Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best New York City based Finance companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Finance 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 New York City Finance Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Apollo
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Apollo Global Management is an asset management firm that specializes in credit-oriented capital and real estate markets.
Goldman Sachs
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Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Payoneer
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Payoneer allows global commerce by connecting businesses, professionals, countries and currencies with its cross-border payment platform.
Vestwell
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Vestwell provides underlying infrastructure to power workplace retirement plans.
Betterment
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Betterment is a goal-based online investment company, delivering personalized financial advice paired with low fees and customer experience.
Stash
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Stash is a personal finance app that combines banking, investing, and advice into one platform.
SmartAsset
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SmartAsset is the web’s go-to resource for financial advice connecting consumers with financial advisors.
Broadridge
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Broadridge is a provider of investor communications and technology solutions for broker dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers.
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust
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Grayscale Bitcoin Trust is a digital currency investment company providing a familiar structure for financial and tax advisors.
Current
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Current is a financial technology company that offers mobile payments, online banking, and financial services.
Yieldstreet
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Yieldstreet is a management platform that provides institutional investors with access to income-generating investment products.
Policygenius
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Policygenius is an insurance tech-startup that specializes in providing financial protection.
Public.com
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Public is an investing social network where members can invest any amount of money and own fractional shares of stocks and ETFs.
Ocrolus
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Ocrolus is a venture-backed FinTech company that uses Artificial Intelligence and crowdsourcing to automate financial review processes.
Tornado
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Nvstr is now Tornado! Backed by Marc Lore, Alex Rodriguez & Dave Portnoy. Advancing our mission of financial wellness.
Signature Bank
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New York-based full-service commercial bank with 27 private client offices throughout the New York metropolitan area.
Thinknum
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Thinknum is a web platform that allows investors to get data driven investment ideas by monitoring companies’ websites.
Veritas Capital
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Veritas Capital is a private equity investment firm that invests in companies that provide critical products and services.
Pagaya Investments
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Pagaya is a fin-tech company that aims to reshape the asset management space using machine learning and big data analytics.
Deerfield Management
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Deerfield Management seeks to advance healthcare through investment, information, and philanthropy.
AlphaSense
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AlphaSense is an AI-powered business insights platform that is transforming the way companies uncover insights and make critical decisions.
Neuberger Berman Group
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Neuberger Berman is an independent and employee-controlled asset management company, providing global investment solutions.
SIMON
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SIMON develops an online distribution platform for financial professionals that focuses on structured investments.
OpenFin
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OpenFin enables financial desktops with the same app distribution, security, and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.
Even Financial
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Even is the definitive search, comparison and recommendation engine for financial services.
Quartz
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Quartz is a digitally native news and online media outlet for business people in the new global economy.
Deloitte
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Deloitte provides audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, tax, and related services to select clients.
Trumid
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Trumid is a financial technology company bringing efficiency to credit trading through data, technology, and innovative products.
CFO
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CFO offers daily stories specifically for finance executives, covering new accounting standards, recent capital-raisings, and more.
JP Morgan
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JP Morgan offers financial services, serving large multinationals, emerging companies, institutional investor, and individuals.
OnDeck
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Ondeck is a technology-enabled financial platform that provides loan financing to small and medium-sized businesses.
Brigit
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A financial health app helping every American build a brighter financial future.
CommonBond
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CommonBond is a financial technology company that is focused on higher education.
Catch
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Catch creates a new personal safety net that is accessible, affordable, and effective.
Mantl
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Mantl is a banking technology company that provides workflow management and automation tools for banks and credit unions.
Capitolis
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Capitolis is a technology provider addressing capital market constraints in equities and foreign exchange.
Injective Protocol
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Injective Protocol is a DeFi protocol that is used for cross-chain derivatives trading across a wide range of financial products.
Accern
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Accern accelerates AI workflows for enterprises with a no-code AI development platform.
Zigg Capital
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Zigg Capital focuses on accelerating the combination of real property and technology.
FutureFuel.io
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FutureFuel.io empowers employers and financial institutions to deploy digital solutions designed to crush student debt.
Luxor Capital Group
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Luxor Capital Group is a New York-based hedge fund focused on equity and fixed income investments across the globe.
Imprint
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Imprint is a financial service company building the future of payments, rewards, and loyalty services.
Behalf
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Behalf’s mission is to empower commerce for businesses large and small with well-priced, on demand payment tools.
Kalshi
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Kalshi built a new financial exchange for traders to trade on their opinion and hedge everyday risks.
Blackstone Group
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Blackstone is an investment and advisory firm providing financial solutions for investors and clients.
Qapital
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Qapital empowers people to maximize their happiness by saving, spending, and investing with goals in mind.
Axle
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Axle helps freight brokers grow faster by automating their back-office and providing fast & affordable working capital.
CAIS
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CAIS is a financial technology platform providing the independent wealth channel with access to alternative investments.
Lightspeed
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Lightspeed offers clients access to our proprietary order execution system, Lightspeed Trader, real time risk and margin management
TheStreet
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TheStreet, a digital financial media company, offers content and tools through a range of online, social media, tablet and mobile channels.
