Tagged: banking
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Eisen
Eisen is a New York-based compliance operations platform that automates escheatment, disbursement, and regulatory reporting for banks, credit unions, fintechs, and crypto companies. Its software tracks state-by-state unclaimed property rules, reaches out to account holders before funds are turned over to governments, and manages payouts and 1099 tax reporting - reducing the manual, error-prone work financial institutions face when handling dormant accounts, stale checks, and account wind-downs.
Silent Eight
Silent Eight is a Singapore-headquartered regtech company that builds purpose-built artificial intelligence for financial crime compliance. Its Iris platform automates name screening, transaction screening, transaction monitoring, investigation and case documentation for banks, producing decisions with written, auditable narratives instead of black-box scores. The company is used by Tier 1 institutions including HSBC and Standard Chartered, and has raised roughly $55 million to date, including a $40 million Series B in 2022.
Straterix
Straterix is a New Jersey-based fintech that builds AI-driven scenario generation and stress-testing software for banks, insurers, pension funds, corporates and regulators. Founded in 2015 by Alla Gil, Joseph Dafni and Dan Galai, its platform uses machine learning and data mining to generate thousands of forward-looking economic scenarios, letting institutions run reverse stress tests, optimize capital and liquidity, and turn regulatory compliance exercises into strategic planning tools.
Taktile
Taktile is an AI decision platform for banks, insurers and fintechs. Its Agentic Decision Platform lets risk and engineering teams combine AI agents, business rules, third-party data and human oversight to automate high-stakes decisions - approving customers, underwriting credit, flagging fraud and processing claims - using low-code building blocks, 200+ data integrations, and built-in testing and monitoring. Founded in 2020 by Maik Taro Wehmeyer and Maximilian Eber, the company operates across New York, Berlin, London, Sao Paulo and Iasi, and raised a $110M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives in June 2026.
FICO
FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation) is the analytics-software company behind the FICO Score, the credit-risk measure used in roughly 90% of top U.S. lending decisions. Founded in 1956 by engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac, the company applies predictive analytics and AI to help banks, lenders, insurers and other enterprises make faster, data-driven decisions. Beyond the score, FICO sells the cloud-based FICO Platform and applications such as Falcon Fraud Manager and Blaze Advisor. Headquartered in Bozeman, Montana and traded on the NYSE as FICO, the lean, ~3,800-person firm reported record fiscal 2025 revenue of about $2.0 billion.
Mathias Fort
Mathias Korder Fort is co-founder and CEO of Baselane, a New York-based fintech that gives independent landlords a single place to bank, collect rent, and keep books. In October 2025 the company closed a $20M Series B led by Thomvest Ventures, and simultaneously disclosed a previously-unannounced $14.4M Series A led by Matrix Partners, bringing total funding to roughly $44M. Before Baselane he spent seven years as a Principal in Boston Consulting Group's financial services practice, and started his career as an analyst at Morgan Stanley. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in economics from Trinity College.
Shawn Melamed
Shawn Melamed is the co-founder and CEO of Spiral, a New York fintech that plugs charitable giving into the banking apps of credit unions and community banks. Before Spiral he ran Morgan Stanley's Technology Business Development and Innovation Offices and built two prior fintech companies, StrikeNET (sold to TMX Group) and Correlix. He was named one of The Financial Technology Report's Top 50 Fintech CEOs of 2024.
Accend
Accend builds human-in-the-loop AI agents that automate commercial credit underwriting for banks and fintechs. The San Francisco startup, founded in 2023 by ex-Brex risk operators, ingests financial documents and tax filings, spreads financial statements, models cash flow, and drafts credit memos - with every AI-generated spread reviewed by human analysts. Customers report application processing times cut by up to 80%, and the company positions itself as a replacement for offshore BPO spreading teams.
American Bankers Association
The American Bankers Association (ABA) is the largest financial trade group in the United States, representing banks of every size and charter in Washington. Founded in 1875 in the wake of the Panic of 1873, ABA lobbies on behalf of the roughly $24 trillion U.S. banking industry and provides its members with professional certifications, training schools, research, conferences and community. Its members range from small community banks to the largest money-center institutions and together account for the overwhelming majority of the industry's assets and employees.
BankersLab
BankersLab is a fintech education and decisioning company that builds 'flight simulator' style software for lenders and bankers. Founded in 2012 by Michelle Katics and Kurt Gingher, it lets banks, credit unions and lenders practice consumer, retail and SME portfolio management in a risk-free simulation environment, then extends that same engine into AI-enhanced decision support. Its gamified, team-based workshops - ScoringLab, CreditLab, CollectionLab and InsightLab - have trained thousands of banking professionals across 30+ countries.
