Financial Technology and Services Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in New York 2024

SmartAsset is an online destination for consumer-focused financial information and advice. Reaching approximately 59 million people each month (as of January 2024) through its educational content and personalized calculators and tools, SmartAsset's mission is to help people make smart financial decisions. Additionally, SmartAsset powers SmartAsset AMP, a national marketplace connecting consumers to financial advisors. Building on SmartAsset’s relationship with millions of investors, SmartAsset AMP connects financial advisors directly with prospects who meet their target client profile. Our algorithm matches consumers with up to three fiduciary financial advisors. In 2023, SmartAsset helped advisors close an estimated $34 billion.

Gerald is on a mission to eliminate stress about paying bills. We are transforming bill payments by providing consumers with an application for linking and automatically paying their household bills while offering overdraft and late fee protection for all their biller accounts. Our app tracks and pays bills so our users don’t have to. We offer banking services; direct deposits, credit building, cash advance and rewards to simplify bill payments for both billers accounts and consumers.

Alinea is an app for new investors where we do the hard work for you. With Alinea you have a team of investment experts in your pocket.

Story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPsHg3Ap_qw We have two products: 1. Consumer Cross Border payments to Emerging Market: nala.com 2. Payment Rails for Africa: rafiki.com

Send, spend, save, and earn money via stablecoins.

The insurance industry struggles to insure new risks like climate change. The amount of climate risk that goes uninsured every year is $180 billion and growing. Plover's software platform enables insurers to design new insurance products quicker and manage policies cheaper, unlocking new risk markets and geographies. Plover's team previously worked together at Palantir, handling data infrastructure for the US Department of Defense.

Issue employee cards, match properties to charges instantly, sync to your PMS and accounting platform, and close your books faster.

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.

At Railbird, we are building a prediction market exchange designed to hedge and mitigate risk for the services sector. The Railbird team has years of experience analyzing companies in the service sector and has seen firsthand how little opportunity there is to hedge risk in volatile markets like hospitality, tourism, recreation, entertainment, and sports. The platform is designed to be open to all traders.

Users save money, get over 2x the national average in interest and weekly chances to win additional prizes up to $10 million through weekly random number drawings.

An end-to-end platform that allows financial advisors to put their clients into curated alternative assets without additional operational lift.

Blee easily integrates across the content creation workflow, combining instant feedback and faster approvals with scalable review and recordkeeping. Helping companies maximize revenue by moving faster to market while minimizing risk

Upsolve is a tech-driven nonprofit that helps low-income Americans overcome debt and rebuild credit at scale. Upsolve was founded in Harvard Law School’s Access to Justice Lab in 2016. Since then, Upsolve has become the nation’s most visited nonprofit financial education site. Upsolve.org educates approximately 2.9 million people a year with 2,000 articles on an array of debt and credit topics. To date, Upsolve’s free DIY bankruptcy filing tool has been used by over 14,000 families to relieve over $600,000,000 in debt. Upsolve users are disproportionately Black and Brown with an average household income of $25,000. Upsolve is now launching a suite of AI tools to help low-income Americans resolve their financial distress earlier.

Fynn helps people afford trade school in the US. We bring fair and affordable private loans to the trade space, to help students pursue in-demand careers like electricians, nurses, welders, or pharmacists.

Stock Unlock is an investment education and analysis platform, built by retail investors, for retail investors. We make it easy for noobies to start their investment journey, and save time for the pros. We are building THE place for investors to learn, grow, and invest confidently.

Haven is re-imagining the $11 trillion U.S. mortgage industry, with a focus on engaging the 53 million homeowners with a mortgage. The incumbent technologies used by mortgage lenders and servicers are decades old, and the borrowers who are served by them increasingly demand modern digital experiences and frictionless financial products throughout the home journey. Haven’s mission is to deliver them at a transformational scale, and to improve lives in one of the world’s largest asset classes. The company is well capitalized and backed by top fintech and mortgage venture funds and led by seasoned veterans of tech startups and financial marketplaces.

Stairs helps young Americans buy their first home. Our home search identifies homes based on their finances, and connects them to government grants, loans and tax breaks.

Gauss allows people with good credit scores to significantly lower interest rates on their credit cards while they keep using them. Users connect their credit cards to the mobile app and get a revolving credit line in under 10 minutes. Gauss tracks and automatically pays off any expensive balance on connected cards, saving users thousands of dollars on interest charges and helping them pay off card balances faster and improve credit scores.

Magna is building a platform to turn DeFi investments into financial primitives. Our first product is Carta for Web3, where companies can manage their cap tables and distribute their token equity to employees, advisors, or investors. We’re also building investor infrastructure for institutions to custody investments with on-chain execution and intelligence. Our ultimate goal is to use locked tokens as composable building blocks to power collateralized lending, liquid secondary markets, and other DeFi applications. Launching a token? Let's chat. Are you receiving tokens from your investments? We can also be helpful. What are our companies saying about the problem? > Having it all bundled together would make life easier. We have a million things to do. If you have an off-the-shelf thing, we’d use it. > This wouldn’t be a nice to have, it’d be a have to have. > Terrible process. We’re manually sending out transactions, going to solscan and manually check that they received our token. Takes hours every week. > Everything we do is potentially very dangerous. We have to check it thoroughly. I’ve spent several hours a day on this since launch. I imagine every month, it’ll take us at least 1-2 days. > Manual process every month for the ops team. They likely burn a week.... every month to pay out 150+ addresses.

