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Playbook & Handbook · February 6, 2026
Winning Accelerator Playbook 2026 by BambuUP
EDTECH: LEVERAGING AI-POWERED TECHNOLOGIES TO TRANSFORM THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
Swan
Swan is an embedded banking infrastructure provider founded in Paris in 2019 by Nicolas Benady, Mathieu Breton and Nicolas Saison. It is licensed as an electronic money institution by the…
Opportunities
Open Banking & BaaS
Modern Treasury
Modern Treasury is a San Francisco payment operations and ledger company founded in 2018 by Dimitri Dadiomov, Matt Marcus and Sam Aarons. It targets the accounting and reconciliation layer that…
Brim Financial
Brim Financial is a Toronto-based cards and payments platform-as-a-service founded in 2016 by Rasha Katabi. It sells to banks, credit unions, fintechs, non-bank lenders and consumer brands that want to…
Alloy
Alloy is an identity risk and compliance platform founded in 2015 by Tommy Nicholas, Laura Spiekerman and Charles Hearn, headquartered at 88 University Place in New York. Banks, credit unions…
Increase
Increase is a US bank infrastructure company founded in 2020 by Darragh Buckley, Stripe’s first employee. It gives technology companies programmatic access to store, move and reconcile money, replacing the…
Unit
Unit is a banking-as-a-service company founded at the end of 2019 by Itai Damti and Doron Somech and headquartered in New York. It lets software platforms and brands add regulated…
Treasury Prime
Treasury Prime is a US embedded banking software company founded in 2017 by Chris Dean and Jim Brusstar and run remotely across the United States and Canada. It addresses the…
Tieto Banktech
Tieto Banktech is the financial-services software arm of Finland’s Tieto Corporation, one of the largest IT companies in the Nordics. It supplies mission-critical software and processing services to banks, card…
Merge
Merge is an integrations platform founded in 2020, headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York and Berlin. It solves a recurring engineering burden for B2B software vendors: customers…
Vodeno
Vodeno is a Banking-as-a-Service provider founded in Poland in 2018, with offices in Poland, Belgium, Spain and the UK. Its core product is the Vodeno Cloud Platform, an API-first core…