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Payments, banking, lending, insurance, accounting for money, stablecoins and crypto rails.

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Fintech · Fintech

Axlemark

Plug-in driving score for small fleets that every carrier prices from.

Axlemark ships a plug-in telematics device to US small commercial fleets of three to fifty vehicles (contractors, HVAC, landscaping, last-mile) and turns their driving data into a portable risk score the fleet owner controls and can hand to any insurer at renewal.

Score 87Warm competitionVC 4/5HardwareSmall businesstest: $1.8k · 6w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Tollgate

A rack appliance that holds the spending keys for every AI agent an enterprise runs.

Tollgate is a hardware root of trust that sits in an enterprise's own data center or colo and signs every payment mandate an autonomous agent issues, enforcing per-agent limits, merchant allowlists and human approval thresholds in silicon rather than in a prompt.

Score 83Open competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprisetest: $1.8k · 6w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Kinwire

Embedded stablecoin payout API for US small businesses paying overseas contractors.

Kinwire is a drop-in API and no-code widget that vertical SaaS products embed so their US small business customers can pay overseas contractors in minutes: dollars in from an ACH pull, stablecoin settlement across borders, local currency out through licensed partners.

Score 79Warm competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1.2k · 5w82% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

AgentLedger

The control plane where small businesses give AI agents money, limits and receipts.

AgentLedger is a subscription platform where a small business connects every AI agent it uses - procurement bots, ad-buying agents, booking assistants - and sets budgets, approval rules and merchant restrictions in a no-code dashboard, with every agent transaction reconciled back to its accounting system.

Score 78Open competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business94% of 2 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Ostend

An API giving small exporters local receiving accounts abroad at a tenth of bank cost.

Ostend is a licensed collections API: vertical software platforms embed it so their small business customers get named local receiving accounts in two dozen countries, with funds swept and converted on stablecoin rails and paid out to the home bank account the next morning.

Score 74Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Zerotill

A countertop terminal that drops card acceptance fees from 3 percent to 0.3.

A payment terminal for US small merchants that accepts pay-by-bank and stablecoin payments alongside cards, routing every transaction to the cheapest rail and cutting acceptance cost roughly 10x on non-card volume.

Score 74Warm competitionVC 3/5HardwareSmall business95% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Fiscari

A licensed AI tax agent that files small business returns in thirty countries.

Fiscari is an AI agent that holds registered tax agent status in each country it operates in and files indirect tax, payroll tax and annual returns of record for small businesses, with a licensed human reviewer signing off on flagged filings.

Score 74Active competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Duebridge

Your collections agent settles invoices by negotiating with your customer's agent.

Duebridge gives a small business an AI agent that chases its unpaid invoices, and gives the customer a free counterpart agent that verifies the invoice against its own ledger, flags disputes and proposes a payment date.

Score 73Warm competitionVC 4/5AI agent as a serviceSmall business95% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Bookzero

Software that closes a small company's books for a tenth of a bookkeeper's price.

Bookzero is self-serve subscription software that connects to a small business's bank feeds, invoices and payroll and produces a finished monthly close - categorized ledger, reconciliations, financial statements - for roughly $100 a month against the $800-1,500 SMBs pay outsourced bookkeepers.

Score 73Warm competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionSmall business79% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Fiscora

Machine learning that stops improper government payments before the money moves.

Fiscora is a payment-integrity platform for state and local government: deep entity-resolution and anomaly-detection models screen benefit disbursements, tax refunds, and vendor payments before funds are released, replacing after-the-fact audit with pre-payment interdiction.

Score 71Active competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionGovernment and public sector95% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Attestry

The global registry that stops government payments to impostor suppliers.

Attestry is a shared registry of verified government suppliers and their real bank accounts: before a treasury or municipality releases a payment, its ERP checks the payee against the registry through a no-code integration.

Score 69Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionGovernment and public sector95% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Parametra

The exchange where enterprises trade parametric cover for cloud, API and model outages.

