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Best FinTech Companies in Arkansas, United States

The 46 best FinTech companies in Arkansas, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: AcreTrader.

46companies tracked
$153.1Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
9have raised
Sector wealth & growth · validated company filings
$180Mmedian revenue
+8%median YoY growth
$89.0Bcombined revenue pool
130companies reporting

Biggest earners American Express Co ($10.5B, +9% YoY), Mastercard Inc ($8.3B, +13% YoY), Flex Ltd. ($6.6B, +4% YoY), Fiserv Inc ($5.0B, +10% YoY)

FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · FINTECH × ARKANSAS

Our analysis of 243 FinTech companies

$56.0b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

243companies analysed
98%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
45unicorns
2018median founding year
82kcombined LinkedIn audience
88%of audience held by top 3
1companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best FinTech companies in Arkansas

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1AcreTrader
Online platform focused on farmland investments
67Funding top 18%Growth top 21%Moat top 24%Tech top 50%
All 7 signals ▾
Fundingtop 18%
Growthtop 21%
Moattop 24%
Techtop 50%
Marketbottom 49%
Newsbottom 46%
Globalbottom 37%
Funding: Raised $86.7M across 26 rounds · 26 rounds over 7 yrs (3.7/yr)
Growth: Headcount 51 → 132 (+159%) across vintages · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100
$87M3 mo agoAcquired—2018Google CloudVue.jsGoogle Ads+211 job opening
2Functional Finance
Provider of a financial operations platform for insurance businesses
$28M27 mo agoSeries ATony DeGangi
Co-Founder & CTO
2018WebflowSentryApple iCloud Mail+19—
3Panacea Financial
Digital bank for doctors
$25M13 mo agoSeries BMichael Jerkins
Co-Founder & CEO
2020WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+381 partnership
4FastDue
Online platform for business forms, agreements, invoices, and document management
$5M209 mo agoSeries A—2007——
5Bond AI
Open Banking Platform
$4M55 mo agoSeedUday Akkaraju
Chairman & CEO
2016Webflow EcommerceWebflowApple iCloud Mail+15—
6Teslar Software
Limited information available
$3M74 mo agoSeedJoe Ehrhardt
CEO & Founder
2008WordPressMySQLPHP+222 partnerships
7Benefit Bank
Online platform offering retail banking services
$2M207 mo agoDeadpooledJoe Edwards
CEO
1999——
8FI Works
Data-driven sales and marketing platform for financial institutions' growth
$87K76 mo agoFunding RaisedKeith Henkel
CEO
2004WordPressMySQLPHP+25—

Top 10 FinTech companies in Arkansas

#1
Acquired · Fayetteville, Arkansas · founded 2018 · 132 employees
$86.7Mraised
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Online platform focused on farmland investments. It enables users to diversify cash flow by renting land to farmers. It helps in farm management, paperwork, and payments. Users can invest in multiple options as alternative assets for holding farmlands. Also, features news updates as a reference for investors.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 67how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 18%
Growth
top 21%
Moat
top 24%
Tech
top 50%
Market
bottom 49%
News
bottom 46%
Funding: Raised $86.7M across 26 rounds · 26 rounds over 7 yrs (3.7/yr) · Last round Series B (May 2026)
Growth: Headcount 51 → 132 (+159%) across vintages · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn · 2 curated direct competitors tracked
Audience (LinkedIn): 11k LinkedIn followers — 13.0% of this cohort's audience
Hiring (LinkedIn): 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public)
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 expansions announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2026Series B$3.4M
  • Apr 2026Series B$3.5M
  • Feb 2026Series B$1.4M
  • Dec 2025Series B$2.5M
Investors
Revel Partners, RZC Investments, Jump Capital, Revolution, Narya, Drive Capital
Tech stack
AmplitudeBrowser-Update.OrgCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFacebook Pixel
#2
Series B · Little Rock, Arkansas · founded 2020
$24.7Mraised
▾

Digital bank for doctors. Its services include savings & checking accounts, personal loans, student loans refinance, health & life insurance, and more. It also provides tools for community engagement.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 3.0% of this cohort's audience · 28 engagements/post (1.5× cohort median)
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. American Association of Orthodontists) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2025Series B$37M
  • Jan 2024Series B$24.5M
  • Aug 2023Seed$200K
Founders & team
Michael JerkinsCo-Founder & CEONed PalmerCo-Founder & CSOTyler Stafford CfaChief Executive Officer
Investors
Valar Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon AlbAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailAstraBootstrapCloudflare
#3
Series A · Benton, Arkansas · founded 2018 · 16 employees
$28Mraised
▾

