All bets are on…
This past week, CB Insights released its FinTech 100: The most promising fintech startups of 2024. Following this column, you’ll find familiar names, solutions, and deals that ‘caught our eye’ and made their exclusive list.
“For companies interested in the future of fintech, these startups — working on everything from deploying novel AI solutions across the landscape to expanding access to financial services — should be on your radar for partnership and investment opportunities.” -CB Insights.
Get the names, funding, and investor data for Fintech 100 here.
Notable trends this week…
- Only a few single and double-digit deals
- Fintech and Blockchain startups took the $
- U.S.-based startups fared ‘OK’
Up next are this week’s top 5 VC deals…
1Reflexivity
$30M, Series B, Capital | Equity | NYC | Fintech | Greycroft, Interactive Brokers, Stanley Druckenmiller, Greg Coffey, General Catalyst, SoftBank LatAm | https://reflexivity.com/
LinkedIn Overview:
“Reflexivity (formerly known as Toggle AI) is your own financial analyst. Monitoring all market and fundamental data in real-time…“
2interface.ai
$30M, Capital| Equity | Covina | Fintech | Avataar Venture Partners | https://interface.ai/
LinkedIn Overview:
“interface.ai is a leading provider of agentic AI solutions, specializing in serving community banks and credit unions…”
3Bluesky
$15M, Series A, Capital | Equity| Seattle | Blockchain | Blockchain Capital, Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, SevenX, Amir Shevat, Joe Beda | https://bsky.social/about
LinkedIn Description:
“Welcome to the Social Internet. Bluesky is social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users…“
4Alvara Protocol
$10M, Capital| Equity | UK | Blockchain | Nimbus Capital | https://alvara.xyz/
LinkedIn Description:
“Alvara is building the infrastructure for the decentralization of tokenized basket management utilizing the new ERC-7621 basket token standard...“
5Validation Cloud
$10M, Capital | Equity | Switzerland| Blockchain | https://www.validationcloud.io/
LinkedIn Description:
“Validation Cloud is a Web3 infrastructure platform that delivers elite, high-performance node and staking infrastructure.”