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Tiugo Technologies
Tiugo is assembling the invisible machinery behind digital content - four familiar developer tools, one shared growth engine, and a bet that editing, managing and delivering files work better together.
Plain
The AI support stack built for B2B teams. Composable infrastructure that gives you complete flexibility to build a support motion that grows with your business.
Invofox
Invofox is an AI document-processing platform that turns invoices, receipts, payslips, and shipping papers into clean, structured JSON through a single API. Built for software companies rather than end users, it pairs high-accuracy OCR and machine-learning models with human-in-the-loop verification so fintechs, accounting platforms, lenders, and logistics operators can automate payments and bookkeeping without anyone re-typing a document. Founded by three Spanish mathematics and computer-science graduates, backed by Y Combinator (S22), and now processing tens of millions of documents a year.
Sohar Health
Sohar Health is an API-first platform that automates insurance eligibility checks and verification of benefits (VoB) for behavioral and digital health providers. Founded in 2023 by physician Ashish Mandavia and engineer Lucas Gordon, the company turns a slow, error-prone front-office task into a real-time API call - returning most checks in seconds with high accuracy - so clinics can confirm coverage, cut claim denials, and get paid faster. It graduated from Y Combinator (S23) and raised $3.8M in seed funding led by Kindred Capital in 2025.
NymCard
NymCard is an Abu Dhabi-based embedded finance and payments infrastructure company that lets banks, fintechs, telecoms and enterprises launch and run card programs, lending and money-movement products through a single API-first platform called nCore. Founded in 2018 by Omar Onsi, it owns its issuing and switching technology rather than licensing it, is licensed by the Central Bank of the UAE, and is a certified partner of Visa and Mastercard across the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan.
Peak3
Peak3 (formerly ZA Tech) is a Singapore-headquartered insurtech that builds cloud-native, AI-ready core software for the insurance industry. Its modular platform - spanning policy administration, distribution, claims and orchestration - lets insurers, MGAs and brokers launch and run life, health and property & casualty products across many markets. Founded in 2018 out of Chinese insurtech ZhongAn and rebranded to Peak3 in 2024 alongside a US$35M Series A led by EQT, the company powers global insurers such as AIA, Generali, Prudential and Zurich, and embedded-insurance programs for digital platforms including Grab, Klook, Lazada and PayPay. Its software has supported over a billion policies across 20-plus countries.
Tazapay
Tazapay is a Singapore-based cross-border payment platform that lets businesses collect, hold, and pay out money in over 170 markets without setting up local entities. Founded in 2020 by three payments veterans, it combines a payment gateway, multi-currency global accounts, escrow, and same-day payouts on top of local payment rails, cards, and stablecoins - all wrapped in institutional-grade compliance. The company processes more than $10 billion in annualized payment volume, serves 1,000+ enterprises and fintechs, and has raised roughly $68 million to date, including a $36 million Series B whose extension was led by Circle Ventures.
CoverGo | Insurtech
CoverGo is a global enterprise insurtech that gives insurers, MGAs, and brokers a no-code, API-first platform to build, distribute, administer, and process insurance products across life, health, and P&C lines. Founded in Hong Kong in 2017 by Tomas Holub, it runs on 500+ open insurance APIs and a patented drag-and-drop product builder, letting carriers launch new products in hours rather than months and modernize legacy core systems without ripping them out. Customers include AXA, Bupa, MSIG, Dai-ichi Life, and Bank of China Group Insurance, served from offices across Silicon Valley, New York, Dubai, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
Cyferd
Cyferd is an AI-led, data-driven digital transformation company that builds a cloud-native, no-code enterprise platform. Its proprietary AI engine, Neural Genesis, lets professional and citizen developers describe what they need in plain language and generate integrated business applications, AI agents and automated workflows on a single unified data model. Founded by Ranjit Bahia in 2021, Cyferd works across healthcare, legal, higher education, procurement, housing and sports, with dual headquarters in New York and London.
Pliant
Pliant is a Berlin-based B2B fintech that turns corporate payments into programmable infrastructure. Its API-first platform lets companies issue physical and virtual credit cards, automate spend controls and receipt handling, and plug card data straight into accounting systems like DATEV and NetSuite. Through its cards-as-a-service model, banks and software platforms can launch their own branded card programs. Founded in 2020 by Malte Rau and Fabian Terner, Pliant runs on the Visa network across 30-plus countries, serves more than 3,500 businesses, and raised a $40M Series B in 2025 to expand into the United States.
