Companies
Autonomous Investing
Building a superhuman AI investor
Autonomous Investing is building a superhuman AI investor—an LLM‑native system that reasons like a world‑class investment analyst, not a black‑box quant. It ingests vast unstructured signals, forms explainable theses, and acts with disciplined, auditable conviction. Our vision: institutional‑grade, always‑on research and decisioning for every portfolio.
AviaryAI is the industry's first outbound AI service team for banks, credit unions, and insurance companies. In a landscape where only 18% of financial service providers make proactive outbound calls and rely heavily on emails, AviaryAI offers a groundbreaking solution. Powered by a private LLM, our suite of products helps institutions leverage Generative AI while adhering to stringent regulatory and compliance standards.
Axle is Plaid for insurance - a universal API for insurance data. With Axle, companies can instantly verify insurance and monitor ongoing coverage, helping them reduce operational cost while creating a frictionless experience for users. Axle is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator and Gradient Ventures, Google's AI-focused venture fund, and angels from industry leaders like Plaid and Cox Automotive.
Axoni is a New York-based technology firm that builds multi-party workflows and infrastructure for some of the largest financial institutions in the world. Founded in 2013, the company offers core data infrastructure, application development, and automation tools.
Balance is the easiest way for B2B marketplaces, merchants, and service providers to process payments online. We raised our last funding round from Lightspeed, Stripe, and Max Levchin to build 'Stripe for B2B'. Balance offers the first business checkout, enabling business customers to pay How they want (check, card, bank) and When they want (net terms, payment plans, invoice payments). this is achieved while the seller receives the funds instantly and easily like card payment.
Payments for Marketplaces. We're obsessed with all forms of infrastructure, including communications, transportation, energy, waste management, and payments. Robust infrastructure creates a happier, more productive, and more prosperous society. You know exactly what I mean if you've traveled somewhere where you struggled to find a reliable Internet connect or even usable roads. You also know what I mean when you sit in traffic or struggle with public transportation (or lack thereof) in the US. Balanced was created to increase the global economy (increase GDP) by enabling new commerce. Our mechanism or facility to do that is payments. Everything else we do depends on how it fits into the vision for Balanced.
Ballerine is an Open-source KYC & risk management infrastructure. How can you use Ballerine? 1. Open-source building blocks (such as UI flows, back office, rule engine, etc.) to customize KYC and risk flows for any use case. 2. Global orchestration of KYC vendors that play nicely with any of our building blocks. 3. For enterprises - compliance coverage as a service. Try Ballerine now at - https://github.com/ballerine-io/ballerine Hit us up with any questions at founders@ballerine.com
Bamboo is the first online brokerage service that gives wealthy Africans and their wealth managers direct access to the US and global securities. We’re building Fidelity for the African continent. For wealthy Africans and their asset managers, investing in the global capital markets is cumbersome, expensive and practically inaccessible. In Nigeria, Africa's largest economy and home to 30% of all the wealth in Sub Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa), 99.99% of the investing population do not have access to invest globally. Even for the 0.01%, if you wanted to buy a US stock, you’d have to call your asset manager who would then call an international broker to execute a trade. This is inefficient & expensive! We have a mobile app that allows individuals trade the US stock markets by themselves and a brokerage tool for asset managers to execute trades directly & manage multilple portfolios seamlessly.
💸Hey YC, we’re baraka (S21), an investment app built for people in the Middle East. 📱 Our product This is how we do it: • 6,000+ stocks and ETFs – the freedom to choose the companies and industries that you want to back • The power of financial literacy – educational content, digestible market news and in-depth stock analysis • Fractional Shares – the ability to start investing with smaller sums of money • Fair pricing – Transparent, low commission pricing model • Easy to use – intuitive user journey and interface 🕒 What's Next? The app is available in countries across MENA. Check out our website: getbaraka.com. Please reach out to give us feedback, discuss product, go-to-market strategy or anything else on founders@getbaraka.com. Feras & Kunal
Bayesline is building a GPU-powered financial analytics suite for institutional investors, like hedge funds. Clients use our cloud deployed solution to build custom analytics in seconds, having previously been frustrated with off the shelf solutions that don't generate any alpha. What used to take weeks or months now happens near instantly. Sebastian, CFA (ex Bloomberg Quant & AI Research) and Misha, PhD (ex BlackRock Managing Director) met while working at BlackRock in 2016. With a combined 20 years of experience in the space they set out to change the way the industry uses analytics - from one size doesn't fit all to truly tailored to clients' needs.
We are Belvo, a financial API platform for Latam that enables any company or developer to access and interpret their end-users' financial information, through one easy-to-use API. Think Plaid for Latam. Our vision is to power the next generation of financial services in Latam by enabling more inclusive, efficient and empowering offerings through tech and data. Latam is a very exciting and dynamic place to be right now and a great place to build infrastructure for the next generation of financial products for a huge market.
Ben aims to be a unified platform for learning about, buying, selling, and storing cryptocurrency. With the hundreds of wallets and exchanges floating around in the blockchain ether, it’s easy for novices to get lost in the fray. Ben’s mobile app distinguishes itself from other wallet exchanges by integrating crypto education, using the platform to also deliver news about currencies and offer Q&As related to crypto investing.
BharatX was recently acquired by Flipkart, the largest startup in India, to enable Buy Now Pay Later in their own ecosystem as well as bolster their own FinTech play via Super.money. It powers Checkout Financing in their ecosystem currently on Millions of Users. BharatX enabled "Pay in 3" and "Pay in X" parts as a feature on over 1000+ brands, 300+ directly and the rest via Payment Gateway partners. Our product enabled Buy Now Pay Later, in a white-labelled way. For e.g. Flipkart PayLater on Flipkart. We grew 47X to $2.5M ARR in under 6 quarters straight after fumbling for 2 years around PMF and Credit Risk & Fraud. We started out as a platform to provide access to Credit in Developing countries without relying on traditional documentation processes by Banks, which did not give access to hundreds of millions.Over the course of BharatX, we have credit to hundreds of thousands of consumers, including many New to Credit (NTC) users.
We write smart contracts that can automatically transfer assets during end-of-life events. When you hold your own keys to your own wallet, your funds are lost in worst-case-scenarios. We make an on-chain dead-mans-switch to help your loved ones claim your holdings.
San Francisco-based BillForward a YCombinator company is comprised of talented and passionate folks who are excited by the challenges and opportunities of subscription billing. We offer a flexible and innovative billing platform, which gives any type of recurring-payment based businesses the ability to bill customers for sophisticated products and carry out in-depth revenue analysis. Launched in Jan 2013 the platform has already gained great traction in the Telecoms, SaaS, Product as Service and Platform as a Service industries, where product managers and CFO’s have realized that the ability to change their offering in hours, rather than weeks, can give them an edge on the competition.
Bimaplan is an affordable insurance platform for the next billion Indians. Our vision is to provide financial security to 150 million vulnerable households through contextual life and health insurance products. The growth in mobile penetration and the evolution of digital infrastructure in India has now made it possible to reach this vulnerable population. This is an $8 billion addressable market. We launched in February 2021, and went live with one insurance underwriting partner. We are on track to sell 1,000 policies in March 2021. We are backed by some of the best early stage technology investors, successful fintech founders, and insurance industry veterans. The company is founded by Vikul Goyal, a second-time founder with a successful exit track record. His previous venture, Carcrew, was acquired by TVS Group, a large automotive conglomerate in India.