We offer a free US FDIC Insured Checking account, Free Credit Card (no interest rate, collateral, fees), Free AT&T SIM Card shipped to home with 40%+ cheaper plans than retail, and save thousands of dollars in remittances to our customers - all by opening a free Swadesh Account. We enable new to America expats become "American" in the eyes of the US Financial system. We're starting by serving the 150,000+ Indian expats migrating to the US each year. We have a comprehensive solution that covers banking, credit building, communication, remittance, as well as value-add services such as insurance, housing etc. along with all the standard bells and whistles of neobanks.

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.

OneChronos is a U.S. equities ATS designed bottom-up to fundamentally address the growing gap between how trading venues match orders and how traders need to execute.

Kalshi (www.kalshi.com) is the first federally regulated exchange where you can trade on the outcome of events. We built Kalshi because we believe that people should be able to capitalize on what they know and have opinions on. We make this possible by expanding what people can trade on and allowing them trade in the domain of everyday knowledge. Kalshi is developing a new asset class, “event contracts,” and a financial exchange for trading on the outcome of events: we are federally regulated by the CFTC as the first-ever legal futures exchange in the U.S. for trading on a broad category of events.

Plate IQ makes accounts payable simple. Automated accounts payable software replaces manual data entry by digitizing your invoices down to the line item, automatically assigning them your proper GL codes, syncing the information to your accounting software, and providing analytics around purchasing. Plate IQ also offers one-click bill pay, inventory, and cloud-based data storage that allows businesses to go paperless.

PolicyFly empowers insurers to sell and manage specialty insurance in minutes instead of in weeks. Every year, $200B of specialty insurance like Cyber, Flood or Trucking is processed over email between agents and insurers – PolicyFly connects both parties to automate these workflows and to consolidate all data. We bring growth, efficiency and transparency to otherwise hard to insure markets.

Chariot is building financial products for nonprofits, starting with the first ever online payment system connecting Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) with nonprofits. DAF’s have $230 billion in assets and grant out over $52 billion per year to nonprofits. It’s the fastest growing segment of philanthropy, by far. Chariot now powers seamless DAF giving for tens of thousands of nonprofits, including some of the most well-known nonprofits in the country, like Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Central Park Conservancy, Boys & Girls Club of America, Pan-Mass Challenge, and March of Dimes. DAFpay is also now a primary payment option on leading fundraising platforms like GoFundMe, Givebutter, DonorDrive, Springboard by Jackson River, Engaging Networks, and dozens more. We are already driving tens of millions in new online DAF Giving by thousands of donors, and we’re only getting started.

Treasury management platform built for commercial real estate. Seamlessly consolidate portfolio finances and manage financial operations from a single dashboard.

We're aiming to build the default wealth advisor for our generation, one akin to the brands that McKinsey and CAA have established in their domains. And with over 1 billion in assets under management and notable investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Kevin Durant, Odell Beckham Jr., and Will Smith, we’re building a team to win. We want you to come here and do the best work of your life with us.

Dripos is the only piece of software a coffee shop needs to run their business. We offer point of sale, employee scheduling, mobile ordering, and more to the 100,000 cafes in the United States.

Upflow is building high-quality software to help mid-market B2B companies improve their cash collection and grow profitably. B2B payment remains super painful for both suppliers and customers in 2023. Through a one-click integration with major financial software (Netsuite, Sage Intacct, Quickbooks) it provides finance and business teams with: 1. A better understanding of their cash collection performance through powerful analytics 2. An intuitive platform for all teams (finance, sales, success) to collaborate around cash collection, turning archaic spreadsheet processes into systematic, personalized cash collection processes. 3. A platform to bring modern payment methods to customers and recreate a consumer-like checkout experience with one click payment. Overall, Upflow drastically improve cash collection rates and turn revenues into cash in the bank faster, simpler. The best B2B tech companies, such as Front, Lattice, ProductBoard, rely on Upflow to manage their cash collection. If you're a CFO, Controller, or Finance Ops, check out our free Discover product to run an audit of your cash collection in 5 min: https://insights.upflow.io/en/discover-upflow

Coverage Cat (https://www.coveragecat.com) is the best way for people to optimally insure against their risks for homeowners, auto, renters, and general liability insurance. Millions of wealthy but insurance-unfamiliar Americans have purchased policies that leave them vulnerable to million-dollar lawsuits and bankruptcy. Coverage Cat fixes their coverage and offers them cheaper premiums with a focus on the central question of insurance: "how much can you afford to lose?" This risk-first approach allows for policies with higher deductibles that no other insurer will sell you, and enables us to find the multi-million dollar coverage, for truly catastrophic events, that our users need.

