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Fintech Landscape of Austin

418 Fintech companies in Austin, in one picture: who is hiring, who is raising money, who founded them, what the news is about, which skills employers want and where the research is going. Updated August 2026.

418companies tracked
$5.6Bdisclosed funding
32hiring right now
154events · 24 months
6,771news articles · 12 months

Who leads Fintech in Austin

Shows the top‑ranked Austin fintech firms by hiring activity, funding amount, and overall coverage, highlighting which companies are most active in recruitment and capital raising.

open roles
Hiring now
ranked by live open roles
  1. 01Kestra Holdings10last posted Jun 2026
  2. 02Fay Servicing10last posted May 2026
  3. 03Abrigo9last posted Jul 2026
  4. 04Steadily9last posted Jun 2026
  5. 05Ownwell6last posted Jun 2026
  6. 06Mitratech5last posted Feb 2026
  7. 07Episode Six5last posted Jun 2026
  8. 08Open Lending4last posted Jun 2026
32 companies hiring · 3 posted in the last 30 days
disclosed funding
Most funded
disclosed totals, all rounds
  1. 01Q2 Software$747MPost IPO · Nov 2020
  2. 02inKind$455.3MSeries B · Feb 2026
  3. 03Fintiv$307.2MSeries B · Oct 2014
  4. 04The Zebra$261.1MSeries D · Apr 2021
  5. 05Billd$241.5MSeries B · Nov 2025
  6. 068fig$196.5MConventional Debt · May 2023
  7. 07SEON$186.6MSeries C · Sep 2025
  8. 081st Commercial Credit$170MConventional Debt · Aug 2023
110 companies with disclosed rounds · $5.6B total
revenue
Revenue leaders
official filings first, else latest snapshot
  1. 01Open Lending$20.5MFY2023 filing
  2. 02TurboPass$2.3Msnapshot Dec 2022
  3. 03Curative$162kFY2012 filing
  4. 04Self$22kFY2014 filing
  5. 05SEON$10kFY2014 filing
5 companies with a revenue figure
headcount
Largest teams
ranked by tracked headcount
  1. 01Curative2,251tracked employees
  2. 02Fay Servicing748tracked employees
  3. 03The Zebra367tracked employees
  4. 04Self206tracked employees
  5. 05Open Lending180tracked employees
  6. 06Tomo173tracked employees
  7. 07Episode Six150tracked employees
  8. 08Innovative Funding Services146tracked employees
32 companies with headcount data
share of events
Share of voice
share of all tracked sector news events, 24 months
  1. 01Navigator Holdings14.7%27 tracked events
  2. 02Open Lending13.6%25 tracked events
  3. 03Mitratech11.4%21 tracked events
  4. 04SEON7.6%14 tracked events
  5. 05Billd6.0%11 tracked events
  6. 06FirstClose5.4%10 tracked events
  7. 07Flueid5.4%10 tracked events
  8. 08Cloverleaf Analytics3.8%7 tracked events
184 tracked events across 28 companies
articles
In the news
Prism news coverage, last 12 months
  1. 01Credit Cards2,925articles in the window
  2. 02Tomo249articles in the window
  3. 03Visio158articles in the window
  4. 04Mitratech84articles in the window
  5. 05SEON66articles in the window
  6. 06Fintiv57articles in the window
  7. 07FirstClose43articles in the window
  8. 08Abrigo20articles in the window
34 of these companies drew sector coverage in the window
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How the Fintech ecosystem in Austin grew, 2016–2025

Lists the number of fintech startups founded each year and the total funding they have secured, noting the highest founding count of 34 in 2020 and the low of six in 2025.

