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Finance, Accounting & Capital Markets

16 categories for founders and investors.

Fintech, wealth, accounting, tax, treasury, payments, billing, capital markets, fund operations, and investor infrastructure.

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Existing Category

Banking-Tech

Banking and Financial

The Banking-Tech sector encompasses technological solutions and innovations in banking and finance. It includes digital banking platforms, financial analytics, blockchain applications, and fintech solutions.

  • Enabling online and mobile banking services for convenient and secure financial transactions.
  • - Implementing biometric authentication methods, such as fingerprint or facial recognition, for enhanced security.
  • - Utilizing artificial intelligence algorithms for fraud detection and risk assessment in banking operations.

Example leaders: Revolut, Stripe, Plaid

Existing Category

Fin-Tech

Financial and DeFi

The Fin-Tech sector encompasses technological solutions and innovations in the financial industry, including traditional finance and decentralized finance (DeFi). It includes digital banking, payment systems, and blockchain-based financial services.

  • Enabling digital payment solutions, mobile banking apps, and peer-to-peer payment platforms for convenient and secure financial transactions.
  • Implementing robo-advisors and AI-powered financial planning tools to offer personalized investment advice and wealth management services.
  • Facilitating crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending platforms that connect investors with startups and individuals seeking funding.

Example leaders: Square, PayPal, Robinhood

Existing Category

Insur-Tech

Insurance and Assurance

The Insur-Tech sector focuses on technological solutions and innovations in the insurance industry. It includes digital insurance platforms, risk assessment tools, and claims processing systems.

  • Implementing digital insurance platforms that enable customers to purchase, manage, and claim insurance policies online.
  • Utilizing telematics and IoT devices to collect real-time data for usage-based insurance, personalized premiums, and risk assessment.
  • Applying AI and data analytics to automate underwriting processes, claims processing, and fraud detection in the insurance industry.

Example leaders: Lemonade, Oscar Health, Root Insurance

Existing Category

Pay-Tech

Payments and Money Transfer

The Pay-Tech sector encompasses technological solutions and innovations in payments and money transfer. It includes digital payment platforms, mobile wallets, and remittance technologies.

  • Driving advancements in payments and money transfer technologies to enable secure, fast, and convenient financial transactions.
  • Developing mobile payment solutions, digital wallets, and contactless payment technologies for seamless transactions.
  • Integrating blockchain technology for secure and transparent peer-to-peer transactions and cross-border remittances.

Example leaders: Square, PayPal, Venmo

Existing Category

Real-Tech

Real Estate and Realtors

The Real-Tech sector revolves around technological solutions and innovations in the real estate and realtors industry. It includes real estate marketplaces, property valuation tools, and virtual property tours.

  • Revolutionizing real estate and realtors through technology, enabling seamless property transactions, virtual property tours, and smart home solutions.
  • Developing online real estate marketplaces and platforms for property listings, buyer-seller interactions, and property valuation.
  • Implementing Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for smart home automation, energy management, and remote property monitoring.

Example leaders: Zillow, Redfin, Compass

Existing Category

Trade-Tech

Trading and Commerce

The Trade-Tech sector focuses on technological solutions and innovations in trading and commerce. It includes financial trading platforms, e-commerce marketplaces, and supply chain finance systems.

  • Drive innovation in trading and commerce through digital platforms, enhancing efficiency, transparency, and accessibility.
  • Developing online trading platforms and marketplaces that enable secure and efficient buying and selling of goods and services.
  • Implementing supply chain management systems that optimize inventory, order fulfillment, and logistics for businesses.

Example leaders: TradeStation, Interactive Brokers, E*TRADE, Binance, Coinbase

New Category

Wealth-Tech

Wealth Management, Robo-Advisors, and Investment Tools

The Wealth-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on wealth management, robo-advisors, and investment tools. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in wealth management, robo-advisors, and investment tools with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the finance, accounting & capital markets sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Tax-Tech

Tax Automation, Filing, Planning, and Compliance

The Tax-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on tax automation, filing, planning, and compliance. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in tax automation, filing, planning, and compliance with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the finance, accounting & capital markets sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Accounting-Tech

Bookkeeping, Financial Close, and Accounting Automation

The Accounting-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on bookkeeping, financial close, and accounting automation. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in bookkeeping, financial close, and accounting automation with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the finance, accounting & capital markets sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Payroll-Tech

Payroll, Contractor Payments, Benefits, and Workforce Payments

The Payroll-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on payroll, contractor payments, benefits, and workforce payments. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in payroll, contractor payments, benefits, and workforce payments with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the finance, accounting & capital markets sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Billing-Tech

Invoicing, Collections, Usage Billing, and Subscription Billing

The Billing-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on invoicing, collections, usage billing, and subscription billing. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in invoicing, collections, usage billing, and subscription billing with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the finance, accounting & capital markets sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

RevOps-Tech

Revenue Operations, Sales Data, Marketing Data, and CS Alignment

The RevOps-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on revenue operations, sales data, marketing data, and cs alignment. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in revenue operations, sales data, marketing data, and cs alignment with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the finance, accounting & capital markets sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Treasury-Tech

Cash Management, Corporate Treasury, and Liquidity Tools

The Treasury-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on cash management, corporate treasury, and liquidity tools. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in cash management, corporate treasury, and liquidity tools with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the finance, accounting & capital markets sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Fund-Tech

VC, Private Equity, Fund Administration, and LP Reporting

The Fund-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on vc, private equity, fund administration, and lp reporting. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in vc, private equity, fund administration, and lp reporting with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the finance, accounting & capital markets sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

Investor-Tech

Investor Relations, Fundraising, Data Rooms, and Deal Flow

The Investor-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on investor relations, fundraising, data rooms, and deal flow. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in investor relations, fundraising, data rooms, and deal flow with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the finance, accounting & capital markets sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

New Category

CapTable-Tech

Equity Management, Dilution Modeling, and Ownership Tracking

The CapTable-Tech category within Metasoft Capital focuses on equity management, dilution modeling, and ownership tracking. This area can include software, AI, data systems, marketplaces, hardware, services, or infrastructure that make old workflows faster, safer, more affordable, more measurable, or easier to adopt.

  • Building practical products that help customers solve problems in equity management, dilution modeling, and ownership tracking with clearer workflows, better data, or stronger automation.
  • Creating platforms, tools, or services that reduce cost, improve trust, increase access, or help organizations adopt technology in the finance, accounting & capital markets sector.
  • Helping founders turn a focused industry pain point into a scalable company with a clear buyer, measurable value, and room for long-term growth.

Founder/investor relevance: This category can help match focused founders with investors who care about the same sector.

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