Best Banking Tech Companies in Chicago, United States
The 49 best Banking Tech companies in Chicago, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Amount.
Our analysis of 50 Banking Tech companies
$7.7b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Banking Tech companies in Chicago
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amount 🦄 Omnichannel Banking solutions for banks and lenders | $252M | 24 mo ago | 626 | Adam Hughes CEO | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+26 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 2 | Interfirst Mortgage Provider of residential mortgage services across multiple channels | $175M | 57 mo ago | 380 | — | HubSpot CMS HubHubSpotcore-js+20 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 3 | CMG Platform offering asset management solutions 45Funding top 24%Tech bottom 49%Growth bottom 48%Market bottom 47% All 6 signals ▾Fundingtop 24% Techbottom 49% Growthbottom 48% Marketbottom 47% Globalbottom 39% Newsbottom 27% Funding: Raised $32.5M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 7 yrs (0.4/yr) Tech: 31 technologies across 3/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100 | $32M | 2 mo ago | 110 | — | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+28 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 4 | Ascent Cloud-based platform to track and automate financial regulatory compliance | $27M | 81 mo ago | 47 | Brian Clark Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | Top 5M | 71 patents HVAC fan and housing systems plus ultrasonic transducer manufacturing technologies | 1 job opening · 1 award |
| 5 | Neurensic Regulatory compliance using Artificial Intelligence | $9M | 113 mo ago | 186 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | TransUnion Provider of consumer credit reports, credit monitoring, scores, and identity tools | $8M | 141 mo ago | 834 | Rajesh Kumar Co-CEO & Managing Director | Adobe Experience ManagerApple iCloud MailJava+33 | Top 100k | 10 patents Consumer identity verification and database record matching using similarity-based authentication algorithms. | — |
| 7 | Loan Ecosystem Loan syndication platform for businesses | $7M | 65 mo ago | 6 | David Tannenbaum Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Braviant Holdings Credit assessment solutions for individuals and businesses | $7M | 97 mo ago | 52 | Justin Martorello Co-Founder | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+12 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 9 | Qumis AI-powered insurance policy review platform | $7M | 8 mo ago | — | Dan Schuleman Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Bridge Developer of a digital banking platform for consumers | $6M | 46 mo ago | 32 | Lalit Janak Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowGSAPTikTok Pixel+19 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 11 | Rippleshot Provider of AI-driven banking fraud analytics and detection platform solutions | $5M | 96 mo ago | 10 10 → 13 (+30%) | Yueyu Fu Co-Founder | Webflowcore-jsSwiper+16 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 12 | Cambio Digital bank for individuals | $4M | 29 mo ago | 4 | Justin Dwyer Co-Founder/Chief Operating Officer | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | Strands CRM management platform for banks | $3M | 12 mo ago | — | Timothy Gorham CEO | — | — | 86 patents AI-driven personalization and decision analytics for financial services and banking platforms | — |
| 14 | Rent Butter Provider of tenant screening and verification platform for property managers | $3M | 11 mo ago | 7 | Tom Raleigh Co-Founder | WebflowVimeoStripe+19 | Top 10M | — | 1 launch |
| 15 | 4Degrees Provider of relationship intelligence and deal flow software for private markets | $2M | 61 mo ago | 15 | Ablorde Ashigbi Founder & CEO | WebflowKnockout.jscore-js+17 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 16 | Prescient Vendor and safety risk management solution | $323K | 155 mo ago | 96 96 → 78 (-19%) | — | — | — | — | 1 job opening |
| 17 | AkoubaCredit Online loan origination platform for small business loans. | $120K | 133 mo ago | 11 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Lotic Labs Financial risk assessment solutions provider | $100K | 84 mo ago | 4 | Matthew Marshall Co-Founder | — | — | 4 patents Wearable health data capture devices and ML-driven personal wellness analytics platform. | — |
Top 12 Banking Tech companies in Chicago
#1
Series C · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2015 · 110 employees$32.5Mraised▾
Platform offering asset management solutions. It offers a platform that connects buy-side and sell side in the capital market. It connects investors and underwriters via a platform that delivers integrated ECM data and analytics, workflow collaboration, and more. It provides a digital system of record for firm wide deal activity and helps clients make informed decisions.
- May 2026Series C—
- Mar 2025Series C$30M
- Jan 2022Series B—
- Jun 2020Series B$25M
#2
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2022$6.8Mraised▾
AI-powered insurance policy review platform. It is an AI-powered knowledge platform built by insurance coverage experts to revolutionize insurance policy review and analysis.
- Nov 2025Seed$4.3M
- Dec 2024Seed$2.5M
#3
Amount 🦄Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2014 · 626 employees$252.2Mraised▾
Omnichannel Banking solutions for banks and lenders. It provides Amount360, a cloud-fraud and verification platform for end-to-end mobile-first omnichannel white label solutions for personal loans, credit cards, point-of-sale products, and more. Also, it offers solutions for fraud detection, verification, decision engines, customer acquisition, funnel and performance assessments, and risk analytics.
