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 Chicago. 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 (Chicago)
Envestnet
| Founders | Bill Crager, Brandon Thomas, James Lumberg, Judson Bergman |
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Envestnet is a provider of technology-enabled investment and practice management solutions to financial advisors.
Jump Capital
| Founders | Michael McMahon, Sach Chitnis |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Jump Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in Series A and B expansion stage investments in technology and software.
NextCapital
| Founders | Dirk Quayle, John Patterson, Jon Hagen, Rob Foregger |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
NextCapital provides a personal benchmarking tool to help clearly understand how investments are performing.
Capital Markets Gateway
| Founders | Greg Ingram, Michael Wilcox, Stamo Hadjiyski |
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CMG is a fintech firm offering an integrated digital workflow and analytics platform for capital markets professionals.
Braintree
| Founders | Bryan Johnson, Jenna Wyer |
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Braintree’s payment platform provides all the tools online and mobile businesses need to accept payments.
ErisX
| Founders | Joe Lubin |
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ErisX specializes in digital asset space that offers both spot and futures contracts on one platform.
Backstop Solutions Group
| Founders | Andy Pruitt |
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Backstop’s mission is to help professionals in the institutional investment industry use time to its fullest potential.
YCharts
| Founders | Ara Anjargolian, Shawn Carpenter |
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YCharts is a financial software company providing investment research tools including stock charts, stock ratings, and economic indicators.
Amount
| Founders | Al Goldstein, Al Goldstein |
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Amount is a digital technology company that accelerates digital transformation for financial institutions.
CMT Digital Ventures
| Founders | Colleen Sullivan, Jan-Dirk Lueders, Scott Casto |
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CMT Digital is a venture capital firm engaging in the crypto asset and Blockchain technology industry.
FranShares
| Founders | Kenny Rose |
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FranShares will soon offer investors access to direct franchise location ownership and income for as low as $500.
Clockwork
| Founders | Fady Hawatmeh |
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Reinventing FP&A for growing companies and their advisors
GeoWealth, LLC
| Founders | Unknown |
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GeoWealth is an end-to-end technology platform and turnkey model marketplace.
Halo Investing
| Founders | Biju Kulathakal, Jason Barsema |
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Halo Investing is a financial technology platform that provides structured note investments to the average investor.
OppFi
| Founders | Todd Schwartz |
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OppFi a financial technology platform that powers banks to help the everyday consumer gain access to credit.
Tiv
| Founders | Jed Strong, JP Pillat, William Danford |
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Tiv is a financial technology company that offers mobile banking and rewards products built for the gaming community.
AeroPay
| Founders | Daniel Muller |
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The payments company for the next generation.
Zero Hash
| Founders | Brian Liston, Edward Woodford |
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Zero Hash is a B2B digital assets-as-a-service technology platform that offers turnkey solutions such as NFTs for its clients.
Yield Protocol
| Founders | Allan Niemerg |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Yield is building a decentralized lending protocol to bring fixed-term, fixed-rate lending to decentralized finance.
Groundbreaker
| Founders | Ed Cravo, Jake Marmulstein, Roger Smith |
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Groundbreaker offers an all-in-one real estate investment software to automate fundraising, investment management, and investor relations.
Lightbank
| Founders | Bradley Keywell, Eric Lefkofsky, Joshua Hernandez, Logan LaHive |
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Lightbank VC is a venture fund that invests in entrepreneurs solving the biggest problems in society
Bridge Financial Technology
| Founders | Adam Hammouda, Alan Illing, Ayman Kaddoura, Rasheed Hammouda, Sanjay Sharma |
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Bridge is using software to change the way financial advisors run their businesses and interact with clients.
ML Tech
| Founders | Leo Mindyuk, Markus Leballeux |
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ML Tech is a FinTech startup building the next-generation trading platform within the crypto asset space.