Companies founded / year
new Fintech companies in Austin
2016: 262017: 332018: 212019: 282020: 342021: 272022: 212023: 292024: 212025: 6
20162025
peak 34 in 2020
Companies raising / year
with a disclosed round that year
20162025
peak 23 in 2022
Disclosed funding / year
sum of disclosed rounds (USD)
2016: 184,004,9812017: 68,117,2452018: 513,525,9282019: 81,524,1192020: 884,657,0912021: 534,901,9442022: 637,471,0332023: 524,714,5722024: 125,196,4492025: 405,348,221
20162025
peak $884.7M in 2020

The Fintech market map of Austin: what these companies actually do

Breaks down the product categories these firms develop and the revenue models they use, with enterprise tech and subscription fees being the most common.

  • Enterprise Tech241 companies · $3.9B raised · 25 hiring
  • Consumer Digital171 companies · $1.6B raised · 10 hiring
  • Enterprise Software156 companies · $2.8B raised · 18 hiring
  • SaaS88 companies · $1.3B raised · 7 hiring
  • Nbfc Lenders59 companies · $1.8B raised · 6 hiring
  • Fintech SaaS51 companies · $511.1M raised · 4 hiring
  • Business Payments Solutions50 companies · $371M raised · 2 hiring
  • Commerce Enablers40 companies · $813.6M raised · 3 hiring
  • Marketplaces32 companies · $563.6M raised · 3 hiring
  • Online Trading Platforms23 companies · $16.5M raised · 1 hiring
  • Insurtech SaaS20 companies · $175.2M raised
  • Blockchain in Financial Services19 companies · $39.9M raised

Monetization

How Fintech companies make money

How many companies earn revenue each way. Plenty use more than one model, so the counts add up to more than the sector.

Subscription269
Commission on Transaction220
Fee-For-Service92
E-Commerce - Service60
Lending45
Advertising20
E-Commerce - Product9
Freemium4

Funding, M&A and the deals moving Fintech in Austin

Counts corporate events over the past two years, including funding rounds, leadership changes, product launches, acquisitions and lawsuits, totaling 154 events.

Funding 32Leadership 28Product 25M&A 19Lawsuit 13Earnings 11Buyback 7Contracts 7Assets 5Jobs 4
  • M&AGlobal investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) today announced it has acquired a majority stake in Knack RCM (“Knack”) and EqualizeRCM (“Equalize”), two leading U.S. healthcare revenue cycle management (“RCM”) providers, to create an AI-native, global, multi-specialty RCM platform.2026-05-04
  • M&ABridgefront Capital LLC bought a new position in shares of Agilent Technologies during the third quarter valued at about $1,323,000.2026-04-10
  • FundingAustin-based inKind offers rewards to millions of consumers who dine at the best restaurants in the country.2026-03-27
  • M&AAbrigo, a leading provider of compliance, credit risk, lending, and data and analytics solutions for U.S. financial institutions, has acquired 360 View, an industry leader in banking CRM, marketing automation, and profitability analytics.2026-03-09
  • FundingAmong the largest financings were Kiavi ($350 million, debt), Dwelly ($50 million, debt), Metiundo ($47.6 million, Series A), OneDome ($34.2 million, Series C), Stake ($31 million, Series B), Ownwell ($30 million, Series B), and Orchard ($30 million, venture).2026-03-06
  • FundingCurative – $150.0M2025-12-08
  • FundingSelf, a zero-knowledge identity protocol, secured $9 million in seed funding from top investors2025-11-14
  • FundingBilld – $7.3M2025-11-10
  • M&ABizcap, together with its US affiliate NewCo Capital Group, is proud to announce that it has acquired 8fig2025-10-20
  • FundingQuoteWell, a tech-driven wholesale insurance brokerage, today announced an additional $12 million in financing, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $32 million.2025-10-20

Mergers and acquisitions

Deals from the last 24 months where a Fintech company in Austin was the buyer or the one bought, newest first. “Undisclosed” means the price was never published — not that the deal was worth nothing.

