C2FO named top fintech by CNBC; leaders celebrate win, pushing toward $500B funding milestone

July 29, 2025  |  Startland News Staff

Top, Sanjay Gupta, president and COO; Sandy Kemper, chairman and CEO; Raffaele Sadun, CFO; bottom, Ragui Selwanes, chief product and technology officer; Anne Steinhaus, head of product – platform; and Aditya Devurkar, head of data science and operations, C2FO

A Kansas City fintech’s award-winning efforts to boost working capital access for businesses across the globe not only has built trust among the world’s top enterprises, said Sandy Kemper; it’s positioned C2FO for even greater impact as it transforms the financing landscape for previously overlooked ventures.

The company was honored this month as one of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025 — a recognition from CNBC and Statista Inc. that highlights the most innovative industry leaders within the fintech sector.

“Earning a spot on CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies is a great accomplishment by our team,” said Kemper, founder and CEO of C2FO. “As we approach our near-term milestone of $500 billion in funding for our customers, we are acutely aware of everything that has to be done to meet the global need for more working capital to power economic growth and job creation.”

The C2FO platform — powered by comprehensive industry analytics and cutting-edge AI technology — allows companies to easily accelerate invoice payments from their customers without the barriers of traditional lending and risk-based underwriting. To date, C2FO has funded over $400 billion in on-demand working capital to more than 100,000 businesses worldwide.

The KC-built fintech is recognized in the alternative financing category within CNBC’s awards.

RELATED: C2FO targets capital access to businesses rattled by global tariff disruptions

The selection process for the CNBC honor involved a comprehensive analysis of thousands of firms’ quantitative key performance indicators, growth metrics and industry influence, with data sourced from public reports, company submissions and independent research to determine top contenders in the payments, neobanking, alternative financing, wealth technology, digital assets, enterprise fintech and insurtech categories.

Click here to learn more about CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies and read the full list.

ICYMI: Financier of the Year: Worlds’ biggest financial leaders applaud C2FO for job-creating capital access

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