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Fennel is a New York-based mobile investing app that lets everyday retail investors trade commission-free stocks and ETFs while surfacing digestible ESG data and shareholder-voting information for the companies they own. Founded in 2022 by former physics PhD and dark-matter researcher Daniel Naim, Fennel positions itself as a B Corp-certified brokerage that refuses payment for order flow and does not lend out customer shares - so votes stay with the shares. For a $4.99 monthly subscription, users get 25+ financial metrics, 200+ ESG indicators, AI-powered news sentiment, and tools to follow past and upcoming shareholder ballots.
Nth Round is a Philadelphia-based fintech that builds equity-management software for private companies, family businesses, and funds. Its white-labeled platform combines cap table management, shareholder communications, proxy voting, document distribution, and internal liquidity windows into a single secure portal - so companies with hundreds of shareholders across multiple stock classes and generations can keep records accurate, keep owners engaged, and let shares change hands without a public market.