Illinois’s 101 Fastest Growing FinTech Startups

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 Illinois. 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 (Illinois)

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
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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
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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.

RefToken

Founders	Jan Sammut
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Blockchain based affiliate marketing platform

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
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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.

Mezu

Founders	Pedro Silva, Yuval Brisker
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Mezu is the only mobile money app that puts privacy first, letting consumers give and get money without sharing any personal information.

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
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Platform for Killer Payment Experiences for in-app, in-store and online for buyers and sellers alike. Experience Payments Differently.

SaveUp

Founders	Priya Haji, Sammy Shreibati
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SaveUp is an online rewards program encouraging users to save money and pay their debt while earning credits to play for prizes.

Tagomi

Founders	Greg Tusar, Jennifer Campbell, Kevin Johnson, Marc Bhargava
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Tagomi is a cryptocurrency trading platform that provides access to priced liquidity, low commissions, and maximized client return.

Tidal Commerce

Founders	Drew Sementa
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Modern, Simple, Cloud-powered, Payment Processing and Merchant Services for businesses of all sizes.

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.

CobraSelect

Founders	Andrew Hamilton, Kevin Koperski
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CobraSelect helps protect the personal and financial wellness of its clients.

GTreasury

Founders	Orazio Pater
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Fully integrated cash and risk management solution to streamline processes and take your treasury functions from operational to strategic

Stacked

Founders	Joel Birch
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Stacked is a smart automated crypto investing platform.

BloXroute Labs

Founders	Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Emin Gün Sirer, Soumya Basu, Uri Klarman
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BloXroute is a blockchain distribution network to help your blockchains scale to thousands of transactions/second on-chain.

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.

Libres Financial

Founders	Donna Worthley
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Banking That Fits You- Enjoy Hassle Free Business Banking With Free Vendor Payments.

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.

First Trust Capital Partners

Founders	Unknown
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First Trust Capital Partners is an investment firm that focuses on financial, healthcare, technology, and business services sectors.

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

CoinFlip

Founders	Alan Gurevich, Ben Weiss, Daniel Polotsky, Kris Dayrit
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CoinFlip is a bitcoin ATM network that offers a way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies with cash.

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.

Evati

Founders	Peter Clemson, Phillip Bruno
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Evati is a personal-finance app provider.

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.

Alltuition

Founders	Silas Hundt
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Alltuition is an online search engine that enables collage students to find sources for financial aid.

Bundle Network

Founders	Umut Şenol
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Bundle Network is an online platform connected to multiple cryptocurrency exchanges.

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.

Leo Capital Holdings

Founders	Randy Rissman
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Leo Capital Holdings, LLC is a privately funded venture investor making investments in early and later stage private companies.

Tangram Solutions LLC

Founders	Milind Lele
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Tangram Solutions is a fin-tech company that has developed a wealth management platform for independent representatives and annuities

Alphacuity

Founders	Samuel Eddins
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Alphacuity is a financial technology company,

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.

Bluepay

Founders	John Rante
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Bluepay provides technology-enabled credit card payment processing services for businesses in the U.S. and Canada.

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.