Qapita is a Singapore-headquartered equity management platform that helps private and public companies, startups and investment funds run their cap tables, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), valuations, fundraising, liquidity events and fund administration in one system. Founded in 2019 by a banker-investor-technologist trio, it serves over 2,400 private companies and 100+ listed companies across India, Southeast Asia and now the US, managing more than $55B in equity for over 500,000 stakeholders.
RemotePass is a global employment and payroll platform that helps companies onboard, manage, and pay distributed teams across more than 150 countries. It combines Employer of Record (EOR) services, contractor management, and compliance with an embedded fintech layer that gives workers USD accounts, global cards, and health insurance. Founded in the UAE in 2021 and dual-headquartered in Boston and Abu Dhabi, the company has facilitated over $800 million in cross-border payroll for more than 35,000 workers.
TransFi is a Dubai-headquartered payment infrastructure company that moves money across borders on stablecoin rails. Its platform lets businesses and Web3 apps collect, convert and pay out funds across fiat and stablecoins, spanning 100+ markets, 40+ currencies, 250+ local payment methods and 130+ digital assets. Founded in 2022 by former McKinsey payments partner Raj Kamal, TransFi targets high-friction emerging markets across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa, replacing slow correspondent-banking and SWIFT flows with near-instant settlement.

Will Lawrence is the co-founder and CEO of Bretton AI, the San Francisco company formerly known as Greenlite AI that builds AI agents for financial crime and compliance operations. After leading anti-money laundering product work at Facebook/Meta and building compliance infrastructure at Paxos, he started the company in 2023 to automate the slow, manual investigative work behind KYC, AML and sanctions checks. In February 2026 the company rebranded to Bretton AI and raised a $75 million Series B led by Sapphire Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $90 million, with customers including Robinhood, Mercury, Ramp, Gusto and a set of OCC-, FDIC- and Federal Reserve-regulated banks.
Craig Costigan is the CEO of NICE Actimize, the financial crime and compliance software division of NICE, a role he has held since 2018. He leads market strategy, product, R&D, sales and marketing for a business that helps banks and other financial institutions fight money laundering, fraud and market abuse. A founding partner of a securities finance software firm in the early 1990s, he built a three-decade career in capital markets technology at K-Tek International, SunGard and FIS before taking the top job at NICE Actimize, where he has pushed the company toward generative and agentic AI.
Dan Zitting is the CEO of Nitrogen, the wealth management technology company formerly known as Riskalyze, best known for its Risk Number and advisor growth platform. Before wealthtech, he spent more than a decade building governance, risk and compliance software: he founded the cloud audit tool Workpapers.com, ran Galvanize (formerly ACL) as CEO and grew it to roughly $100M in ARR, and helped steer its roughly $1 billion sale to Diligent, where he served as Chief Product and Strategy Officer. He took the top job at Nitrogen in December 2023, focused on helping financial advisors reduce friction and grow through connected workflows and AI.
73 Strings is an AI-powered financial intelligence platform for the private capital industry. Founded in 2020, it automates data extraction, portfolio monitoring, and fair-value estimation for alternative asset managers - the manual, fragmented "middle-office" work behind private equity, private credit, venture capital, growth equity, and infrastructure funds. Its Extract, Monitor, and Value modules structure unstructured documents, track portfolio performance in real time, and produce valuations reportedly up to 10x faster at roughly half the cost. The company serves institutions representing close to $10 trillion in assets and is backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Blackstone, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, Hamilton Lane, and Golub Capital.
Aiera is a New York-based generative-AI platform for financial research that sources, verifies, transcribes and summarizes corporate and investor events - earnings calls, conferences, shareholder meetings and macro announcements. Covering 50,000+ events across 15,000+ global equities each year, it pairs AI automation with human review to deliver transcripts that reach roughly 99.9% accuracy, plus live audio, sentiment analysis, search and enterprise APIs. Founded in 2018 by former Wall Street internet analyst Ken Sena and ex-Amazon Alexa engineer Bryan Healey, Aiera is used by asset managers, banks and research firms, and closed a $25M Series B in 2025 backed by ten of Wall Street's largest research houses with Microsoft as a strategic technology partner.
Avtal is an Austin-based fintech that builds an AI-powered, white-labeled digital engagement platform for third-party debt collection agencies. Combining automated email and SMS outreach with a compliant, self-serve consumer payment portal, Avtal layers onto an agency's existing phone and mail operations to lift liquidation rates by 50%-75%. The company charges only a performance-based percentage of what it collects, and raised $24 million in Seed and Series A funding led by S3 Ventures in March 2026.
