Ellie Horvath
At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
We’ve ranked the top 101 Banking companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Banking Companies & Startups (London)
Selina Finance
| Founders | Andrea Olivari, Hubert Fenwick, Leonard Benning |
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Selina Finance provides loans to small and medium businesses in the form of flexible credit facilities.
Soldo
| Founders | Carlo Gualandri |
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Soldo is a multi-user expense account helping companies manage their budgets.
Monese
| Founders | Norris Koppel |
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Monese is a digital banking option that provides mobile-only, multi-currency accounts in countries across the European Economic Area.
FlowBank
| Founders | Charles Henri Sabet |
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FlowBank is a multi-asset trading platform that offers a wide range of online banking & investment services to brokers & corporate clients.
Form3
| Founders | Michael Mueller |
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Form3 is a cloud native payments-as-a-service platform that designs, builds, and runs the technology that powers the future of payments.
DIEM
| Founders | Geri Cupi |
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Twig is a fintech startup that provides a mobile banking app.
Fintern
| Founders | Dr Michelle He, Gerald Chappell |
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Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans.
Moneybox
| Founders | Ben Stanway, Charlie Mortimer |
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Moneybox is a mobile savings and investment app that offers a range of saving and investment products including Lifetime ISAs and Pensions.
Ziglu
| Founders | Mark Hipperson, Niall McConnell, Philip Goffin |
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Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
3S Money
| Founders | Andrei Dikouchine, Eugene Dugaev, Ivan Zhiznevskiy |
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3S Money offers international business banking services in 190 countries.
ANNA : Absolutely No Nonsense Admin
| Founders | Andrei Pachai, Boris Dyakonov, Daljit Singh, Eduard Panteleev, Nikita Filippov, Slava Akulov |
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Business Banking and Admin service
Repay Solutions
| Founders | George Robbins |
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Over The Top payment platform connecting businesses to the latest real-time payments innovations without changing bank.
Nucoro
| Founders | Antonio Melé, Jose Maria Carbajo, Lennart Asshoff |
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Nucoro enables financial institutions to build digital savings, investment and wealth management propositions at speed and scale.
Ondato
| Founders | Andrej Vistorskij, Liudas Kanapienis |
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Complete KYC and AML management suite that helps businesses onboard clients, authenticate users, and safely conduct their remote processes.
Flagstone
| Founders | Andrew Thatcher |
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Flagstone is a UK starup developing a cash deposit marketplace that gives users easy access to hundreds of cash deposit accounts.
Cushon
| Founders | Ben Pollard, Phil Hollingdale |
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Cushon is a fintech company that provides investment, pension, financial wellbeing and workplace savings.
Monolith
| Founders | David Hoggard, Mel Gelderman |
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Monolith is a decentralised banking alternative that integrates the DeFi economy into your daily life.
HSBC
| Founders | Thomas Sutherland |
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HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.
Coconut
| Founders | Adam Goodall, Sam O’Connor |
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Coconut is the current account that takes care of your accounting and tax.
Funding Options
| Founders | Conrad Ford |
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Funding Options is a business to business services marketplace platform operating in the UK and the Netherlands.
The Bank of London
| Founders | Anthony Watson |
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The Bank of London is a global clearing, agency, and transaction bank advancing the economic infrastructure of the future.
Cashaa
| Founders | Janina Lowisz, Kumar Gaurav |
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Next Generation Banking Platform
Upside Saving
| Founders | Andries Smit, Paul Russell, Steve Fourie |
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Upside is Intelligent Cashback as an API, fuelled by Open Banking.
Baanx Group
| Founders | Garth Howat, Mark Evans, Sean Salloux |
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BaaS (Banking as a Service), white label, mobile digital asset friendly: wallets, cards, payment gateways, IBANs, for communities
TreeCard
| Founders | Gary Wu, James Cox, James Dugan, Jamie Cox, Peter Francis |
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Treecard is a fullstack green finance platform, allowing consumers to spend, save and invest responsibly.
Countingup
| Founders | Tim Fouracre |
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The one that does your books. Countingup is the UK’s #1 banking & accounting app. Dead easy. Super fast. Self sorting.
Updraft
| Founders | Aseem Munshi, David Yalland, Matt Millar |
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Updraft is a part lending, part credit report, and part financial planning app for millennials. We turn borrowers into savers.
Glint
| Founders | Ben Davies, Jason Cozens |
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Glint is a FinTech with an app and debit card that enables clients to save, exchange, spend and send multi-currencies and physical gold.
Omnio
| Founders | Scott Lanphere |
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Omnio Group is a market leading provider of cloud-based banking and payment services.
Monitise
| Founders | Alastair Lukies CBE |
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Monitise is a technology and services company that delivers mobile banking, payments, and commerce networks.
Old Mutual
| Founders | John Fairbairn |
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Old Mutual Group is an international investment, savings, insurance, and banking group.
