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YC Banking and Exchange Companies
54 Y Combinator banking and exchange startups with verified founder contacts, batch info, and company data.
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43
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7
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YC Company Directory
50 companies
Company | Batch | Description | Status | Location | Team | Site | Founders | Reveal |
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Maywood | W26 | AI for M&A | Active | New York, NY, USA | 5 | Drake Goodman, Kent Goodman, Esteban Vizcaino | Reveal | |
PAX Markets | W25 | More 𝛼, less latency: exchange and HFT on one chip. | Active | Redwood City, CA, USA | 6 | Pete Stevenson, Benjamin Kilimnik | Reveal | |
Pluto | W25 | Regulated derivatives exchange | Active | New York, NY, USA | 5 | Ronit Jain, Aarav Patel | Reveal | |
Givefront | W24 | Nonprofit Financial Management | Active | — | 4 | Matt Tengtrakool | Reveal | |
Wallbit | W23 | Neobank for global remote workers | Active | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 17 | Rodrigo Vidal, Tomas Bruzza, Braian Fritz, Martin Gira | Reveal | |
Lenco | W22 | Pan-African digital bank for Africa's 50m businesses | Active | Lagos, Nigeria | 13 | Andrew Airelobhegbe, Impact Airelobhegbe, Godstime Asine, Praise Osagie | Reveal | |
VantedgeAI | W22 | Scaling investing workflows with AI | Active | Norwalk, CT, USA | 11 | Ravi Chachra, Vijay Lavhale | Reveal | |
Broad | W21 | The multicurrency account and card for Brazilians | Active | London, UK | 5 | Marcos Pileggi Filho | Reveal | |
Djamo | W21 | Challenger Bank for consumers in French speaking Africa. | Active | Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire | 250 | Hassan Bourgi, Regis Bamba | Reveal | |
Mendel | W21 | Workflows to empower employees to spend while finance stay in control | Active | Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico | 5 | Alan Karpovsky, Alejandro Zecler | Reveal | |
Mono | W21 | Plaid for Africa, but better. | Acquired | Lagos, Nigeria | 10 | Abdulhamid Hassan, Prakhar Singh | Reveal | |
NextPay | W21 | The digital bank for small businesses in the Philippines. | Active | Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines | 25 | Don Pansacola, Aldrich Tan | Reveal | |
Prospa | W21 | Banking for businesses | Active | Lagos, Nigeria | 70 | Frederik Obasi | Reveal | |
Belvo | W20 | Open Finance API platform for Latam. | Active | São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil | 100 | Oriol Tintore, Pablo Viguera | Reveal | |
CrowdForce | W20 | Crowdforce is an app that allows any local merchant in Africa,… | Acquired | Abuja, Nigeria | 41 | Oluwatomi Ayorinde, Damilola Ayorinde | Reveal | |
delt.ai | W20 | Digital banking for businesses in Latam. | Acquired | Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico | 26 | Alejandro Cedeño, Jose de la Luz Lopez S | Reveal | |
Fondeadora | W20 | We are connecting every single Mexican to the financial system. | Active | Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico | 160 | Norman Müller, Rene Serrano | Reveal | |
STARK BANK | W20 | Challenger bank for enterprises | Active | São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil | 70 | Rafael Stark | Reveal | |
Tienda Crypto | W20 | Crypto Exchange and Payment API Gateway | Active | Buenos Aires, Argentina | 37 | Federico Goldberg, Nicolas D'Onofrio, Ramiro Furtado, Martin Nagelberg | Reveal | |
Alpaca | W19 | API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform | Active | San Mateo, CA, USA | 150 | Yoshi Yokokawa, Hitoshi Harada | Reveal | |
Globe | W19 | coinbase for derivatives | Active | Seychelles | 20 | James West, Shaun Ng | Reveal | |
NALA | W19 | Building Payments for the Next Billion. | Active | New York, NY, USA | 168 | Benjamin Fernandes | Reveal | |
Parker | W19 | Parker is a digital bank. | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 10 | Milan Ray, Yacine Sibous | Reveal | |
Ben | W18 | The easiest way to learn about, buy, and store cryptocurrency. | Inactive | San Diego, CA, USA | 2 | Miguel Kudry, Alex Sismanis | Reveal | |
Treasury Prime | W18 | Embedded banking software platform and marketplace | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 100 | Chris Dean | Reveal | |