Cypher
| Founders | Barrett Williams |
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Cypher is a decentralized synthetic asset protocol, allowing retail and institutional investors to create and trade pre-public markets.
Ascent
| Founders | Aaron Droba, Brian Clark, Shreyas Gosalia |
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Ascent provides a cloud-based platform that helps financial services firms to keep their businesses compliant.
M1 Finance
| Founders | Brian Barnes |
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The Finance Super AppTM
SwervePay
| Founders | Brad Bialas, Jaeme Adams |
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SwervePay develops payment solutions for the healthcare and auto service industries.
Lendr
| Founders | Linda Wang |
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Lendr is a finance company that provides merchant cash advances to small to medium size businesses.
DrawBridge Lending
| Founders | Jason Urban, Thomas Anderson |
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DrawBridge offers a lending loans with no margin calls backed by Bitcoin holdings.
MortgageHippo
| Founders | Michael Salichs, Valentin Saportas |
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MortgageHippo is a B2B fintech company delivering white-labeled web and mobile-ready digital platforms to banks and mortgage lenders.
ArgonCredit
| Founders | Gary Zumski, Raviv Wolfe |
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Argon Credit is a online personal loan startup. Currently growing in the U.S. with plans to expand into the U.K., Europe and Australia.
Rapunzl – Invest. Share. Win.
| Founders | Brian Curcio, Christopher Thomas, Myles Gage |
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Rapunzl is an award-winning app that allows you to earn cash & scholarship prizes while you learn how to invest.
Tractiv
| Founders | Drew Orsinger |
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Providing usage transparency in the market data industry.
LQD Business Finance
| Founders | George Souri |
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LQD Business Finance is a Chicago-based, technology-enabled company that provides small and medium sized businesses with structured loans.
taxProper
| Founders | Geoff Segal, Thomas Dowling |
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taxProper is a property tax management platform that provides homeowners with tools to save money on their property taxes.
Promus Ventures
| Founders | Mike Collett |
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Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.
Origin Ventures
| Founders | Bruce N. Barron, Steven N. Miller |
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Origin Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in software and marketing businesses enabling the Digital Native economy.
Vertical
| Founders | Aaron Priest, Adam Seithel |
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Construction SaaS + Fintech
Rippleshot
| Founders | Canh Tran |
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Credit and Debit Card Fraud Detection
Peanut Butter
| Founders | David Aronson |
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Student loan assistance as an employee benefit
Payline Data, LLC
| Founders | Jeff Shea, Sean Miller, Steve Blentlinger |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Platform for Killer Payment Experiences for in-app, in-store and online for buyers and sellers alike. Experience Payments Differently.
Tagomi
| Founders | Greg Tusar, Jennifer Campbell, Kevin Johnson, Marc Bhargava |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Tagomi is a cryptocurrency trading platform that provides access to priced liquidity, low commissions, and maximized client return.
Cumulus Funding
| Founders | Nathan Popkins |
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Cumulus Funding provides funds to help you make purchases or pay down loans, credit cards or other bills.
WealthBlock
| Founders | Deji Jimoh, Trilliam Jeong |
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WealthBlock is a technology firm that helps people take control of their financial future.
Spring
| Founders | Joseph Holberg |
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Spring provides a holistic, unbiased financial wellness benefit to companies to increase employee recruitment, productivity, and retention.
InfoReach
| Founders | Alex Korsky, Allen Zaydlin, Vitaly Shatsky |
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InfoReach is non-biased software created for the financial asset trading market.
Diffuse
| Founders | Kenny Estes |
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Diffuse is a platform of cherry picked emerging funds who use our rigorous investment process.
Stacked
| Founders | Joel Birch |
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Stacked is a smart automated crypto investing platform.
Public Good Software
| Founders | Chris Gansen, Dan Ratner, Jason Kunesh, Josh Culley-Foster, Paul Smith |
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Meet new donors and raise more money by making online fundraising easy and accessible to all.