Adhara
| Founders | Edward Budd, Julio Faura, Peter Munnings |
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Real time global liquidity management, FX and international payments on CBDCs and tokenized money for banks and central banks
Fund Ourselves
| Founders | Nadeem Siam, Tuomas Hietanen |
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Short-term credit from the people to the people.
Thought Machine
| Founders | Paul Taylor |
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Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Lendable
| Founders | Jakob Schwarz, Martin Kissinger, Paul Pamment, Victoria van Lennep |
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Lendable is a peer-to-peer lending platform that provides instant paperless loans.
Fiat Republic
| Founders | Adam Bialy, Martyna Lewinska, Sophie Guibaud |
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Fiat Republic provides banking API unlocking mainstream fiat services for crypto platforms.
Barclays
| Founders | John Freame |
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Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.
Nexo
| Founders | Antoni Trenchev, Georgi Shulev, Kosta Kantchev |
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The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets
Cashplus
| Founders | Andre AUGUSTUS, Richard Wagner |
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Cashplus is a digital challenger to UK banks and has served more than 1.6m customers since launching in 2005
Knoma
| Founders | Brett Shanley |
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Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Trunomi
| Founders | Stuart Lacey |
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Enterprise Privacy Platform allowing companies to meet all regulatory requirements for global Data Privacy Regulations
Growth Capital Ventures
| Founders | Craig Peterson, Norman Peterson |
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Growth Capital Ventures is a technology led financial services business.
sync.
| Founders | Azahara Egea, Ricky Lee |
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We provide bank account aggregation and personal financial management service.
Rizq
| Founders | Dennis Nemerov, Peter Trebelev, Shahid Amin, Yerkebulan Razdykov |
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Rizq is the first fully digital sharia-compliant, ethical account in the UK.
Osper
| Founders | Alick Varma |
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Osper is a prepaid debit card and mobile banking service empowering young people to manage their money responsibly.
Blackthorn
| Founders | Nick Kundnani |
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Blackthorn provides global payment and FX solutions to SMEs via multi-currency IBANs account in 25 currencies.
TreasurySpring
| Founders | James Skillen, Kevin Cook, Matthew Longhurst |
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TreasurySpring is a financial technology firm dedicated to democratising short-term funding markets
Qudini – Retail Choreography
| Founders | Fraser Hardy, Imogen Wethered |
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Retail Choreography solutions to transforming customer experience, operations and data for retailers and banks.
Freemarket
| Founders | Alex Hunn |
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Freemarket accelerate’s businesses growth by giving them access to cross-border payments and currency exchange optimized for their needs.
Griffin
| Founders | Allen Rohner, David Jarvis |
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Griffin is a Banking-as-a-Service provider that helps companies build and launch financial services products.
10xbanking
| Founders | Antony Jenkins, Brad Goodall |
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10xbanking offers a digital banking platform that will transform the way financial services providers operate.
ClearBank
| Founders | Andrew Smith, Nick Ogden |
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ClearBank is the UK’s first new clearing bank in more than 250 years.
BABB
| Founders | Rushd Averroes |
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BABB is a world bank for the micro-economy: a global marketplace for human innovation, financial autonomy and wealth creation.
Standard Chartered Bank
| Founders | James Wilson |
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Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.
Recognise Bank Ltd
| Founders | Jason Oakley |
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Recognise Bank Ltd is a provider of Banking services to UK’s Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs).
Dozens
| Founders | Aritra Chakravarty |
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dozens is a trading name of Project Imagine Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (No. 11153882).
DiPocket
| Founders | Fedele Di Maggio, Michal Wodzicki, Pavel Pokhylchenko |
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We are a new generation of mobile digital payments redefining the banking scene.
Squirrel
| Founders | Emanuel Andjelic, Mutaz Qubbaj |
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Squirrel is an award-winning smart banking app that empowers people to take control of their money.
KRM22
| Founders | Unknown |
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Provide financial market organisations .
TRASTRA
| Founders | Roman Potemkin |
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Easy and fast banking for cashing out crypto
Masthaven
| Founders | Andrew Bloom |
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Masthaven have been providing a flexible and personalised approach to bridging loans and secured lending since 2004.
Expend
| Founders | Johnny Vowles, Rudolph Graan |
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Expend is the expense management and company spending platform.
Saurus
| Founders | Unknown |
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Saurus is a UK-based digital banking startup.
Loot Financial Services
| Founders | Filip Jakubowski-Drzewiecki, Ollie Purdue |
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Loot Financial Services is a banking and money management app for students.
MoneeMint
| Founders | Hassan Waqar |
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MoneeMint provides banking services.
Monzo
| Founders | Gary Dolman, Jason Bates, Jonas Huckestein, Paul Rippon, Tom Blomfield |
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Monzo is a digital-only bank platform and marketplace that allows customers to access a range of products and services.
Chip
| Founders | Alex Latham, Simon Rabin |
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Chip is a savings and investments app that utilizes open banking technology to enable customers to deposit to investment funds.
