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Ximena Aleman
Ximena Aleman is the co-founder and Co-CEO of Prometeo, the largest open banking API platform in Latin America. A former journalist from Uruguay, she pivoted from covering entrepreneurs to becoming one, building infrastructure that connects over 1,200 financial institutions across 11 countries through a single API. Under her leadership Prometeo has won the trust of banks like JP Morgan, Santander, Citi and BBVA and raised backing from PayPal Ventures, Samsung Next and others. She is a vocal advocate for financial inclusion and for founders from overlooked corners of the region.
Formance
Formance is an open-source financial infrastructure company that gives developers a programmable core ledger and a connectivity layer for moving money across banks, payment processors, and wallets. Its stack - Ledger, Connectivity, Flows, and Reconciliation - lets fintechs and platforms track every asset movement with double-entry precision, orchestrate payments across providers, and automatically reconcile internal records against external statements. Founded in 2021 and backed by PayPal Ventures and Portage, Formance positions itself as building-block infrastructure for the 'financial internet' rather than a payment processor that touches customer funds.
Method
Method is a financial connectivity platform that lets developers link, read, and repay a consumer's credit and liability accounts - credit cards, student loans, auto loans, mortgages and more - through a single API. Using only a phone number, Method connects to 20,000+ financial institutions, surfaces real-time balances, payoff quotes and due dates, and moves money directly to creditors. It powers embedded lending, refinancing, balance transfers and debt payoff for fintechs and lenders including SoFi, Aven, Bilt, Happy Money and Figure.
Prajit Nanu
Prajit Nanu is the co-founder and CEO of Nium, the Singapore-born fintech unicorn that has quietly become the plumbing behind global money movement for banks, airlines, and digital platforms. Starting with a frustrating attempt to wire INR 40,000 for a friend's bachelor party in Phuket, he built what is now a $1.4 billion payments infrastructure company processing over $8 billion annually across 190+ countries in 100 currencies. A commerce graduate from Mumbai with a sales background rather than a fintech pedigree, Nanu turned that outsider status into competitive advantage - building what incumbents told him was impossible.
OpenYield
OpenYield is a New York-based fintech operating an automated, all-to-all bond marketplace that brings an equity-like trading experience to fixed income. A FINRA-registered broker-dealer and SEC-registered alternative trading system (ATS), it offers firm, executable quotes with no minimum trade sizes across corporate bonds, municipal bonds and U.S. Treasurys, connected to brokerages, advisors, asset managers and market makers through API-first infrastructure.
SkyFi
SkyFi is an Austin, Texas-based Earth intelligence company that runs a self-service marketplace for satellite imagery and analytics. Through a single web platform, mobile app and API, customers can search archives, task satellites and buy optical, SAR, hyperspectral and aerial imagery from more than 50 commercial providers - then run built-in AI analytics on it. Founded in 2021 by Luke Fischer and Bill Perkins, SkyFi aims to make geospatial data as easy to order as a rideshare, serving defense, government, finance, energy, agriculture, insurance and infrastructure customers worldwide.
Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure company that lets businesses accept payments and run their money operations through a set of developer-friendly APIs. Founded in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison, it powers everything from indie side projects to Fortune 500 checkouts, processing more than $1.9 trillion in payments in 2025. Beyond core card processing, Stripe offers billing, fraud protection, business incorporation, card issuing, tax automation, and banking-as-a-service, positioning itself as the economic layer of the internet.
Basis Theory
Basis Theory is a payments infrastructure company that gives merchants a cloud-native, PCI Level 1-compliant vault to tokenize, route, and control sensitive payment data across any payment service provider - without vendor lock-in. Founded in 2020 by fintech veterans from Dwolla, Yodlee, and Klarna, the company has raised roughly $50 million and now positions its vault as the foundation for AI-driven, agentic commerce.
Micruity
Micruity is a financial-technology infrastructure company building the data pipes that let lifetime-income products work inside everyday 401(k) plans. Its Advanced Routing System (MARS) acts as a secure central clearing house that connects insurers, asset managers, recordkeepers and plan sponsors, letting them communicate, verify and aggregate annuity data so retirement savings can be turned into a predictable monthly paycheck. Founded in 2017 by Trevor Gary and Chris Livadas, the company is headquartered in Toronto and raised an oversubscribed $20M Series A in December 2025.
