Forbes have selected their Top 50 Fintech List for 2018. With Shapeshift also one Swiss Fintech made it into the list.
Acorns, Irvine CA
Category: Investing, Personal Finance, Consumers
Funding: $101 million
Acorns is the first company to offer micro investing to the world. The proprietary financial engine allows customers to roundup spare change from everyday purchases and invest these sub-dollar amounts into a professionally managed portfolio of index funds.
Addepar, Mountain View, CA
Category: Investing, Data & Analytics, Wall Street
Funding: $215 million
Cloud-based software that allows financial advisors to track and analyze all of a client’s holdings and more easily bring new ones on board. Extended its range last year with acquisition of AltX, a data provider covering more than 17,000 hedge funds.
Adyen, Amsterdam
Category: Consumers, Small Business, Payments
Funding: $266 million
A global payments platform that allows businesses to accept payments from major credit and debit cards, as well as mobile apps, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Expanded its services last year through a partnership with China’s Alipay.
Affirm, San Francisco
Category: Consumers, Small Business, Payments, Lending
Funding: $450 million
At Affirm, we’re using today’s technology to bring significant disruptive innovation to the financial industry. We focus on improving the lives of consumers by delivering simple, honest and transparent financial products.
Ayasdi, Menlo Park, CA
Category: Data & Analytics, Wall Street
Funding: $106 million
Ayasdi is a machine intelligence software company that offers a software platform and applications to organizations looking to analyze and build predictive models using big data or highly dimensional data sets.
Betterment, New York City
Category: Investing, Personal Finance, Consumers
Funding: $275 million
Betterment is an online investment company based in New York City, registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Better Mortgage, New York City
Category: Consumers, Lending
Funding: $65 million
Better is a direct lender dedicated to providing a fast, transparent, and online mortgage experience backed by superior customer support.
The Bitfury Group, Amsterdam
Category: Wall Street, Blockchain & Bitcoin
Funding: $90 million
The Bitfury Group is the leading full service Blockchain technology company and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the Blockchain ecosystem.
Blend, San Francisco
Category: Consumers, Wall Street, Lending
Funding: $160 million
At Blend, we’re dedicated to improving consumer lending. We partner with banks and lenders to power frictionless, compliant, and more accessible lending— starting with mortgages.
Blockchain, London
Category: Blockchain & Bitcoin, Investing, Consumers
Funding: $70 million
Blockchain is the world’s leading software platform for digital assets. Offering the largest production blockchain platform in the world, we are using new technology to build a radically better financial system.
Cadre, New York City
Category: Investing, Consumers, Wall Street
Funding: $130 million
Cadre is a technology-enabled real estate investment platform that provides qualified individuals and institutions access to fully vetted commercial real estate opportunities.
Chain, San Francisco
Category: Blockchain & Bitcoin, Wall Street
Funding: $43.7 million
Chain is an infrastructure technology company that enables its partners to issue and transfer financial assets on permissioned blockchain networks.
Chainalysis, New York City
Category: Data & Analytics, Wall Street, Blockchain & Bitcoin
Funding: $1.6 million
Chainalysis is the leading provider of investigation software and financial data for digital currencies.
CircleUp, San Francisco
Category: Investing, Small Business, Consumers, Lending
Funding: $53 million
CircleUp is the investment platform providing capital and resources to innovative, early-stage consumer brands with a modern, scalable approach to private markets.
Coinbase, San Francisco
Category: Blockchain & Bitcoin, Investing, Consumers
Funding: $217 million
Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin.
CommonBond, New York City
Category: Consumers, Wall Street, Lending
Funding: $86.2 million
CommonBond is a marketplace lender that lowers the cost of student loans for borrowers and provides financial returns to investors.
Credit Karma, San Francisco
Category: Personal Finance, Consumers, Data & Analytics, Lending
Funding: $368.5 million
Credit Karma provides truly free credit scores to consumers direct from the credit bureau. Your scores are retrieved securely with no hidden fees.