Sunlight is an API to change the card-on-file with apps and subscription services. Fintechs use Sunlight to automatically make their cards top-of-wallet as soon as they're issued. Merchants, service providers and subscriptions-based businesses everywhere now offer their customers the ability to save a debit/credit card on file, so they can pay their bills on time, buy in one click, or earn rewards. In 2021, 79% of consumers worldwide reported already having at least one payment card saved with a service or being open to doing so. In recent years, card-issuing as-a-service has become mainstream: any company can now start their own card business in a matter of weeks. Last year, the number of new payment cards issued was at an all-time high. For users, however, switching banks or opening a new card now comes with an additional hurdle: they need to update their payment info across the internet. On the other side of that equation, card issuers have no visibility or control over the card-on-file updating process, and as a result struggle to get their new users to switch their spend from their old card to the new one, leading to low conversion rates and missed revenue opportunities. Until Sunlight. With our universal get-your-card-on-file API, FIs can now offer their users, at any point in their journey, a quick and easy way to update their debit/credit card info everywhere they shop or pay online, without ever leaving their Apps. The Sunlight API works on every platform that has a card-on-file option (think Uber, Amazon, Netflix, DoorDash, Starbucks and so many more…), is as seamless as a Plaid connection, and always gets the card number and CVV code right on the first try!

Repool makes it easy to launch and operate private funds, like Carta or Juniper for hedge funds. We build modern back office software and services to modernize and simplify launch, fund administration, and LP onboarding.

8vdx is building fine tuned AI/ML models to massively scale up the capabilities for hedge funds and private credit funds to analyze, underwrite and manage debt securities. 8vdx also manages a venture marketplace, eightcapital.com, which raises funds from accredited investors to invest in venture debt and equity of Y Combinator startups.

EthosX is a decentralized finance platform creating end-to-end financial derivatives on blockchains. No centralized exchanges, clearinghouses, depositories, clearing banks, CSD participants etc. required. We are starting with cryptocurrency options first, with the intention to move towards other crypto derivatives and traditional finance derivatives eventually. For example, one can buy a bitcoin hedging token directly from EthosX without involving any exchange or counterparty and earn profits when the bitcoin price is falling (similar to a put option). It is perpetual and is completely on-chain, end-to-end. It is held as a token in wallets and can be sold/transferred to anyone at any time. At institutional level, using EthosX’s options infrastructure two hedge funds can trade high-value on-chain options with each other directly without involving any banks or brokers with zero counterparty risk and zero settlement risk. We are also providing derivatives infrastructure to other crypto companies who want to use these products as a part of a larger package to their customers. Global derivatives ecosystem is broken. Derivatives trading in traditional finance has way too many gatekeepers and intermediaries. Crypto was supposed to be free of these issues and a solution to all of this, but it is itself getting more and more centralized with disastrous consequences. We at EthosX intend to pick the best of both worlds and change the way retail and institutional financial derivatives are traded world over.

Arthena is a financial product that gives you access to the alternative asset class with the highest barrier to entry and strongest historical returns. We invest in the most liquid segment of the art market, with the lowest volatility, yielding tremendous growth uncorrelated to traditional investments. Arthena’s automated and data driven investment strategy regulates art investment by building traditional fund structures. HNWI’s can now securely and confidently diversify their portfolios into alternative assets focusing on the luxury market. Arthena has designed and built a statistically rigorous model that estimates the value of artwork over time. Since the data we obtain derives from auction records and repeat sales, our model relies on a set of features about each result. These features include include the artist’s name, medium, date of creation, origin of location and size of work. After identifying groups of work that are similar to each other, we calculate the expected ROI and estimated volatility based on the distribution of gains. Using historical auction results to simulate the performance of our funds, we leverage Monte Carlo analysis to determine annualized returns and sharpe ratios. Based on this analysis, Arthena can validate the financial viability of our product and establish statistically rigorous bounds for these estimates.

Catch makes it easy for anyone who doesn't get benefits from an employer to set up and manage their own benefits package. We automatically withhold from each paycheck for tax withholding, time off, savings and retirement. We also help you find and enroll in the right health insurance plan and keep your premium payments on track. By connecting to your existing bank account, we monitor when you get paid, and act on a plan that can help keep you covered no matter what life throws at you.

Aer Compliance is Rippling for compliance, combining Code of Ethics, marketing, calendars, filings, workflows, and more in a single place.

Payments-as-a-service (“PaaS”) platform that enables any business to launch and offer innovative payment solutions across LatAm. Our mission is to make payments possible for everyone. We strive to improve people’s financial health by helping our clients empower their users, giving them a better way to manage their payments. The world’s largest and most innovative companies choose Arcus to accept and process payments across the Americas including BBVA, Santander, Walmart, 7-Eleven, and Rappi. Arcus was launched in 2013 through Y-Combinator and is backed by Ignia, Citi Ventures, Softbank, Initialized Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Kapor Capital, among others.

Sable is a digital banking platform and the only full-suite banking solution for internationals in the U.S., providing U.S. bank accounts, debit and credit cards. Newcomers to the U.S. can open a Sable account within five minutes, and start building their U.S. credit history from day 1, all without the need of an SSN or prior U.S. credit history. The Sable app is available on iOS and Android.