Los Angeles’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 Los Angeles. 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 (Los Angeles)

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.

SFOX

Founders	Akbar Thobhani, George Melika
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SFOX is a cryptocurrency prime dealer for professional traders and institutional investors.

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.

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

Donut

Founders	Neel Popat
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Donut is the easiest way to save and earn a high yield with DeFi.

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.

Round

Founders	Ron Rojany, Saul Cohen
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Round is a fintech firm that provides active investment management services.

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.

Prometheus Alternative Investments

Founders	Michael Wang
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Prometheus Alternative Investments is a fintech startup.

Just Auto Insurance

Founders	Greg Ferkel, Murray Macdonald, Robert Smithson
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Just Auto Insurance is an insurance and technology start-up company that provides data driven, pre-paid, and pay-per-mile car insurance.

ChimpChange Mobile Banking

Founders	Ash Shilkin
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Mobile Banking with two key value propositions. ChimpChange is more useful than your traditional bank, without the hidden fees.

XCLAIM

Founders	Matthew Sedigh
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XCLAIM is digitizing the financial market for selling bad debt receivables.

Emburse

Founders	Peter Lai, Roger Gu
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Emburse is a provider of expense management and accounts payable automation solutions.

FastPay

Founders	Jed Simon
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FastPay is the definitive financial platform for digital media.

Docupace

Founders	Michael Pinsker, Tom Embrogno
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Docupace is a solutions provider focused on digitizing and automating operations in the financial advice and investment industry.

Trust

Founders	Chris Lorenz, Daniel Druger, Geoffrey Anderson, James Borow, Sean Friedland, Spencer Anderson
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Trust is a community corporate card designed to help businesses learn from each other’s spending patterns.

Alice

Founders	Cody Swain, Echul Shin
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Alice is a decentralized finance mobile application that enables users to send money to friends.

Stackin’

Founders	Kyle Arbaugh, Scott Grimes
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Stackin’ empowers people to improve their financial lives via text message.

Groundswell

Founders	Jacob Wood, Jake Wood
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Groundswell is a new sort of financial business that makes use of cutting-edge technology to help people give more effectively.

Exactuals

Founders	Ilie Ardelean, Mike Hurst
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Exactuals is a SaaS payments company that focuses on royalty/residual based markets.

Suma Wealth

Founders	Beatriz Acevedo, Xavier Gutierrez
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Suma Wealth is a FinTech company for the U.S. Latinx community.

Papaya

Founders	Jason Meltzer, Patrick Kann
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Papaya is a developer of an online mobile application and payments technology designed to simplify bill payment for consumers.

Hedgehog

Founders	Colton Dillion, Taylor Culbertson
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Hedgehog is a portfolio manager and trading application for crypto currencies.

Crediverso

Founders	Charlie Hernández
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Crediverso is a financial marketplace where people can find credit cards, credit checks, and international money transfers.

Crowdfunder

Founders	Carlo D’Itri, Jean-Michel Arnoult, Rafe Furst
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Crowdfunder is an equity crowdfunding platform connecting investors with early-stage entrepreneurs.

B Generous

Founders	Dominic Kalms, Neil St. Clair, Paul Kalms
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B Generous is a venture-backed FinTech company that is addressing the half-a-trillion-dollar underserved donor nonprofit market in the U.S.

Rooam

Founders	Junaid Shams
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A contactless payment solution for the hospitality, sports, and entertainment industry

Bump by Ownors AI

Founders	Arabian Prince, Chris Mendez, Chris Schwartz, James Jones Jr
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The #1 Fintech & AI-Driven Platform For Mentorship & Managed Micro-Advances For Creators

Guac

Founders	Scott Armstrong
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Guac is a saving app designed to help the user to save while spending towards their goals.

LÜK Network

Founders	Matt Finelli, Scott Wilson, Zack Parker
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LÜK Network is a fintech-enabled B2B marketplace for the advertising industry.

Counterpart

Founders	Tanner Hackett
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Counterpart is an insurtech startup company that works in the management liability insurance market.

Finli

Founders	Jonathan DiBenedetto, Lori Shao
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Finli is a payment management system helping service businesses get paid timely, easily and affordably.

PayEngine

Founders	Spartak Buniatyan
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PayEngine is a startup developing a white label, payment platform for software-as-a-service companies.

Onward

Founders	Jacklyn Rome
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Onward is a FinTech platform designed to help co-parents manage shared expenses for their children more easily.

Onward

Founders	Jacklyn Rome
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Onward is a FinTech platform designed to help co-parents manage shared expenses for their children more easily.