AcquirerTargetDeal valueStatusDate
carlyleEqualizeRCMundisclosedAnnounced2026-05-04
Bridgefront Capitalagilent technologies$1.3MAnnounced2026-04-10
Abrigo360 viewundisclosedAnnounced2026-03-20
bizcap8figundisclosedAnnounced2025-10-21
cartaSirvatusundisclosedAnnounced2025-10-10
Navigator HoldingsNavigator Hyperion, Navigator Titan, Navigator VestaundisclosedCompleted2025-03-17

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Provides details on notable corporate events such as leadership moves and new customer contracts.

Leadership moves
13 tracked people moves · last 12 months
  • SEONJules Gsell · Appointment → Board MemberApr 2026
  • GreenRoadYossi Carmil · Appointment → Executive ChairmanMar 2026
  • GreenRoadYali Harari · Appointment → Chief Executive OfficerMar 2026
  • GreenRoadZohar Elhanani · Promotion → Board of DirectorsMar 2026
  • Open LendingAnthony Capizzano · Appointment → Chief Growth OfficerJan 2026
  • FirstCloseAlex Sirpis · Appointment → Vice President of SalesDec 2025
  • Open LendingAbhijit "Abhi" Chaudhary · Appointment → Class I directorNov 2025
  • Open LendingGene Yoon · Resignation — was Board MemberNov 2025
Contract wins
3 customer wins · last 24 months

Who is building Fintech in Austin

Profiles the founders and CEOs of Austin fintech firms, showing their educational backgrounds and prior employers, with Harvard Business School and Morgan Stanley appearing most often.

Founders and chief executives12 of 230, from the best-funded companies on this page
Johann Moonesinghe
Co-Founder & CEO
Johann Moonesinghe
repeat founder

Ex-MAD · UCLA BSC 2004

Mike Love
Chief Executive Officer
Mike Love

Cloud Payments Network, ex-ThrillBox. The University of Texas at Austin BSc 1978

Keith Melnick
CEO
Keith Melnick

Ex-KAYAK, Boston Consulting Group, American Airlines.University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign BS 1991, USC Marshall School of Business MBA 1996

Christopher Doyle
President and CEO
Christopher Doyle
repeat founder

Founder SiteCapture, ex-Dividend Finance, Southwest Construction Services, Royce Builders. Texas A&M University 2003, Rice University MBA 2015

Yaron Shapira
Co-Founder & CEO
Yaron Shapira

Ex-Co-Founder The Culture Trip, Intuit, Check, Mercury. Bar-Ilan University MBA 2003

Tamas Kadar
Co-Founder & CEO
Tamas Kadar

Ex-Forbes Technology Council. Corvinus University of Budapest BSc

Raul Esqueda
Founder & President
Raul Esqueda

President Commerce Commercial Credit, VP Capital Credit, Future Sales Advance, My Business Pad.

Will Young
CEO & Co-founder
Will Young

Cosmos Institute, ex-Justworks, ex-Google, Harvard Business School, 2015

Darren Nix
Co-Founder & CEO
Darren Nix
repeat founder

Ex-Interviewed.

John Mitchell
Co-Founder & CEO
John Mitchell

Ex-Rev Worldwide, NetSpend

Elisabeth Demarse
ex-CEO
Elisabeth Demarse

Kubient, ex-Appnexus, ex-Thestreet, National Association of Corporate Directors, 2015

Eric Youngstrom
Founder and CEO
Eric Youngstrom

Onramp Funds, ex-Mobile1st Perfecting Mobile Conversion, ex-Stamps Com, The University of Texas at Austin - The Red McCombs School of Business, 2000

Where the founders studied
alma mater on record for 34 of 230 founders
Harvard Business School4
University of California (Berkeley)4
Harvard University3
Stanford University3
University of California (Los Angeles)3
The Wharton School3
USC Marshall School of Business2
Columbia University2
Where they worked before
a previous employer on record for 5 of 230 founders
Morgan Stanley2
Boston Consulting Group1
Cisco1
Paypal1
Goldman Sachs1
Founders flagged as repeat founders
of 200 founders with a profile on this page
8
carry a repeat-founder flag
  • flagged as repeat founders8
  • no repeat-founder flag192
Women and men among the founders
first names matched for 217 of 230 founders
7%
of matched founders are women
  • women15
  • men202
Inferred from first names, using 119 million people who state their own gender: a first name counts only where at least 20 of them share it and at least 90% of those share the same gender. The other 13 founders go in neither column.
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Who funds Fintech in Austin

Summarizes investor activity since 2016, noting 235 funding rounds from 377 investors and an average round size of $5.8 million.