Rightfoot
Rightfoot is a San Francisco fintech that gives lenders real-time, credential-less financial data - live bank and debit-card balances retrieved without asking borrowers to hand over bank logins. Its API and portal let lenders and collections teams verify account ownership, confirm a borrower can actually pay, and time outreach to when money is in the account, cutting failed payments and defaults. Founded in 2016 and originally an employer-enabled student-debt repayment tool, the company pivoted to permissioned data infrastructure and now serves consumer lenders, business lenders, and collections agencies.
Speakeasy
Speakeasy is a San Francisco developer-infrastructure company that turns an OpenAPI specification into production-grade, type-safe SDKs across ten-plus languages, then keeps them in sync automatically as the API changes. Founded in 2022 by Sagar Batchu and Simon Yu, it has expanded from SDK and Terraform-provider generation into an AI control plane for the Model Context Protocol - products like Gram and the MCP Gateway let companies expose their APIs as governed tools for AI agents. Speakeasy has raised roughly $26 million, including a $15M Series A led by FPV Ventures in 2024, and counts Vercel, Mistral AI, Clerk, Kong, Fivetran, Airbyte, and SolarWinds among its customers.
Rishi Sharma
Rishi Sharma runs Briza, a Toronto-based commercial insurance API platform that connects carriers, MGAs, brokers and software companies through a single interface. He joined in 2018 as CTO/head of product after a stint leading engineering on the FreshBooks redesign, and stepped up to CEO in December 2022 after co-founder Ben Munro departed. His work focuses on API reliability, quote-and-bind automation, and making legacy commercial lines behave like modern developer infrastructure.
Sam Seely
Sam Seely is the co-founder and CEO of Knock, a New York-based notification infrastructure company that turned the tedious plumbing of transactional email, push, SMS and in-app messages into an API and workflow engine used by Vercel, Amplitude and others. He and CTO Chris Bell, who met at Frame.io, launched Knock in 2021 and raised a $12M Series A led by Craft Ventures in February 2024, bringing total funding to $18M.
Apero Health
Apero Health is a San Francisco-based, Y Combinator-backed healthcare software company that folds scheduling, clinical visit notes, revenue cycle management, patient billing, e-prescriptions, and financial reporting into a single API-first platform. Founded in 2019 by Jacinda and Nick Shelly, Apero aims to bring transparency and speed to the notoriously opaque business of getting doctors paid - promising implementation in under a day, claim denials cut through custom validation rules, and payer enrollment across all 50 states.
Neural Defend
Neural Defend is a New York and Delhi-based cybersecurity startup building multimodal deepfake detection for enterprises. Founded in 2024 by MIT- and Intel-affiliated researchers, its proprietary AI spots AI-generated faces, manipulated video, cloned voices, and forged documents in real time - delivered as developer-friendly APIs and SDKs, plus on-premises deployments for banks, fintechs, and government. The pitch: make catching a deepfake as easy as an API call.
SpeakIn Technologies Co.,Ltd.
SpeakIn Technologies is a voiceprint-recognition and identity-security company founded in Silicon Valley in 2015 and headquartered in Shenzhen. Using deep neural networks and its iVector engine, SpeakIn turns the unique physical signature of a human voice into a biometric key, offering both 1:1 verification (is this the right speaker?) and 1:N identification (who is speaking, out of many?). Its SDK and cloud APIs are used across banking, public security, and smart devices, with reported accuracy near 98% and customers including Tencent, Lenovo, ASUS, and China Merchants Bank.
Uprise - Embedded Tax and Advisory
Uprise is a San Francisco fintech that embeds full-service tax filing and financial advisory into the SaaS platforms small business owners already use. Its model pairs AI-generated first drafts with review from Certified Financial Planners and tax professionals held to a fiduciary standard, letting partners like Rippling, Carry, Heard and HoneyBook launch white-labeled, premium tax-and-advisory services in weeks rather than years.
Voyomotive
Voyomotive is a Florida-based connected-car company that turns almost any vehicle built since 1996 into a smart, data-rich machine. Through its VOYO OBD-II hardware and a cloud platform of APIs, firmware and apps, it pulls OEM-grade data - engine health, battery life, tire pressure, fault codes, location - and delivers it to drivers, fleets, insurers and repair shops. Products like VOYOLink and VOYOHub let independent repair shops diagnose vehicles remotely and build recurring revenue, while VOYOTrak handles multi-vehicle fleet tracking.
Diffbot
Diffbot is an AI company building one of the world's largest knowledge graphs by autonomously crawling, reading, and structuring the public web. Its APIs and LLM turn unstructured pages into machine-readable facts about people, organizations, products, and articles - powering search, sales intelligence, market research, and grounded generative AI.
