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A list of over 4000 fintech startups and companies

108 points by pankmahar 9y ago

ll931110 9y ago
Nice job! It would be nice to filter options (by location or services).
- tw1010 9y ago
  Ctrl-f
nathan_f77 9y ago
Thanks for the list! I'm working on a service [1] that has many customers in the finance and insurance space, so these are some great leads. Your list of insurance startups [2] is also really helpful. Here's the folder containing lists of startups in many other categories [3]. [1] https://formapi.io/ https://formapi.io/ [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KnEcpYOuLl2d9k9wjWIgbaencKpoBfaXs-QoGoIGovk/edit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KnEcpYOuLl2d9k9wjWIg... [3] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fURgn2ulbqz3H6inuio_xknhKzqM3sHk https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fURgn2ulbqz3H6inuio_...
zucchini_head 9y ago
Being serious here: What exactly is a "fintech" company? Every financial company on earth that isn't in someone's backyard is at-heart now purely technological (computers, algos, tracking, databases, etc.). So what makes a "fintech" company? Is it a super _ultra_ technological bank? In summary, what are fintech companies exactly doing? Part of me believes it's the new version of "crypto-", but i will hold my breath.
- caio1982 9y ago
  Any financial company based on modern tech/data that are not necessarily a big bank slash mega corp?
- hardwaresofton 9y ago
  I'd say that "fintech" companies are the union of financial companies that are aggressively becoming "tech" companies and the tech companies that have enough funding, patience, and grit to deal with regulatory and various other challenges for a financial entity (though the definition of a "financial entity" varies from country to country) It's not the new version of "crypto-" (if anything it's the old version as they've been around a while), but it can indeed just be a hypeword
- lettergram 9y ago
  I mean, I'd classify my startup as a fintech company (at least from the outside): Https://projectpiglet.com I'll tell that to investors, people who click the link, etc. That's because it describes that I'm working with / in the financials space (aka financial statistics, and investing as it relates to assets of some kind). Now... I personally, classify the company is a "human analytics" company. The system learns about people. Off the platform I can build insider threat detection (if deployed within companies), I can build a search engine for experts / people, I have a way to track brand strength, sentiment around politians, create curated news updates provided via email, etc. Even track the "strength" of a mene All those are already on the platform or are demos... Is it a fintech company? Yes, to people looking for fintech, but is it also A, Y, and Z - sure. Defining what a company does is difficult in some cases; fintech is currently what is describing anything really working with money and / assets to make money.
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- LeonM 9y ago
  The definition seems to be wide. My 'fintech' startup [0] focuses on automated bookkeeping, but depending on who you ask, automated bookkeeping is or is not regarded financial technology. [0] https://parsey.nl https://parsey.nl
  - Roritharr 9y ago
    Nearly same boat here. We're based in Frankfurt where everyone is talking about FinTech so its natural to call our Accounting/Bookkeeping/Billing AI Startup [0] a Fintech, but to me initially the term was reserved for startups that process creditcards or do algotrading. I'm content now to use the term as long as its helpful. [0] https://www.fastbill.com https://www.fastbill.com
    - tekism 9y ago
      This is off topic. But what do you use to generate the api documentation? It's very clean, love it. https://www.fastbill.com/api/fastbill/en/fundamentals.html#intro https://www.fastbill.com/api/fastbill/en/fundamentals.html#i...
      - Roritharr 9y ago
        This was a homegrown solution by a student that worked for us. It's not auto generated and quite frankly painful to maintain as it just generates this html in php via parsing xml files. We're looking for alternatives at the moment too.
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- notahacker 9y ago