- Jul 2024Series D$30M
- Apr 2022Series D$35.7M
- May 2021Series D$100M
- Dec 2020Series C$86M
#4
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2018 · 7 employees$3Mraised▾
Provider of tenant screening and verification platform for property managers. It offers tools for identity verification, financial assessment, and background checks. The platform delivers insights to help users make informed leasing decisions. It also provides fraud protection and compliance regulation checks.
- Aug 2025Series A$1.9M
- Dec 2024Series A$1000K
- Aug 2023Series A$3M
- Mar 2021Seed—
#5
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2022$3.1Mraised▾
CRM management platform for banks. It offers a platform that enables financial institutions to increase customer engagement and generate new revenue through digital channels. It enables users to digitize money management solutions.
- Jul 2025Seed$110K
- Jun 2024Seed$3M
#6
Series D · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2001 · 380 employees$175Mraised▾
Provider of residential mortgage services across multiple channels. It offers mortgage origination services to retail customers, wholesale brokers, and correspondent lenders. The company facilitates various mortgage products, including purchases and refinances, aiming for a streamlined and efficient process. It emphasizes borrower-friendly terms and below-market rates.
- Oct 2021Series D$175M
#7
Deadpooled · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2019 · 4 employees$3.5Mraised▾
Digital bank for individuals. Its services include savings accounts, prepaid cards, bill payments, and online or offline transactions. It also provides automated budgeting, expenditure monitoring, paycheck switching, and automated credit building. The application is available on the Android and IOS platforms.
- Feb 2024Seed$3M
- May 2022Seed$500K
- Nov 2021Seed—
#8
Acquired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2015 · 47 employees$26.7Mraised▾
Ascent provides a cloud-based platform to track and automate regulatory compliance programs to the financial institutions. The product Ascent leverages a proprietary AI and automation technology to convert the rules and documents of a regulatory body into units of intelligence. Features include automated conversion of regulatory compliance into regulatory obligations checklists, compliance & procedure manual documentation, regulatory change tracking, and centralized management. The full platform comprises of selected compliance channels viz. CFTC, CME, CBOT, NYMEX, CBOE, ICE, GIPS, NFA, SEC, and FINRA. Pricing is based on the number of users and the selected channels. As of Jan 2018, the company is developing a lite version of the platform with limited functionalities.
- Nov 2019Series B$19.3M
- Mar 2018Series A$6M
- Sep 2016Seed$1.4M
#9
Seed · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2018 · 32 employees$5.8Mraised▾
Developer of a digital banking platform for consumers. It offers services such as checking accounts, money transfers, cash withdrawals, and prepaid cards. Its application is available for download on Android and iOS platforms.
- Sep 2022Seed$5.8M
#10
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2014 · 6 employees$7.3Mraised▾
Loan Ecosystem provides a loan syndication platform for businesses. It automates and streamlines the automate the loan syndication process. It also provides an end-to-end exchange for middle-market originators, institutional lenders, and agents. Institutional lenders can purchase institutional loans directly from originators. Originators & syndicators can access liquidity and manage their portfolio concentrations.
- Feb 2021Series A$3.5M
- Nov 2019Series A$300K
- Jun 2019Series A$3.5M
#11
Acqui-Hired · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2015 · 186 employees$9Mraised▾
Neurensic helps financial institutions reduce risk and ensure regulatory compliance. It provides CORE, an intent-based surveillance solution which leverages AI to detect rogue trading, suspect trading behavior, fraud, and anomaly in trading activities to ensure regulatory compliance. It recognizes patterns of trading that are similar to regulatory inquiries and investigations, thereby helping organizations in identifying the same.
- Mar 2017Seed$1.8M
- Aug 2016Seed—
- Jul 2016Seed$225K
- Dec 2015Seed$500K
#12
Series A · Chicago, Illinois · founded 2014 · 52 employees$7.1Mraised▾
Credit assessment solutions for individuals and businesses. It offers solutions such as automated verification during loan origination, fraud risk and creditworthiness assessment, and more. It uses machine learning for credit assessments.
- Jun 2018Conventional Debt$50M
- Feb 2018Series A$7.1M
- Oct 2017Conventional Debt$40M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Banking Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Fintech is moving in the United States
A read on the academic research around Fintech — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 907 United States-affiliated papers.
- Film Independent54
- United States Department of Commerce26
- Community Partners22
- University of Virginia18
- International Monetary Fund12
- Financial services42
- Database transaction16
- Payment15
- Scalability12
- Credit risk11
- Financial services7→190
- Financial inclusion2→74
- Payment2→50
- Mobile payment3→29
- Leverage (statistics)1→21
- Financial services9→149
- Financial inclusion1→56
- Payment2→27
- Investment (military)1→19
- Cryptocurrency1→17
Where fintech is researched across United States
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing fintech patents in the United States
United States fintech patent filing is accelerating — 20 filings from 16 assignees (2016–2025), led by Mastercard International, Verifone, Financial Cloud Innovations; annual filings 1→7.
- Mastercard International20
- Verifone4
- Financial Cloud Innovations2
- Atombeam Technologies2
- Salah ALI Khalil1
- LNW Gaming1
- Kassetty Nikhil1
- DR Mariappan RAJA1
Common questions
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