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Putting two startups on the same track to simplify urban mobility

August 2025

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Protecting trust in a digital world: Mastercard launches new Start Path program to accelerate security innovation

July 2025

Krowd is redefining bank rewards by offering unforgettable dining experiences powered by deep payment integrations that make your card the first payment choice every time.

Omar Rafii
Co-founder and CEO of Krowd

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Bluespine is an AI-powered platform for claims cost reduction that enables self-insured employers to prevent financial leakage from fraud, waste and abuse while mitigating fiduciary risks in plan administration.

David Talinovsky
Co-founder and CEO of Bluespine

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ipaymy enables businesses and individuals to pay any expense with their credit card - even when cards are not accepted by the merchant. 

Ethan Dobson
CEO of ipaymy

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Dataiera enables companies to rapidly build secure and resilient AI solutions. 

Peter Marriot
Co-founder
and CEO of Dataiera

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LetMePark streamlines parking and charging payments for connected cars in one app. 

Uliana Torkunova
Founder and CEO of LetMePark

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UbiRider is a technology platform that seamlessly integrates transportation management, contactless payments, real-time payment processing and data analytics into a single system. 

Paulo Ferreira dos Santos
Founder and CEO of UbiRider

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Asistobe leverages AI-driven insights to decide why people move, to shape tomorrow's mobility infrastructures.

Johan Haveland
Founder and CEO of Asistobe

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it's electric aims to solve the biggest barriers cities face in the deployment of public electric vehicle charging.

Tiya Gordon
Co-founder and COO of it's electric

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Neivor is an integrated payment and financial ecosystem for housing.

Caterine Castillo
Co-founder and CEO of Neivor

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Pacto enables financial institutions to offer streamlined payments experiences and operations, while unlocking new revenue streams. 

Rodrigo Kuri
Co-founder and CEO of Pacto

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Payglocal enables businesses to accept payments effortlessly with unparalleled success rates and zero hassles. 

Prachi Dharani
Co-founder and CEO of PayGlocal

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Proboutik digitizes informal commerce by providing merchants with efficient financial and management solutions.

Thierno Sakho
Co-founder
and CEO of Proboutik

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Rainforest helps vertical software platforms grow revenue by embedding payments into their products without taking on risk or compliance headaches.

Joshua Silver
Founder and CEO of Rainforest

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Skipify is reimagining the checkout experience with identity-powered payments, helping merchants boost authorization and conversion rates while reducing checkout abandonment. 

Ryth Martin
Founder and CEO of Skipify

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Softpay developed an innovative SoftPOS solution that enables fast, contactless payments on smartphones, tablets and enterprise devices, serving merchants of all sizes around the world.

Ivan Sandqvist
Co-founder and CEO of Softpay

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She experienced fraud firsthand. Now this founder is building a safer, smarter payments experience for all

March 2025

Norman Finance is an embedded accounting and tax filing AI agent automating tax preparation, helping customers save thousands of euros in the process. 

Peter Boyko
Co-founder and CEO of Norman Finance

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BoxCommerce empowers SMEs, enterprises and marketplaces with innovative e-commerce, social commerce, payments and logistics solutions, dedicated to revolutionize the digital commerce landscape.

Craig McLeod
Co-founder and CEO of Box Commerce

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Skydropx is a shipment transaction platform that helps businesses across diverse sectors streamline their shipping processes with cutting-edge tools. 

Tavo Zambrano
Partner of Skydropx

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Lemonero makes financial services accessible to SMEs through an AI-driven embedded finance platform, designed to enable fast, tailored and fully online access to capital within minutes. 

Jan Lastuvka
Co-founder
and CEO of Lemonero

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Calculum leverages AI-driven supply chain analytics to help companies unlock working capital and generate billions in free cash flow.

Oliver Belin
Co-founder and CEO of Calculum

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FlapKap offers SMEs in the Middle East and North Africa fast and accessible working capital funding solutions.

Ahmad Coucha
Co-founder and CEO of FlapKap

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Aazzur offers a platform for startups, enterprises and financial service providers to embed the financial services needed for seamless operations into existing systems.

Philipp Buschmann
CEO of Aazzur

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Astrada helps software companies access and leverage real-time transaction feeds to create user-friendly payment experiences, beginning with spend management.

Salman Syed
CEO of Astrada

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Carrington Labs empowers lenders and financial institutions to make informed lending decisions with product-specific credit risk scoring and loan limit recommendations powered by explainable AI.

Jamie Twiss
CEO of Carrington Labs

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FairPlay enables companies using AI to make decisions about consumers' lives to refine their models and fix blind spots, thereby increasing revenue, ensuring compliance and improving outcomes for consumers. 

Kareem Saleh
CEO of FairPlay

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FutureBank provides a platform for financial institutions that simplifies the integration between core banking and modern fintech and grows with businesses.

Sergio Barbosa
CEO of FutureBank

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Impactica Labs is an open finance solution that helps organizations streamline public benefits enrollment and enhance access to essential services.

Kevan de Silva, Ariel Porath
Founders of Impactica Labs 

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Ozone API helps banks and financial institutions around the world deliver high-performing, standards-compliant open banking APIs.

Huw Davies
CEO of Ozone API

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Trudenty’s Consumer Trust Network enables merchants, issuers and acquirers to collaborate through privacy-preserving data sharing to prevent first party and Authorized Push Payment fraud.

Lerato Matsio
CEO of Trudenty

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