Transak
| Founders | Sami Start, Yeshu Agarwal |
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Web2-to-web3 conversion funnels for the next generation of apps.
Berenberg
| Founders | Hans Berenberg, Paul Berenberg |
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Berenberg is a company that provides asset management, corporate and investment banking services primarily to the European areas.
Bank of England
| Founders | King William, Queen Mary |
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The Bank of England serves as the central bank of the United Kingdom.
TuningBill
| Founders | Amita D, Asit Beesen |
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TuningBill is a digital banking and account management system for international traders.
Manigo
| Founders | Stevan Bajic |
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Manigo is a full stack Banking as a Service (BaaS) provider
Finance Unlocked
| Founders | Chris White, Henry White, Robert Ellison |
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The world’s first comprehensive, on-demand video-delivered learning platform built specifically for finance professionals.
fena
| Founders | Faiz Rasool, Gosia Furmanik, Stefan Binder |
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Democratising Open Banking access
Panmure Gordon
| Founders | David Tabizel |
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Panmure Gordon & Co has been connecting businesses with the capital to help them grow.
Kudimoney
| Founders | Babs Ogundeyi |
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Kudimoney is a full service digital only bank that enriches lives by helping people live healthier financial lives.
Pockit
| Founders | Virraj Jatania |
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Pockit is a financial technology company that provides a digital banking app for the underbanked masses.
Tandem
| Founders | Matt Cooper, Michael Kent, Ricky Knox |
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Tandem is building a bank and financial management universe, focused on freeing users from financial stress by making money simple.
Curve
| Founders | Anna Mostyn-Williams, Shachar Bialick, Tom Foster-Carter |
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Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.
Greengage
| Founders | Sean Kiernan |
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Building the future of finance: reinventing the merchant bank for the digital age
VitraCash
| Founders | Florian Winkler, Koray Koska |
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Tired of carrying all your debit and credit cards without even knowing which one to use for which kind of payment? Try VitraCard!
AvantCredit
| Founders | Unknown |
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Get up to £20,000 with a personal loan online from Avant UK. Applying is easy, quick and does not affect your credit score
3AI
| Founders | Hassan Salamony, Jacob Ayres-Thomson, Simon Judd |
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Empowering Investors with Big Data Insights
UniZest
| Founders | Chris Donnachie, Peter Miles |
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Global banking for international students
Axxeltrova Limited
| Founders | Faisal Ahmed, Rick Phillips |
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Axxeltrova is a tech-focused investment bank.
Fortu Wealth
| Founders | Azamat Sultanov, Firdavs Shakhidi |
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Fortu – Digital Private Wealth with a Personal Touch
CASHOFF
| Founders | Dmitry Gorkov, Mikhail Medvedev |
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Provides profit-generating open banking API solutions for banks and unique digital experience for their consumers
Albert
| Founders | Dan Bruce, Ivo Weevers |
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Albert is an innovative, fast growing technology company disrupting financial management for freelancers and the solo self-employed.
ZEON Network
| Founders | Unknown |
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ZEON Network: a decentralized platform for financial services. Crypto-backed loans, deposits, wallet, buy and sell digital assets.
Pollinate
| Founders | Al Lukies, Fiona Roach Canning, Jonathan Hughes, Tim Joslyn |
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Pollinate Networks is a platform that works with banks to create data-driven experiences for merchants and consumers.
Acuity Knowledge Partners
| Founders | Joel Perlman |
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Acuity Knowledge Partners is a provider of research, analytics and business intelligence to the financial services sector.
Unlimint
| Founders | Kirill Evstratov |
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Unlimint provides fast-growing innovative businesses with a constantly evolving business interface, made by innovators for innovators.
Third Financial
| Founders | Pete Caddick, Stewart Foster |
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Third Financial is one of the fastest growing and most innovative software and platform service providers in the market today.
Lanistar
| Founders | Gurhan Kiziloz |
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Lanistar is a fintech company that provides customer-centric alternative to traditional banking.
Globatalent
| Founders | Ferran Martinez, Gabriel Treiband, Iñaki Cabrera, Sunil Bhardwaj |
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The Sport Neobank. An App that allows you to acces discounts on sport products, buy tickets and invest in young athletes.
Saveable
| Founders | Amer Turjacanin, Conrad Holmboe |
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Automated Savings & Wealth Management Technology
Muniy
| Founders | Jeremy Suarez |
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Muniy offers banking for everyone, extending the digital banking revolution to more aspects of people’s lives.
Scribe Labs
| Founders | Rob Cossins |
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Scribe Labs is a platform for lending and investment decisions, using research-based AI.
Origin
| Founders | Raja Palaniappan, Robert Taylor |
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Origin is the primary marketplace for fixed income borrowers and dealers.
Railsbank
| Founders | Clive Mitchell, Nigel Verdon |
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Railsbank, the global Embedded Finance Experience Platform.
Invocap
| Founders | Gideon Shaw, Jeremy Esekow |
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Invocap provides online tools that helps small and medium businesses with their financial growth.
