Top California Financial Services Startups (455)

Founded in 2020 by George Sivulka and backed by Peter Thiel and Andreessen Horowitz, Hebbia powers investment decisions for BlackRock, KKR, Carlyle, Centerview, and 40% of the world’s largest asset managers. Our flagship product, Matrix, delivers industry-leading accuracy, speed, and transparency in AI-driven analysis. It is trusted to help manage over $15 trillion in assets globally. We deliver the intelligence that...

Traditional firms rely on interviews, retroactive documentation, and billable hours. Onshore applies AI at the point of substantiation, providing documentation tied directly to source data and pairing it with expert review. The result is defensible, audit-ready work delivered in weeks, not quarters. We help companies claim R&D Tax Credits, 179D Deductions, and Cost Segregation with proof, not process. 500+ companies have trusted Onshore...

At January, we bring humanity to consumer finance. Using data intelligence, we create trust and deliver better outcomes for consumers and creditors alike. Our mission is simple: expand access to credit while empowering consumers to achieve lasting stability and control of their financial lives. We began by building the foundation for creditors to engage with and support their borrowers at scale...

Gynger is a cash flow management solution with embedded financing that gives B2B technology vendors the power to offer flexible payment terms to customers while securing up front payment. With Gynger, finance leaders can leverage a combination of actionable insights and capital to optimize day-to-day cash flows, accelerate deal flows, mitigate risk, and execute long term strategic vision with ease. In 2024,...

Scratch is a dynamic and innovative fintech company at the forefront of patient lending and payment processing, serving a network of over 15,000 healthcare practices across the United States and Canada. Our mission is to revolutionize the veterinary financial experience, ensuring pet parents have seamless access to the treatments they need without the burden of financial stress.

Opto Investments (“Opto”) are engineering the future of private markets, offering the solution for wealth managers to efficiently build and manage differentiated private investment programs. Opto’s end-to-end technology solution dramatically streamlines building, fundraising for, and managing a bespoke private markets fund or program, allowing independent investment advisors, family offices, and private banks to scale their offerings without scaling their team. Founded by...

One Degree Advisors helps people who are committed to connecting plans for their finances, family, and future. Your financial future can be complex, making it difficult to cut through the noise and know what steps to take next. Every small detail can have a large impact on your finances, the same way a single degree can cause a plane to travel...

At Summitry, we help you maximize the benefits of living in one of the most unique areas in the world. Our personalized financial planning guidance and investment strategies are specially suited for life in the Bay Area.

Arena Investors is an institutional asset manager that provides creative solutions for those seeking capital in special situations. Arena brings decades of experience, a track record of comfort with complexity, the ability to deliver within time constraints, and the flexibility to engage in transactions that cannot be addressed by banks and other conventional financial institutions. Arena’s mandate is global, and also...

The Kingfish platform is unlike any other in private equity. We believe relationships with the right on-point experience can dramatically change the trajectory of a business. As private equity advisors and investors our platform ensures we make that impact every time. Our network includes seasoned, on-point executives who have been customers, competitors and key suppliers to the business, meaning they don’t just...

Our mission is to provide the lowest cost, most convenient, and most transparent access to capital.

Artemis Consulting is a small, woman-owned business, founded in 2005, and headquartered in San Diego, CA.  We are a business consulting firm dedicated to delivering superior professional support consulting services.  We partner with customers throughout the Department of Defense to deliver critical acquisition, programmatic, and functional support that enables our clients to overcome their most persistent challenges.

ESM’s tech-enabled risk management services provide Insurance Agencies and Employers with tools, education and advocacy to reduce the risk and cost associated with Workers' Compensation.

PatientFi is a leading payments platform used by healthcare providers to seamlessly offer their patients more affordable alternatives for out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. Bringing flexible, monthly payment plans to the forefront of healthcare practices, PatientFi makes life-changing procedures and treatments more accessible and attainable for patients. As part of PatientFi's mission to help more patients say yes to the procedures they...

Kikoff is a personal finance platform that offers the simplest credit-building solution out there: $0 fees, 0% interest, and no credit pull. Your credit score is the foundation of your financial health – yet most people don’t have the credit score they deserve. That’s why Kikoff built the most accessible and affordable credit-building solution – it’s also the fastest growing...

The only nationally chartered bank built to enable developers and builders to create new financial products.

The trucking and logistics industry provides the backbone of the economy, but the payments infrastructure on which it runs is broken; the existing suite of payment tools is outdated, difficult to use, prone to fraud, and saddled with hidden fee structures. AtoB is building Stripe for Transportation — modernizing the payments infrastructure for trucking and logistics, where capital movement occurs...

An infrastructure platform for global credit markets. Originate, securitize, and service loans across borders with less cost and greater transparency.

Pearly is the dental financial engagement platform that boosts practice profitability and keeps patients smiling. We empower dental practices, groups, and DSOs to provide patients with a financial experience they'll remember — and come back for — with our easy-to-use, cloud based products: » Accounts Receivable Automation » Patient Billing Technology » Dental Membership Software Forward thinking dental practices trust Pearly to boost collection rate,...

Ascend is the first modern insurance payments platform that provides automated, all-in-one financing, collections, and payables. We help distributors sell more by eliminating labor intensive processes and providing customers with the great online checkout experience they expect. We’re hiring across GTM, engineering and business functions - email us at [email protected] if you're interested in learning more.