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Best Investment Tech Companies in Houston, United States

The 58 best Investment Tech companies in Houston, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: TXSE.

58companies tracked
$273.5Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
20have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · INVESTMENT TECH × HOUSTON

Our analysis of 122 Investment Tech companies

$16.8b in tracked funding; 93% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

122companies analysed
93%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
18unicorns
2019median founding year

Ranked: Best Investment Tech companies in Houston

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageEmployeesFounderTech stackPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1401harmony
Retirement planning services for individuals with 401k & IRA Plan.
——Deadpooled—Moazzam Khoja
Founder
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2Advisor Energy
Financial database for private companies
——Deadpooled11————
3Alliance Benefit Group
Provider of retirement plan administration, recordkeeping, design, and compliance services
——Unfunded53—WordPressMySQLPHP+21——
4Amphora
Software solutions for commodity trading and risk management
——Unfunded75Chris Mudry
CEO
WordPressMySQLPHP+203 patents
Natural topical formulations for bruise and hematoma healing on skin
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5Aqumin Medical
Provider of a research discovery platform with data blending technology
——Funding Raised4Michael J Zeitlin
CEO
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6Best4FX
Social trading platform for multiple assets
——Deadpooled—Mark
Founder & CEO
———
7Card Stock Exchange
Online platform focused on sports memorabilia investments
——Unfunded—Zachary Lynch
Co-Founder
Cart FunctionalityPHPChart.js+20——
8Cloud X
Portfolio management software for private market investors
——Unfunded—Brandon Bruce
Founder & CEO
—85 patents
Digital health monitoring and medical data transmission technologies
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Top 12 Investment Tech companies in Houston

#1
Series E · Houston, Texas · founded 2023
$133.3Mraised
▾

Texas stock exchange. It provides U.S. and global companies access to U.S. equity capital markets and provide provide a venue to trade and list public companies and the growing universe of exchange-traded products.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 48how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 13%
Growth
top 35%
Moat
top 48%
Talent
bottom 49%
Tech
bottom 47%
Market
bottom 36%
Funding: Raised $133M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) · Last round Series E (Jul 2025)
Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 4/10 · 9 curated direct competitors tracked
Audience (LinkedIn): 22k LinkedIn followers — 50.0% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2025Series E$112.7M
  • Sep 2024Series D$28.8M
  • Mar 2024Series D$132.5M
Founders & team
James LeeFounder and CEO
Investors
J P Morgan, Charles & Potomac Capital, BlackRock, Charles Schwab, Citadel Securities, Goldman Sachs
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementGoogle AnalyticsGsap
#2
Series A · Houston, Texas · founded 2018
$10.3Mraised
▾

Provider of a platform uniting digital and traditional finance. This platform offers users two methods for buying and selling digital assets, integrating them seamlessly with traditional financial systems. The platform is designed to provide a user-friendly experience tailored to individual customer needs. Future product releases are planned.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 22how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 36%
Talent
bottom 49%
News
bottom 42%
Moat
bottom 38%
Market
bottom 34%
Global
bottom 29%
Funding: Raised $10.3M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 8 yrs (0.8/yr) · Last round Series A (Sep 2025)
Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated
News: 1 BI events in 12 mo (of 4 tracked, 2 types) · Top themes: Regulatory
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Series A$200K
  • Jul 2022Series A$2.9M
  • Feb 2022Series A$513.8K
  • Jan 2022Series A$8M
Founders & team
Gene Grant IiChief Executive Officer
Investors
Alumni Ventures, Entoro
#3
Series B · Houston, Texas · founded 2012 · 24 employees
$14.3Mraised
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Molecule provides a SaaS-based platform for commodity trading. It calculates position and risk for companies that trade commodity futures, forwards, options, and swaps. It supports electricity, natural gas, crude oil, NGLs, and many other commodities worldwide. Molecule downloads trades from exchanges, automatically brings in market data from Morningstar, and computes companies' daily or real-time analyses instantly.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 27how this company ranks against its industry peers
Moat
top 37%
News
top 41%
Talent
top 41%
Funding
top 43%
Patents
top 44%
Product
top 49%
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · IP moat: 14 patents · 10 curated direct competitors tracked
News: 2 BI events in 12 mo (of 10 tracked, 6 types) · +100% YoY · Top themes: Capital raise, M&A
Talent: Analyst team rating 4/5 · 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated
Audience (LinkedIn): 4k LinkedIn followers — 9.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2025Series B$11.9M
  • May 2021Series A$12M
  • Nov 2014Seed$1.1M
  • Dec 2013Seed$775K
Founders & team
Sameer SolejaFounder & CEO
Investors
Mercury Fund, Surge Ventures, Houston Angel Network, Sundance Growth
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesJqueryGoogle AnalyticsFont AwesomeHoefler&CoSectigo
#4
Series B · Houston, Texas · founded 2017 · 33 employees
$16Mraised
▾