Talino Venture Labs

Founders	Winston Damarillo
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Talino Venture Labs is a global venture studio for inclusive fintech

DataChain Capital

Founders	Kunal Thakur, Roshaan Khan
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DataChain Capital is a Digital Asset Hedge Fund

AlgoPay

Founders	Anna Merzi
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Algopay issues mobile-based debit Mastercards to cash consumers in emerging markets.

Otomo

Founders	Khellar Crawford, Sufi Sidhu
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Otomo provides self-driving finance as-a-service.

SteadiPay

Founders	Anthony Strike, Chad Kalebic
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Making sure small businesses don’t run out of cash

ComplYant

Founders	Shiloh Johnson
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ComplYant is a digital tax assistant for entrepreneurs that provide a simple, accurate way to follow tax deadlines.

Daylight

Founders	Billie Simmons, Paul Barnes-Hoggett, Rob Curtis
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Daylight is the first and only digital banking platform in the USA built for LGBT+ people, by LGBT+ people.

Flowbo

Founders	Daniel Kang, Norman Yu
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Flowbo is a funding platform for online content creators that provides financial services.

Sootchy

Founders	David Adefeso
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Sootchy is platform to help reduce the U.S household student debt. Providing a better future for our kids.

Ascend Consumer Finance

Founders	Scott Crawford, Steve Carlson, Stewart Sui
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Through a proprietary process called Adaptive Risk Pricing, Ascend empowers consumers to prove their real-time creditworthiness

Banks.com

Founders	Chris Snyder
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We work for you. Our mission is to become your trusted, go-to resource for all things financial.

MANTIS Venture Capital

Founders	Jeffrey Evans, Milan Koch
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Mantis is an early-stage fund that invests in consumer tech, media/entertainment, and fintech companies.

Skraps

Founders	Marwan Field
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Skraps is a micro finance platform that allows individuals to invest their spare change in portfolios of cryptocurrencies.

Morpheus Ventures

Founders	Joseph Miller, Mark Dyne
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Morpheus Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund that invests in technology enterprise.

SRAX

Founders	Chris Miglino, Erin DeRuggiero, Kristoffer Nelson
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SRAX is a financial technology company that unlocks data and insights for publicly traded companies.

Ember Fund

Founders	Alex Wang, Guillaume Torche, Mario Lazaro
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Ember Fund develops a mobile app to invest like a cryptocurrency hedge fund.

Floodlight

Founders	Erin Angerer, Nate Wyne
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Floodlight is a SaaS platform that provides investors with specialized insights into a company’s full behavior and prospects.

MaC Venture Capital

Founders	Adrian Fenty, Charles King, Marlon Nichols, Michael Palank
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MaC Venture Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on finding ideas, technology, and products that can become infectious.

AgentRisk – Superhuman Wealth Management

Founders	Alex Loukissas, Jon Vlachogiannis, Niko Maroulis
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Automated portfolio management & option strategies, all managed by A.I.

AssetAvenue

Founders	David Manshoory, Kevin Arrabaca
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AssetAvenue is a financial services company that offers an online lender for real estate investment properties.

Wizely Finance

Founders	Asmat Sami Siddiqui, Paris Benson
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Wizely Finance is a web-based platform that helps financial institutions offer credit card debt consolidation loans.

Fika Ventures

Founders	Eva Ho, TX Zhuo
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Fika Ventures is a seed fund that focuses on enterprise and B2B software, FinTech, marketplaces, and digital health.

Type One Ventures

Founders	Justin Walker, Tarek Waked
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Type One Ventures invests in anything progressing humanity towards a Type One Civilization. Space, robotics, fin-tech, and frontier tech.

FundAmerica Technologies

Founders	Scott Purcell
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Technology & Compliance for the Crowdfunding Industry

GoSBA – Los Angeles SBA Loans

Founders	Ishan Jetley
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GoSBA Loans is a SBA Loan Marketplace.

Stem Disintermedia

Founders	Jovin Cronin-Wilesmith, Milana Lewis, Tim Luckow
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Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings.

Float

Founders	Andy Burke, Kevin Bass, Max Klein
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Float is a mobile-first credit experience that offers small dollar credit lines built on bank and alternative data.

Crent

Founders	Michael Koshet
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Crent sends consumer permissioned data to all three credit bureaus, so consumers can build credit.

CannCo

Founders	Unknown
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A Decentralized Fintech and Digital Infrastructure Platform for the Emerging Cannabis Market.

Amnesty.com

Founders	Dan Clements, JOSE VASQUEZ
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A platform designed to help solve the growing individual debt crisis by bringing consumers and creditors together online.

Elevatyr

Founders	Brandon Evans
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Mobile Cryptocurrency Investment Platform

Act One Ventures

Founders	Alejandro Guerrero, Michael Silton
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Act One Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage fund that leads rounds in business software.

