Professional market data platform combining real-time prices, news, analytics, and messaging across every major asset class. The long-standing industry standard for traders and analysts, priced around $30,000 per seat per year.
Riskalyze rebranded as Nitrogen in 2023. The platform still centers on the Risk Number, a 1-to-99 score of client risk tolerance, and has expanded into portfolio analytics, proposals, financial planning, and compliance tools for financial advisors.
Sentifi was a Zurich fintech, founded in 2012, that mined tweets, news, and blogs to produce sentiment signals on listed assets for banks and investors. The company appears to have shut down; its former website now hosts unrelated content.
C3 AI is a publicly traded enterprise software company selling an AI application platform plus prebuilt apps for jobs like predictive maintenance, fraud detection, and anti-money laundering. It serves large enterprises and government agencies through big contracts, not self-serve tools.
Numerai is a San Francisco hedge fund that crowdsources its trading models. Data scientists worldwide train on its obfuscated datasets, submit predictions, and stake NMR cryptocurrency on their accuracy; the fund ensembles the best into a market-neutral strategy.
Kavout is an AI stock research platform best known for the K Score, a machine learning rating that ranks stocks daily. It now pairs those rankings with screeners and an AI research assistant, with a free tier and paid plans for individual investors.
Upstart is an AI lending marketplace that connects borrowers with partner banks and credit unions. Its models weigh education and employment alongside credit data, offering personal loans from $1,000 to $50,000, plus auto loans and home equity lines.
Alpaca is a US brokerage you operate through code. Its APIs offer commission-free trading of stocks, ETFs, options, and crypto, plus paper trading and a Broker API that lets fintech apps embed investing. Built for developers, not chart-watchers.
Zest AI builds machine learning underwriting models for banks and credit unions. Its software scores loan applicants using far more variables than a traditional credit score, with explainability and fair-lending documentation built in. Sold to lenders, not consumers.
Kensho is S&P Global's AI division. It builds machine learning services for finance, including transcription, entity linking, and document extraction, plus an LLM-ready API that lets language models query S&P Global datasets in plain English.
AirDNA is an analytics platform for short-term rentals. It tracks Airbnb and Vrbo listings worldwide and turns them into market dashboards, occupancy and rate trends, and address-level revenue estimates for investors and hosts.
Bungalow is a co-living platform that rents individual rooms in shared houses, with roommate matching, furnished common areas, and utilities bundled into one bill. Reports since late 2025 suggest the company has been winding down; verify its status before applying.
Curbio is a pre-listing renovation company that updates homes before sale and defers payment until closing. It works through listing agents and manages contractors end to end. In 2024 it paid $7.5 million to settle a DC consumer-protection lawsuit.
Clever Real Estate matches home sellers with full-service agents from established brokerages who agree to a 1.5% listing fee with a $3,000 minimum, instead of the usual 2.5-3%. The matching service is free; Clever earns a referral fee from agents.
SmartZip is a predictive analytics platform for real estate agents. It scores homeowners in a chosen territory on their likelihood to sell, then runs automated direct mail and digital marketing at the highest-scoring households.
Knotel is a flexible office provider that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January 2021 and was acquired by brokerage Newmark. It now operates as Newmark's flexible workspace platform, offering managed, customized offices to companies on flexible terms.
Roofstock is an online marketplace for buying and selling single-family rental homes, often with tenants already in place. Since its 2024 merger with Mynd, it pairs the marketplace with property management under one company.
HomeLight matches home sellers and buyers with local real estate agents by analyzing transaction records rather than ads or reviews. The matching service is free to consumers; HomeLight also runs a Buy Before You Sell program and closing tools.
RealScout is a lead-nurture platform for real estate agents, teams, and brokerages. It sends buyers branded listing alerts built on MLS data, tracks how contacts browse, and flags the people in an agent's database who look ready to transact.
Compass is a technology-focused real estate brokerage, the largest in the US by sales volume. Its agents work from a proprietary platform with CRM, marketing, and AI tools, and its January 2026 acquisition of Anywhere added Coldwell Banker, Century 21, and Sotheby's.
Zillow Offers was Zillow's iBuying program, which paid cash for homes based on algorithmic valuations. Zillow shut it down in November 2021 after losing over $500 million on mispriced purchases. Zillow still lists homes; Opendoor is the main cash-offer alternative.
Opendoor is the largest US iBuyer: enter your address, answer questions about the home, and get a cash offer with a flexible closing date. It charges a 5% service fee, buys homes as-is after an assessment, and remains the only national player since rivals exited.
Propertybase is a real estate CRM built on Salesforce, aimed at brokerages and teams. Acquired by Lone Wolf Technologies in 2021, it now sells as two products: the Salesforce Edition and the simpler Front Office, with MLS integration, lead routing, and marketing tools.
HouseCanary is a US residential property data and valuation company. It sells automated valuations, market forecasts, and data APIs to lenders and investors, runs the ComeHome search platform, and since 2026 powers home listings inside Google's mobile search results.
