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Top FinTech Companies 2023

Top FinTech Companies

Tech companies are reshaping the finance industry in 2023 with digital payments, blockchain, and AI-driven services, democratizing access and fostering financial inclusion globally.

Keep reading to learn who’s hiring, who’s trending, expert insights from executives in the FinTech industry, and more.

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Insights from the Community

Read insights from executives in the Powderkeg community about the biggest shifts, trends and opportunities in FinTech.
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Scott Case
Founder, Zettawatts
What are some of the biggest shifts, trends or opportunities you're seeing in Fintech?
Three areas of opportunity: climate finance, underbanked SMBs and disaster recovery/resiliency. Trillions of dollars in global GDP are going to shift from incumbent solutions to new innovations in each category. The biggest opportunity in each is to focus on reducing or eliminating friction in the flow of financial transactions.
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Summer Crenshaw
CEO, Maepop
What are some of the biggest shifts, trends or opportunities you're seeing in Fintech?
This biggest shift will be in personalization. AI is now allowing companies to deliver much more individually tailored experiences. Fintech will be at the center of a much-needed revolution in personalization. This will also lead to the democratization of finance with new products launched geared toward the average person, and not just for the wealthiest 10% of the economy.
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Carey Ransom
Managing Partner, BankTech Ventures
What are some of the biggest shifts, trends or opportunities you're seeing in Fintech?
One of the biggest shifts in fintech is a focus on the actual business models and types of revenue in a startup. In a growth-at-all-costs era, the market didn't distinguish the types and quality of revenue, margins and customer values, and that has shifted. Building a good, predictable and profitable business is important, and attractive. Not all fintech business models are created equal - SaaS, arbitrage, NIM, interchange, transactions - and values will be assigned accordingly.
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First Movers in Fintech

As our world has become increasingly digitized and globalized, fintech companies have taken over the role filled traditionally by large institutional banks. Instead, fast-moving fintech banks, fintech lending companies and other fintech financial services are the name of the game for new generations and digital natives.

As previously mentioned, before fintech companies took the main stage in our financial system, you had large institutional – and in some cases, centuries-old – banks running the show. But with the introduction of the internet, that all began to change in the late 20th century.

One of the first movers in the space with which most are undoubtedly familiar was PayPal, a company still making headlines today with its latest innovations and updates to its core services. Then came Square and Stripe in the late 2000s and Robinhood in the 2013 – three companies that completely shifted the trajectory of finance

Jack Dorsey’s Square and later competitors made it easier and faster for small businesses to make and receive digital transactions in-person by sliding cards in their proprietary square card reader. Today, the company is worth more than $100 billion.

Founded in Ireland, Stripe allows small e-commerce companies to collect digital payments via secure APIs online. Many of today’s largest direct-to-consumer brands’ payments are powered by Stripe. Now, Stripe is worth around $100 billion, similar to Dorsey’s Square.

Finally, through its mobile platform and application, Robinhood has made investing accessible to populations traditionally left out of the conversation. Their mission to “democratize finance for all” has certainly made an impact with more than 22 million users trading stocks and cryptocurrencies on the platform as of Q2 2021.

These fintech giants have dominated the last decade but it’s a new sector that’s gotten most of the attention the last year.

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Fintech & Cryptocurrency

In 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto created a new currency called Bitcoin, which has resulted in an entirely new intersection and wave of innovation between finance and technology called cryptocurrency. And in the 2020s inspired by the advancements in computer science, many traditional banks and financial institutions have made the foray into cryptocurrency by allowing their customers to invest and save in the different models.

Founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong, Coinbase has emerged as the leading exchange for cryptocurrencies large and small. In June 2021 they announced they had accrued more than 20 million users in the previous six months, for a total of almost 70 million individuals on the platform buying, selling and trading tokens.

As you’ll read, cryptocurrency is a growing movement within finance and demands your attention.