Parametra is a self-serve marketplace where enterprises buy parametric protection against outages of the infrastructure they depend on - cloud regions, payment APIs, model providers - and insurers, funds and reinsurers post capacity against standardized triggers.

Score 69Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise95% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Lexrail

The licensed compliance layer any small platform builds stablecoin payouts on.

Lexrail is an API that lets small vertical SaaS companies, marketplaces and exporters send cross-border stablecoin payouts under Lexrail's own money transmitter and VASP licenses, so they never apply for one themselves.

Score 69Active competitionVC 4/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall business94% of 2 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Parbook

The self-serve secondary market where institutions trade private credit loan participations.

Parbook is a marketplace where private credit funds, insurers and regional banks list, price and settle loan participations and portfolio slices, using a standardized machine-readable data tape that Parbook generates from each seller's loan documents.

Score 67Active competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceEnterprise79% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Perilex

An exchange where machine-priced corporate risk is listed and capital bids.

Perilex is a listing venue for idiosyncratic corporate risk that traditional carriers price badly: fleet and telematics-driven liability, compute and outage exposure, model-failure liability.

Score 67Active competitionVC 5/5MarketplaceEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Bookform

A foundation model of the limit order book, licensed to funds as a simulator.

Bookform trains a sequence model on full-depth order book messages across US equities, futures and options venues, so a fund can ask what happens to the book if it works a 400,000 share order over two hours in a given regime, and get a distribution instead of a backtest.

Score 65Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Treska

A licensed autonomous treasurer that runs enterprise cross-border money on stablecoin rails.

Treska is a regulated e-money institution whose AI agents run corporate treasury end to end: forecasting cash across subsidiaries, choosing routes between bank rails and stablecoin rails, executing FX and settlement, and producing the audit trail.

Score 64Active competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise79% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Marginframe

A colocated appliance that nets margin across prediction, perp and equity venues in microseconds.

Marginframe sells a 1U FPGA appliance plus support contract to brokers and venues that carry positions on more than one execution venue.

Score 64Open competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Countersign

Spend controls and audit trail for every dollar an enterprise's AI agents move.

Countersign sits between a company's agents and whatever rails they spend on - issued cards, wallets, stablecoin accounts - enforcing per-agent budgets, merchant allowlists and human approval thresholds before authorization, then reconciling each settled charge back to the agent run and prompt that caused it.

Score 64Crowded competitionVC 5/5Software subscriptionEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Corvia

Licensed payout providers bid, per corridor, on every government disbursement batch.

Corvia is a bidding marketplace for public sector payouts: a ministry, city treasury or aid agency uploads a disbursement batch, and pre-vetted licensed payment institutions, local banks and stablecoin settlement rails bid to clear it at a published all-in price including FX.

Score 64Warm competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceGovernment and public sector95% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Riskauction

An exchange where wholesale brokers auction hard-to-place enterprise risk to carrier capacity.

Riskauction turns a messy submission packet for a risk nobody has a rating plan for - AI agent liability, cloud outage, compute plant downtime - into a structured, priced, comparable risk unit, then runs a sealed auction across carriers, MGAs and reinsurers for the layer.

Score 60Warm competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Creditome

The foundation model for small-business credit, sold as underwriting software.

Creditome trains a transaction-native foundation model on bank, payments and accounting data, then sells a self-serve SaaS underwriting workbench to small lenders, credit unions and fintech lenders worldwide.

Score 59Crowded competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionSmall business95% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Underwatt

Underwriting software that prices AI data center risk from live power and thermal telemetry.

Underwatt sells a subscription platform to carriers, MGAs and reinsurers that prices property, business-interruption and outage risk on GPU data centers using a telemetry fleet Underwatt installs itself: power quality recorders, thermal and coolant sensors, and grid interconnect feeds at the insured sites.

Score 58Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprisetest: $2.4k · 6w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Yieldcore

The marketplace where GPU fleets become a financeable asset class.

Yieldcore is a financing marketplace that lets small AI clouds and GPU operators borrow against their hardware and contracted compute revenue, matched with private credit funds that price risk off Yieldcore's live fleet telemetry.

