOSONIC
| Founders | Rosario Ingargiola |
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BOSONIC is a Fintech platform that eliminates counterparty credit and settlement risk in digital assets trading.
Onramp Invest
| Founders | Eric R. Ervin, Tyrone Ross |
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Onramp Invest is a digital comprehensive crypto-asset management solution that helps financial advisors to invest in cryptocurrency.
Good Money
| Founders | Andrew Masanto, Bear Kittay, Brooke Solis, Gunnar Lovelace, Katiyana Kittay, Nick Sullivan |
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Good Money is a digital banking platform that provides banking and financial services.
FarmRaise
| Founders | Albert Abedi, Jayce Hafner, Sami Tellatin |
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FarmRaise is a digital platform that offers financial resources for farmers and ranchers to make on-farm improvements.
Ando Money
| Founders | J. P. McNeill |
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Ando Money enables customers to join and drive a transformative movement to combat the climate crisis through carbon-reducing banking.
Trim
| Founders | Thomas Smyth |
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Trim is a financial health company that empowers customers across the United States to improve their financial lives.
Bento for Business
| Founders | Farhan Ahmad, Sean Anderson |
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Bento offers a complete B2B payments solution that helps SMBs gain full control and visibility over their cash on one platform
SharesPost
| Founders | Greg Brogger |
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SharesPost is a company that provides liquidity solutions in the private growth asset market.
inDinero
| Founders | Andrea Barrica, Andy Su, Jessica Mah |
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inDinero develops software that assists its users in tracking and managing their finance.
Figure
| Founders | Geoffrey Tisserand, Miles Hobby |
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Figure is a compensation platform that helps companies figure out how to pay their employees by making data driven decisions.
Round
| Founders | Ron Rojany, Saul Cohen |
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Round is a fintech firm that provides active investment management services.
Highland Capital Partners
| Founders | Bob Higgins, Paul Maeder |
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Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that offers seed, early, and growth-stage funding solutions.
FlyFin AI
| Founders | Jaideep Singh, Sachin Rajendra |
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FlyFin is a consumer startup that focuses on automating the financial lives.
Dapi
| Founders | Ahmed Mo, Hesham Ghandour, Mohammed Aziz |
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Dapi is a platform that enables any application to accept payments instantly at near to 0 fees directly from bank accounts.
Tally
| Founders | Jason Brown, Jasper Platz |
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Tally is a financial automation company that helps members payoff credit card debt.
Data Mynt
| Founders | Alex Christian, Alex Christian |
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Data Mynt enables business stable, simple, secure crypto solutions including acquiring and payroll.
ThankUCash
| Founders | Harshal Gandole, Madonna Ononobi, Simeon Ononobi, Suraj Supekar |
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ThankUCash is a rewards and loyalty infrastructure for banks and businesses in Africa.
Cloudvirga
| Founders | Bill Dallas, Kyle Kamrooz, Mark Attaway |
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Cloudvirga offers a digital SaaS platform that engages customers, empowers originators, and removes friction out of the home loan process.
Treasure Financial
| Founders | Benjamin Verschuere, Sam Strasser |
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Using automation and machine learning to help companies identify, manage and monetize their idle cash
Renew Financial
| Founders | Cisco DeVries |
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Renew Financial is a provider of district legislation financing to assist in property assessed clean energy (PACE) improvement financing.
Peachy
| Founders | Lex Oiler, PJ Santoro |
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With Peachy, healthcare providers get paid faster by making patient payments quicker, easier, and more affordable.
Risk Harbor
| Founders | Drew Patel, Raouf Ben-Har |
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The only objective, transparent, and fully automated risk management marketplace for decentralized finance (DeFi).
HashCash Consultants
| Founders | Raj Chowdhury |
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HashCash Consultants is a software company offering Blockchain, AI, Big Data and IoT products, platforms and services.
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