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David Borden Built a Business by Changing His Mind
He resisted building websites, helped turn customer requests into Rentvine, and then proposed his own successor. For David Borden, staying close to property managers has meant knowing when to change course.
Corelation put the person back in the core
A credit union’s most consequential software rarely appears on a member’s phone. Corelation’s wager is that changing what happens behind the screen can change the relationship in front of it.
Neostella and the Case of the Missing Handoff
A law firm can buy excellent software and still lose the thread. Neostella is betting that the valuable part of legal technology is what happens between the tools.
Rentvine Turned Property Managers’ Least Favorite Chore Into a $74 Million Growth Story
The Florida software company spent years listening to the people who reconcile rent, deposits and owner payouts. Then it built the accounting-first platform they kept asking for - and made switching systems the product’s hardest, most valuable feature.
Marqeta Failed Twice. Then It Sold the Machine Underneath the Failure
The loyalty card flopped. Facebook's gift card vanished. What survived was the custom payment processor underneath - now a public company handling $120 billion in a quarter.
The Banks That Got Tired of Their Tech Vendor - So They Bought the Company
COCC runs the unglamorous machinery behind 175 community financial institutions. Its clever twist is structural: the customers own the vendor, sit on its board and help decide what gets built next.
Brivo Put the Office Key in the Cloud - Then Spent 25 Years Teaching Security People to Trust It
Brivo started with a parcel box, pivoted to doors, and made a subscription business out of the least glamorous hardware in a building. Its latest act combines access control and AI video under one roof - with a playbook worth stealing and a few catches worth reading first.
Peak3
Peak3 (formerly ZA Tech) is a Singapore-headquartered insurtech that builds cloud-native, AI-ready core software for the insurance industry. Its modular platform - spanning policy administration, distribution, claims and orchestration - lets insurers, MGAs and brokers launch and run life, health and property & casualty products across many markets. Founded in 2018 out of Chinese insurtech ZhongAn and rebranded to Peak3 in 2024 alongside a US$35M Series A led by EQT, the company powers global insurers such as AIA, Generali, Prudential and Zurich, and embedded-insurance programs for digital platforms including Grab, Klook, Lazada and PayPay. Its software has supported over a billion policies across 20-plus countries.