Provider of a financial operations platform for insurance businesses. The platform automates billing, invoicing, premium collection, and reconciliation. It integrates with existing systems, offering real-time data, reporting, and customizable views. The platform provides tools for managing commissions, payments, and partner access to financial data.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers · 36 engagements/post (1.9× cohort median)
Funding rounds
  • May 2024Series A$20M
  • Jul 2023Seed$8M
Founders & team
Tony DeGangiCo-Founder & CTORashmi MelgiriCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
New Enterprise Associates, Walkabout Ventures, Altai Ventures, Starr Companies, Munich Re
#4
Seed · Little Rock, Arkansas · founded 2016 · 48 employees
$3.5Mraised
▾

AI-based financial advisor for financial institutions. It helps to understand financial goals, and spending patterns and then optimizes spending for investing goals. Its features include chatting with the bot and setting goals, and linking their bank account and credit cards, while based on spending patterns and goals.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2021Seed$2.9M
  • Dec 2021Conventional Debt—
  • Aug 2019Seed$585K
  • May 2017Seed$75K
Founders & team
Uday AkkarajuChairman & CEO
Investors
FIS, VentureOut, FIS Impact Ventures, Village Capital
Tech stack
Animate.CssApache Http ServerApple Icloud MailBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Turnstile
#5
Seed · Arkansas · founded 2008 · 38 employees
$3Mraised
▾

Limited information available

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 3.3% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 partnerships (incl. Spins Valley Bank & Trust Company) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2020Seed$600K
  • Aug 2019Seed$2M
  • Jan 2017Seed$350K
Founders & team
Joe EhrhardtCEO & Founder
Investors
ICBA, The Venture Center, Cadron Creek Capital
Tech stack
AzureBackbone.JsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookie NoticeGoogle Analytics
#6
Series A · Fairfield Bay, Arkansas · founded 2007 · 12 employees
$5Mraised
▾

Online platform for business forms, agreements, invoices, and document management. It is a cloud-based solution offering a suite of tools for small businesses and freelancers to streamline operations. Users can create, send, and manage invoices, payment reminders, and various business agreements like non-disclosure, consulting, and sales agreements. The platform facilitates online complaint filing, expense report management, and estimate creation. Features include customizable templates, secure data storage, and interactive messaging for direct communication. It offers a subscription-based premium plan with enhanced features like custom branding and template creation. This SaaS solution aims to improve productivity and organization through efficient document management and online collaboration.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2009Series A$5M
#7
Deadpooled · Fort Smith, Arkansas · founded 1999 · 61 employees
$2.2Mraised
▾

Provider of commercial banking products and services. The company offers mortgage loans that include conventional, FHA, VA, rural development and construction loans. It also offers retail and corporate banking services.

Founders & team
Joe EdwardsCEORod ColemanCEO & Chairman
#8
Funding Raised · Little Rock, Arkansas · founded 2004 · 4 employees
$86.8Kraised
▾

Data-driven sales and marketing platform for financial institutions' growth. It is a customer data platform built for banks and credit unions, offering data analytics, marketing automation, and CRM solutions. The platform cleans, unifies, and activates data to enable smarter decisions, improve compliance, and drive growth. It provides a full customer view, eliminates data inconsistencies, and generates actionable insights. The solution simplifies tasks, reduces manual effort, and improves efficiency. It is designed for real-world use, focusing on delivering tangible outcomes. The platform offers features like dashboards, reporting, campaign tracking, and client management. It helps financial institutions with customer onboarding, retention, cross-selling, and overall profitability. The company provides implementation, support, security, and compliance services. It offers resources like blog, case studies, and statistics. The platform integrates with core systems and provides access to data elements and dashboards. It is a cloud based SaaS platform.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2020Conventional Debt$86.8K
Founders & team
Keith HenkelCEO
Investors
The Venture Center
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementContact Form 7Core-JsElementorFlywheel
#9
Seed · Forrest City, Arkansas · founded 2022
—raised
▾

Trading and liquidity marketplace on Optimism. The platform allows protocols and other large stakeholders to become veNFT voters, using their locked voting power to direct future emissions and collecting fees (termed bribes in Solidly) from the pools they voted for.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2024Seed—
Founders & team
Alexander CutlerFounder
Tech stack
CloudflareHeadless UiLit-ElementLit-HtmlOpen GraphPwa
#10
Seed · Fayetteville, Arkansas · founded 2021 · 27 employees
—raised
▾

Online platform for buying and selling NFTs. It allows users to buy, sell, auction, and discover Bitcoin-Secured NFTs. Its NFT collection includes Bitcoin monkeys, Bitcoin birds, Megapont robots, Spacewhales, Genesis, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2022Seed—
Investors
Hivemind Capital, KCRise Fund, Backend Capital, CryptoSlam

Funding & investor landscape

$153.1Mtotal disclosed funding
8companies funded
39disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
The Venture Center4 rounds
Hivemind Capital2 rounds
ACE & Company1 rounds
Altai Ventures1 rounds
Anthemis Group1 rounds
Backend Capital1 rounds
Cadron Creek Capital1 rounds
CryptoSlam1 rounds
Drive Capital1 rounds
FINTOP1 rounds