  The distinction is pretty much the same as the distinction between "tech" and "other" companies in other fields Technology is more fundamental to how a company aims to be better than the competition (or at least how it markets itself as better than the competition). Which in practice often means having software doing exactly the same thing as software in other companies, but less bricks and mortar, customer service and established reputation. Everything Morgan Stanley or HSBC does depends on computers and their bottom line is hugely affected by the quality of things like their trading algorithms, but "better software" is less intrinsic to why people would consider using them than, say a "Fintech" oriented challenger bank, or a HFT fund, or a stock recommendation report marketing itself as being purely "Big Data" driven.
- gandutraveler 9y ago
  Having worked in traditional fintech firms like trading platforms, exchanges, algo traders etc for last 15 years, I feel many of the new gen companies are just trying to be cool by calling them fintech. I have a friend who started a company which manages travel rewards and was pitching his startup as 'disruptive fintech'.
sbussard 9y ago
EveryDollar (4074) is in the Nashville area
thisisit 9y ago
Amazing work. I am sure it will help some people in need for leads or ideas.
- pankmahar 9y ago
  Glad to hear that It will help.
zitterbewegung 9y ago
This is a great list! If I were you I would make it into a website and add some basic filtering capabilities. Also, filtering by category in each list would be interesting.
jtreminio 9y ago
How would I download this? On my 2015 MBP it slows to a crawl.
- buildbuildbuild 9y ago
  Unfortunately the author has not made it available for download. Would be interested to hear his comment on this decision.
  - petercooper 9y ago
    You can download it. It's just Google's weird UI. Click on "more spreadsheets", then go into the folder called startups or whatever, then the fintech folder, then click on the fintech spreadsheet once, then the '3 dots' at the top and "Make a copy" and it'll copy the file to your own Drive where you can download or edit to your heart's content.
    - buildbuildbuild 9y ago
      Good find, thank you. Can't help but think this is a flaw in Google's copy protection implementation, given that copy/pasting and exporting within the spreadsheet itself are disabled.
      - petercooper 9y ago
        Yeah, I'm not sure - Google's UI doesn't make it clear (to me, at least). I'm assuming the original link is just a special "view only" link that takes the menu bar away.
- pankmahar 9y ago
  I didn't know you guys having the problem. I use windows 8.1 I am able to download (incognito mode) through "File >> Download". I've never used Mac can't say anything about. It's up to you guys and all my startup lists are available for download.
samnwa 9y ago
When all the smart people are working in finance, we are fucked as a society.
Sambdala 9y ago
Funny enough my non-fintech failed (shuttered) company is listed here, but my more-or-less fintech company that's actually profitable and raised a bunch of money isn't listed. Probably because we concentrated more on PR/Press on the first one...
cprayingmantis 9y ago
Nice to see nCino on here, which is the company I work at. We're hiring by the way: https://www.ncino.com/culture-careers/job-openings https://www.ncino.com/culture-careers/job-openings
snowAbstraction 9y ago
Nice List. You missed Itiviti which has its office in the same building as Cinnober.
buildbuildbuild 9y ago
Startups by category: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HS_SL6tbbRrAoTrA72KoLY9FF6uyxNjI https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HS_SL6tbbRrAoTrA72Ko... Investors: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c3motcInTen-jGBBwtp_fBntrWq26NdxkPzyt7-W8bY/edit#gid=2129198371 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c3motcInTen-jGBBwtp_... An interesting resource and huge undertaking. A radically libre approach to Mattermark's vision. Thanks Pankaj.
- pankmahar 9y ago
  You've keen eyes. I feel like I know you. Simply Thanks
fellellor 9y ago
This is a great list. Kudos to the author.
pankmahar 9y ago
Thank you all for your thoughts. Thank you for your submissions soon your startups will be added to all relevant lists. Anyone can add their startup by https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezN1Ipnj9GrFPGYqAgFn3cTWlpCF8t_SIYmF07AHVmemNc3Q/viewform?usp=sf_link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezN1Ipnj9GrFPGYqAg... Startup lists by "Location" are coming soon. Keep checking for more lists and updates on your favourite one https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-CjBzfvjlKROXpnuFWiIwxrDyimx3Elz https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-CjBzfvjlKROXpnuFWiIwxrDyi... Pankaj
juditbogos 9y ago
I am new to this forum and wondering what are the benefits for a startup to add themselves to a list like this? can someone please enlighten me? Thanks!