Brex | W17 | Business accounts, corporate cards, and spend management software. | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 1000 | Henrique Dubugras, Pedro Franceschi | Reveal | |
Sandbox Banking | W17 | Low-code integration platform for banking | Acquired | Boston, MA, USA | 33 | Ravi Balasubramanian, Skye Isard | Reveal | |
Emburse | W16 | Expense management and AP automation. | Acquired | San Francisco, CA, USA | — | Peter Lai, Roger Gu | Reveal | |
Axoni | W14 | Axoni is building the next generation of capital markets technology | Acquired | New York, NY, USA | 155 | Greg Schvey, Jeffrey Schvey | Reveal | |
Kontigo | S24 | USDC-Smart Neobank for Latinos. | Active | — | 10 | jesus alberto Castillo ferrer, Gino Guatavita | Reveal | |
Coupl | S22 | A neobank for couples in India | Active | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | 8 | Srinivas Sarkar, Kushagra Manglik | Reveal | |
Moneco | S22 | Neobank for African migrants in Europe | Active | Paris, France | 15 | Shams Radjabaly, Bilal Dahlab, Kuassi Jimmy Kumako | Reveal | |
Pana | S22 | A Global Bank on Chain | Active | Miami, FL, USA | 14 | Piero del Risco, Luis Peña | Reveal | |
Shelf | S22 | Neobank for Young Professionals in India | Active | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | 2 | Vedant Kumar, Paras Rajput | Reveal | |
LemFi | S21 | Fair, simple and accessible financial services | Active | London, UK | 500 | Ridwan Olalere, Rian Cochran | Reveal | |
Levro | S21 | Multicurrency account & international payments for businesses | Active | San Francisco, CA, USA | 12 | Cathy Han, Abeer Agrawal | Reveal | |
TAG | S21 | TAG is the First Digital Bank (Chime/Revolut/N26) for Pakistan | Active | Islamabad, Pakistan | 36 | Talal Ahmad Gondal, Ahsan Khan | Reveal | |
trii | S21 | One stop investment solution for retail investors in Latam | Active | Miami, FL, USA | 41 | Carlos Guayara, Luis Patt | Reveal | |
Truss | S21 | Banking for construction | Active | Victoria, BC, Canada | 12 | matthew smith, Nick Addison | Reveal | |
Conta Simples | S20 | All-in-one financial platform for latam Startups and SMBs. | Active | São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil | 130 | Rodrigo Tognini, Ricardo Gottschalk, Fernando Santos | Reveal | |
Increase | S20 | Enterprise-grade banking APIs | Active | — | 15 | Darragh Buckley | Reveal | |
Letter | S20 | Beautifully designed banking for high net-worth individuals. | Inactive | San Diego, CA, USA | 9 | Drew Wilson, Matt DeLoach | Reveal | |
Mozper | S20 | A debit card and app designed for kids and parents in Latin America | Active | Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico | 6 | Gabriel Roizner, Yael Israeli | Reveal | |
Novel | S20 | Novel is your international business bank account | Active | Minneapolis, MN, USA | 15 | Aldrin Clement, Paul Clement | Reveal | |
Spenmo | S20 | A spend management software that provides businesses visibility,… | Active | Singapore | 200 | Mohandass Kalaichelvan, Isaq Ahmed Mukthar | Reveal | |
Multis | S19 | Accounting & Treasury Management Software for Web3 Teams | Inactive | Paris, France | 14 | Thibaut Sahaghian, Theophile Villard | Reveal | |
Proof Trading | S19 | Institutional equities broker-dealer | Active | New York, NY, USA | 7 | Daniel Aisen, Allison Bishop | Reveal | |
Ajaib | S18 | Consumer fintech for Indonesia | Active | Jakarta, Indonesia | 300 | Anderson Sumarli, Yada Piyajomkwan | Reveal | |
Alpha Vantage | S18 | Developer-friendly and enterprise-grade APIs for financial market… | Active | Boston, MA, USA | 8 | Olivier Porte | Reveal | |
Helicarrier (prev Buycoins) | S18 | Cryptocurrency infrastructure for Africa. | Active | Lagos, Nigeria | 30 | Ire Aderinokun, Timi Ajiboye | Reveal |
About YC Banking and Exchange Companies
Y Combinator has funded 54 banking and exchange companies since its founding in 2005. These startups span from early-stage pre-launch to publicly traded companies, making YC one of the most prolific backers of banking and exchange innovation globally.
43 of these companies are currently active. 7 have been acquired. VCBacked tracks verified founder contact information, team sizes, and company status for every YC banking and exchange startup.
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