Simplex Investments
| Founders | Doug Anderson, Mathew Gray |
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Simplex Investments develops proprietary software to capitalize on financial market opportunity.
FRST
| Founders | Jonas Frost, Patrick Gorrell |
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FRST provides unique datasets and professional-grade tools to digital asset traders.
Remitap
| Founders | Anil Sharma |
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Fintech App, Mobile Payment, Remittance
Airfordable
| Founders | Ama Marfo, Craig Henry, Emmanuel Buah |
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Payment plans for flights before your departure
Ditto
| Founders | Chris Pardo |
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$1-A-Ditto across Brokerages & Exchanges Globally -A StatsBased IncomeDriven Platform Powering Decentralized PonziProof Investing
Loan Ecosystem Online
| Founders | David Tannenbaum |
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Loan Ecosystem Online is a fintech platform that utilizes advanced encryption technology to provide military-grade security for information.
Lotic Labs
| Founders | Matthew Marshall, Matthew Strongin, William Tynan |
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Lotic Labs powers financial innovation for water and the environment.
Pangea Money Transfer
| Founders | Kyle Stoner |
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Pangea Money Transfer is a global remittance and underbanked financial services provider.
Akouba
| Founders | Chris Rentner, Evan Hareras, Nick McMillan |
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Akouba is a the first SAAS platform to provide community and regional banks with an online, end-to-end, small business lending solution.
Bixby Research and Analytics
| Founders | Brian Conroy |
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Bixby is af fintech platform that analyzes financial information in the private debt market.
Braviant Holdings
| Founders | Matt Martorello |
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A leading provider of tech-enabled credit products and services for underbanked consumers
Current Mobile
| Founders | Dan Novaes, Kiran Panesar, Nick Mcevily |
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We enable millions of budget-conscious consumers to earn income from their daily habits.
Neurensic
| Founders | David Widerhorn, Paul Giedraitis, Sanjay Vohra |
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Machine learning regtech firm offering SaaS surveillance technology for detection of financial markets manipulation.
FeeBelly
| Founders | Michael Asare |
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FeeBelly: Fintech app helping consumers instantly spot & avoid costly hidden fees & details in any doc or Agreement before they Sign or Pay
Medean
| Founders | Emily Kolar, Erik Skjodt, Matt Karazin |
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Medean is an all-in-one budgeting app that uses gamification and peer comparisons to improve financial wellness
Glidera
| Founders | David Ripley, Michael Xakellis |
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Glidera makes digital currency wallets better by providing applications the ability to offer bitcoin buy and sell services.
DRW
| Founders | Don Wilson |
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DRW is a diversified trading firm that combines technology, research, and risk management to capture trading and investment opportunities.
Guaranteed Rate
| Founders | Victor Ciardelli |
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Guaranteed Rate provides mortgage lending services such as home loans and home mortgage refinancing services.
OneSpan
| Founders | Thomas Kendall Hunt |
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OneSpan, is a cybersecurity provider in the financial services industry specializing in digital identity and anti-fraud solutions.
EarlyBird
| Founders | Caleb Frankel, Jordan Wexler |
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EarlyBird is empowering parents, family, and friends to collectively invest in a child’s financial future, starting at the earliest age.
Trading Block
| Founders | Biju Kulathakal |
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Trading Block is an online brokerage, allowing self-directed investors identify new strategies for generating portfolio income and more.
ChangEd
| Founders | Daniel Stelmach, Nick Sky |
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ChangEd is a mobile app that helps pay down student loans by using spare change from everyday purchases to make additional payments.
CreditNinja
| Founders | Mark Friedgan |
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CreditNinja is a fintech company.
Safe Rate
| Founders | Dylan Hall, Shima Rayej |
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Safe Rate develops long-term mortgage financing options for home buyers and investors in the mortgage industry.
Cardley
| Founders | Richard DeNardis |
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Cardley is a technological company that offer a platform for startups based in Chicago to connect and share with their clients.