iownit provides blockchain-based deal discovery platform for private market investors. It enables users to review investment opportunities and select investment based on interest & risk. It offers multiple opportunities including equity, debt & funds. Also offers identity verification, portfolio management, and performance tracking solutions for investors, entrepreneurs & intermediaries.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers — 5.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 partnerships (incl. Corastone) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2024Series B$11.5M
  • Jun 2019Series A$4.5M
Founders & team
Hamid GayibovCo-FounderRashad KurbanovCo-Founder & CEO
#5
Acquired · Houston, Texas · founded 2007 · 183 employees
$55Mraised
▾

Largest independent OTC commodity brokerage, offering end-to-end trading solutions. It is a prominent independent broker of commodities, covering financial and physical instruments globally. Focused on global commodity markets, it offers high-quality execution, customer service, and innovative technology. The company provides access to liquidity pools across global markets, coupled with expertise in physical assets, freight logistics, and financial hedges. It offers brokerage services, technology solutions, market data, logistics, and shipping. The technology platform empowers brokers, providing real-time market views for execution and precision. It is a convergence of traditional prowess and technological finesse, crafting success in a complex landscape.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Conventional Debt$55M
Investors
WhiteHorse Capital
Tech stack
Anime.JsApache Http ServerAstraCore-JsElementorEssential Addons For Elementor
#6
Acquired · Houston, Texas · founded 2021 · 21 employees
$12Mraised
▾

API infrastructure for private securities and alternative investments. Provides solutions tailored to clients' strategic goals. Features SEC-registered transfer agent for embedded investments, custodian services for holding multi currencies, escrow transactions, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 992 LinkedIn followers — 2.2% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Apr 2023Seed$8M
Founders & team
Youngr LeeFounder & CEO
Investors
Mercury Fund, Valor Equity Partners, Long Journey Ventures, NGC Ventures, NEOWIZ, Broadhaven Ventures
#7
Acqui-Hired · Houston, Texas · founded 1995 · 119 employees
$25Mraised
▾

Project management experts ensuring contract compliance and cost savings. They offer specialized project management services tailored to owner-specific construction standards and project-specific general conditions. Their expertise includes efficient contract compliance management with auditable documentation and effective management of design professionals throughout the project lifecycle, from proposal to construction administration. They specialize in construction document approvals using critical path method scheduling and manage general and trade contractors, ensuring adherence to public works requirements. Services include GC RFQ/RFP, subcontractor bidding, contract administration, prevailing wage labor rate review, certified payroll report monitoring, and detailed change order request reviews. They provide hourly project manager rates with monthly invoicing, offering significant cost savings for their customers.

Funding rounds
  • Nov 2003Series A$25M
Founders & team
Brad AndersonCEO
Investors
TCV
#8
Seed · Houston, Texas · founded 2023
$1.2Mraised
▾

Provider of software development and consulting services

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2023Seed$1.2M
Founders & team
Jonathan ThomasCo-Founder & CTOSlater HeilCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Ashbury Ventures, Alchemix, Multisig, Pirata Capital Management
#9
Series A · Houston, Texas · founded 2003 · 7 employees
$3.4Mraised
▾

Financial database for public companies. It provides a search engine to browse stocks and AI-driven algorithms, financial data, valuation metrics, ratios, ownership details, stock recommendations, company filings, and curated news to analyze investments. It is a tool available on the subscription based pricing model.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers — 2.9% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2021Series A$3.4M
Founders & team
Sahil KhetpalCo-Founder & CEOBobby SankhagowitCo-Founder
Investors
Ada Ventures, Inventum Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesCdnjsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudinary
#10
Acquired · Houston, Texas · founded 2013 · 10 employees
$1.3Mraised
▾

Crowdfunding platform for oil and gas projects. It offers a crowd-funding platform to finance single or multi-well wellbore-only drilling projects and royalty interests.

