Stripe

Corporate card and spend management platform that helps businesses save money on expenses. Combines corporate cards with software for expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, and procurement. Known for its rapid growth, reaching $100M ARR in under 3 years.

Wave is a mobile money platform building affordable, accessible financial services across Africa. Founded by the creators of Sendwave (YC W12, sold to WorldRemit for $500M), Wave offers cash deposits, withdrawals, peer-to-peer payments, and business payments through a network of over 150,000 agents across eight West African markets. Starting in Senegal, Wave became the country's largest mobile money provider and the first unicorn from Francophone Africa. The platform serves more than 20 million monthly active users.

Clerk provides a complete suite of embeddable authentication UIs, flexible APIs, and admin dashboards for user management. The platform handles sign-up, sign-in, multi-factor authentication, organization management, and session handling, allowing developers to add secure auth to their applications in minutes instead of months. Clerk integrates natively with Next.js, React, and other popular frameworks.

AI platform that accelerates financial services decision-making using proprietary data. Connects structured and unstructured firm data across legacy systems (memos, models, accounting systems) and applies finance-specific intelligence to automate high-stakes decisions. Deploys directly into customer environments for data control. Institutions managing hundreds of billions in assets use it for portfolio monitoring, cross-cycle analysis, and credit optimization.

Secure data infrastructure company providing encryption-as-a-service and payment security solutions. Offers tools for encrypting, processing, and sharing sensitive data without exposing it, with a focus on PCI compliance and payment card data protection.

B2B cross-border payments infrastructure platform for Indian businesses. Provides API-driven infrastructure enabling SaaS companies, global capability centers, IT/ITeS exporters, and goods exporters to collect overseas payments, manage foreign exchange, and settle funds locally. Supports payments from 100+ countries across 25+ currencies, serving nearly 15,000 businesses with $1B in annualized cross-border payments.

Paystack is a Nigerian fintech company that provides modern payments infrastructure for Africa, enabling businesses to accept payments via credit card, debit card, money transfer, and mobile money through a simple API integration.