Vertalo
Vertalo is an Austin-based fintech that operates an SEC-registered digital transfer agent and tokenization platform connecting the digital asset ecosystem. Since 2018 it has helped issuers, fund managers, broker-dealers and custodians move private securities on-chain - handling digital cap tables, investor onboarding, compliance and settlement across multiple blockchains. More recently it has pivoted toward 'agentic' infrastructure, exposing its regulated transfer-agency operations through APIs and an MCP server so AI agents can issue, record and transfer securities.
Ansa
Ansa is a San Francisco fintech that builds API-first, white-labeled stored-value wallet infrastructure for merchants. It lets brands launch their own branded digital wallet - the Starbucks-app model - where customers pre-load funds and pay in-app, online, or in-store. By batching many small purchases into one funded balance, Ansa cuts card processing fees on low-ticket transactions while adding incentives, loyalty, and analytics on top. Founded in 2022 by Adyen and Affirm alumni Sophia Goldberg and JT Cho, Ansa raised a $14M Series A in April 2024 (about 95% of it from female investors), bringing total funding to roughly $19.4M.
Anvil
Anvil is a San Francisco software company that turns paper-heavy back-office processes into programmable digital workflows. Its API-first platform bundles PDF generation and filling, no-code webforms, embedded e-signatures (Etch), and workflow automation so developers and product teams can collect data, generate compliant documents, and get them signed without stitching together multiple tools. Founded in 2018 by Mang-Git Ng and Ben Ogle, Anvil serves customers across insurance, financial services, HR, real estate, healthcare, and education, and has raised $10M in Series A funding.
Stedi
Stedi is an API-first, cloud-native healthcare clearinghouse that sits between providers and payers to move essential transactions - eligibility checks, claims, claim status, and electronic remittances - as programmable API calls instead of legacy batch files. Founded in 2017 by Zack Kanter, who came to EDI through an auto-parts business, Stedi rebuilt clearinghouse plumbing from scratch for the API and AI-agent era. It connects to thousands of U.S. payers, processes more than a billion transactions annually, and has raised $142 million from investors including Stripe, Addition, USV, and First Round.
Benji
Benji is the universal API for loyalty partnerships - think 'Plaid for loyalty rewards.' It lets brands across travel, hospitality, retail, food and fintech connect their loyalty programs through a single integration, launching co-branded earn, redemption, transfer and co-acquisition campaigns in days instead of months. Founded by the serial team behind 2ndKitchen (acquired by REEF Technology in 2021), Benji raised a $6.25M seed round in 2026 and already powers a network of programs - including JetBlue, CookUnity, 1-800-Flowers and Chip City - representing more than 50 million combined active members.
Mesh
Mesh is an Austin-based, API-first B2B identity platform that verifies, onboards, and monitors small businesses and licensed professionals in real time. Founded in 2020 by ex-Amazon executives Diego Asenjo and Tony Bryan, Mesh combines professional license verification, business legitimacy checks, insurance and tax signals, and ongoing risk monitoring into a single multi-factor API - often described as 'Plaid for business identity.' It serves marketplaces, ecommerce platforms, fintechs, and construction/property-tech companies, with 100% coverage for state-licensed professionals in categories like contracting, home services, cosmetology, and architecture.
Miso.ai
Miso.ai (Miso Technologies) builds LLM-powered search, answers, and personalization for publishers, marketplaces, and content sites. Its flagship product, Miso Answers, sits on top of a customer's own content catalog to deliver ChatGPT-style, citation-backed answers with no hallucinations - fine-tuned to each brand's voice and grounded only in their material. Spun out of privacy-centric 'small data' research at Cornell Tech's Small Data Lab, Miso helps sites like O'Reilly Online Learning and Foundry's tech publications turn their archives into trustworthy answer engines that lift engagement and subscriptions.
Sensible
Sensible is a developer-first platform that turns any document - PDFs, scans, emails, images - into structured, verifiable JSON. It pairs LLM-based extraction with deterministic, layout-based rules written in its own configuration language, SenseML, and ships 150+ prebuilt parsers plus confidence scores, source coordinates, and human-review workflows. Founded in 2020 and backed by Craft Ventures, Sensible is used by companies across insurance, proptech, financial services, logistics, and healthcare to automate document-heavy operations.
Tellescope
Tellescope is a HIPAA-compliant digital health platform that unifies patient communication, intake, scheduling, and workflow automation into a single, developer-friendly system. Built for digital health startups and modern clinics, it lets care teams reach patients across SMS, email, chat, and video, automate repetitive workflows without code, and plug into EHRs and clinical tools through an API-first architecture - so teams can launch faster and scale personalized care without stitching together generic sales software.