Financial Solutions Lab
| Founders | Jennifer Tescher |
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The Financial Solutions Lab cultivates, supports and scales innovations that advance the financial health of LMI and underserved individuals
Supernova Technology
| Founders | David Zylstra, Jaramee Finn, Jeff Finn, Julie Schmidt, Thomas Anderson |
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Supernova Technology offers securities-based lending solutions that connect and empower the entire financial ecosystem.
Rewards Network
| Founders | Mel Chasen |
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Rewards Network is a provider of capital and marketing services to the restaurant industry.
DRW Venture Capital
| Founders | Don Wilson |
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DRW Venture Capital is an arm of principal trading firm that invests primarily in financial and enterprise technology.
Neon Financial Inc.
| Founders | Aveedibya Dey, Megha Agarwal |
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Neon offers Buy Now Pay Later for essential bills
Conotoxia
| Founders | Marcin Pioro |
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Conotoxia Holding enables international money transfers, online currency exchange, multi-currency cards, online payments and Forex trading.
Tastyworks
| Founders | Tom Sosnoff |
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Trade options, stock, and futures at one of the premiere brokerage firms in the industry.
R7
| Founders | Ben Buettell, Tyler Engh |
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R7 Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies building transformational technologies.
InHub
| Founders | Ariana Amplo, Kent Costello |
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InHub is the investment community’s #1 RFP and DDQ management platform.
OptionsHouse
| Founders | Unknown |
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OptionsHouse is an online stock and option broking company that provides trading platforms for retail and institutional options.
Decred
| Founders | Alex Yocom-Piatt, Dave Collins, David Hill, Jacob Yocom-Piatt, John Vernaleo, Josh Rickmar |
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Decred is an open and progressive cryptocurrency with a system of community-based governance integrated into its blockchain.
Oranj
| Founders | David Lyon |
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Oranj provides wealth managers with digital advice tools to enhance the client experience and connect with and convert more prospects.
Kora
| Founders | Hao Liu |
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Kora is the banking app for college students
Prota Ventures
| Founders | Will Little |
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Prota Ventures is a venture-building and early-stage investment firm engaged in investing in early-stage companies.
Green Key Technologies
| Founders | Anthony Tassone |
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GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.
Advyzon
| Founders | Hailin Li |
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Advyzon is a cloud-based platform for investment advisors that combines portfolio management, flexible performance reporting.
umaproject
| Founders | Hart Lambur |
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UMA is a decentralized financial contracts platform.
KAOSHI
| Founders | Chukwunonso Arinze, Princess Oti |
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We build financial technologies that enable banks and financial institutions offer bespoke financial services to immigrants in the diaspora.
Hehmeyer
| Founders | Christopher Hehmeyer |
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Hehmeyer is a proprietary trading firm that provides trading advisory services.
Cambio
| Founders | Blesson Abraham |
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Cambio is an enablement banking and financial habit-building app for the underserved
Dividend.com
| Founders | Paul Rubillo |
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Dividend.com is a dedicated to dividend stock investing. We provide proprietary stock ratings, tools and news on dividend stocks.
Financial Health Network
| Founders | Jennifer Tescher |
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Financial Health Network is a trusted resource for business leaders united in a mission to improve the financial health of their customers.
Arthur Andersen LLP
| Founders | Arthur Edward Andersen |
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Arthur Andersen is an accounting firm providing services in assurance, taxation, corporate finance, and more.
optionsXpress
| Founders | Ned Bennett |
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OptionsXpress is a online brokerage firm owned by Charles Schwab.
Base Capital
| Founders | Brendan Florez |
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Income Share Agreement company integrating artificial intelligence into the servicing of ISAs.
Magma Capital Funds
| Founders | Gershie Vann |
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Quantitative Hedge Fund
Dirt
| Founders | Jayson Dombele |
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Making personal finance & financial literacy less mysterious, more human and accessible to everyone, anywhere
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