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Even if the funding of the venture capital of the industry continued to decrease in 2024, many fintechs – in particular those which serve other companies – have found. Here is the Forbes Fintech 50 for 2025.

By Jeff Kauflin And Janet NovackForbes staff


AFTER A BRIDE 2023, when the market values ​​of financial technology companies have reached their lowest levels for years, the industry has shown signs of recovery in 2024. Evaluations for some of the largest private finishes as Band And Ramp Returning back and listed players such as Affir, Coinbase and Robinhood have seen their shares increase. This did not prevent global funding from private fintes from continuing to slide at $ 34 billion last year, compared to $ 42 billion in 2023 and a record of $ 144 billion in 2021, according to CB Insights.

Our new 2025 Fintech 50 line is full of entrepreneurs who have found ways to thrive in this constrained and sometimes turbulent environment. Fintechs that serve other companies – most of which fall under our payments, our activities in Business Banking and Wall Street and business categories – have particularly well required 31 of the 50 places in total. These three categories also represent 13 of 18 companies that made their debut Fintech 50 On this year’s list.

This is the tenth year that we publish Fintech 50, and only two companies, whose hand in the payment sector – have dropped each year: Plaid and Stripe.

(You can see the full Fintech 50 2025 list here.)

Among the first passers -by on our 2025 list, an example of the trend in business services is parafin, a lender of small companies from San Francisco founded by three former scientists of Robinhood data. He tries to take out more effectively loans using market data such as Walmart, Doordash and Amazon, instead of relying on credit scores or personal guarantees from the owners. In 2024, Parafin reached 25,000 borrowers and its income more than doubled at $ 75 million. Squire, a New York company led by the former lawyer is thinking about Laron, is another example. It helps the hairdressing salons to do everything, schedule to accept payments; Last year, he dealt with $ 740 million in transactions, compared to $ 590 million in 2023.

The newcomer Dailypay, led by former director of marketing Stacy Greiner, who became CEO last year, allows employees to access their salary just after winning them, instead of waiting for a weekly pay check . The 10 -year -old company has more than 1,000 companies, including Hilton and Kroger, as a customers, and last year, it spread to be available for more than five million employees.

Another beginner, Datavisor, comes from the prevention of fraud constantly increasing, where fintechs try to thwart sophisticated criminals. Co -founded by Chinese immigrants Yinglian Xie and Fang Yu, both with American computer doctorates, he uses patented automatic learning algorithms to report fraudulent payments and increased his income by 67% in 2024, reaching $ 50 million . Datavisor is one of the eight Fintech 50 winners led by female CEOs – the most in the 10 years we have published the list.

An area of ​​commercial services that has not hooked its presence on our list this year: banking startups as a service that help other companies to offer financial products such as checks. In the wake of Synapse collapseThis corner of the fintech still faces an intense regulatory examination and intimidating obstacles to growth. The two companies withdraws from this trend are the column and the main bank, which have both made our list and, significantly, have their own banking charters.

To select who made the Fintech 50, our team of 10 journalists and publishers analyzed hundreds of companies, assessing everything, of the growth of companies and the novelty of products to the diversity of the leadership team. We interviewed the CEOs and the initiates of the industry. To be taken into account, startups must have their registered office or their substantial operations in the United States and not be part of a public company.

Personal finance startups also made a solid performance on Fintech 50 this year, taking eight places. A notable newcomer was True Link, which offers a debit card with customizable expenditure controls for people with dementia, mental health challenges or special needs. True Link has 157,000 active card holders, his income reached $ 30 million in 2024 and he made a profit for the second consecutive year.

Profitability has become another theme – more than companies publish real profits after investors began to demand it. On the list of this year, 13 winners, against eight last year, say they were profitable on the basis of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) the previous year. Fund manufacturers range from the figure of the investment capital lender (which does business on the blockchain) to the ethics of life insurance startups to the Tabapay payment company.

Some categories of fintechs have continued to contain only a few places on our list, largely the reflection of broader challenges in their industries. Real estate claimed only two winners and insurance claimed four. Crypto has taken three, although the embrace of the digital assets of President Trump and a congress controlled by the Republicans will probably be a boon for the industry this year.

In all categories, loan companies seem to make a return years ago, when they were often slandered by investors and the CEO of industry. Among our First 18 passers -bySix are lenders, including Arc, Aven, Bilt, Figure, Print and Parafin.

A company made a surprising return after making our list in 2020, then fell for four years after that: Nova Credit. Founded in 2016, its first product was Credit Passport, a service that allows immigrants to import their credit history of their country of origin. Landers like American Express have signed because it helped them accept more customers, but when the hidden blow and immigration stopped suddenly, the demand for Nova technology has disappeared.

Later in 2020, the startup used its expertise to launch a second line of activity focused on the subscription of cash flows, the emerging technique of the risk assessment of the borrower according to inputs and account exits consumption banking. Nova cash flow subscription products are now its fastest activity section – a demonstration of adaptability that has propelled an increasing number of finishes to create sustainable businesses.

With additional reports from Nina Bambysheva, Martina Castellanos, Steven Ehrlich, Kelly Phillips Erb, Brandon Kochkodin, Stephen Pastis, Hank Tucker and Francesca Walton.

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