Check is a New York-based fintech that provides embedded payroll infrastructure, letting software platforms build and sell their own payroll product through a single API. It handles the hard parts - tax calculation, money movement, tax filing, and multi-state compliance - so vertical SaaS, HR, and workforce-management companies can offer payroll without becoming payroll experts. Backed by Stripe, Thrive, Bedrock and Index, Check powers payroll for platforms like Wave, Homebase, Housecall Pro and 7shifts.
CYRISMA is a Rochester, New York-based cybersecurity company that builds a unified, cloud-hosted cyber risk management platform for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), MSSPs, and internal IT teams. It consolidates vulnerability and patch management, sensitive data discovery, secure configuration scanning, attack surface visibility, dark web monitoring, compliance tracking, and risk monetization into a single multi-tenant dashboard - replacing a stack of point tools with one affordable, per-endpoint-priced product. Founded in 2018, the company raised a $7M Series A in 2024 and serves thousands of organizations through partners.
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.
IMTC is a New York-based fintech that builds a cloud-native, AI-enhanced platform for fixed income investing. It combines portfolio construction, optimization, order management, risk and compliance, and reporting into one system, helping asset and wealth managers customize bond portfolios and separately managed accounts at scale while automating manual workflows. Founded in 2017 and led by CEO Russell Feldman, the company raised a $12M Series A in December 2025 led by Nyca Partners.
Lema AI is a New York-based cybersecurity startup building an agentic AI platform for third-party risk management (TPRM). Founded by three veterans of Israel's Unit 8200, Lema replaces static vendor questionnaires and check-the-box compliance with continuous, behavior-based analysis that maps how vendors actually operate inside an enterprise - tracking data access, permission changes and 'risk drift' to surface real attack paths. The company emerged from stealth in February 2026 with roughly $24M in total funding, including a $17.5M Series A led by Team8.
Liquibase is an Austin-based software company behind the widely used open-source database change management tool of the same name. It automates, versions, and governs how database schema changes move from a developer's laptop into production, bringing the same CI/CD discipline that software code enjoys to the database. Its commercial platform, now sold as Liquibase Secure, adds policy checks, drift detection, and compliance reporting for enterprises in regulated industries like banking and insurance.
Multiplier is a global employment platform that lets companies hire, onboard, pay and manage full-time employees and contractors in 150+ countries without setting up local entities. Founded in 2020 in Singapore, it bundles Employer of Record (EOR), Contractor of Record, global payroll, PEO and HRIS tooling into one dashboard, handling local labor contracts, tax, benefits and compliance so distributed teams can operate legally across borders.
Overhaul is an Austin-based supply chain risk management and visibility company that helps global shippers and logistics providers see, protect, and control high-value cargo in transit. Its device-agnostic software combines real-time monitoring, predictive risk intelligence, a 24/7 Global Security Operations Center, and insurance and recovery services to prevent theft, damage, spoilage, and compliance failures. Founded in 2016 by supply-chain-security veteran Barry Conlon, Overhaul serves Fortune 100 brands across pharmaceuticals, technology, automotive, and food and beverage, and raised a $105M Series C in August 2025.
PixieBrix is a New York-based software company that started as a low-code browser extension for customizing and automating web apps, and has evolved into a browser-native platform for monitoring, guiding, and securing the actions people and AI agents take inside their web applications. Deployed as a lightweight Chrome/Edge extension, it lets teams add context-aware automations, AI assistance, and real-time policy enforcement on top of any website - originally aimed at customer support and contact-center productivity, and more recently at agent oversight, compliance, and safe AI-agent browsing.
Players Health is a Minneapolis-based sports insurtech that combines a digital risk-management platform with tailored insurance products so youth, amateur and collegiate sports organizations can keep athletes safe and stay compliant. Founded in 2015 by former pro football player Tyrre Burks, the company pairs safety assessments, background checks, incident tracking and HIPAA-compliant education with sports-specific coverage. It supports more than 40,000 sports organizations and over 5.5 million athletes, and in December 2024 closed a $60 million Series C led by Bluestone Equity Partners.
Portnox is a cloud-native access control company that unifies Network Access Control (NAC), RADIUS, TACACS+, and passwordless conditional access for applications into a single zero-trust platform. Founded in 2007 by a team from the Israeli Air Force and now headquartered in Austin, Texas, Portnox removes the appliances, VMs, and specialized staff that traditional NAC requires, letting organizations authenticate users and devices, assess endpoint risk, and enforce compliance across wired, wireless, and remote networks from the cloud. It serves more than 1,000 organizations across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and technology.
Procurement Sciences is a Washington, D.C.-based company building Awarded AI, an AI-native platform that helps businesses find, win and deliver government contracts. Founded in 2022 by Marine Corps veteran and former contractor Christian Ferreira, the platform automates opportunity discovery, bid decisions, proposal drafting, compliance review and delivery across federal, state, local, education and international markets. After its May 2026 acquisition of market-intelligence platform HigherGov, the combined company serves more than 3,000 government contractors - including close to half of the industry Top 100 - and has contributed to over $100 billion in AI-assisted awarded contracts.