Funding rounds
  • Apr 2019Seed$50K
  • Sep 2017Seed$988K
  • Aug 2016Seed$265K
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsCrazy EggFacebook PixelGoogle Analytics
#11
Seed · Houston, Texas · founded 2013
$1.2Mraised
▾

Domain registration, web hosting, and website builder services provider, offering a comprehensive suite of online solutions. They provide domain name registration services, enabling individuals and businesses to establish their online presence. Their web hosting services offer fast and unlimited resources for websites. They also provide a website builder platform, empowering users to create unique websites easily. Services include DNS management, allowing users to manage their nameservers. They cater to individuals and businesses seeking to establish and manage their online presence with user-friendly tools and reliable infrastructure. This is a B2B and B2C service provider.

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2014Seed$1.2M
Founders & team
Elliott NunezFounder
Tech stack
UbuntuBootstrapApache Http ServerJsdelivrGoogle Font Api
#12
Seed · Houston, Texas · founded 2021 · 5 employees
$125Kraised
▾

NFT-based ticketing solutions for individuals and businesses. Users can connect their wallets, and select the NFTs collection(s) that the user wants to set different levels of access based on NFT properties. Users can set a date, time, and location, and make their event official with graphics and social links.

Funding rounds
  • 2022Seed$500K
Founders & team
Griffin WheelerFounder
Investors
Y Combinator

Funding & investor landscape

$273.5Mtotal disclosed funding
14companies funded
28disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Mercury Fund2 rounds
500 Global1 rounds
Ada Ventures1 rounds
Alchemix1 rounds
Aldine1 rounds
Alphasset1 rounds
Alumni Ventures1 rounds
Aquiline Capital Partners1 rounds
Armyn Capital1 rounds
Ashbury Ventures1 rounds

Notable founders

James Lee
Founder and CEO · TXSE
Gene Grant Ii
Chief Executive Officer · LevelField
Sameer Soleja
Founder & CEO · Molecule
Hamid Gayibov
Co-Founder · Iownit
Rashad Kurbanov
Co-Founder & CEO · Iownit
Youngr Lee
Founder & CEO · Brassica
Brad Anderson
CEO · SolArc
Jonathan Thomas
Co-Founder & CTO · Composable
Slater Heil
Co-Founder & CEO · Composable
Sahil Khetpal
Co-Founder & CEO · TIKR
Bobby Sankhagowit
Co-Founder · TIKR
Elliott Nunez
Founder · Next Gen CM
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 4,096,926 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Investment Tech 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
Financial services breakthroughs surged from 0% to 11% field-share, with 41 brand-new papers signaling rapid novel discovery.
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
Financial inclusion advancements intensified 37-fold (2→74 papers), reflecting deepening US fintech equity research.
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
Concern-flagged cryptocurrency papers rose from 1→17, indicating escalating risk scrutiny alongside newly emerging big-data governance issues.
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 · Financial inclusionConcern · 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 Investment Tech companies are there in Houston, United States?
Radar tracks 58 indexable Investment Tech companies headquartered in Houston, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Investment Tech companies in Houston, United States?
The Investment Tech companies in Houston, United States on this list have raised a combined $273.5M in disclosed equity funding across 14 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Investment Tech company in Houston, United States?
TXSE is the highest-funded Investment Tech company in Houston, United States, with $133.3M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Investment Tech companies in Houston, United States are funded?
14 of the 58 Investment Tech companies in Houston, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Investment Tech unicorns are there in Houston, United States?
None of the Investment Tech companies in Houston, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Houston, United States Investment Tech companies?
The most active investors in Houston, United States Investment Tech companies on this list include Mercury Fund, 500 Global, Ada Ventures, Alchemix, Aldine.
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