NEW YORK, March 25, 2026 – Eleven emerging technology companies have been selected to participate in the 2026 FinTech Innovation Lab New York, a 12-week program founded and run by Accenture and the Partnership Fund for New York City that helps early- and growth-stage fintechs accelerate product and business development through in-depth engagement with top financial services and venture capital executives.
Much of this year’s class focuses on agentic AI applications, including to automate complex workflows, conduct research and analysis, power enterprise automation and enable autonomous digital transactions across financial services. Others in the class are advancing infrastructure for secure AI deployment and data management, and building solutions focused on fraud prevention, digital asset operations, compliance and risk.
The 2026 FinTech Innovation Lab New York participants are:
- Artian (New York) – an enterprise-grade multi-agent AI platform built for financial services that enables regulated institutions to develop and deploy intelligent agents that reason, adapt and collaborate across complex workflows at scale.
- Beam AI (New York) – an AI automation platform purpose-built for financial services back-office and outsourced operations — to process underwriting, claims and compliance workflows with greater speed, accuracy, and auditability than traditional methods.
- Charm Security (New York) – an agentic AI workforce designed to prevent and resolve scams and human-centric fraud by combining fraud expertise and behavioral psychology to guide real-time prevention and intervention.
- DFNS (Paris) – a Wallets-as-a-Service (WaaS) platform that manages digital asset operations and provides infrastructure for onchain applications at scale.
- Kobalt Labs (New York) – an AI platform that improves consistency and accuracy in compliance and third-party risk management workflows while reducing manual effort.
- LinqAlpha (Boston) – a multi-agent AI platform for institutional investors that automates cross-asset investment research and analysis using finance-specific agents and domain ontology across global market data sources.
- Mayflower Specialty (New York) – an AI-native liability managing general agent that underwrites risks such as model bias, drift, and hallucinations using an auditable scoring engine aligned with NIST and ISO standards.
- PVML (Tel Aviv) – a data virtualization platform that turns internal enterprise data into secure virtual databases for AI applications, enabling compliant and scalable gen AI deployment without moving sensitive data.
- Skyfire (San Francisco) – an agentic commerce platform that enables AI agents to autonomously and securely identify themselves and transact across the internet through verifying human and agent identity, tokenized payment credentials and instant programmatic checkout.
- Varos (New York) – an AI platform that rapidly conducts voice and text interviews across organizations to extract institutional knowledge from employees that would otherwise take months to capture.
- Zeplyn (New York) – an AI-native operating system for wealth management that uses domain-specific AI agents to help advisors deliver personalized advice at scale through unified client data and automated workflows.
Steve Murphy, Accenture’s Financial Services industry solutions lead and executive sponsor of the FinTech Innovation Lab New York, said: “AI-driven reinvention is accelerating across financial services, and our 2026 class reflects that momentum — bringing increasingly robust solutions to payments, risk management, wealth advice, research, and business analysis. Many of these fintechs are also advancing governance and protection frameworks, allowing for responsible deployment of AI at scale to create lasting enterprise value. The class stands to benefit significantly from the mentorship of the Lab’s participating financial institutions.”
“The FinTech Innovation Lab offers a deep partnership between emerging entrepreneurs and the city’s most important financial institutions, ensuring that New York City stays at the leading edge of financial technology,” said Maria Gotsch, president and CEO of the Partnership Fund for New York City. “This year’s cohort is applying AI with intentionality, developing tools around user needs to solve tangible problems for financial institutions and their customers to bring lasting value to our city’s growing tech sector.”
The lab will conclude with the 11 companies delivering in-person presentations on their progress to executives across the banking, insurance, capital markets and venture capital sectors in late June for Demo Day at BNY’s Manhattan office.
“The integration of agentic AI and blockchain technology is reshaping how global markets and financial institutions operate every single day,” said Leigh Ann Russell, chief information officer and global head of engineering at BNY. “We’re thrilled to once again host and spotlight this year’s FinTech Innovation Lab class — 11 companies that are developing AI enabled, technology forward solutions to address enterprise critical challenges head on. This program consistently surfaces the next generation of innovators, and we look forward to seeing their ideas brought to life on Demo Day at BNY.”
Since its founding in 2010, the FinTech Innovation Lab New York has assisted entrepreneurs from 130 technology companies. These program graduates have created more than 3,000 jobs and raised more than $3 billion in venture financing, and 31 of them have been acquired.
The full list of participating financial institutions and venture capital partners can be found here.