Kintsugi
Kintsugi is a Berkeley-based AI company that built voice biomarker technology able to flag signs of clinical depression and anxiety from roughly 20 seconds of free-form speech. Founded in 2019 by Grace Chang and Rima Seiilova-Olson, it sold an API-first platform into call centers, telehealth, and remote patient monitoring before winding down operations in early 2026 and releasing its models, methods, and research into the public domain.
Cardless
Cardless is a San Francisco fintech that gives consumer and product-led brands the infrastructure to launch and run their own co-branded credit cards. Its API-first platform handles the parts most companies never want to touch - underwriting, compliance, issuing-bank relationships, rewards and servicing - so a brand can ship a branded card inside its own app in weeks instead of the year-plus a legacy bank program takes. Founded in 2019, Cardless powers cards for partners including Coinbase, Bilt, Qatar Airways, Alibaba.com and Simon, and raised a $60M Series C led by Spark Capital in September 2025.
CertifyOS
CertifyOS is a New York-based healthcare technology company building the provider data infrastructure layer for health plans, health systems, and digital health companies. Its API-first platform automates credentialing, licensing, enrollment, and continuous network monitoring, unifying data from thousands of primary sources into a single, continuously updated source of truth. Founded by former Oscar Health operators, the NCQA-accredited CVO tracks 1,600+ data points per provider and manages 15+ million licenses, turning a notoriously slow, manual back-office process into real-time infrastructure.
Joshu
Joshu is an AI-native insurance platform that lets carriers, MGAs, and wholesale brokers build, sell, and run insurance products in one place - configuring forms, rating rules, underwriting workflows, document generation, and branded broker storefronts without writing code. Founded in 2020 by At-Bay alumni Roy Mill and Shimi Bornstein, the company aims to collapse the months-long, engineer-heavy process of launching a commercial insurance product into days, giving insurance teams direct control over their own products.
KarmaCheck
KarmaCheck is an AI-driven background check and credentialing platform that makes employment screening faster, cheaper, and more accurate. Founded in 2019 by LinkedIn co-founder and founding CTO Eric Ly, the company combines real-time identity verification, criminal and credential checks, drug screening, and occupational health into an API-first platform that plugs into the ATS, HRIS, and HCM systems staffing and healthcare teams already use. In 2025 it launched the industry's first MCP server, letting AI agents run verifications through plain-language prompts.
Sanity
Sanity is a content platform that treats content as structured data rather than pages, giving developers an API-first backend (the real-time Content Lake), a query language (GROQ), a rich-text spec (Portable Text), and a fully customizable React editor (Sanity Studio). Founded in Norway in 2016, it now positions itself as the 'Content Operating System for the AI era,' powering web, mobile, and agentic applications for teams like Nike, Puma, Figma, Cloudflare and National Geographic.
Wingspan
Wingspan is a New York-based payroll and management platform built specifically for the 1099 contractor workforce. It automates the full contractor lifecycle - onboarding, W-9 verification, background checks, same-day payments, tax withholding, and automated 1099 filing - and now ships that stack as an embeddable, white-label API (Wingspan Embed) for HR, HCM, and PEO platforms. The company has processed more than $3 billion in contractor payments and counts Teladoc Health and CRU Group among its customers.
Noyo
Noyo is a San Francisco-based benefits data platform that uses APIs and AI to connect insurance carriers, benefits administration software, and HR teams. It turns the slow, error-prone exchange of employee benefits data into real-time, automated connections, eliminating manual data entry and coverage-impacting errors across the benefits ecosystem.
Contentful
Contentful is an API-first, cloud-native content platform - the company that popularized the 'headless CMS.' Founded in Berlin in 2013, it separates content from presentation so teams can store structured content once and deliver it anywhere: websites, mobile apps, kiosks, smart watches, or AI agents. It serves more than 4,800 brands, including roughly 30% of the Fortune 500, and in June 2026 entered an agreement to be acquired by Salesforce to power the content layer behind Agentforce.
EIS Ltd
EIS Ltd (EIS Group) is a San Francisco-based insurance software company that builds cloud-native core systems for ambitious insurers. Its flagship EIS OneSuite platform - now infused with agentic AI through CoreGentic - handles policy, billing, claims and customer management across property & casualty, life, annuity and benefits lines, replacing the rigid legacy mainframes that have slowed the industry for decades.
Middesk
Middesk is a San Francisco-based business identity platform that helps banks, fintechs, lenders, and marketplaces verify the businesses they transact with. Its KYB APIs turn the slow, paper-heavy process of vetting a company into a real-time decision, powering onboarding at firms like Brex, Plaid, Mercury, Gusto, Affirm, and Shopify.