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Best FinTech Companies in Berkeley, United States

The 41 best FinTech companies in Berkeley, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Vested Finance.

41companies tracked
$84.9Mdisclosed funding
1unicorns
13have 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 × BERKELEY

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

Ranked: Best FinTech companies in Berkeley

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Vested Finance 🦄
Online trading and investment platform
60Tech top 27%Customers top 27%Funding top 34%Growth top 41%
All 11 signals ▾
Techtop 27%
Customerstop 27%
Fundingtop 34%
Growthtop 41%
Talentbottom 49%
Marketbottom 48%
Productbottom 48%
Moatbottom 48%
Globalbottom 47%
Fin. healthbottom 47%
Newsbottom 27%
Tech: 49 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Web Services
Customers: Play-Store rating 4.33★ across 9,510 ratings (1 apps)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100
$24M14 mo agoSeries AViram Shah
Co-Founder and CEO
2015WordPressMySQLPHP+22——
2Agentero
App-based agency management solutions for insurance agents
$24M61 mo agoSeries A—2017TurbopackApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+27——
3Brightflow AI
Cloud-based cash flow forecasting solution for businesses
$19M47 mo agoSeries AJeffrey Priebe
Founder
2019WordPressMySQLPHP+24——
4Meso
Web3 native payment network
$10M30 mo agoAcquiredBen Mills
Co-Founder
2022Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceFirebase+16——
5Flourish
Developer of business intelligence software for banks and financial institutions
$5M47 mo agoSeedJessica Eting
Cofounder
2018———
6Alpha Omega Financial Systems
Online platform for post-trade solutions
$2M89 mo agoAcquiredKamal Duggirala
CEO
2013———
7ReSource
Online platform for crypto loans, mutual credit network for business loan, and staking of cryptocurrencies
$2M60 mo agoSeed—2020—16 patents
Patents concentrated in chemistry & materials
—
8OwnersCircle
All-in-one aircraft ownership solution for seamless flight and maintenance management
$120K146 mo agoDeadpooledObinna Okogbue
Co-Founder
2014———

Top 12 FinTech companies in Berkeley

#1
Series A · Berkeley, California · founded 2015 · 52 employees
$23.6Mraised
▾

Online trading and investment platform. The platform facilitates access to various investment options, including stocks, exchange-traded funds, and alternative assets. It offers tools for portfolio construction, analysis, and management. The platform also provides educational resources and customer support to assist investors.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 60how this company ranks against its industry peers
Tech
top 27%
Customers
top 27%
Funding
top 34%
Growth
top 41%
Talent
bottom 49%
Market
bottom 48%
Tech: 49 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Web Services · Devops: Nginx
Customers: Play-Store rating 4.33★ across 9,510 ratings (1 apps)
Funding: Raised $23.6M across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 11 yrs (0.7/yr) · Last round Series A (Jul 2025)
Audience (LinkedIn): 25k LinkedIn followers — 50.1% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2025Series A$1.4M
  • Apr 2022Series A$12M
  • Feb 2021Seed$3.6M
  • Oct 2020Seed$704.8K
Founders & team
Viram ShahCo-Founder and CEO
Investors
Techstars, Western Union, OVO Fund, Inflection Point Ventures, Venture Catalysts, TenOneTen
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon ElbAmazon Web ServicesAnt DesignApache Http ServerAstra
#2
Acquired · Berkeley, California · founded 2022 · 6 employees
$9.5Mraised
▾

Web3 native payment network. It allows users to connect their banks and cards to crypto apps. It enables users to make DEX swaps with their bank and top-up their wallets for transactions.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2024Seed$9.5M
Founders & team
Ben MillsCo-FounderAli AgharezaCo-Founder
Investors
Ribbit Capital, Solana Ventures, Canonical, 6MV
#3
Series A · Berkeley, California · founded 2019 · 40 employees
$19.2Mraised
▾

Cloud-based cash flow forecasting solution for businesses. It features an AI-driven solution for cash flow scenario planning, cash flow monitoring, cash status & financial health assessment, cash optimization, and others. It can also be integrated with multiple e-commerce and accounting platforms to provide access to real-time financial forecasting.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2022Conventional Debt$100M
  • Sep 2022Series A$15M
  • Seed$4.2M
Founders & team
Jeffrey PriebeFounderRobbie BhathalFounder & CEO
Investors
Haymaker Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, i80 Group, Agile Angel, Precursor Ventures, Newfund
#4
Series A · Berkeley, California · founded 2017 · 44 employees
$23.5Mraised
▾

Agentero provides app-based agency management solutions for insurance agents. It offers solutions for predictive data analysis, data management, customer management, and more. It offers algorithms leverage data from books and third party sources to streamline renewals, scan for coverage gaps, and customize policy recommendations.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2021Series A$13.5M
  • Oct 2020Seed$10M
Investors
Mundi Ventures, Foundation Capital, Union Square Ventures, Financial Venture Studio, Two Culture Capital, Expansion Venture Capital
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsFacebook Pixel
#5
Seed · Berkeley, California · founded 2018 · 44 employees
$4.6Mraised
▾

Developer of business intelligence software for banks and financial institutions. It provides users with a platform that offers tools for customer engagement, data intelligence, and financial health. Uses transactional and behavioral data to help financial institutions create personalized solutions. Its solution combines gamification with behavioral science, bringing loyalty and intelligence to financial institutions. It provides solution to end users better manage their money while driving engagement and loyalty for banks and fintechs.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2022Seed$3M
  • Mar 2021Seed$1.5M
  • Jul 2020Seed$100K
Founders & team
Jessica EtingCofounderPedro MouraCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Magma Partners, Remarkable Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Canary, Seedstars International Ventures, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator
#6
Seed · Berkeley, California · founded 2020 · 22 employees
$1.7Mraised
▾

Developer of a decentralized platform designed for business credit collateralized products and services. The company's platform leverages its fast and low fee to easily access loans from peers and automatically creates a novel reputation system to rate the creditors in order to select the best businesses to extend lines of credit, enabling businesses to manage business operations without cash.