108 points by pankmahar 9y ago

ll931110 9y ago

Nice job! It would be nice to filter options (by location or services).

tw1010 9y ago
Ctrl-f

nathan_f77 9y ago

Thanks for the list! I'm working on a service [1] that has many customers in the finance and insurance space, so these are some great leads. Your list of insurance startups [2] is also really helpful. Here's the folder containing lists of startups in many other categories [3]. [1] https://formapi.io/ https://formapi.io/ [2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KnEcpYOuLl2d9k9wjWIgbaencKpoBfaXs-QoGoIGovk/edit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KnEcpYOuLl2d9k9wjWIg... [3] https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fURgn2ulbqz3H6inuio_xknhKzqM3sHk https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fURgn2ulbqz3H6inuio_...

zucchini_head 9y ago

Being serious here: What exactly is a "fintech" company? Every financial company on earth that isn't in someone's backyard is at-heart now purely technological (computers, algos, tracking, databases, etc.). So what makes a "fintech" company? Is it a super _ultra_ technological bank? In summary, what are fintech companies exactly doing? Part of me believes it's the new version of "crypto-", but i will hold my breath.

caio1982 9y ago
Any financial company based on modern tech/data that are not necessarily a big bank slash mega corp?
hardwaresofton 9y ago
I'd say that "fintech" companies are the union of financial companies that are aggressively becoming "tech" companies and the tech companies that have enough funding, patience, and grit to deal with regulatory and various other challenges for a financial entity (though the definition of a "financial entity" varies from country to country) It's not the new version of "crypto-" (if anything it's the old version as they've been around a while), but it can indeed just be a hypeword
lettergram 9y ago
I mean, I'd classify my startup as a fintech company (at least from the outside): Https://projectpiglet.com I'll tell that to investors, people who click the link, etc. That's because it describes that I'm working with / in the financials space (aka financial statistics, and investing as it relates to assets of some kind). Now... I personally, classify the company is a "human analytics" company. The system learns about people. Off the platform I can build insider threat detection (if deployed within companies), I can build a search engine for experts / people, I have a way to track brand strength, sentiment around politians, create curated news updates provided via email, etc. Even track the "strength" of a mene All those are already on the platform or are demos... Is it a fintech company? Yes, to people looking for fintech, but is it also A, Y, and Z - sure. Defining what a company does is difficult in some cases; fintech is currently what is describing anything really working with money and / assets to make money.
deleted 9y ago
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LeonM 9y ago
The definition seems to be wide. My 'fintech' startup [0] focuses on automated bookkeeping, but depending on who you ask, automated bookkeeping is or is not regarded financial technology. [0] https://parsey.nl https://parsey.nl
- Roritharr 9y ago
  Nearly same boat here. We're based in Frankfurt where everyone is talking about FinTech so its natural to call our Accounting/Bookkeeping/Billing AI Startup [0] a Fintech, but to me initially the term was reserved for startups that process creditcards or do algotrading. I'm content now to use the term as long as its helpful. [0] https://www.fastbill.com https://www.fastbill.com
  - tekism 9y ago
    This is off topic. But what do you use to generate the api documentation? It's very clean, love it. https://www.fastbill.com/api/fastbill/en/fundamentals.html#intro https://www.fastbill.com/api/fastbill/en/fundamentals.html#i...
    - Roritharr 9y ago
      This was a homegrown solution by a student that worked for us. It's not auto generated and quite frankly painful to maintain as it just generates this html in php via parsing xml files. We're looking for alternatives at the moment too.
deleted 9y ago
[deleted]
notahacker 9y ago
The distinction is pretty much the same as the distinction between "tech" and "other" companies in other fields Technology is more fundamental to how a company aims to be better than the competition (or at least how it markets itself as better than the competition). Which in practice often means having software doing exactly the same thing as software in other companies, but less bricks and mortar, customer service and established reputation. Everything Morgan Stanley or HSBC does depends on computers and their bottom line is hugely affected by the quality of things like their trading algorithms, but "better software" is less intrinsic to why people would consider using them than, say a "Fintech" oriented challenger bank, or a HFT fund, or a stock recommendation report marketing itself as being purely "Big Data" driven.
gandutraveler 9y ago
Having worked in traditional fintech firms like trading platforms, exchanges, algo traders etc for last 15 years, I feel many of the new gen companies are just trying to be cool by calling them fintech. I have a friend who started a company which manages travel rewards and was pitching his startup as 'disruptive fintech'.

