69 Best Financial Market Startups to Watch in 2025

CEX.IO is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that supports a range of cryptocurrencies and has different deposit and withdrawal methods that its traders can utilize for buying or selling digital assets through the usage of FIAT currency.

Qredo is a cross-chain protocol for asset managers and traders active in the digital asset markets.

Forbes is an American media company focused on business, technology, and finance.

Tendermint is now Ignite. Tendermint was the core contributor to the Cosmos blockchain network.

A bank offering online banking services with no user no bank fees, and an option to receive direct deposit up to two days early. Chris Britt and Ryan King founded Chime in 2013, and the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

The first and most experienced company in bitcoin payments, BitPay builds powerful tools for spending, accepting, and building with bitcoin. The company has offices in North America, Europe, and South America and has raised over $70 million from top investors including Index Ventures, Aquiline Technology Growth, Menlo Ventures, Founders Fund, and S

Fractal is a gaming marketplace developed to facilitate non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Numerai is a hedge fund with stock market trades determined by crowdsourced artificial intelligence models. The best models receive rewards in the form of a cryptographic token called Numeraire (NMR) on the Ethereum blockchain.

ComplyAdvantage is a company developing machine learning and big data based financial crime fighting software.

Bit2Me is a cryptocurrency trading platform founded in 2014 by Leif Ferreira.

Celo is an open platform that offers financial tools to mobile phone users.

Zapper is an interface for managing DeFi assets and liabilities.

Bitcoin Suisse AG is a Swiss-regulated financial intermediary specializing in crypto-financial services, based in Zug, Switzerland.

Phantom is a cryptocurrency wallet by Solana to manage digital assets and access decentralized applications.

Forge, formerly Equidate, is a company that offers a marketplace for private stock liquidation.

Safello is a company founded in 2013 by Frank Schuil.

Pitney Bowes is a Stamford, Connecticut-based company founded in 1920 by Walter Bowes.

Colexion is one of Asia’s largest licensed NFT marketplace, allowing digital artists to enter the NFT space and channelise their passion for art and creativity.

Pachama is a company estimating carbon storage in forests and predicting future deforestation or potential for forest restoration with the use of satellite images.

CoinDCX is a blockchain company founded in 2017 by Sumit Gupta. CoinDCX is India’s largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange.

Parallel Finance is a decentralized lending and staking protocol on Polkadot and Ethereum.

Faire is a curated boutique wholesale marketplace connecting local retailers with thousands of emerging and established brands.

Klarna is a financial technology company providing e-commerce payment solutions for merchants and shoppers.

Flint is a global crypto investment app offering a range of passive investment assets to its users built on top of crypto.

Coinhouse is the developer of an investment platform for cryptocurrency assets.

Brex is a credit card company that issues corporate credit cards with no security deposit.

Dapper Labs is a software developer that creates blockchain-based video games and platforms.

A web and API platform that provides Bitcoin and Altcoin conversion.

Kasisto is a company that develops conversational AI for financial institutions.

Data.ai, formerly known as App Annie, is a unified data and artificial intelligence (AI) company that combines consumer and market data to provide AI-powered insights into mobile app market data.

Upstox is an India-based investment platform founded by Shrini Viswanath, Ravi Kumar, Kavitha Subramanian, and Raghu Kumar.

C3 AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence software company providing a family of integrated products for accelerating digital transformation.

Vidyard is a company providing a video marketing platform for businesses. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator.

Zeta Markets is the premier derivatives protocol on Solana.

Artificial intelligence company who uses models and IBM's Watson in the management of their AI Powered Equity Fund ETF (AIEQ) and AI Powered International Equity ETF (AIIQ)

MetaMap aims to digitize trust

Circle is a peer-to-peer payments technology company that is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville.

Tazah Technologies is a Pakistan-based operator of a B2B marketplace platform designed to connect farmers to businesses.

DataRobot sells a machine learning platform that helps users build and deploy accurate predictive models. The Boston-based company was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin.

Hardware wallet for crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero and more.

AppZen is a San Jose, California-based company that provides an AI-based auditing platform for finance teams.

MyCointainer is a staking, masternode, lpos, pos, proof of stake coins solution.

Cake is an all-in-one decentralized finance (DeFi) platform.

Personetics' self-driving finance platform for banks to anticipate a customer's personalized banking needs through artificial intelligence.

Wise, previously TransferWise, is a company that offers money transfers services founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus.

Socure is a New York City-based developer of an identity verification and fraud risk solution.

Tracxn is a research firm that provides information, mostly startup data, for venture capitalists and corporate development offices.

wefox is a digital insurance provider and platform that was founded in 2015.

A company offering a business intelligence and risk management platform.

SynFutures is a decentralized Derivatives Protocol.

SirionLabs provides a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform for enterprises.

Roofstock is a real estate investment marketplace founded in May 2015 by Gary Beasley, Gregor Watson, Devin Wade, and Rich Ford.

Footprint is an all-in-one analysis platform to visualize your discoveries in blockchain data

Pods is a decentralized non-custodial options protocol. Users can create options and trade them through an Options AMM on the Ethereum Blockchain.

Primitive - Crypto derivative products built on the Replicating Market Maker protocol, an oracle-free solution to scalable and efficient on-chain derivatives.

Deel is a technology company offering a human resources management system solution for businesses working with global remote contractors.

Alloy is a San Francisco-based software company developing a platform for inventory and shipment visibility, including sell-in and sell-through analytics.

TradingView is a platform which provides instruments for publication and the viewing of trading ideas.

Vertalo is a digital transfer agent that connects and enables a digital asset ecosystem, offering primary capital formation, on-chain share registry, and access to secondary liquidity.

Prosper is an online peer-to-peer lending marketplace connecting people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions who want to lend money.

Patreon is a San Francisco-based crowdfunding platform for artists and creators founded by Jack Conte and Sam Yam in 2013.

Bitso is a cryptocurrency exchange for buying and selling Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, TrueUSD, Decentraland, Golem, and Basic Attention Token.

Strapi is a company offering an open-source headless content management system (CMS).

N26 is a is a mobile banking company headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Unqork is a software company that offers a no-code, software as a service (SaaS) development platform for creating and managing enterprise applications for companies providing insurance and financial services.

FluidAI is a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to provide a host of solutions for the digital assets industry. The company is based in the United Arab Emirates.

Polarity is a computer software company. It has developed a system that analyzes the contents of users'​ computer screens and gives them real-time access to information without affecting their existing workflow.

Revolut is a London-based Fintech startup and bank offering mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange services.

Adarga is a UK-based artificial intelligence software provider working with customers across defense, national security, and commercial organizations.