Investor · most active investors since 2016RoundsLedLatest
Silverton Partners135Oct 2025
Y Combinator73Jan 2025
Trust Ventures63Mar 2023
Next Coast Ventures63Jul 2024
Aquiline Capital Partners54Oct 2024
Capital Factory52May 2020
Vertex Ventures51Jul 2022
SVB5Sep 2024
Gigafund44Jun 2022
Altos Ventures Management43Sep 2021
Stage mix · rounds since 2016
Seed & Angel88
Series A–B93
Series C+ / PE15
Grants, debt & other39

The typical round is $5.8M — half were bigger, half smaller.

The biggest Fintech funding rounds in Austin

Lists the largest disclosed financing deals, including inKind’s $450 million Series B round, and highlights ten major recent rounds.

CompanyRoundSizeWhenBackers
inKindSeries Bmega-round$450MFeb 2026Matt Hulsizer, Vasanth Williams, Jenny Just
FintivSeries B$185MOct 2014Mastercard, Wellington
CurativeSeries B$152.5MOct 2025Justin Mateen, Mike Novogratz, Duquesne Family Office +3 more
The ZebraSeries D$150MApr 2021Weatherford Capital, Accel, Silverton Partners +4 more
8figSeries B$140MApr 2023Koch Disruptive Technologies, Battery Ventures, LocalGlobe +3 more
FintivSeries B$103.5MMay 2014Brentwood Associates, Tomorrow Ventures, Atlanticus Holdings
SEONSeries B$94MApr 2022IVP, Creandum, Portfolion +2 more
SEONSeries C$80MSep 2025Sixth Street, IVP, Creandum +2 more
Sana BenefitsSeries B$60.1MJun 2022Trust Ventures, Gigafund, American Family Ventures +4 more
BilldSeries A$60MJan 2019LL Funds
Venture round sizes · 2023–2025
<$1M6
$1–10M18
$10–50M18
$50–250M3
>$250M0

45 venture rounds with a disclosed amount in the window.

Fresh cheques · last 6 months
  • AvtalSeedundisclosedMar 2026
  • AvtalSeries AundisclosedMar 2026
  • inKindSeries B$450MFeb 2026
  • OwnwellSeries B$30MFeb 2026
  • OwnwellConventional Debt$20MFeb 2026
  • 6LockSeries A$4.8MFeb 2026
  • inKindConventional DebtundisclosedFeb 2026

What the news says about Fintech in Austin

Counts 6,771 news articles published in the last year about Austin fintech, indicating the most frequently covered topics such as cryptocurrency effects on forex and macroeconomic indicators.

News volume
Fintech coverage tagged Austin · articles per quarter
2021Q2: 1,2622021Q3: 1,3732021Q4: 1,2042022Q1: 1,8842022Q2: 2,0932022Q3: 1,4582022Q4: 1,5252023Q1: 1,9182023Q2: 1,8672023Q3: 1,5262023Q4: 1,4722024Q1: 1,8092024Q2: 1,8752024Q3: 1,6552024Q4: 1,6152025Q1: 2,5412025Q2: 2,0942025Q3: 1,8012025Q4: 1,3092026Q1: 1,768
2021Q22026Q1
peak 2,541 in 2025Q1 · 6,771 articles in the last 12 tracked months
Tone of coverage
share of articles by dominant sentiment (positive / neutral / negative)
202120232025
Positive-tone share moved 76% → 73%, negative 23% → 26% across 2021–2025.