Notable founders

Michael Jerkins
Co-Founder & CEO · Panacea Financial
Ned Palmer
Co-Founder & CSO · Panacea Financial
Tony DeGangi
Co-Founder & CTO · Functional Finance
Rashmi Melgiri
Co-Founder & CEO · Functional Finance
Uday Akkaraju
Chairman & CEO · Bond AI
Joe Ehrhardt
CEO & Founder · Teslar Software
Joe Edwards
CEO · Benefit Bank
Rod Coleman
CEO & Chairman · Benefit Bank
Keith Henkel
CEO · FI Works
Alexander Cutler
Founder · Velodrome Finance
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 3,947,148 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of FinTech coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · United States

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.

research sentiment over time
201620212026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 23% → 38% across 2016–2026.
top research entities
  • Film Independent54
  • United States Department of Commerce26
  • Community Partners22
  • University of Virginia18
  • International Monetary Fund12
leading researchers
Crypto Education Research Lab · Kapil Dharika · Bibitayo Ebunlomo Abikoye · Adesola Oluwatosin Adelaja · Stanley Chidozie Umeorah · Pingale, Mandar Vijay · Hajwane, Shaeena Samir · Rogers, Anuoluwapo
▲ Breakthroughs97 · 11%
▲ 0%→11% share
0 median citations96% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (0%→11% of field), led by Financial services.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Financial services42
  • Database transaction16
  • Payment15
  • Scalability12
  • Credit risk11
Newly emergingFinancial services 0→41 · Database transaction 0→15 · Payment 0→14
Landmark E.T.-RNN · 87 cites
◆ Advancements352 · 39%
▲ 28%→41% share
▲1.5× share momentum0 median citations95% since 2021mostly empirical
Advancements are rising (28%→41% of field), led by Financial services.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Financial services7→190
  • Financial inclusion2→74
  • Payment2→50
  • Mobile payment3→29
  • Leverage (statistics)1→21
Newly emergingTransformative learning 0→37 · Database transaction 0→34 · Financial literacy 0→32
Landmark Fintech Adoption Drivers for Innovation for SMEs in Indonesia · 143 cites
▼ Concerns281 · 31%
▼ 56%→29% share
▼0.5× share momentum0 median citations83% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (56%→29% of field), led by Financial services.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Financial services9→149
  • Financial inclusion1→56
  • Payment2→27
  • Investment (military)1→19
  • Cryptocurrency1→17
Newly emergingFinancial market 0→22 · Big data 0→18 · Corporate governance 0→18
Landmark The FinTech Opportunity · 433 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · United States

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.

New York25 · +0.24
Hot · Financial servicesAdvancing · Credit riskOpportunity · Big dataConcern · Financial innovation
Seattle14 · +0.21
Hot · Financial servicesOpportunity · LoanConcern · Financial inclusion
Philadelphia13 · +0.19
Hot · Digital transformationAdvancing · Financial servicesOpportunity · Leverage (statistics)
Boston12 · +0.34
Hot · Financial servicesOpportunity · Key (lock)Concern · Financial innovation
Los Angeles8 · +0.42
Hot · Credit riskOpportunity · Financial services
Ann Arbor8 · +0.49
Hot · Financial servicesAdvancing · Financial inclusionOpportunity · Risk management
SF Bay Area5 · +0.42
Hot · Financial servicesOpportunity · Leverage (statistics)
Chicago5 · +0.08
Opportunity · Financial market
Atlanta5 · +0.36
Hot · Financial servicesOpportunity · Credit card
PATENT SIGNAL · United States

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.

20 filings16 assigneespeak 7/yr2016–2025
filing momentum (YoY 2016–2025)
top patent filers
  • Mastercard International20
  • Verifone4
  • Financial Cloud Innovations2
  • Atombeam Technologies2
  • Salah ALI Khalil1
  • LNW Gaming1
  • Kassetty Nikhil1
  • DR Mariappan RAJA1

Common questions

How many FinTech companies are there in Arkansas, United States?
Radar tracks 46 indexable FinTech companies headquartered in Arkansas, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by FinTech companies in Arkansas, United States?
The FinTech companies in Arkansas, United States on this list have raised a combined $153.1M in disclosed equity funding across 8 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded FinTech company in Arkansas, United States?
AcreTrader is the highest-funded FinTech company in Arkansas, United States, with $86.7M in disclosed equity funding.
How many FinTech companies in Arkansas, United States are funded?
8 of the 46 FinTech companies in Arkansas, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many FinTech unicorns are there in Arkansas, United States?
None of the FinTech companies in Arkansas, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Arkansas, United States FinTech companies?
The most active investors in Arkansas, United States FinTech companies on this list include The Venture Center, Hivemind Capital, ACE & Company, Altai Ventures, Anthemis Group.
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