Consilient
Consilient is a New York- and Washington, D.C.-based financial technology company that applies federated machine learning to anti-money laundering and financial crime detection. Its models learn from behavioral patterns across multiple banks and share the algorithms - not the underlying customer data - so institutions can collaborate on catching illicit activity while preserving privacy. Founded in 2020 as a joint venture between K2 Integrity and Giant Oak, the company's Dozer platform has demonstrated in bank trials that it can sharply cut false positives while improving true-positive detection.
Parcha
Parcha is a San Francisco AI company building enterprise-grade AI agents that automate compliance and operations work for banks and fintechs. Founded in 2023 by former Brex leaders AJ Asver and Miguel Rios-Berrios, its Agent Hub platform lets compliance teams create, test, and deploy agents in minutes to run KYC/KYB reviews, enhanced due diligence, AML screening, and document verification - work that traditionally requires large operations teams. Backed by $5M in seed funding led by Kindred Ventures and Initialized Capital, Parcha counts fintechs like Bridge, Airwallex, Flutterwave, and Pipe among its users.
Pastel
Pastel builds agentic AI for banking operations, aimed at the regional, mid-tier, and community banks that most fintech innovation skips over. Its flagship platform, Sigma, deploys AI agents across customer onboarding, due diligence, fraud detection, anti-money laundering, screening, and executive reporting - trained on local data and regulations rather than retrofitted Western systems. Founded by Stanford graduate students and rooted in African markets, Pastel started as a small-business bookkeeping tool called Sabi before pivoting into compliance infrastructure for financial institutions.
ScribeUp
ScribeUp is an AI-powered, embedded recurring-bill and subscription management platform for banks, credit unions and fintechs. Founded by four MIT Sloan MBAs, it started as a consumer subscription manager, grew past 10,000 users, then pivoted to B2B - letting financial institutions embed subscription tracking, automated cancellation and a payment updater directly inside their own apps to deepen customer relationships and win card primacy.
Jordan Mackler
Jordan Mackler is the CEO and Co-Founder of ScribeUp, an AI-powered embedded subscription management platform helping banks and credit unions give their members full visibility and control over recurring bills. A University of Michigan and MIT MBA graduate who left his MBA program mid-stream to build ScribeUp, Mackler has grown the company from idea to a $3M seed-backed fintech with partnerships across a growing network of credit unions - turning the mundane problem of mystery subscription charges into a strategic retention weapon for financial institutions.
Lauren Dwyer
Lauren Dwyer is Vice President of Executive Education & CEO Programs at the American Bankers Association in Washington, D.C., where she designs and runs the conferences, schools and leadership programs that shape how bank CEOs and senior executives learn their craft. A Penn State graduate with an MBA, the CAE and AMA-CPM credentials, she has spent two decades inside trade associations - building rooms where industry leaders sharpen each other.
Prelim
Prelim is a San Francisco-based fintech building white-labeled, no-code software that helps banks and credit unions open deposit accounts, originate loans, and service customers online. Founded in 2017 by Heang Chan and Chris Blaser out of Y Combinator, Prelim powers consumer and business onboarding for institutions like First Republic, Pacific Western, and City National Bank of Florida, with 50+ integrations into core banking systems.
Engageware
Engageware is a Tewksbury, Massachusetts company that builds AI-powered customer engagement software for regulated industries, especially banks and credit unions. Born from appointment-scheduling pioneer TimeTrade (founded 1999) and reshaped through the acquisitions of SilverCloud and Argentina's conversational-AI firm Aivo, the platform combines AI agents, intelligent appointment scheduling, and knowledge management to automate routine inquiries and hand customers to a human when it counts. It is trusted by more than 600 organizations across 20+ countries and has orchestrated roughly three billion customer interactions.
M1
M1 is a Chicago-based personal finance platform that bundles investing, borrowing, and spending into a single app it calls 'The Finance Super App.' Built around customizable 'Pies' that let people design a portfolio of stocks and ETFs and automate contributions and rebalancing, M1 aims to give self-directed investors the kind of automated, low-cost money management once reserved for the wealthy. Founded in 2016 by Brian Barnes, the company has raised more than $300 million and surpassed $10 billion in assets under management.
Jason Mikula
Jason Mikula is the publisher of Fintech Business Weekly, an independent newsletter that reaches more than 90,000 subscribers with critical, no-favors analysis of banking, fintech, and crypto. After more than a decade scaling consumer lending businesses at Enova, LendUp, and Goldman Sachs, he became one of the most-cited independent voices on Banking-as-a-Service and fintech regulation, writing the award-winning book on BaaS and co-hosting the Fintech Business Podcast. He works from outside Amsterdam, covering the U.S. fintech-banking ecosystem from across an ocean.