Digital Reasoning, Nashville
Category: Investing, Data & Analytics, Wall Street
Funding: $76 million
Digital Reasoning is a leader in cognitive computing. We build software that understands human communication – in many languages, across many domains, and at enormous scale. We help people see the world more clearly so they can make a positive difference for humanity.
Earnin, Palo Alto, CA
Category: Personal Finance, Consumers
Funding: $65 million
Access your pay any time you want for the hours you work. You don’t have to wait a week or two for your direct deposit. Get the pay you already earned instantly in your bank account.
Ellevest, New York City
Category: Investing, Personal Finance, Consumers
Funding: $44.5 million
We’re on a mission to close the gender-investing gap. Join the movement and get in financial control today.
Enigma, New York City
Category: Investing, Data & Analytics, Wall Street
Funding: $34.6 million
Enigma is an operational data management and intelligence company. We place data into the context of the real world and make it connected, open, and actionable.
Feedzai, San Mateo, CA
Category: Consumers, Data & Analytics, Wall Street, Payments
Funding: $82 million
Feedzai is a data science company that detects fraud in omnichannel commerce. The company uses real-time, machine-based learning to analyze big data to identify fraudulent payment transactions and minimize risk in the financial industry.
Forter, New York City
Category: Consumers, Data & Analytics, Small Business, Payments
Funding: $50 million
Forter is a company that helps retailers prevent identity fraud, internet fraud and phone fraud.
Fundrise, Washington, D.C.
Category: Investing, Consumers
Funding: $50 million
Fundrise was born from the belief that everyone deserves a simpler, smarter, more reliable way to invest. Using technology, Fundrise has created the first low-cost, direct private market investment platform built for you.
GreenSky, Atlanta
Category: Consumers, Wall Street, Small Business, Lending
Funding: $560 million
Greensky provides technology to banks and merchants to make loans to consumers for home improvement, solar, healthcare and other purposes.
Guideline, San Mateo, CA
Category: Investing, Personal Finance, Consumers, Small Business
Funding: $24 million
Guideline is the only 401(k) provider that doesn’t charge participants any fees on investments, regardless of the value of their assets or retirement account balance. And for employers, Guideline charges a low, flat rate fee per participant, in contrast to the asset-based fee model predominant in the industry.
Gusto, San Francisco
Category: Consumers, Small Business, Payments
Funding: $176 million
Gusto is a company that provides a cloud-based payroll, benefits, and human resource management solution for businesses based in the United States.
iCapital Network, New York City
Category: Investing, Consumers, Wall Street, Data & Analytics
Funding: $55 million
iCapital Network is a powerful financial technology platform that provides modular alternative investment solutions for registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, private banks, family offices and other sophisticated investors.
IEX, New York City
Category: Investing, Wall Street, Data & Analytics
Funding: $100 million
IEX is a fair, simple, transparent stock exchange dedicated to investor protection.
Kabbage, Atlanta
Category: Data & Analytics, Small Business, Lending
Funding: $500 million
Kabbage Inc. has pioneered the first financial services data and technology platform to provide fully automated funding to small businesses in minutes.
Kensho, Cambridge, MA
Category: Investing, Wall Street, Data & Analytics
Funding: $150 million
Kensho deploys scalable machine learning and analytics systems across the most critical government and commercial institutions in the world to solve some of the hardest analytical problems of our time.
Lemonade, New York City
Category: Personal Finance, Consumers, Data & Analytics
Funding: $180 million
Lemonade Insurance Company is a licensed insurance carrier, offering homeowners and renters insurance powered by artificial intelligence and behavioral economics.
LendingHome, San Francisco
Category: Investing, Consumers, Small Business, Lending
Funding: $166 million
LendingHome is a modern mortgage lender. We offer short-term hard money loans and home mortgage loans, and easy access to a portfolio of high-return real estate investments.
