A checking account can reward a customer. A shared brand can reward an entire network. Kasasa built a business around the distance between those two ideas.
A Zimbabwean bank’s replacement bill reveals the business behind Rubikon: helping financial institutions outgrow the software that once served them. Neptune’s next test is carrying that experience into new markets.
Alkami spent years perfecting the banking app. Then it paid $400 million to own the moment before the first login - and turned a useful utility into a growth machine for community finance.
Community banks cannot outspend the giants. Abrigo’s answer is to package the unglamorous machinery of lending, fraud, compliance and risk into one operating layer - then let smaller institutions automate the work that used to eat their week.

A bank sale ended the job she loved. The reporting headache she could not forget became KlariVis - and a second act built around making community-bank data useful before the moment passes.

He sold one bank-analytics company to Fiserv, then returned to the same stubborn question with better data: how do you turn a bank's numbers into its next move?
Community banks were drowning in reports but starving for answers. A former bank CFO built KlariVis to clean the mess, put daily decisions on one screen, and give smaller institutions a fighting chance.
Founders Steve Cotton and Curry Pelot already sold one bank-analytics company to Fiserv. The second time around they decided to index every financial institution in the country - and the software each one quietly runs.