JIFFY.ai
JIFFY.ai is an enterprise AI platform purpose-built for financial services — combining no-code app development, intelligent document processing, RPA, and generative AI into a unified HyperApp architecture. Founded in 2018 by Babu Sivadasan (formerly of Envestnet and Stamps.com) and a team of co-founders, the company targets wealth managers, banks, broker-dealers, and RIAs looking to automate client onboarding, account servicing, advisor workflows, and compliance operations without writing a line of code. With $105M+ in total funding and marquee customers reducing onboarding costs by 30% and advisor service time by 50%, JIFFY.ai sits at the intersection of AI hype and real financial-services plumbing.
Mercury
Mercury is a San Francisco fintech that builds banking and financial software for startups and growth-stage companies. Through partner banks, it offers FDIC-insured checking and savings, corporate cards, treasury, venture debt, bill pay, and an API - aimed at founders who would rather not call a branch manager.
Lauren Myrick
Lauren Myrick is the CEO and Co-founder of Found, a San Francisco-based fintech company building the all-in-one financial platform for self-employed workers and small businesses. After eight years at Square - joining as the company's second product manager and eventually running Square Payroll as General Manager - she co-founded Found in 2019 alongside Connor Dunn. The company has raised $125M+ across six rounds (most recently a $50M Series C led by Sequoia Capital in 2024) and now serves 770,000+ small business owners with integrated banking, bookkeeping, invoicing, and tax tools.
Marcos Martinez
Marcos Martinez is the CTO and Co-Founder of Fligoo, a San Francisco-based AI company building intelligent recommendation and predictive analytics solutions for financial institutions. Born in Córdoba, Argentina, he co-founded Fligoo in 2012 after earlier stints in software development. Under his technical leadership, Fligoo evolved from a social-graph gift recommendation engine into a WealthTech platform serving major institutions including Mastercard, Broadridge Financial Solutions, and Wells Fargo. Fligoo was named to the WealthTech100 in 2024 and has raised over $17M in funding, including a Series A round in 2020.
Heang Chan
Heang Chan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Prelim, a San Francisco-based fintech that builds the digital onboarding operating system for banks and credit unions. A Stanford MBA and former Goldman Sachs banker who also helped build the mortgage platform at Blend used by 3 of the top 10 U.S. banks, Chan founded Prelim in 2017 after Y Combinator to solve the friction-filled account-opening workflows he watched slow down banks from the inside. Prelim now orchestrates 50+ banking integrations for institutions managing more than $5 trillion in assets, turning weeks-long onboarding into minutes.
DataWalk
DataWalk is a graph- and AI-enabled analysis and investigation platform that unifies disparate data sources so analysts at banks, insurers, and government agencies can spot hidden relationships, run no-code queries, and pursue fraud, money laundering, and threat investigations at scale.
Leo Patching
Leo Patching is a serial fintech entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Kompliant, a compliance orchestration platform for banks, payment facilitators, and financial institutions that was acquired by LegitScript in October 2025. With a track record spanning from solar energy to payments infrastructure, Patching has built a career around turning regulation into a competitive advantage - arguing that compliance is not a cost center but a growth engine for the modern financial services industry.
Rajeev Behera
Rajeev Behera is the co-founder and CEO of Every (every.io), an all-in-one back-office platform for early-stage startups covering banking, payroll, bookkeeping, taxes, compliance, and incorporation. A serial entrepreneur who previously built and sold Reflektive - an HR performance management platform - to Learning Technologies Group after raising $100M+ from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, and TPG, Behera returned from a two-year post-exit break with a mission to eliminate the back-office burden that consumed 30% of his own time as a founder. Every raised a $22.5M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures in September 2024 and has grown to 150+ customers, with roughly half from the Y Combinator network.
Angela Strange
Angela Strange is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), where she leads investments in fintech infrastructure, insurance, and AI applications in financial services. A mechanical engineer by training and elite marathon runner by heart, she coined the widely-cited thesis 'Every Company Will Be a Fintech Company' - arguing that new financial infrastructure will enable any company to embed financial services the way AWS democratized software. She joined a16z in 2014 after stints at Google (where she launched Chrome for Android and iOS) and travel startup Ruba.com (acquired by Google). She has board seats at companies including Moov, Sardine, Jeeves, Valon, and hyperexponential, and is co-chair of C100, which connects Canadian entrepreneurs with Silicon Valley.
William Hockey
William Hockey co-founded Plaid - the invisible rails that power Venmo, Coinbase, and thousands of fintech apps - then quietly bought a bank. As co-founder and co-CEO of Column, he built the only nationally chartered bank designed for developers, processing 40% of Bay Area fintech money movement with a 110-person team generating $200M in revenue and $100M+ in free cash flow. No outside investors, no VC dilution, just a former farm kid from Central California who learned that the best way to fix broken financial infrastructure is to own it.