sbussard 9y ago

EveryDollar (4074) is in the Nashville area

thisisit 9y ago

Amazing work. I am sure it will help some people in need for leads or ideas.

pankmahar 9y ago
Glad to hear that It will help.

zitterbewegung 9y ago

This is a great list! If I were you I would make it into a website and add some basic filtering capabilities. Also, filtering by category in each list would be interesting.

jtreminio 9y ago

How would I download this? On my 2015 MBP it slows to a crawl.

buildbuildbuild 9y ago
Unfortunately the author has not made it available for download. Would be interested to hear his comment on this decision.
- petercooper 9y ago
  You can download it. It's just Google's weird UI. Click on "more spreadsheets", then go into the folder called startups or whatever, then the fintech folder, then click on the fintech spreadsheet once, then the '3 dots' at the top and "Make a copy" and it'll copy the file to your own Drive where you can download or edit to your heart's content.
  - buildbuildbuild 9y ago
    Good find, thank you. Can't help but think this is a flaw in Google's copy protection implementation, given that copy/pasting and exporting within the spreadsheet itself are disabled.
    - petercooper 9y ago
      Yeah, I'm not sure - Google's UI doesn't make it clear (to me, at least). I'm assuming the original link is just a special "view only" link that takes the menu bar away.
pankmahar 9y ago
I didn't know you guys having the problem. I use windows 8.1 I am able to download (incognito mode) through "File >> Download". I've never used Mac can't say anything about. It's up to you guys and all my startup lists are available for download.

samnwa 9y ago

When all the smart people are working in finance, we are fucked as a society.

Sambdala 9y ago

Funny enough my non-fintech failed (shuttered) company is listed here, but my more-or-less fintech company that's actually profitable and raised a bunch of money isn't listed. Probably because we concentrated more on PR/Press on the first one...

cprayingmantis 9y ago

Nice to see nCino on here, which is the company I work at. We're hiring by the way: https://www.ncino.com/culture-careers/job-openings https://www.ncino.com/culture-careers/job-openings

snowAbstraction 9y ago

Nice List. You missed Itiviti which has its office in the same building as Cinnober.

buildbuildbuild 9y ago

Startups by category: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HS_SL6tbbRrAoTrA72KoLY9FF6uyxNjI https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HS_SL6tbbRrAoTrA72Ko... Investors: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c3motcInTen-jGBBwtp_fBntrWq26NdxkPzyt7-W8bY/edit#gid=2129198371 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1c3motcInTen-jGBBwtp_... An interesting resource and huge undertaking. A radically libre approach to Mattermark's vision. Thanks Pankaj.

pankmahar 9y ago
You've keen eyes. I feel like I know you. Simply Thanks

fellellor 9y ago

This is a great list. Kudos to the author.

pankmahar 9y ago

Thank you all for your thoughts. Thank you for your submissions soon your startups will be added to all relevant lists. Anyone can add their startup by https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezN1Ipnj9GrFPGYqAgFn3cTWlpCF8t_SIYmF07AHVmemNc3Q/viewform?usp=sf_link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezN1Ipnj9GrFPGYqAg... Startup lists by "Location" are coming soon. Keep checking for more lists and updates on your favourite one https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-CjBzfvjlKROXpnuFWiIwxrDyimx3Elz https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-CjBzfvjlKROXpnuFWiIwxrDyi... Pankaj

juditbogos 9y ago

I am new to this forum and wondering what are the benefits for a startup to add themselves to a list like this? can someone please enlighten me? Thanks!