CB Insights has partnered with Money20/20 to dive into the data on the 67 finalists driving the industry forward across financial services--spanning from blockchain payments rails to consumer neobanks.
Factory and Cognition's public fight pulled their investors in with them. Across coding AI, backing rival startups is standard practice, and the shared investors' stakes are far from even.
Blockchain is gaining traction inside traditional financial services, from stablecoin payments and tokenized assets to digital asset custody and settlement. Using CB Insights data and in collaboration with Money20/20, this market map identifies 167 private tech companies across 15 categories serving this shift.
As agents delete work and win labor budgets, the bottleneck shifts from building them to deploying, securing, and scaling them. CB Insights’ signals reveal the markets capturing that value in 2026.
CB Insights' emerging technology insights platform provides all the analysis and data from this newsletter. Our data is the easiest way to discover and respond to emerging tech.
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