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101 Top FinTech (Financial Technology) Startups & Projects (Chicago)

This article showcases our top picks for the best Chicago based FinTech (Financial Technology) companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the FinTech (Financial Technology) 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

Top Chicago FinTech (Financial Technology) Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Watch Insiders

Watch Insiders

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Watch Insiders is a platform that provides trading patterns and trends to invest in particular stock.

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Customer-Focused Hybrid Wealth Management Firm

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Firelily

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Firelily is the most efficient way for people impacted by disaster to recovery their financial losses.

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Terry Savage Productions

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Terry Savage is a nationally known expert on personal finance, the markets.

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Squirrel & Company

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Squirrel & Company provides financial educational tools for children.

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micredito

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Technology-based consumer lending

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CardSmart

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CardSmart is a fintech platform that offers solutions to merchant payments, transaction security, mobile payments, and POS systems.

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PropertyGo

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The simple way to apply to the top lenders in commercial real estate.

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PeerTrader

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Deck Technologies is a technology and analytics company that provides investment automation solutions for peer-to-peer lenders.

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Sheffield Asset Management, L.L.C.

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Sheffield Asset Management, L.L.C. is a Chicago-based investment management firm focused on equity long/short investing.

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Backersphere

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Invest in impact and socially-responsible startups.

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Smarteys

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Smarteys is an online application that helps people manage their finances by paycheck.

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Give Mortgage, Inc

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FinTech

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K+H Connection

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K+H Connection is a wide platform that specializes in offering gift cards, payment, security and other fintech solutions to its customers.

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Citizen Camp

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Next Gen PFM

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eStreetCap

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Boutique investment banking for young and growth companies (seed to pre-ipo).

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FinTank

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FinTank is a Chicago based FinTech community with a physical space in the Chicago loop.

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VirtualTrade

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Trading Visualization, Analysis, & Execution Platform

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Zabana Technologies

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A FinTech development firm that incubates and monetizes cutting-edge, analytics-intense solutions for the financial sector

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Enhanced Investment Partners

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Enhanced Investment Partners offers analysis, enhanced dynamic moderate active, passive, and alternative income investment funds services.

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Finom

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Finom is an online platform that enables users to find and hire investment advisors suiting their specific financial circumstances.

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VentureUP

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VentureUP is an accelerator network for rising VCs investing in the Midwest.

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Metrixx

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Metrixx is a real-time financial engine that develops service management and mobile field service software solutions.

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Swarm

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Investing powered by collective intelligence

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Kinsella Group

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Kinsella Group is a middle-market investment bank and business advisory group, helping clients grow, generate liquidity

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LevelTradingField.com

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Online collection of financial applications for traders and finance professionals

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4Access Communications

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4Access Communications, a private company, produces revolutionary point-of-transaction systems.

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X Change Financial Access

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X-Change Financial Access is an industry-leading agency trade execution and one-stop access for market information services.

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Bond Lab

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Bond Lab delivers fixed income analytics to market participants using technology to analyze market data and lower costs for customers.

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FinanceFuel

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FinanceFuel provides capital to small & medium sized business based on their invoices in a simple & easy to use online platform

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Mosaique

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Next-generation post-trade platforms leveraging distributed ledger technology for increased straight-through-processing.

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Matrix Executions

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Matrix Executions is a financial service company.

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Chicago Venture Summit

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Chicago Venture Summit is an event that showcases the best early-stage tech companies in the Midwest.

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Hinsdale Bank & Trust

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Hinsdale Bank & Trust is a community bank based in Illinois.

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ConnectedHealth

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ConnectedHealth drives corporate growth by making it easy for employees to be healthy and financially secure.

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FT Options

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FT Options offers a suite of customizable, automated, and integrated applications.

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FinTech Ranger

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FinTech Ranger provides executive training, capital, and customer acquisition solutions for the fintech sector.

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AlgoFast

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Automated News Trading for the Individual Investor

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Theorem Technologies

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SaaS for Post-Trade Data Management

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Greenline Financial Technologies

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Greenline Financial Technologies is an online database that focuses on information in the global financial sector.

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Vertical

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Construction SaaS + Fintech

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Forseva

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Forseva develops cloud computing apps that enable companies to assess customer credit risk, automate credit monitoring, and more.

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FX-EDGE Trading Venue

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FX-EDGE Trading Venue is a financial technology company that provides a cryptocurrency trading platform.

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Portfolio123

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Single destination to manage your investment accounts. Financial Research platform to create, backtest, and manage stock and ETF strategies.

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Fundology

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Fundology is a high security M&A project management platform for complex transactions and due diligence.

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Emotomy

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Emotomy is a digital platform that helps financial advisors in building, managing and marketing their investment strategies.

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Toodalu

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Toodalu builds custom mobile applications with integrated loyalty programs.

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Spendbot

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Spendbot is a personal financial execution solution, allowing its users to create spending plans, optimize, and continue with them.

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BlockArrow Capital

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BlockArrow Capital is a digital asset fund focused on research and investment of innovative blockchain projects.

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BornTec

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BornTec is a fintech company that provides software and managed hosting solutions to solve the Capital Markets industry challenges.