What the coverage is about

The subjects that dominate Fintech news in United States. The arrow shows whether each one is being written about more or less than a year ago.

  • Cryptocurrency impact on forex markets256,685▲+41%
  • Economic indicators (gdp, cpi, unemployment)85,368→+7%
  • Trade wars and geopolitical impacts83,564▲+17%
  • Interest rate decisions and impacts72,480▲+17%
  • Central bank monetary policy announcements65,419→+10%
  • Federal reserve policy meeting summaries64,366▲+17%
  • Global recession risks and forecasts63,436▲+13%
  • Regulatory compliance in foreign exchange trading50,230▲+85%
  • Foreign exchange (forex) rate fluctuations49,040▲+40%
  • Quarterly and annual financial results48,582▲+28%
Most-covered companies · last 12 months

34 Fintech companies here were named in the news over this period.

Prism

Watch Fintech coverage in United States as it happens

Prism follows these subjects story by story — which companies are named, what is said about them and how the tone moves.

Momentum

The words getting louder — and quieter

Which terms are showing up in more stories than a year ago, and which are fading. The percentage is the change in how many articles mention them.

stablecoin fx impact+124%stock price+115%investment deal+422%decentralized forex+97%etf trading+97%share price+155%etfs+95%forex liquidity+52%sector etfs+92%etf structures+96%
flood stage forecasting-99%hydrologic risk modeling-100%coastal flooding study-97%flood control measures-98%severe weather warning-90%

The pressures the press keeps returning to

Three recurring angles in United States Fintech coverage, and whether each is getting more attention year on year (through 2025).

Regulatory Risk ▲ rising
1,276,365 articles touch this dimension · 49.0% critical tone
20212025
signals: economic slowdown, stock performance, currency intervention policies
Funding Momentum ▲ rising
268,477 articles touch this dimension · 37.5% critical tone
20212025
signals: inflation reports fx, currency intervention policies, trade deficits fx
Growth ▲ rising
402,987 articles touch this dimension · 43.1% critical tone
20212025
signals: gdp growth forex, inflation reports fx, trade deficits fx

Fintech jobs in Austin: who is hiring and what they ask for

Reports 967 job postings from 55 firms in the past year, listing top required skills and a median advertised salary of $127 k per year.

967postings · last 12 months
1,503postings tracked overall
55employers advertising
$127kmedian advertised salary/yr (n=91)

Demand

The Skills Employers Ask For

What Fintech employers in Austin put in their job ads. The bar is how many postings ask for it; the arrow shows whether demand grew or shrank against the year before.

  • python45
  • sql31
  • excel26
  • typescript22
  • ai18
  • snowflake12
  • javascript11
  • looker11
  • aws10
  • salesforce10
What level are these roles?
Entry9
Intern27
Senior70
Lead23
Manager196
Most advertised titles
  • Family Practice - Without Ob Physician50
  • Psychiatric - Mental Health Physician28
  • Radiology Physician25
  • Academic/Faculty/Research Physician21
  • Internal Medicine Physician20
  • Dermatology Physician19

What the research says

The Fintech research read is national: 907 United States-affiliated papers, clustered into themes such as Mobile Payments Adoption Barriers, Financial Crime Detection Challenges, Algorithmic Trading Liquidity Risks, Mobile Money Inclusion Pitfalls. It is measured at country level, so it is the same signal for every city in United States — the full read, with the theme clusters, growth and blind spots, lives on the national page.

Read the full Fintech research analysis for United States →

Prism

Go deeper on Fintech research and innovation

Research themes, patent activity and the companies commercialising them, in one place.

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Track Fintech in Austin beyond this page

Radar finds and filters the companies. Prism watches what is being said about them.

About this data: built from Fliar's company, founder, funding, hiring, jobs, news and research trackers, covering Austin. Counts are of companies we track, not of every company that exists. Updated August 2026.
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