Paymation

Founders	Khellar Crawford, Tomás de Priede
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We publish the humanistic banking technology known as Otomo

Next Billionaires Capital

Founders	Irena Chaushevska
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Virtual Stock Market that empower Investors to place early investments in high potential Startup Founders from around the world.

EarnWell, Inc

Founders	Allen Orr, Morry Brown, Steve Cox
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EarnWell is a mobile-based application software that serves as an investing app for people who care what their money supports.

LendAmend

Founders	Ron silverton, Tejs Broberg, Tejs Broberg
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LendAmend operates LendAmend.com, a web-based platform for professionals in the leveraged loan market.

Ares Capital Corporation

Founders	Antony Ressler, John Kissick, Michael Arougheti
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Ares Capital Corporation, a California-based specialty finance company, offers solutions for mid-market companies across diverse industries.

Rari Capital

Founders	David Lucid, Jack Lipstone, Jai Bhavnani
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The most advanced and creative rebalancing mechanism on DeFi. Built to maximize yield across protocols and reach new levels with strategies.

Winden

Founders	Daniel Sathyanesan
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Banking for the internet economy.

Inevitable Ventures

Founders	D.A. Wallach, Ron Burkle
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Venture Capital Fund formed by friends Ron Burkle, Chris Hollod, and D.A. Wallach

BillZero

Founders	Nathan Briggs
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Generate $3 > Grow to $60 > Pay on Due Date

Whitepine Finance

Founders	Francesco Pisano
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Whitepine is a private US financial technology and media company that helps consumers understand everything related to finance.

Walkabout Ventures

Founders	Unknown
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Walkabout Ventures is an investment fund focused on venture funds investing in financial service startups.

VamosVentures

Founders	Marcos Gonzalez
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VamosVentures is a venture capital fund focused on Latinx and diverse founders leading early-stage tech-enabled companies.

Peachscore

Founders	Alex Mojtahedi, Andrew Walsh, Mehdi Yahyanejad
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A universal protocol and centralized communication hub to help organizations assist and assess startups.

Superjoi

Founders	Chris Knight, Piotr Wolanski, Sören Creutzburg
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Where superfans fund creators

Liquid

Founders	Saujin Yi
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Liquid is a global vendor and freelancer payments platform providing agile SMBs consolidated payments, automation and business controls.

Kanmon

Founders	Mengxi Lu, Rohit Sharma
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Kanmon platform is the easiest way to build and offer value-add lending products to your customers

Pei

Founders	Michael Jannain, Tom Bachar
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Unlock automatic cashback in Bitcoin or USD on your debit or credit cards!

Untapped Ventures

Founders	George Bandarian
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We build, invest, and coach startups that help humanity reach its untapped potential.

Our Libra

Founders	George Mathew
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AI-Driven Personal Finance Advisor for Optimizing Savings & Debt

Nuvestan

Founders	Stephen Umunna
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Visualize the worth of your spending habits and compare it to the same cash if invested in stocks and ETFs at that time.

Ardius

Founders	Joshua Lee
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Ardius is a rethinking tax with automation, AI, and technology.

Currency Capital

Founders	Charles Anderson
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Currency Capital is an equipment financing, lending and technology investment company.

ReadyForZero

Founders	Ignacio Thayer, Rod Ebrahimi
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ReadyForZero creates online financial software for actively managing personal debt and credit.

Hannum Capital Management

Founders	Dan Hannum
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A capital management company focused on digital and blockchain-based assets exclusively on the blockchain technology sector.

Acquicent

Founders	Anthony Citrano
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Acquicent provides a marketplace for investing in digital and real-world collectibles via NFTs.

Quid

Founders	Anthony Tucker, Josh Berman, Samit Varma
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Smart liquidity tools for pre-IPO equity. Quid helps private shareholders make better decisions for their financial future.

RLH Equity Partners

Founders	J. Christopher Lewis, Kevin Cantrell, Richard Riordan, Ryan Smiley
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RLH Equity Partners is a leading private equity firm based in Southern California.

Encore

Founders	Dennis Stevens, Oliver Chubb, Ryan Kravontka
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Transforming how creators do business

Allnodes

Founders	Konstantin Boyko-Romanovsky
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Allnodes is a platform, which provides non-custodial Staking and Masternodes services and allows you to Stake coins in a few clicks

Hatch Credit Solutions

Founders	Unknown
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Hatch Credit Solutions lets young people build their credit through nontraditional data points.

Niftable

Founders	Joey Azizoff
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Niftable allows anyone to invest fractional amounts in blue-chip NFT’s.

Paydrop

Founders	Jason Truppi, Steven McClurg
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Payment infrastructure for the gig-economy and the future of work.