Score 58Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceSmall business96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Payname

A global directory that turns a business tax ID into verified payout instructions any software can call.

Payname is an API and no-code directory where a small business claims its legal identity once and publishes how it wants to be paid: bank rails per country, stablecoin addresses per chain, invoice formats and the proofs behind each.

Score 58Warm competitionVC 3/5Infrastructure and APIsSmall businesstest: $1.6k · 6w96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Sigilbox

Rack appliance that hardware-signs every payment an AI agent tries to make.

Sigilbox is a co-signing appliance installed in the datacenter of any company running AI agents that spend money: each agent payment instruction must be signed by keys held in the box, which applies spend policy and an on-device behavioural model before emitting a portable attestation.

Score 58Open competitionVC 4/5HardwareEnterprisetest: $2.2k · 6w95% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Bookforge

The no-code platform where accountants build finance agents for every SMB client.

A subscription platform where accounting and bookkeeping firms assemble no-code agent workflows for monthly close, transaction categorization, AP and cash reporting, then deploy them across their whole SMB client roster; each small business pays a monthly seat on top of its QuickBooks and bank connections.

Score 57Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionSmall business79% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Subrix

AI agents that settle claims between insurance carriers on one shared network.

Subrix runs autonomous agents that handle subrogation - the process where one insurer recovers claim costs from another at-fault party's insurer.

Score 56Crowded competitionVC 5/5AI agent as a serviceEnterprise82% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Keyfort

Custody hardware nodes that cut key management costs 10x and settle instantly.

Keyfort sells a rack-mount signing node built from commodity secure elements that holds threshold key shares for institutional digital asset and stablecoin custody at roughly a tenth of the cost of a legacy hardware security module deployment.

Score 55Crowded competitionVC 3/5HardwareEnterprise94% of 2 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Fiscala

A cross-border invoice-matching network where AI agents recover lost VAT for governments.

Fiscala deploys AI agents inside tax authorities that reconcile invoice-level e-invoicing data across borders to detect missing-trader and carousel VAT fraud, and is paid a share of recovered revenue.

Score 54Warm competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceGovernment and public sector93% of 1 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Helmsman

A subscription AI that runs your money end to end, registered as an advisor.

Helmsman is a flat-fee consumer subscription: an RIA-registered autonomous agent that moves idle cash to yield, refinances debt when rates move, cancels and renegotiates recurring charges, and rebalances across a user's linked accounts without being asked.

Score 51Warm competitionVC 3/5Software subscriptionConsumer79% of 3 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Covenly

A licensed AI insurance agent every consumer app can embed.

Covenly builds a licensed AI insurance agent for consumers that continuously re-shops home and auto coverage, switches carriers when a better policy exists, and handles claims paperwork, earning standard producer commissions.

Score 51Crowded competitionVC 3/5AI agent as a serviceConsumer82% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Windvane

A regulated marketplace where corporates hedge operational risks nobody writes contracts on.

Windvane is a two-sided marketplace on CFTC-regulated event contracts, built for corporate treasuries rather than traders: a CFO lists the exposure that actually hurts (a port closure, a tariff decision, a chip lead time slipping past a quarter), and Windvane structures it as a listed contract and brings liquidity providers to the other side.

Score 50Crowded competitionVC 3/5MarketplaceEnterprise96% of 4 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Tollbridge

The authorization layer banks use to let AI agents spend money safely.

Enterprise SaaS sold to US card issuers and issuer processors that adds an agent-payments control plane: banks define spend policies, verify which AI agent is transacting on whose mandate, and score every agent-initiated authorization in real time.

Score 50Crowded competitionVC 4/5Software subscriptionEnterprise94% of 2 neighbours alive

Fintech · Fintech

Tenor

An exchange where suppliers bid to give small businesses payment terms, priced by a cash-flow model.

Small businesses connect bank and accounting feeds self-serve; Tenor trains a transaction-sequence model that forecasts each account's cash position and payment behavior 90 days out.

Score 48Active competitionVC 4/5MarketplaceSmall business82% of 4 neighbours alive

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