🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 101 Top English Finance Startups & Firms

August 14, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best English Finance companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Finance industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top English Finance Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Wise

Wise

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Wise is a money transfer service allowing private individuals and businesses to send money abroad without hidden charges.

Railsbank

Railsbank

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Railsbank is an open banking API and platform that gives regulated and un-regulated companies access to global banking.

Railsbank

Seedrs

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Seedrs is a UK-based investment and crowdfunding platform.

Railsbank

Draper Esprit

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Draper Esprit is a venture capital fund that invests in disruptive tech companies at the early and growth stages.

Railsbank

Barclays

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Barclays is a global financial services company that provides various financial products and services worldwide.

Railsbank

WorldRemit

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WorldRemit is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world.

Railsbank

LATOKEN

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LATOKEN is the leading platform for multi-asset tokenization and cryptocurrency exchange.

Railsbank

Bought By Many

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Bought By Many is a pet InsurTech company that provides insurance products and a streamlined customer experience.

Railsbank

Zopa

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Zopa offers peer-to-peer loans with low rates, flexible terms, and no early repayment fees.

Railsbank

Trussle

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Trussle is a free online mortgage broker that works with much-needed transparency.

Railsbank

Funding Circle

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Funding Circle is a lending platform for small businesses.

Railsbank

HSBC

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HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services.

Railsbank

Ebury

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Ebury is a financial services company designed to empower small and medium-sized businesses that want to trade internationally.

Railsbank

SoftBank Vision Fund

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SoftBank Vision Fund specializes in growth capital and social impact investments.

Railsbank

PPRO

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PPRO is the top global provider of local payments infrastructure, powering growth for payment service providers.

Railsbank

Freetrade

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Freetrade is a challenger stockbroker that offers free share trading in mobile phones.

Railsbank

Monese

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The mobile app alternative to the banks, offering multi-currency accounts that are easy to open from anywhere in the European Economic Area

Railsbank

Everledger

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Everledger provides an immutable ledger for diamond and other asset ownership and related supply chain history.

Railsbank

TradingView

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The social network powering independent traders and investors

Railsbank

Habito

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Habito is a digital mortgage brokerage services company that offers a personal and modernized approach to the home buying experience.

Railsbank

iwoca

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Iwoca offers credit financing services for small businesses.

Railsbank

OakNorth

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OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending

Railsbank

MarketFinance

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MarketFinance is a FinTech company providing business finance solutions that help companies grow.

Railsbank

Wirex

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Wirex is a digital payment platform that aims to make crypto and traditional currencies equal and accessible to everyone.

Railsbank

Marshmallow

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Marshmallow is a full-stack insurance carrier driven by technology.

Railsbank

Cleo

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Cleo is a financial assistant designed for Gen-Z that is fighting for the world’s financial health.

Railsbank

Insurtech Gateway

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The only FCA authorised independent incubator + fund, the Insurtech Gateway is the fastest place to build and launch an insurtech idea.

Railsbank

Prodigy Finance

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Prodigy Finance provides postgraduate student loans to international students to attend a top school.

Railsbank

Bud

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Bud is a financial network combining APIs & data to create a new species of connected experiences.

Railsbank

Salary Finance

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Salary Finance partners with employers to improve employee wellbeing by helping get people out of debt and into saving.

Railsbank

Moneybox

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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.

Railsbank

WestBridge Capital

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WestBridge Capital is a private equity firm that invests between £10m and £20m in SMEs.

Railsbank

Penfold

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Challenger pension getting young people and the self-employed saving enough for retirement.

Railsbank

Dawn Capital

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Dawn Capital is an early-stage venture fund that focuses on investing in the enterprise software and FinTech sectors.

Railsbank

PwC

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PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.

Railsbank

Seraphim Capital

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Seraphim Capital is dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the space ecosystem.

Railsbank

Radix

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Radix DLT is building a decentralized finance protocol that provides access, liquidity, and programmability of any asset in the world.

Railsbank

PrimaryBid

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PrimaryBid is a technology platform that allows everyday investors fair & equal access to investing in public companies raising capital.

Railsbank

Reef Finance

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Reef Finance is a DeFi platform that enables cross-chain integrations across various DeFi protocols.

Railsbank

TransferGo

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TransferGo offers international money transfers for both migrant workers & businesses using their digital account-to-account business model.

Railsbank

Tandem

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Tandem is building a bank and financial management universe, focused on freeing users from financial stress by making money simple.

Railsbank

Chip

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Chip is building the best savings account in the world

Railsbank

ezbob

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ezbob is a UK based software provider for banks and other financial institutions.

Railsbank

Sweatcoin

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Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by economic value of physical movement.

Railsbank

Jaja

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Jaja is a fintech company that provides digital and physical credit cards and other financing services.

Railsbank

Cuvva

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Radically better insurance, fit for the future.

Railsbank

Generation Home

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Generation Home is a new mortgage lender dedicated to making homeownership work better for everyone.

Railsbank

Zinc.VC

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Zinc.VC is a London-based business builder that runs 9 month mission-led programmes to build scalable commercial impact-led businesses.

Railsbank

Arix Bioscience

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Arix Bioscience is a healthcare and life science company.

Railsbank

Tymit

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Tymit is a provider of credit cards that offers financing purchases overtime and manages the monthly budget.

