Mark Smith
This article showcases our top picks for the best Los Angeles (LA) based Financial Services companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Financial Services industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Los Angeles (LA) Financial Services Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
SoLo Funds
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SoLo is a marketplace community allowing members to easily access and supply short-term funds for immediate needs.
ProducePay
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ProducePay is an agriculture fin-tech start-up providing financing, analytics, and marketplace tools for the fresh produce market.
Camino Financial
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Camino Financial is a data-driven fintech platform pioneering affordable small business loans to Latinx businesses
Crowdfunder
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Crowdfunder is an equity crowdfunding platform connecting investors with early-stage entrepreneurs.
Papaya
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Papaya is a developer of an online mobile bill payment application designed to simplify financial transaction.
RealtyMogul
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RealtyMogul is a marketplace for real estate investing, connecting borrowers, and sponsors to individual and institutional investors.
SRAX
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SRAX is a financial technology company that unlocks data and insights for publicly traded companies.
Dave
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Dave is a challenger bank on a mission to put everyone’s financial mind at ease with free overdraft cash, budgeting, and side gigs.
FastPay
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FastPay is the definitive financial platform for digital media.
Bespoke Financial
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Bespoke Financial is a licensed lender supporting cannabis companies.
iTrustCapital Inc.
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Digital asset trading platform to trade Cryptocurrencies and Physical Gold real-time, 24/ in retirement accounts.
XCLAIM
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XCLAIM is digitizing the financial market for selling bad debt receivables to eliminate risk, generate liquidity and increase transparency.
Spotter
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Spotter provides a financial solution for independent content creators across digital platforms.
Arca
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Arca is an asset management firm that creates and manages institutional grade products using crypto and blockchain technology.
Finli
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Finli helps businesses streamline operations and grow.
Round
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Round is a fintech firm that provides active investment management services.
ChimpChange Mobile Banking
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Mobile Banking with two key value propositions. ChimpChange is more useful than your traditional bank, without the hidden fees.
Otomo
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Otomo delivers hyper-personalized cash management tools as-a-service to banks and fintechs.
SteadiPay
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Making sure small businesses don’t run out of cash
Worldwide Facilities
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A private, independent wholesale insurance brokerage & managing general agency established in 1970.
Wave Financial Group
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Wave Financial Group offers early-stage investment and treasury management to further the growth of the digital asset ecosystem.
Aspiriant
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Aspiriant is an investment management company that specializes in investment management and wealth planning services.
Oaktree Capital Management
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Oaktree Capital Management is a privately owned investment manager specializing in alternative investment strategies.
Causeway Capital Management
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Causeway Capital Management is a financial services firm specializing in value-focused equity strategies.
Sootchy
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Sootchy is platform to help reduce the U.S household student debt. Providing a better future for our kids.
Chapter One Ventures
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Chapter One Ventures is an early-stage seed fund created by Jeff Morris Jr.
RBB Bancorp
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RBB Bancorp is a Chinese-American business-oriented bank.
Hana Commercial Finance (“HCFI”)
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Hana Commercial Finance is the factoring and trade finance subsidiary of Hana Financial
LifeLine Financial Group
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LifeLine Financial Group is a multi-family wealth management office for influential athletes and entertainers.
Broadway Financial
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Broadway Financial is a Los Angeles-based savings and loan holding company.
Wedbush Securities
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Wedbush Securities is a company providing banking and investment services for any individual, institution, or issuing client.
AssetAvenue
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AssetAvenue is a financial services company that offers an online lender for real estate investment properties.
Banks.com
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We work for you. Our mission is to become your trusted, go-to resource for all things financial.
AgentRisk – Superhuman Wealth Management
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Automated portfolio management & option strategies, all managed by A.I.
Ascend Consumer Finance
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Through a proprietary process called Adaptive Risk Pricing, Ascend empowers consumers to prove their real-time creditworthiness
Paymation
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We publish the humanistic banking technology known as Otomo
Canyon Partners
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Canyon Partners is a company that offers loaning and investment services.
Skraps
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Skraps is a micro finance platform that allows individuals to invest their spare change in portfolios of cryptocurrencies.
AidBanc
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AidBanc is a full-service banking platform designed for non-profits to manage global spending from a single corporate account.
AFEX
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AFEX offers a range of independent foreign payment solutions to a global customer base.
FiComm Partners
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FiComm Partners is a communications agency with a singular focus on financial services.
Wizely Finance
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Wizely Finance is a web-based platform that helps financial institutions offer credit card debt consolidation loans.
Farmers Insurance Group
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Farmers Insurance Group is an insurer group of automobiles, homes, and small businesses.
Daylight
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Daylight is the first and only digital banking platform in the USA built for LGBT+ people, by LGBT+ people.
Film Finances
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Film Finances helps movies get to the big screen.
GoSBA – Los Angeles SBA Loans
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GoSBA Loans is a SBA Loan Marketplace.
