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37 Innovative Credit Startups To Keep An Eye On In 2021

This article showcases Startup Pill’s top picks for the best Credit startups. These startups are taking a variety of approaches to innovating inside of the Credit industry and around the world. They are all exceptional startups well worth a follow.

We selected these startups 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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1. Perch Credit

The idea behind this startup: Perch helps users build their credit score for free by turning recurring payments (like rent) into creditworthy payments.

Headquarters: Los Angeles, California, United States

Industries: Apps, Credit, FinTech, Online Portals, Payments

Founders: Ayush Jain, Michael Broughton

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2. GetVantage

The idea behind this startup: GetVantage is India and Southeast Asia’s first fintech enabled Revenue-based financing platform.

Headquarters: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Industries: Credit, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Lending, Venture Capital

Founders: Amit Srivastava, Bhavik Vasa, Sachin Tagra, Sachin Tagra

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3. Akrod Limited

The idea behind this startup: Fintech Solution Provider with a mission to increase access to life changing credit products for the financially vulnerable and excluded.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Consumer Lending, Credit, FinTech, Software

Founders: Andrea Gerosa, Frederic Nze, Georgios Psonis

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4. Click Cash

The idea behind this startup: Click Cash is a mobile App that enables fast and secure personal loans in emerging economies using Open Banking and data analysis.

Headquarters: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Industries: Big Data, Consumer Lending, Credit, Financial Services, FinTech, Lending

Founders: Douglas Murdoch

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5. Karus

The idea behind this startup: Karus makes lenders smarter, originators more efficient, and institutional investors more successful.

Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States

Industries: Credit, Enterprise Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Founders: Aaron Travis, James Harrison, Paul Kostoff

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6. Grip Invest

The idea behind this startup: Grip is an investment platform that allows retail investors to make small ticket investments in physical assets that earn lease income.

Headquarters: Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Industries: Angel Investment, Commercial Lending, Credit, Finance, Financial Services, Funding Platform, Impact Investing, Micro Lending

Founders: Nikhil Aggarwal, Vivek Gulati

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7. AgriRisk

The idea behind this startup: SaaS

Headquarters: Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Industries: Agriculture, Credit, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Insurance, InsurTech

Founders: Unknown

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8. Claimer

The idea behind this startup: Makes the process of claiming R&D tax credits a breeze.

Headquarters: Croydon, Croydon, United Kingdom

Industries: Accounting, Credit, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Founders: Adam McCann

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9. Linxe

The idea behind this startup: focused on offering small and short-term loans to low-income employees of SMEs with direct discount from their paycheck

Headquarters: Bogotá, Distrito Especial, Colombia

Industries: Credit, Employee Benefits, Financial Services, FinTech, Sustainability, Wellness

Founders: Cesar Cuevas, Diego Rodríguez

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10. trustshare

The idea behind this startup: Escrow infrastructure as a service. We allow brands that consumers trust to go live with a fully branded escrow solution in 5 lines of code.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Credit, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Founders: Joe Harlow, Nick Fulton

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11. Zoro Card

The idea behind this startup: Build credit with a debit card.

Headquarters: Bloomington, Indiana, United States

Industries: Banking, Credit, Financial Services, FinTech, Personal Finance

Founders: Roger Morris, Zak Grove

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12. CredFlow

The idea behind this startup: CredFlow provides financial solutions to automate your cashflows.

Headquarters: New Delhi, Delhi, India

Industries: Credit, Financial Services

Founders: Unknown

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13. Refund Giant

The idea behind this startup: Refund Giant develops a tax service platform intended to ditch the trail of forms and enjoy hassle-free tax returns.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Credit, Financial Services, Travel

Founders: Alexander Zhou, Shawn Du

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14. Maroo

The idea behind this startup: Fintech startup focused on making dream weddings affordable for more US couples

Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Industries: Consumer Lending, Credit, E-Commerce, Event Management, Events, Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology, Wedding

Founders: Alexey Nikityuk

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15. BukuWarung

The idea behind this startup: BukuWarung is a startup building an accounting and credit management app that helps micro-businesses track their financial transactions.

Headquarters: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Industries: Accounting, Credit, FinTech, Small and Medium Businesses

Founders: Abhinay Peddisetty, Chinmay Chauhan

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16. Nuovopay

The idea behind this startup: NuovoPay enables device leasing companies & telecom carriers to secure their leased devices against non-payment.

Headquarters: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Industries: Credit, Emerging Markets, Financial Services, FinTech, Mobile, Software

Founders: Harishankar Kannan

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17. Splintr

The idea behind this startup: Splintr is the first Buy Now Pay Later company in the GCC region, offering customers multiple payment options at the point of checkout.

Headquarters: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Industries: Banking, Consumer Lending, Credit, E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Founders: Abdulrahman AlJumah, Badr AlBadr, Mohammad AlMajid AlMheiri

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18. Credit Money

The idea behind this startup: CreditMoney Financial Services is India’s best Leading Corporate Channel Partner of Nationalize Banks & NBFCs & Investment company.