Medplum
Medplum is an open-source, API-first, FHIR-native healthcare developer platform - a 'Firebase for Healthcare' that gives engineers a HIPAA- and SOC2-ready backend so they can ship custom EHRs, patient portals, and clinical workflows without rebuilding the plumbing.
Mindee
Mindee is a Paris- and San Francisco-based AI company building an API-first platform that turns any document - invoices, receipts, passports, bank statements - into clean structured JSON. Founded in 2018 and backed by GGV Capital, Alven and Y Combinator, it gives developers pre-trained OCR endpoints plus a no-training-required custom builder called docTI.
Shovels
Shovels is an AI-powered building-permit intelligence platform that turns fragmented local-government data into a queryable source of truth on construction activity, covering more than 130 million permits across 1,800+ US jurisdictions.
Gil Akos
Gil Akos is the co-founder and CEO of Astra, a payments infrastructure company that lets developers move money bank-to-bank in real time. Trained as an architect with graduate work at Columbia, he taught himself programming, then earned a stack of Udacity nanodegrees in machine learning and AI to build the company he imagined. Under his leadership Astra crossed $1 billion in lifetime payments processed and pushed past a $2 billion annualized run rate, positioning the company as connective tissue for instant payouts across vertical SaaS, marketplaces, and earned wage access.
Zack Isaacs
Zack Isaacs is the co-founder and CEO of Movemint, a mobile-first platform rebuilding how athletic events are discovered, registered, run, and remembered. Strava's first API hire, he spent five years wiring the fitness world together - linking Garmin, Wahoo, Peloton, and Zwift - and led engineering for Strava's paid Routes, one of its most lucrative features. In 2023 he left to fix the part of endurance sport that still felt broken: the sign-up. Backed by Underscore VC and Strava co-founder Michael Horvath, Movemint launched in February 2024 and has roughly tripled its business every quarter since.
Orderful
Orderful is a modern, cloud-based EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) platform that connects supply chains. It replaces the slow, point-to-point EDI integrations that have governed B2B commerce for decades with a single API connection, web tooling, and an AI-native engine (Mosaic) that interprets and transforms trading-partner data automatically. More than 400 companies - including Liquid Death, Caraway, NFI, Hirschbach, Pabst, and Koch Industries - use Orderful to onboard partners in days instead of months and to process orders, invoices, and shipping documents in real time.
Arctop
Arctop is a cognition company building software that decodes the human brain. Its AI platform translates electrical brain-activity signals from everyday wearables - headbands, earbuds, and VR/AR headsets - into real-time, actionable insight about focus, emotion, intention, and memory. Founded in 2016 by neuroscientist Dan Furman and engineer Eitan Kay, Arctop licenses its non-invasive brain-decoding software to developers and enterprises across health, entertainment, education, and government, positioning itself as the intelligence layer between brain-sensing hardware and the applications that use it.
Chariot
Chariot is a New York fintech building the payment infrastructure for charitable giving. Its flagship product, DAFpay, is the first donation option that lets people give directly from a donor-advised fund in a few clicks, and it now appears on the donation forms of more than 100,000 nonprofits. Chariot also helps charities receive, code, and reconcile grant payments through a single portal, tapping into the roughly $326 billion sitting in donor-advised fund accounts.
Courier
Courier is a San Francisco notification infrastructure platform that lets developers add multi-channel messaging - email, SMS, push, in-app, Slack and more - to their apps through a single API and a drag-and-drop designer. Often described as 'Stripe for notifications,' it routes messages intelligently across channels so engineering teams stop rebuilding notification systems from scratch. Founded in 2019 (YC S19), Courier raised a $35M Series B led by GV in 2022 and powers notifications for companies like New Relic, LaunchDarkly, Lattice, Vanta and Contentful.
Harmonic
Harmonic is a startup discovery engine built for venture investors, corporate development teams, and go-to-market professionals. It aggregates and continuously refreshes structured and unstructured data on more than 30 million companies and 190 million people, then lets users run granular, multi-criteria searches and AI-powered research to find promising startups before anyone else does. Founded in 2020 and now headquartered in New York, the company positions itself as 'the source of truth for startups.'
Interlace
Interlace is a Singapore-based fintech that lets companies issue branded physical and virtual cards through a single API, connecting to 30+ card BINs and bridging stablecoins with traditional banking rails. As a Visa Hong Kong Principal Member, it offers card-as-a-service, multi-currency business accounts, banking-as-a-service and crypto on/off ramps to over 12,000 enterprise clients across 180+ countries, having issued more than 6 million cards.