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Alacriti Spent 23 Years Making the Most Boring Part of Banking Move in Seconds
Banks want instant money movement, but their plumbing was built for batches, paper and business hours. Alacriti’s bet is that one cloud hub can connect the old rails to the new ones - without ripping out the core.
Steve Cotton Has Spent 30 Years Turning Bank Data Into Decisions
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?
The Company That Reads Every Bank Website in America So Fintech Vendors Don't Have To
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.
Vedder
The Chicago law firm made its name where capital, regulation and moving machinery meet. Now a shorter name is putting a sharper frame around a 74-year-old business.
Pomelo
Pomelo (Pomelo Group) is a London- and Singapore-based payments technology company that provides a unified, API-based Payment Platform-as-a-Service. It gives financial institutions, fintechs and enterprises ready-to-use payment rails, merchant onboarding and management, transaction monitoring, and a range of acceptance methods - from QR codes and tap-to-pay to payment links and card issuing - under a single white-label platform. Founded in 2017 as Pomelo Pay, the company has grown into a regulated e-money issuer serving 2,000+ businesses across the UK and Southeast Asia.
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.
Kory Kelly
Kory Kelly is the co-founder and CEO of Legal Karma, an Austin-based legal tech company that lets banks and credit unions sell wills, trusts, and powers of attorney to their members as easily as opening a checking account. A farm-town Texan turned university lecturer turned founder, Kelly has grown Legal Karma from a rejected idea pitched to skeptical lawyers into a B2B2C platform powering estate planning for over 100 financial institutions.