Total Expert is a Minnesota-based fintech company that builds a purpose-built customer engagement platform for banks, credit unions, mortgage lenders, insurance and wealth firms. Founded by Joe Welu in 2012, its CRM, marketing automation and AI-driven customer intelligence tools help financial institutions unify borrower data, spot lending opportunities in real time, and guide customers across financial milestones. It serves more than 200 financial institutions, including 15 of the top 25 U.S. banks and lenders.
Checker is a New York-based financial infrastructure company that lets regulated banks, fintechs and payment providers plug into stablecoins, digital-asset liquidity, cross-border payments, treasury and credit through a single API. Founded in 2023, it stitches together 50+ liquidity and infrastructure providers across 75+ currencies, and processed roughly $3 billion in volume over its first year - about 1% of global B2B stablecoin payment flows. In May 2026 it raised $8 million from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures and Framework Ventures to expand its network across Brazil, Kenya, Hong Kong and the United States.
Legal Karma is an Austin-based B2B legaltech company that gives banks and credit unions a white-label engine for offering wills, trusts, and powers of attorney directly to their account holders. It handles the document automation, 50-state attorney-reviewed legal infrastructure, compliance, member support, and marketing so a financial institution can stand up a profitable estate planning department in about four weeks - while keeping 100% of the revenue and ownership of the customer relationship.
Casap is an AI-native platform that automates the entire payment dispute and fraud-operations lifecycle for banks, credit unions, and fintechs. Its agentic AI handles disputes from intake to chargeback, scores first-party fraud, and keeps institutions compliant with Reg-E, Reg-Z, NACHA, and card-network rules. Founded in 2022 by former Robinhood and Chime product leaders, Casap reports a 51% reduction in fraud losses, a 97% chargeback win rate, and 3x faster resolution, and raised a $25M Series A in 2025 to reach $33.5M in total funding.
Castellum.AI is a New York-based regulatory technology company that automates anti-money-laundering and know-your-customer compliance for banks, credit unions, fintechs and crypto firms. Its platform pairs in-house risk data drawn from 200,000+ global sources with explainable AI agents that screen for sanctions, politically exposed persons and adverse media, cutting alert volume by 94% and review time by 83% out of the box. Founded by a former U.S. Treasury sanctions officer, the company raised an $8.5M Series A in July 2025 led by Curql.
SentiLink is a San Francisco-based identity and fraud intelligence company that helps banks, credit unions, and fintechs spot synthetic identities, identity theft, and first-party fraud at the point of account application. Founded in 2017 by two former Affirm risk leads, it now verifies millions of identities per day for more than 400 institutions.