Yotta Savings
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Yotta Savings offers free FDIC-insured bank savings accounts and rewards savings account depositors with weekly prize drawings.
Pershing Square Tontine Holdings
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Pershing Square Tontine Holdings operates as a blank check company.
Pavilion Capital
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Pavilion Capital is providing growth equity to market leading companies.
IEX Group
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IEX is an equity trading venue owned exclusively by buy-side investors, including mutual funds, hedge funds, and family offices.
Fortress Investment Group
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Fortress is an investment management firm that manages alternative assets in private equity, liquid hedge funds, and credit funds.
Bond Street
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Bond Street is a startup focused on transforming small business lending through technology, data, and design.
Zoe Financial
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Zoe Financial helps its customers find an independent and fiduciary financial advisor.
Visible Alpha
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Visible Alpha delivers a data and analytics platform with comparable forecast models from the world’s leading equity analysts.
Alkeon Capital
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Alkeon Capital Management is a service that assists investors with their financial endeavors.
American Express
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American Express is a global financial services company best known for its credit card, charge card, and traveler’s cheque businesses.
BloomCredit
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Bloom Credit is a fintech platform that works to improve the financial eligibility of people declines for lending products.
Relationship Science
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Relationship Science is a business development tool that provides influential people profiles.
Frank Financial Aid
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Frank is a financial platform that helps college students manage their financial aid and student debt.
Grasshopper Bank
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Grasshopper is a new digital bank built to make banking simple, frictionless, and transparent.
SELECT
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SELECT leverages technology and exclusive partnerships to transform credit and debit cards with rewards that actually improve your life.
LearnVest
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LearnVest is a program that makes financial planning affordable, accessible, and even delightful.
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners
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Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners applies innovative technology to urban infrastructure systems.
Exos
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Exos is a financial services platform for B2B institutional finance.
VisibleRisk
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Manage your cyber risk, as clearly as financial risk. VisibleRisk equips business leaders to understand, manage and communicate cyber risk.
Affinity Solutions
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Affinity is a provider of loyalty programs for financial institutions, insurance companies, and publishers in the U.S.
FeeX
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FeeX provides automated in depth and personalized financial analysis for retirement accounts.
DataArt
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DataArt is a global software engineering firm that takes a uniquely human approach to solve problems.
National General Insurance
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National General Insurance is a specialty personal lines holding company providing a variety of insurance products.
Cogni
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Cogni is a next gen platform that brings banking, commerce, and lifestyle on a single platform.
Treasury
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Treasury is a financial technology VC firm that supports founders.
Applied Data Finance
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ADF has been purpose-built to be the optimal link between the underestimated underbanked consumer and capital markets.
Simplist
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The modern mortgage marketplace embracing the unique paths of the next generation of homeowners.
Koyfin
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Koyfin is a developer of sophisticated and user-friendly investment research tools for researching stocks and understanding market trends.
LendKey Technologies
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LendKey Technologies develops a cloud-based platform which connects lenders with borrowers and facilitates online lending of loans.
AlleyCorp
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AlleyCorp is an early stage venture fund and incubator that founds and funds transformative companies, primarily in New York.
LoanStreet
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LoanStreet is a marketplace that enables the efficient syndication of loans and loan pools.
Kroll Bond Rating Agency
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KBRA is a global rating agency established to restore trust in credit ratings and offer accurate and transparent ratings.
R3
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R3 is a financial innovation firm dedicated to the design and deployment of DLT to build the new operating system for financial services.
UHY Advisors
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Uhy Advisors provides business consulting services, professional services to mid-sized and larger companies.
Estimize
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Estimize is an open financial estimates platform which facilitates the aggregation of fundamental estimates from independent analysts.
LiquidX
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LiquidX operates an electronic exchange platform for the exchange of trade finance assets.
Bytemark
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Bytemark provides global transit fare collection, ticketing, and PaaS solutions. Plan, Book & Pay!™ | Siemens Mobility
Status Money
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Status Money is a social personal finance app that enables people to compare finances and crowdsource advice from peers.
Clarity Money
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Clarity Money empowers and saves you money with transformative financial organization, transparency and advocacy.
FundGuard
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FundGuard is an artificial intelligence powered and cloud based investment funds operating system.
Pillar Life
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Pillar is a digital platform that helps families better protect and care for their aging loved ones.
EQUITYMULTIPLE
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EquityMultiple is a platform that makes real estate investing simple, accessible, and transparent.
Ramp
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Ramp is a technology company that develops corporate cards designed to save money for businesses.
REDD Intelligence
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Material intelligence (news/research/data) on distressed, high yield and event driven situations in Emerging Markets.
EvolutionIQ
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EvolutionIQ provides vertical fraud detection and investigation platform for insurance companies.
QuarterSpot
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QuarterSpot is an online lending platform that offers small businesses working capital.
CrowdTwist
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CrowdTwist is an industry-leading provider of comprehensive multichannel loyalty and analytics solutions.