Railsbank

Capital.Com

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Capital.com is a high-growth, investment trading fintech group of companies empowering people to participate in financial markets.

Railsbank

G4S

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G4S is an international security solutions group, focused on BPO sectors where security and safety risks are considered a strategic threat.

Railsbank

Assetz Capital

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Assetz Capital is a lending business that provides its services for SME finance, bridging, and property development sectors.

Railsbank

Sonovate

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Sonovate solves cash flow and admin headaches for users and suppliers of global contingent workforce solutions

Railsbank

LANDBAY

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Landbay is a specialist Buy to Let mortgage lender using peer-to-peer technology to fund its loans.

Railsbank

Gro

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Gro develops protocols or autonomous programs designed for a simple and friendly DeFi experience.

Railsbank

Calastone

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Calastone is a global transaction network for the mutual fund industry.

Railsbank

Keebo

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Hey, we’re Keebo, the credit card designed for the new generation to build better credit and improve financial wellbeing.

Railsbank

Nucoro

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The platform to build all fintech money management propositions.

Railsbank

Invstr

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Invstr is a fintech app empowering investors to invest with commission-free investing and banking.

Railsbank

Pockit

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Pockit is a financial technology company that provides a digital banking app for the underbanked masses.

Railsbank

WealthKernel

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WealthKernel is a supplier of infrastructure for companies looking to offer digital investment services.

Railsbank

Traydstream

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Traydstream automates the most critical aspects of converting, checking and managing trade finance documents.

Railsbank

Countingup

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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.

Railsbank

Funding Xchange

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Funding Xchange is transforming and connecting the SME funding eco-system through digital eligibility and affordability assessment tools.

Railsbank

Kin and Carta

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Kin + Carta is a global digital transformation business that advises, creates, and connects marketing and customer experience.

Railsbank

Kingsway Capital

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Kingsway Capital is a investment management firm.

Railsbank

Oval Money

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Oval offers an app for financial coaching and planning that helps people save according to their rules.

Railsbank

Glint

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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.

Railsbank

CloudMargin

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CloudMarginwas is the cloud-based collateral management solution.

Railsbank

APEXX Global

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APEXX consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.

Railsbank

Hambro Perks Ltd.

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Hambro Perks is a London-headquartered international investment firm focused on private technology investing.

Railsbank

Kreos Capital

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Kreos Capital is a growth debt firm that provides financing solutions for high-growth companies across Europe and Israel.

Railsbank

FINBOURNE Technology

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FINBOURNE builds solutions that power investment data processes for everyone from single fund managers to global investment institutions.

Railsbank

dopay

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dopay provides a cloud-based payroll service that allows employers to calculate salaries and make payments electronically.

Railsbank

Sparta Global

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Sparta Global provides high calibre graduates with intensive training in Testing, SDET, PMO, DevOps and Development

Railsbank

Tradeteq

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The global hub for trade finance distribution

Railsbank

Neyber

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Neyber is financial wellbeing provider that helps UK employees to be better with their money.

Railsbank

Standard Chartered Bank

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Standard Chartered Bank is an international banking group.

Railsbank

Dealroom.co

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Global database to identify & track promising companies

Railsbank

Chaser

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Chaser helps businesses get their invoices paid on time, automatically.

Railsbank

Shieldpay

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Shieldpay is a settlement engine and escrow facility that secures high value transactions between individuals and entities.

Railsbank

tickr

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Empowering people to build a better future of themselves and the world

Railsbank

Netwealth

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Netwealth is an online wealth management service that brings together an experienced team, user-friendly technology and lower fees.

Railsbank

Nucleus Commercial Finance

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Nucleus Commercial Finance combine the financial expertise and credit facilities of a traditional high street bank .

Railsbank

Fnality International

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Fnality International provides a digital cash system that uses blockchain technology to settle financial transactions.

Railsbank

Ixaris

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Ixaris is a payment optimization company that helps businesses make smarter payment choices.

Railsbank

Wayhome

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Start owning a home today from just 5% deposit

Railsbank

Knoma

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Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.

Railsbank

Fund Ourselves

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Affordable short-term credit marketplace for hard working families

Railsbank

StepEx

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StepEx is a marketplace for the sale of a share in future income for the funds to study as a non-correlated high yield asset class.

Railsbank

Flux Systems

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Flux Systems develops software platform that keeps a track of payment receipts by automatically linking them to payment cards.

Railsbank

Finimize

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Finimize is on a mission to empower its users to become their own financial advisers.

Railsbank

Fintern

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Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans.

Railsbank

PremFina

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PremFina is an innovative premium finance company providing insurance brokers with a high margin white-label premium finance solution.

Railsbank

Butter.co.uk

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Butter lets you spread the cost of shopping from any online store with a simple monthly instalment plan. Download the app now!

Railsbank

Ondato

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Complete KYC and AML management suite that helps businesses onboard clients, authenticate users, and safely conduct their remote processes.

Railsbank

Bumper

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BUMPER is a DeFi price protection protocol that protects the value of crypto assets.

Railsbank

Applied Blockchain

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Applied Blockchain builds private and secure business applications

Railsbank

Monet

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The Business and Finance Platform for the Creator Economy. Solving the biggest problem for creators: getting paid quickly

Railsbank

IslamicFinanceGuru

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IslamicFinanceGuru is a hub that helps Muslims with their investment, personal finance and entrepreneurial journeys.

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