Waterloo’s 8 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 8 FinTech companies in Waterloo. 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 (Waterloo)

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Periculum

Founders	Michael Collins
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Periculum is an alternate credit assessment solution for underserved markets.

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TaxPrep

Founders	Kristina Mandekic
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

TaxPrep providing small businesses with bookkeeping and tax preparation in real time by AI.

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Ark Paradigm

Founders	Murray Love
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Ark Paradigm is regulatory intelligence service for those who need to report financial material free of errors and omissions.

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BANEKS

Founders	Denson Xu
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

BANEKS is a low-rate currency exchange marketplace.

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Olive Group Ltd.

Founders	David Beaton, Mark Lesiw, Ramy Nassar, Vincent Alimi
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Payments-driven API platform focused on delivering positive financial outcomes inside existing customer experiences.

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Betterworth

Founders	Unknown
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Betterworth is a cognitive AI platform for the financial services industry

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SimpleDirect

Founders	Arashdeep Panesar, George Pu, Harmen Singh, Prajwol Bhandary
Follow	Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

Democratizing home-improvement financing.

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Cha-Ching

Founders	Peter Lord
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Online money management for women