Forma built a business around a small indignity of office life: the benefit that exists on paper but takes a spreadsheet, a receipt and a patient HR team to use.
A benefit nobody uses is a curious form of generosity. Benepass built a card and ledger to make the money spendable, then discovered that the harder problem was keeping every dollar eligible, visible, and under control.
A mother’s medical bills and a new father’s worries led two friends into the plumbing of American health care. Lively began with an HSA; its wager now is that one account, one card and one platform can make the rest of employee benefits less of a chore.
FSA Store turned the confusion around tax-free health benefits into a shopping business. Now its parent company is moving from the medicine cabinet into virtual care.
HealthEquity turned the least glamorous tab in workplace benefits into a three-engine business - and a bid to make health savings as familiar as the 401(k).
Binkey is a Washington, DC fintech that lets online merchants accept pre-tax health benefit dollars - FSA, HSA, and related accounts - as payment at checkout. Its AI-powered engine classifies products at the SKU level to determine IRS eligibility in real time, automates claim filing and reimbursement, and routes funds through developer-friendly APIs. Products span Binkey Pay (checkout acceptance), FSA + HSA Rewind (recovering unused benefit dollars from past purchases), and Binkey Vision (out-of-network vision reimbursement). The company raised $3.3M in seed funding in 2023.