Companies
Bitstack is building a new neobank powered by crypto. Bitstack has gone from a simple product that turns your spare change into bitcoin to a bitcoin-native neobank that is bringing a better way to manage all things money, with better money. We believe getting started with Bitcoin should be simple, fun and accessible to everyone. Bitcoin is an unparalleled financial alternative: a radically new way to transact and store value all around the world. It is a new kind of currency that isn't centrally controlled by any business, government or bank and that cannot be debased. Bitcoin will redefine the future of finance, from payments to savings, and wealth preservation. It is the first open and borderless monetary network with a fixed supply of 21 million, making bitcoin the most scarce financial asset ever.
Raised a +100M Debt fund to finance thousands of students in the US. Raised 7.5M in Equity from top-tier VCs and multiple Unicorn Founders. Sold all assets in 2022 after regulatory changes in our space. Lots of learnings and many lives we changed for the better :)
Blaze (YC S24) is global Venmo for cross border payments. It's a peer to peer payments app that uses USDC to make payments fast and cheap between any two people anywhere in the world. The founders scaled their last startup to $1M in ARR, studied mathematics and engineering at Duke, NYU, and Cornell, and have led teams at Spotify, Artsy, and Bitpanda. They're live in the US and Mexico, available for download on iOS and Android: https://blaze.money
Bloom's mission is to improve the financial outcomes of all Americans by giving them the knowledge and tools they need to achieve prosperity. Our first product is an investing app that teaches users how to build wealth through interactive financial lessons, a gamified rewards economy as well as an investing account designed for building long-term wealth. Since launching in April 2022, over 1 million users have joined Bloom and we have crossed $3MM in annual recurring revenue.
BlueHill is like a marketplace for payment processors. Our product is an intelligent gateway routing platform that automatically reduces transaction fees on everyday credit card transactions by routing transactions to different gateways based on a variety of parameters. This allows merchants to get access to a wider variety of alternative payment methods while lowering their fees, improving transaction clearance rate all while still getting lower processing rates.
Bluedot makes EV charging payment easier and simplifies expense management for drivers and fleets. They're growing 40-45% weekly and made $110K GMV last week. Over 50% of vehicles sold will be electric by 2030. The payments management infrastructure for EV charging and the expenses doesn’t exist at the moment. The founders operated 100+ EV charging stations, worked in companies like Zipcar, Bosch, and Mercedes, and faced this problem through their own experiences. They built a team with a strong fintech background and publicly launched their Bluedot card on Dec 14th, 2022. Bluedot has raised their pre-seed from Y Combinator, Axel Springer, Porsche, Ford, TechNexus, DRF, and Pritchard Automotive.
Blume is a web app that streamlines insurance quoting, renewal, and revenue ops processes for health insurance brokers. We are working with our first cohort of health insurance brokers to help them save the, on average, 6 hours of manual data entry they do every week.
Boya Makes it easy for businesses in Africa to issue corporate expense cards instantly and great software to control and track spending. For example, if you run a pharmaceutical company, you can use Boya to instantly issue Visa cards to sales and marketing teams and get real-time visibility and control over their spending. 50M+ businesses in Africa have no easy way to streamline and track their employee spending in real-time. So we are building a corporate card and a spend management platform that enables businesses to streamline spend workflows and provide real-time reporting. We are building the first corporate card that supports mobile money, banks and card schemes payment workflows
Bree is building a challenger bank for the 11 million Canadians living paycheck to paycheck, starting with interest-free cash advances. We make money through tips and an optional, same-day express fee. By solving our customers' most urgent problem—illiquidity between paychecks —our cash advance business is a cheap, but profitable and repeatable hook that builds distribution for a broader challenger bank. This represents a $9 billion revenue opportunity in Canada.
Breezeful gets you the best mortgage online from start to close. Instead of dealing with multiple banks, credit checks and in-person meetings, we’ll use your income, credit score, and other financial data from your application to negotiate with hundreds of lenders on your behalf in seconds.
Brex is the AI-powered spend platform for modern companies, from startups to enterprises. Combining corporate cards, expense management, travel, business accounts, and bill pay, Brex makes it easy to control spend before it happens with unprecedented efficiency and accuracy. Our mission is to empower employees anywhere to make better financial decisions, so we designed our platform to make expenses almost effortless with unrivaled automation of manual expense work and real-time tracking. Brex supports more countries and currencies than any other spend solution. Brex has tens of thousands of customers, including some of the most successful, high-growth companies, such as DoorDash, SeatGeek, Coinbase, ScaleAI, MasterClass, Indeed, Allbirds, and Superhuman. Brex offers: - Corporate cards with 10-20x higher limits - Business accounts with easy wires, same-day liquidity, fast global payments, and $6M in FDIC insurance - Reward options that include billboards, offsites, and coaching - Founder-friendly financial modeling tools - Special events and masterclasses for founders - Advanced spend management software as startups grow that includes global capabilities, travel, bill pay and more.
Bridgecard makes it easy for fintechs to issue MasterCard or Visa cards that work anywhere in the world. We provide easy-to-integrate APIs to issue virtual and physical cards and we can get you started in weeks instead of months. For nearly three years, we’ve supported Africa’s top startups with stable, high-growth card solutions. Thanks to our stability, over 50% of our clients have grown their volumes by more than 5X within 6 months. Our commitment is to deliver great cards that work, provide reliable support, and unbeatable uptime so that your users can be satisfied.
BukuWarung is SEA's fastest growing startup and we are building digital infrastructure for 60 million MSMEs in Indonesia. BukuWarung's vision is to empower 60 million MSMEs in Indonesia to become financially aware and enable them to manage and grow their business using our technology platform, starting with bookkeeping, online storefront and payments. BukuWarung has raised $80M from top tier VCs globally: Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Goodwater Capital, Y-Combinator, Rocketship.vc, AC Ventures, Quona Capital, East Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures, SoftBank Partners, DST Global Partners, and strategic angel investors from Stripe, PayPal, Plaid, Grab, Gojek, Facebook, AirBnB, Fast, Mastercard.
CapWay is a financial technology company that creates financial access and opportunity for all via our ecosystem, including digital banking tools, savings tools, financial content, and inclusion consumer fintech products. The company fills financial gaps and provides solutions for the growing cashless economy and those who are looking to move away from the traditional financial system, including those who have been misunderstood, overlooked, and underserved. CapWay has a B2C and B2B2C customer acquisition strategy.
Capi helps businesses in emerging markets make international payments. Importers in emerging markets pay up to 10% to settle invoices and wait weeks for payments to arrive. We’re on a mission to give businesses in emerging markets the same price and speed as we expect in the US and Europe.