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Lihtec Funding

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A SaaS-enabled marketplace (SEM) for affordable housing development.

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OnBoard Finance

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Financial Models on Demand

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BlazePortfolio

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Investment Automation for Investment Advisors

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FinTech Forge

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Innovation enablement for fintech and financial sevices

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FinTEx

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FinTex Chicago is a member-driven organization seeking to expand Chicago’s role as a center of innovation in financial services.

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Heartland Alliance

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Heartland Alliance is an anti-poverty organization that offers housing, healthcare, jobs, and justice for people with financial problems.

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Colonnade Advisors LLC

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Collonade Advisors provides expert advice on mergers and acquisitions and capital raises.

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Encina group

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Encina Business Credit provides safe asset based lending options for middle market companies nationwide.

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Yezzi

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Yezzi is a socially-oriented money transfer platform for underbanked consumers to send remittances to their families.

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Eagle Seven

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Eagle Seven is a capital markets company specializing in the algorithmic trading platform.

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BLUECHXP

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Mobile App | Gamified Stock Market Education

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Alertatron

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Alertatron is an automated algorithmic trading service platform for digital asset markets, with a trading strategy.

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7QUBES

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SaaS, FinTech, Distributed Ledger Technology, Blockchain, AI, ERP

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InHub

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InHub is the investment community’s #1 RFP and DDQ management platform.

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Aiolux

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Automated Investment Research using Quant Finance, Statistics& AI / ML. (Think Bloomberg meets AWS)

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Chama Capital

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Chama Capital is a financial technology platform designed to increase access to capital for women-owned small businesses.

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American Homeowner Preservation

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AHP offers a wide range of viable long-term solutions that have helped hundreds of families stay in their homes.

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Sensefolio

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Artificial Intelligence ESG Data startup specialized in socially responsible investment #AI #ESG #SRI #AM #FinTech

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Performant Capital

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Performant Capital is a Chicago-based investment firm focused on majority and buyout investments in technology-driven companies.

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tradeMONSTER

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tradeMONSTER is a financial services company that offers online brokering services to its clients.

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Visionary Financial (VF)

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Revolutionizing digital asset media and introducing first to market decentralized crypto sector investing

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Beaxy Exchange

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Beaxy is the new generation of cryptocurrency and digital asset exchange

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Owl

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Owl is a online financial advisors accessible and affordable to everyone, no matter the individual’s current financial situation.

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Peeptrade

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Peeptrade is a social network and financial information platform where you can “peep” into the success of the best investors!

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Genivity

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Genivity is a platform that tracks and predicts family health risks to help financial advisors better serve their clients.

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Uvamo

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Uvamo is a marketplace that enables those seeking insurance and investment returns to interact with each other.

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Advyzon

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Advyzon is a cloud-based platform for investment advisors that combines portfolio management, flexible performance reporting.

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Cambio

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Cambio is an enablement banking and financial habit-building app for the underserved

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WH Trading

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WH Trading is a software development company with a focus on trading programs.

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Thinkorswim Group

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Thinkorswim Group is an online broker that offers live and internet-based options trade services.

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Chicago Board Options Exchange

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Chicago Board Options Exchange, located at 400 South LaSalle Street in Chicago, is the largest U.S. options exchange

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Digs

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Digs offers financial tools that empower consumers to build wealth through their home.

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Anasova

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Anasova creates tools so people can maximize life and minimize financial stress. Our primary offering is a free financial plan.

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Itexus

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Itexus is a one-stop shop for teams of Ruby (on Rails), .NET & mobile developers with a strong focus on custom-tailored enterprise apps.

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Redstone

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Redstone is a fintech company that offers lending solutions.

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Red Fog

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We are driven to help mature the crypto asset class through lowering the barriers to entry for millions of new participants.

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Ipox Schuster

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IPOX Schuster is an independent research-driven financial services firm.

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Founder’s CPA

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Founder’s CPA is an accounting firm that helps startups with outsourced accounting, tax, and CFO work.

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Base Capital

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Income Share Agreement company integrating artificial intelligence into the servicing of ISAs.

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CLOUDQUANT, LLC

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CloudQuant a powerful and comprehensive data + tech+ research + distribution platform for investors and corporate clients

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TISI Corporation

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Delaware C-Corp in Travel, FinTech & Telecom industry.

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Magma Capital Funds

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Quantitative Hedge Fund

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truCrowd

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truCrowd is a funding portal that enables non-accredited investors to invest in startups.

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Strategic Systems International

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SaaS, Advanced Analytics, Apps, Software Development

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KAOSHI

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We build financial technologies that enable banks and financial institutions offer bespoke financial services to immigrants in the diaspora.

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SpringFour

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SpringFour’s technology platform connects consumers to local financial health resources, tools and products. SpringFour is a B2B solution.

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Hehmeyer

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Hehmeyer is a proprietary trading firm that provides trading advisory services.

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Green Key Technologies

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GreenKey is the voice-driven collaboration platform for financial markets: enhancing compliance and enabling sophisticated data analytics.

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Decred

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Decred is an open and progressive cryptocurrency with a system of community-based governance integrated into its blockchain.

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Kora

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Kora is the banking app for college students

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umaproject

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UMA is a decentralized financial contracts platform.

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