Saida
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Saida is a lending platform for emerging markets starting in Africa.
StockShield
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StockShield is a developer of patented financial risk management capabilities for protecting and preserving wealth.
Nimbus33
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Nimbus33 provides the latest ideas on how to make money, save money, and make smarter financial choices.
Latham & Watkins
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Latham & Watkins is a global law firm with more than 2,000 lawyers in its offices located in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the US.
LendAmend
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LendAmend operates LendAmend.com, a web-based platform for professionals in the leveraged loan market.
Pacific City Bank
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Pacific City Bank is a bank that specializes in commercial property loans, small business loans, and lines of credit.
FreeFrom
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FreeFrom is a nationwide organization that seeks economic justice and opportunity for survivors of abuse and exploitation.
kuma capital llc
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Digital asset and FX derivatives analytics and trading software.
City National Bank
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City National Bank offers a full complement of banking, trust and investment services.
Verifi, Inc.
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Verifii is a SaaS-based platform providing global electronic payment and risk management solutions for card-not-present merchants.
Lurkin
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Lurkin is a global venture company, with ventures ranging from technology startups, to motion pictures, & everything in between.
Acquicent
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Acquicent provides a marketplace for investing in digital and real-world collectibles via NFTs.
Swan Bitcoin
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SwanBitcoin.com is the best place to buy Bitcoin with your bank account using automated savings plans
CBC Bancorp
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CBC Bancorp provides commercial banking services through its holdings.
Western Avenue Capital
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Western Avenue Capital is focused on core and value-add opportunities.
Currency Capital
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Currency Capital is an equipment financing, lending and technology investment company.
Investor’s Business Daily
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Investor’s Business Daily is a financial news and research organization that helps its subscribers make more money in the stock market.
Arcadian Capital
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Arcadian Capital is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on the cannabis industry.
The American Funds
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American Funds is a family of mutual funds from Capital Group that are sold primarily through financial advisors and intermediaries.
InVenture Capital
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InVenture is a mobile technology and data science company that is flipping the traditional credit scoring model by putting power.
Houlihan Lokey
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Houlihan Lokey is a global investment bank that focuses on capital markets, financial restructuring, valuation, and strategic consulting.
Thomson Reuters Elite
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Thomson Reuters Elite offers an end-to-end enterprise business management solution that enables the operation of law and related firms.
Ares Capital Corporation
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Ares Capital Corporation, a California-based specialty finance company, offers solutions for mid-market companies across diverse industries.
PCCP, LLC (Pacific Coast Capital Partners)
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PCCP, LLC (Pacific Coast Capital Partners) is a real estate firm in Los Angeles.
The Yucaipa Companies
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The Yucaipa Companies is a holding company focused on private equity investments.
CIM Group
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CIM is a community-focused real estate and infrastructure owner, operator, developer and lender.
Whitepine Finance
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Whitepine is a private US financial technology and media company that helps consumers understand everything related to finance.
PacWest Bancorp
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PacWest Bancorp (“PacWest”) is a bank holding company with $5.3 billion in assets as of March 31, 2013, with one wholly-owned banking.
Startup UCLA Accelerator
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Startup UCLA Accelerator provides a workspace, guidance, legal services, and mentors to early-stage companies.
Kayne Anderson Rudnick (KAR)
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Kayne Anderson Rudnick is an investment firm specializing in investments in its various US and international equity strategies.
QuickFee
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QuickFee is a payment platform and SME lending through provision of finance.
Napkin Finance
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Everything about money in 30 seconds or less.
JonesTrading
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JonesTrading is owned and run by its traders, which creates a culture of interdependence and trust.
Divy
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Divy transforms investing so finding stocks is simple and engaging. Buying them takes one tap and $10. Divy – The Market is now Open.
Open Bank
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Open Bank is a commercial bank primarily serving Korean-American communities.
McLaren Strategic Ventures
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McLaren Strategic Ventures is a business accelerator.
Gregory Funding LLC
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Gregory Funding delivers the highest level of customer experience in the mortgage servicing industry by providing easy loan management.
Scratchpay
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Scratchpay is a simple payment app and plan for medical financing.
Crescent
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Crescent is a business development company that seeks to maximize the total return of our stockholders.
Everlert
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Everlert, Inc. is a provider of strategic management and structured financing services.
Hannum Capital Management
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A capital management company focused on digital and blockchain-based assets exclusively on the blockchain technology sector.
EVOLUTIONSapp powered by Magna Carta Wealth
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A mobile market place for financial fitness
Westlake Financial Services
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Westlake is a Financial Services comapny.
CueSquared
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CueSquared is the developer of a mobile patient payment system for the healthcare industry
AdvicePeriod
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AdvicePeriod think it’s time to reinvent wealth management and focus clients on the important decisions necessary to manage their wealth.
ICONIZ
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ICONIZ is the world’s leading blockchain accelerator for startups.
American Realty Advisors
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American Realty Advisors is a California-based institutional investment management firm.