Qira is a New York-based financial platform built for residential property managers. It brings security deposits, deposit alternatives, rent payment processing, Pay Later flexible rent, and automated move-out claims into one system that syncs with major property management software and handles compliance across all 50 U.S. states. Formed in October 2021 by the merger of Rentigo and HelloRented, Qira aims to protect owner cash flow while smoothing the money side of renting for residents.
Rescana is a cybersecurity company that builds autonomous, AI-agent-driven third-party risk management (TPRM) and external attack surface management software. Its platform discovers, classifies, assesses, monitors, and helps remediate risk across a company's vendor ecosystem - including vendors with no web presence - using agentic AI and open-source intelligence (OSINT). Founded by Guy Halfon and based between New York and Tel Aviv, Rescana targets regulated, vendor-heavy industries such as banking, telecom, healthcare, real estate and government, promising vendor-risk oversight that scales without a proportional increase in security headcount.
Scaler is an ESG data platform built for the real estate industry that turns fragmented sustainability data into audit-ready reports and decarbonization roadmaps. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York and Amsterdam, its software helps asset managers, fund managers and compliance teams collect building-level energy, water and carbon data, run CRREM and net-zero analysis, and report against frameworks like GRESB, CSRD, SFDR and the EU Taxonomy - all from a single, traceable source of truth.
Skit.ai is a New York-based conversational AI company that automates debt collection and accounts receivable operations for banks, agencies, fintechs, healthcare systems, and utilities. Founded in 2016 as Vernacular.ai and rebranded to Skit in 2021, it runs a generative-AI-powered platform of voice, SMS, email, and chat assistants plus a Collection Intelligence Platform and an ecosystem of specialized AI agents that negotiate payments, capture dispositions, and enforce federal and state collection compliance at scale.

Supply Wisdom is a New York-based SaaS company that delivers real-time, continuous third-party and location risk intelligence. Its platform monitors suppliers and business locations across seven risk domains - financial, cyber, operational, compliance, ESG/sustainability, nth-party, and location - tracking 350+ risk metrics and pushing early-warning alerts so enterprises can act before a disruption hits. Its clients are Fortune 100 and Global 2000 firms in financial services, insurance, healthcare, and technology.

Talkmap is a Dallas-based enterprise AI company that turns 100% of a contact center's customer conversations - calls and chats - into structured, real-time intelligence. Its Talkdiscovery platform combines patented AI, machine learning, and computational linguistics to automatically detect customer intent, sentiment, and emerging trends, then routes those insights to specialized AI assistants for retention, sales, compliance, coaching, and analysis. Founded in 2017 (originally as discourse.ai) and led by CEO Tim Moss with founder Jonathan Eisenzopf, the company serves large brands in telecom, banking, insurance, and healthcare, keeping customer data inside private cloud environments rather than sending it to third-party models.
Thoropass is a New York-based compliance and audit company that pairs compliance-automation software with an in-house, tech-enabled CPA and security audit firm. Founded in 2019 as Laika and rebranded in 2023, it lets companies get and stay certified across 30+ frameworks - SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, HITRUST, GDPR, and ISO 42001 for AI - through a single platform where the auditor is assigned on day one. By reusing evidence across frameworks and layering AI features like First Pass AI and Smart Sort AI on top of continuous control monitoring, Thoropass helps growing businesses complete audits meaningfully faster than the traditional consultant-plus-auditor route.
Trayd is a New York-based back-office operating system built for specialty trade contractors, unifying payroll, HR, compliance, scheduling and real-time labor tracking in one platform. It automates the hardest parts of construction pay - union rules, Davis-Bacon prevailing wages, multi-state taxes and certified payroll - cutting weekly processing from 14 hours to 27 minutes while giving workers earned wages days sooner. Founded in 2021 by Anna Berger and Cara Kessler and backed by Y Combinator, Suffolk Technologies and White Star Capital, Trayd has grown revenue 600% year over year.
VelaFi is a stablecoin-powered financial infrastructure platform that helps enterprises move money across borders quickly and at lower cost. Built out of TruBit Business, the B2B unit of Galactic Holdings, VelaFi connects local banking rails, cross-border networks and major stablecoin protocols to offer on/off-ramps, pay-ins and pay-outs, multi-currency accounts, FX and treasury tools - delivered directly or through developer-first APIs. With roots in Latin America and operations across the U.S., Hong Kong and Singapore, the company says it has served hundreds of institutional clients and processed billions of dollars in payment volume. In January 2026 it raised a $20M Series B led by XVC and Ikuyo.