Investors
Future Perfect Ventures, NGC, Exnetwork Capital, Davoa Capital, BlackRock, Moonwhale Ventures
#7
Acquired · Berkeley, California · founded 2013 · 2 employees
$2.5Mraised
▾

Online platform for post-trade solutions. It offers solutions that allocate and confirms the trade after execution. Features post-trade processing, minimize post-trade disruptions, trade details from multiple clients, and facilitates the matching process. It covers equities, ETFs, and fixed income securities.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2019Seed$500K
  • Jan 2018Seed$2M
Founders & team
Kamal DuggiralaCEO
Investors
Sand Hill East
#8
Deadpooled · Berkeley, California · founded 2014
$120Kraised
▾

All-in-one aircraft ownership solution for seamless flight and maintenance management. This platform streamlines the aviation experience, offering tools to effortlessly track flights, manage maintenance schedules, and organize crucial records. It empowers aircraft owners with automated reminders and detailed tracking, ensuring they stay ahead of maintenance needs. The cloud-based system provides a secure and centralized location for all flight and maintenance documentation, simplifying retrieval and management. This Software as a Service (SaaS) solution aims to provide peace of mind and more time to enjoy flying, offering a comprehensive approach to aircraft ownership. It is a B2B solution for aircraft owners.

Funding rounds
  • 2014Seed$120K
Founders & team
Obinna OkogbueCo-FounderMatthew ChristenCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
Y Combinator
#9
Seed · Berkeley, California · founded 2014 · 13 employees
$85Kraised
▾

Online platform offering cashback across various products and services. It allows users to earn cashback across multi-category product shopping from local stores, restaurants, hotels, e-commerece websites, brands, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2016Seed$85K
Founders & team
Eugeny PrudchyenkoCEO & Co-founder
Tech stack
Adobe Audience ManagerAmpBootstrapCart FunctionalityCloudflare Browser InsightsCore-Js
#10
Deadpooled · Berkeley, California · founded 2019 · 28 employees
$20Kraised
▾

End to end document and contract management platform for enterprises. It offers a platform for accounting, due diligence, finance, and legal professionals. It offers a lease abstraction software that uses artificial intelligence to transfer documents and management for enterprise customers. It allows users to manage portfolio with live reports and dashboards, and tools such as API integration, time calculator, document automation, search engine, and more.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2019Seed—
  • 2019Seed$20K
Founders & team
Arian NematiCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Colliers Proptech Accelerator, Techstars, Altair Capital
#11
Deadpooled · Berkeley, California · founded 2014 · 3 employees
$20Kraised
▾

Lendsnap provides a platform for automated documentation generation for mortgage loans. The platform links to consumer's accounts to generate financial and income data and provide automated documentation for the process, thus cutting short the time required to process and close the loans. Using the website, users can share their profile privately with the lenders, improving security and transparency.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2017Seed$20K
  • Sep 2016Seed—
  • Aug 2016Seed—
Investors
Alchemist Accelerator, Y Combinator, Berkeley SkyDeck, Cerium Technology
Tech stack
CloudflareHttp/3
#12
Acquired · Berkeley, California · founded 2012 · 19 employees
—raised
▾

KatRisk creates cost effective solutions for quantifying global risk due to floods and tropical cyclones. These solutions are used for pricing the insurance products. Various perils are associated with these catastrophe like Storm etc. which can be better accounted for by these models.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers — 13.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2023PE—
Investors
TA
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookieyes

Funding & investor landscape

$84.9Mtotal disclosed funding
11companies funded
23disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Berkeley SkyDeck7 rounds
Figment Capital2 rounds
Restive2 rounds
Techstars2 rounds
Y Combinator2 rounds
100Unicorns1 rounds
500 Global1 rounds
6MV1 rounds
Agile Angel1 rounds
Alchemist Accelerator1 rounds

Notable founders

Viram Shah
Co-Founder and CEO · Vested Finance
Ben Mills
Co-Founder · Meso
Ali Aghareza
Co-Founder · Meso
Jeffrey Priebe
Founder · Brightflow AI
Robbie Bhathal
Founder & CEO · Brightflow AI
Jessica Eting
Cofounder · Flourish
Pedro Moura
Co-Founder & CEO · Flourish
Kamal Duggirala
CEO · Alpha Omega Financial Systems
Obinna Okogbue
Co-Founder · OwnersCircle
Matthew Christen
Co-Founder & CTO · OwnersCircle
Eugeny Prudchyenko
CEO & Co-founder · EvoShare
Arian Nemati
Co-Founder & CEO · ADEx
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 · PaymentConcern · 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 Berkeley, United States?
Radar tracks 41 indexable FinTech companies headquartered in Berkeley, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by FinTech companies in Berkeley, United States?
The FinTech companies in Berkeley, United States on this list have raised a combined $84.9M in disclosed equity funding across 11 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded FinTech company in Berkeley, United States?
Vested Finance is the highest-funded FinTech company in Berkeley, United States, with $23.6M in disclosed equity funding.
How many FinTech companies in Berkeley, United States are funded?
11 of the 41 FinTech companies in Berkeley, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many FinTech unicorns are there in Berkeley, United States?
1 FinTech company in Berkeley, United States on this list is valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Berkeley, United States FinTech companies?
The most active investors in Berkeley, United States FinTech companies on this list include Berkeley SkyDeck, Figment Capital, Restive, Techstars, Y Combinator.
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