Headquarters: New Delhi, Delhi, India

Industries: Credit, Financial Services, Information Technology

Founders: Aakash Sinha

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19. Quanloop

The idea behind this startup: Investment fund dedicated to wholesale funding

Headquarters: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

Industries: Commercial Lending, Credit, Financial Services, Hedge Funds, Lending

Founders: Valentin Ivanov

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20. Credello

The idea behind this startup: Credello puts personalized financial solutions at your fingertips—so you can make decisions with confidence.

Headquarters: Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Industries: Advice, Consumer, Credit, Credit Cards, Finance, Financial Services, FinTech, Internet, Personal Finance

Founders: Vish Sastry Rachakonda

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21. Impact X Partners

The idea behind this startup: Impact X Partners is an SDG advisory platform providing capital and counsel to investment seekers and investors.

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Banking, Credit, Financial Services, Impact Investing, Sustainability

Founders: Jalal Koubaiti, Leopold Oettingen-Wallerstein, Malte Susen

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22. ONBORD

The idea behind this startup: SaaS RegTech

Headquarters: London, England, United Kingdom

Industries: Compliance, Credit, Risk Management, SaaS

Founders: Unknown

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23. Migrations.ml Inc.

The idea behind this startup: Migrations.ml is a cloud-based technology solution that generates credit risk analytics for public debt using big data and machine learning

Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Credit, FinTech, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Risk Management, Software

Founders: Unknown

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24. ZAP! Consignado

The idea behind this startup: International P2P Lending by WhatsApp.

Headquarters: São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Industries: Banking, Credit, Financial Services, FinTech, Impact Investing, Wealth Management

Founders: Tiago Bispo

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25. Ub Technologies

The idea behind this startup: End-to-end portfolio & risk analytics for financial institutions

Headquarters: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Industries: Analytics, Asset Management, Banking, Big Data, Credit, Database, FinTech, Software

Founders: Giorgio Carbone, Jorn Koch, Ruud Willems

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26. Mia Share

The idea behind this startup: Mia Share partner with schools to offer affordable student financing.

Headquarters: Wilson, Wyoming, United States

Industries: Credit, Education, Finance, Financial Services

Founders: Josh Haghani

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27. CreditSage

The idea behind this startup: Credit Repair/Rebuilding, Debt Consolidation/Budgeting tool, Real Estate Customer Budget Verification. Customer/Business Free Credit Score.

Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Industries: Credit, Financial Services, FinTech, Personal Finance, Real Estate, Software

Founders: Nicholas Fernandes

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28. Credit Resurrectors

The idea behind this startup: Credit Repair Agency

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Credit, Financial Services

Founders: Ariel Tolome

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29. Instacash

The idea behind this startup: Lending Marketplace that uses alternative collateral and instant disbursements.

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Blockchain, Credit, Financial Services, FinTech, Internet, Lending, Marketplace, Payments

Founders: Luis Chau, Sebastian Burgos Díaz

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30. TuCuota.online

The idea behind this startup: B2B company that automates credit processes and generates qualified leads to banks, credit unions, and financial companies.

Headquarters: Montevideo, NA – Uruguay, Uruguay

Industries: Credit, FinTech, Personal Finance

Founders: Maximiliano A. Isa Pavía, Mariano Benedettini, Alejandro Robledo y Gonzalo Fernández

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31. Kredit24

The idea behind this startup: Private Loans, Mortgages

Headquarters: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Industries: Credit, Finance, Financial Services

Founders: Unknown

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32. Simple Credit Repair Services

The idea behind this startup: Credit Repair

Headquarters: Unknown

Industries: Credit, Financial Services

Founders: Unknown

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33. CU Railz

The idea behind this startup: CU Railz enables credit unions to take control of their future by partnering with Payrailz.

Headquarters: Glastonbury, Connecticut, United States

Industries: Credit, Financial Services

Founders: Fran Duggan

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34. StitchCredit

The idea behind this startup: Next Ge. Credit API

Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States

Industries: Credit

Founders: Marco Buhlmann

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35. Canadian Auto Brokers

The idea behind this startup: We want to get you back on the road with the vehicle you love, at a payment that makes sense to you.

Headquarters: Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Industries: Automotive, Credit

Founders: Grant Higginson, Grant Higginson

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36. Pocket Money Finance

The idea behind this startup: Micro-credit

Headquarters: Kampala, Kampala, Uganda

Industries: Credit, Credit Bureau, Finance, Financial Exchanges

Founders: Unknown

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37. UNO AFP

The idea behind this startup: UNO AFP offers multiple commission plans with a common methodology of growing the percentage of interest and multi-fund plans.

Headquarters: Santiago, Region Metropolitana, Chile

Industries: Credit, Financial Services, Payments

Founders: Unknown

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