Fintech Companies That are Hiring

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Alto Solutions
Nashville - Alto Solutions delivers an easy-to-use, automated process for investing in alternatives with IRA savings. It aims to democratize alternative asset investing. AltoIRA offers an easy-to-use investing platform that empowers everyday investors to diversify their IRAs by investing in alternative assets such as private equity, venture capital, real estate, loans, and cryptocurrency. Offering Traditional, Roth, SEP, and Crypto IRAs, Alto is bringing alternative investments to the mainstream. Everyday investors can now easily and cost-effectively access their retirement savings to invest in assets once reserved solely for high-net-worth individuals. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Nayax
Herzliya - Global fintech company providing merchant financial services to different retailers. Established in 2005, Nayax started as a cashless payment service and management solution provider for unattended retail. Over the years, thanks to our customer-first mindset and the ability to develop our offering in-house, the company evolved into an award-winning payment powerhouse. Today, Nayax boasts an international reach of 10 sales offices and over 45 distributors. We proudly serve customers across 65 countries, support more than 350,000 points of sale worldwide, accept 26 currencies, and partner with over 70 global financial institutions. Nayax is also a licensed payment institution in Europe. Our goal throughout the years has always remained the same - enabling merchants to grow their business at scale and with ease. To achieve this, our payment platform has consistently been ahead of the curve. From accepting any new form of payment, to continuously providing peace of mind with the strictest security certifications and a 24/7 monitoring. In addition to our payment-as-a-service platform, we continue to develop value-added services for our customers. From a consumer engagement solution to customized payment methods, an API suite, a mobile wallet app to a fully customizable management system. The result is an agile ecosystem that helps merchants improve their bottom line. As we continue to expand to new markets, our standard for innovative solutions, and exceptional customer service, remains high. We now offer the Nayax standard to industries such as unattended retail, retail, public transit, and electric vehicle chargers
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BillGO
Fort Collins - Consumers today struggle with a decentralized bill pay system that forces them to keep track of their bills and expenses. This has impacted both the consumer’s ability to achieve financial wellness and banks’ capacity to build engaging customer relationships. BillGO is a fintech trailblazer, offering an all-in-one bill management and payments platform that harnesses the power of speed, choice and intelligence to deliver modern bill payment solutions to financial institutions (FIs), fintechs, billers and consumers. Whether consumers access our technology directly or through their preferred financial services provider, BillGO’s platform enables them to pay their bills when and how they want, which can empower them to better meet their financial obligations, save money and improve their financial well-being.
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Total Expert
Saint Louis Park - Total Expert is a fintech software pioneer of the first modern, enterprise-level Marketing Operating System (MOS) that enables financial services organizations to create customers or members for life by re-humanizing complex financial decisions. The company's system aligns marketing, sales and compliance in a single system of record, allowing salespeople to grow their marketing and sales efforts while ensuring they stay compliant with complex regulations and marketing content and brand assets can be developed at the community level and every asset ever created, downloaded or deployed is tracked with on-demand audit-level reporting, enabling businesses and mortgage related businesses to have settings for endless custom reporting and analytics options based on the unique preferences of the organization and manage their financial lives in the digital, social era.
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Sezzle
Minneapolis - Sezzle is a financial services company that offers a technology-driven, payments. The company is driven by its mission is to financially empowering the next generation. Sezzle provides a payment platform that facilitates fast, secure, and easy payments between consumers and retailers. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minnesota, United States.
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Fi360
Pittsburgh - Fi360 is a fiduciary technology and training company helping financial intermediaries use prudent fiduciary practices to profitably gather, grow and protect investors’ assets. Since 1999, the firm has provided financial professionals with the tools necessary to act as a fiduciary in their work with investors. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, Fi360 is the home of the Accredited Investment Fiduciary® (AIF®) designation, the Fiduciary Focus Toolkit™ and the Fi360 Fiduciary Score®. Fi360 is also the parent company of CEFEX. Learn more at www.Fi360.com, via Twitter, or on LinkedIn.
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BitPay
Atlanta - BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers RESTful API, a bitcoin paymet gateway API; and native payment protocol support, signed payment request, direct payment communication, and BIP 73 support solutions. BitPay also provides Copay, a bitcoin wallet solution with Intel hardware security integration that allows users with hardware-level protection, including private key generation, transaction signing, and private keys. It has a strategic processing relationship with Aliant Payment Systems, Inc. Anthony Gallippi and Stephen Pair founded BitPay on May 1, 2011. It has its headquarters in Atlanta in Georgia.
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The Future of Finance & Technology

It’s difficult to say exactly where the finance and fintech environments are heading. In the last few decades our world has seen so much change in the seemingly traditional space that makes even the simplest predictions challenging.

However, you can bet your bottom dollar that the advancement toward equal access and opportunity for all will only accelerate with the help of technology and computer science. Thanks in part to innovations made by pioneers in the fintech space like PayPal, Square, Stripe, Robinhood and Coinbase in addition to cryptocurrency and its contributors.

Keep reading to learn which fintech companies are poised to steal the show and where you may have the best opportunity to make a great impact on the future of finance.

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Today’s Fintech Wave

You’ve learned about the biggest fintech companies like PayPal, Square, Stripe, Robinhood and Coinbase, and their contributions to the fintech environment. But, there are so many more top fintech companies making waves in the space. They’re making financial products accessible to third world countries, improving financial literacy and education for women, and disrupting traditional financial systems with bold, new ideas and algorithms.

Let’s take a glance at the top fintech companies in 2020 and 2021 and how they might grow beyond this point.

First, one of the most watched trends in the fintech world has been buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) companies like Klarna and Affirm. Instead of users having to pay all of an item’s cost upfront, BNPL services allow them to receive the product with a promise of paying back the cost over the next few months. BNPL companies often partner with larger outlets like Amazon, Walmart and Target for access to exclusive access to their shops and customers.

Founded in Sweden, Klarna has made its way around the world. They offer both B2B options where large retailers can partner with the BNPL company or B2C feature, where individuals can simply download the mobile app or browser extension and make four monthly payments for products instead of paying the cost upfront.

On a related note, Silicon Valley-based Affirm offers similar services to its retail partners and individuals.

Just as BNPL options have swept Silicon Valley, so too has cryptocurrency.

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Cryptocurrency’s Role in Fintech

Shifting gears to the fast-moving cryptocurrency space, exchanges are positioned to witness incredible growth in the 2020s. Just as Coinbase has grown considerably in the last twelve months, Kraken & Gemini are right on its tail.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Kraken was one of the first companies to offer trading to crypto enthusiasts. The Winklevoss twins Cameron and Tyler, made famous from their legal battle with Mark Zuckerberg over the inspiration behind Facebook, started their own cryptocurrency exchange in 2014 to compete with the likes of Coinbase and Kraken.

Today, Coinbase, Kraken and Gemini lead cryptocurrency companies in terms of users.

As we look toward the future in finance and technology, it seems as if cryptocurrency will almost certainly play a role.