Metromile, San Francisco
Category: Personal Finance, Consumers, Data & Analytics
Funding: $205.5 million
Metromile is a car insurance startup that offers pay-per-mile insurance and a driving app.
Plaid, San Francisco
Category: Consumers, Data & Analytics, Wall Street
Funding: $60 million
Plaid powers innovation in financial services with technology that provides access to and analytics for financial data.
Qapital, New York City
Category: Investing, Personal Finance, Consumers, Data & Analytics
Funding: $17.3 million
Qapital is building a new way to bank as an app designed to help people achieve their unique financial goals. Combining behavioral economics and technology—across Android and iOS—allows Qapital to not only help people better understand their spending and saving habits but put their money towards things that make them truly happy.
Quandl, Toronto
Category: Investing, Wall Street, Consumers, Data & Analytics
Funding: $20 million
Designed for professional investors, Quandl delivers financial and economic data to over 250,000 users, including analysts from the world’s top hedge funds and investment banks.
Remitly, Seattle
Category: Consumers, Payments
Funding: $200 million
Remitly is the largest independent digital remittance company headquartered in the United States, transferring over $4 billion in annualized volume from its customers in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada to loved ones throughout the world.
Ripple, San Francisco
Category: Wall Street, Payments, Blockchain & Bitcoin
Funding: $93.6 million
Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain.
Robinhood, Palo Alto, CA
Category: Investing, Consumers, Blockchain & Bitcoin
Funding: $176 million
Robinhood, is a U.S. based financial services company.The company offers the Robinhood smartphone mobile app, which allows individuals to invest in publicly traded companies and exchange-traded funds listed on U.S. stock exchanges without paying a commission.
Shapeshift, Zug, Switzerland
Category: Investing, Consumers, Blockchain & Bitcoin
Funding: $12.2 million
ShapeShift.io is the leading instant digital asset exchange, supporting dozens of blockchain tokens including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Zcash, Dash, Dogecoin and many more!
Stripe, San Francisco
Category: Consumers, Wall Street, Small Business, Payments
Funding: $450 million
The complete toolkit for internet business. Stripe builds the most powerful and flexible tools for internet commerce.
Symbiont, New York City
Category: Wall Street, Investing, Blockchain & Bitcoin
Funding: $15.4 million
Symbiont is the market-leading smart contracts platform for institutional applications of blockchain technology
Symphony, Palo Alto, CA
Category: Investing, Data & Analytics, Wall Street
Funding: $234 million
Symphony is the cloud-based messaging and collaboration platform that connects markets, organizations and individuals, securely.
Tala, Santa Monica, CA
Category: Consumers, Data & Analytics, Lending
Funding: $44 million
Tala is a mission-driven mobile technology and data science company that’s opening up financial access for underserved people globally.
TransferWise, London
Category: Consumers, Small Business, Payments
Funding: $397 million
TransferWise is the clever new alternative to banks and brokers, that allows people to transfer money abroad at a lower cost than ever before.
Trumid, New York City
Category: Investing, Data & Analytics, Wall Street
Funding: $82 million
Trumid is a financial technology company bringing efficiency to credit trading through data, technology and beautifully simple products.
Upstart, San Carlos, CA
Category: Consumers, Data & Analytics, Wall Street, Lending
Funding: $110 million
Upstart is the first lending platform to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to price credit and automate the borrowing process. Upstart has demonstrated unparalleled credit performance and the industry’s highest consumer ratings.
Veem, San Francisco
Category: Consumers, Small Business, Payments, Blockchain & Bitcoin
Funding: $40 million
Veem is a next generation platform for business to business payments. We enable businesses to send and receive payments in local currency via a simple and inexpensive manner by using our unique multi-rail technology across several global networks.
Xapo, Palo Alto, CA
Category: Investing, Consumers, Blockchain & Bitcoin
Funding: $41 million
Xapo is the world’s most secure bitcoin wallet. Buy bitcoins, make purchases and send money anywhere around the world with Xapo’s convenient, secure bitcoin wallet.
