Crossmint named to the 2026 CB Insights Fintech 100. Updated Wed, October 28, 2026 at 6:07 AM PDT Crossmint recognized for building stablecoin and payment infrastructure for fintechs and agentic platforms MIAMI, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - CB Insights today named Crossmint to its ninth annual Fintech 100, showcasing the 100 most promising fintech startups in the world. "The 2026 Fintech 100 identifies the startups reshaping how financial services work behind the scenes. This year's cohort spans payments, lending, wealth, and digital assets, and what unites them is the data behind their selection: strong deal activity, top-tier investors, and partnerships with industry leaders," said Aisha Chandraker, Fintech Analyst at CB Insights. "Finance is moving from legacy rails to modern money, with stablecoins that settle in seconds and AI agents that pay on someone's behalf. Fintech companies will need to evolve, but they shouldn't have to rebuild their stack to do it," said Rodri Fernández Touza, Co-Founder of Crossmint. "We're proud to be recognized for the work we're doing to help companies make that shift." The list spans 21 categories across six sections of the fintech market, from payments and business finance to capital markets and connectivity. CB Insights' research team picked winning companies based on its datasets, including deal activity, industry partnerships, team strength, investor strength, employee headcount, and proprietary metrics. Crossmint is a multi-rail payment infrastructure platform that connects stablecoins, crypto, and traditional money through a single integration. Fintechs like neobanks, remittance providers, and payroll companies use Crossmint to launch stablecoin rails with products like wallets, on/offramps, and regulated stablecoin transfers. More than 40,000 enterprises and developers build on Crossmint, including MoneyGram, Western Union, and Tala. In 2026, Crossmint secured MiCA and PSD2 authorization in the EU, launched global onramps in more than 160 countries, and introduced the Agent Commerce Toolkit for agentic payments. Its inclusion in CB Insights' Fintech 100 reflects the increasing importance of stablecoin infrastructure and agentic payments in global commerce and finance. Crossmint is backed by Ribbit Capital, Franklin Templeton, Nyca Partners, First Round Capital, and Lightspeed Faction. Quick facts on the 2026 Fintech 100: * $10.9B in equity funding raised over time, including more than $3.2B in 2026 so far (as of 10/5/2026). * 330+ business relationships since 2025, including with industry leaders like JPMorganChase, Mastercard, and NASDAQ. * 51 early-stage startups, 13 of which are at the seed stage About Crossmint Crossmint is a multi-rail payment infrastructure platform. Trusted by global brands and Fortune 500 financial institutions, Crossmint provides stablecoin, wallets, and agent payment infrastructure with developer-friendly APIs. Learn more at crossmint.com. About CB Insights CB Insights spots winners in emerging tech. Since 2009, we've ranked and rated the private companies reshaping their industries, drawing on proprietary interviews with operators and deep, validated intelligence on over 12 million companies. We give decision-makers an edge by enriching their AI agents with expert judgment, nonpublic signals, and a complete map of technology markets. Six of the Mag 7 and the top 10 U.S. banks rely on CB Insights to build conviction in their next investment, acquisition, partner, or customer. Learn more at cbinsights.com. SOURCE Crossmint

Crossmint launches Agent Commerce Toolkit, enabling AI agents to pay with any card and check out online through one integration. Oct 08, 2026, 09:30 ET The live developer toolkit replaces the four or more vendors agent payments require today with a single API, combining card storage, Visa Intelligent Commerce and Mastercard Agent Pay credentials, and merchant checkout. MIAMI, Oct. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Crossmint, the multi-rail payment infrastructure platform, today launched Agent Commerce Toolkit, a developer toolkit that lets AI agents pay with any card and complete purchases at any online store. The toolkit handles the full purchase flow, from saving a card to completing checkout, in a single integration. It is live and self-serve today, and developers can integrate it in a single prompt. Additionally, an open-source reference app has been made available for developers to reference. Today, giving an agent the ability to pay means combining several vendors: a card vault, a wallet, a browser automation tool and individual card network programs. When a purchase fails, it's hard to pinpoint which part broke. Agent Commerce Toolkit replaces that stack with one integration. It picks the right credential and checkout path for each purchase, so developers don't have to manage those choices themselves. "Agent developers we talk to often think payments will be the easy part, and then they hit the gotchas," said Alfonso Gómez-Jordana Mañas, Co-Founder at Crossmint. "One card works and another doesn't. One store has an API and the next has a bot check. The checkout script that worked yesterday breaks today. We're seeing strong demand for agents to move from recommending purchases to making them, and developers shouldn't need four vendors to get there." Why agent payments are more complex than they look * Storing Cards Safely: Card data must stay in a PCI-compliant vault, and that's just a part of what's needed. Developers still have to build a card collection and a way to use the card at checkout without exposing card numbers to the agent. * Getting credentials approved: Network agent programs like Visa Intelligent Commerce and Mastercard Agent Pay issue trusted, tokenized credentials, but only for certain cards. Each network also has its own integration and onboarding, and cards that aren't eligible need a separate path. * Keeping users in the app: Many payment wallets pull users into a third-party app and make them create a separate account to approve purchases. That adds friction and causes users to drop off. * Reaching merchants: Merchant APIs and agentic commerce protocols give reliable checkout, but only at stores that support them or have joined a specific platform. * Completing checkout: Browser automation can reach any store, but logins, pop-ups, bot checks and payment forms often break it, and every attempt is expensive to run. How Agent Commerce Toolkit works * Card collection and storage: Card entry renders in the developer's own UI and goes directly to a PCI-compliant vault. The developer's servers get back a token and never touch card numbers, which keeps them out of PCI scope. Users add cards and approve purchases without leaving the agent's app. * Credentials that work with any card: Where a card supports it, Agent Commerce Toolkit uses tokenized credentials from Visa Intelligent Commerce and Mastercard Agent Pay. These are scoped virtual cards with expiration dates and spend limits, so users stay in control of what each agent can spend. When a card isn't eligible, the toolkit still completes the purchase securely from the vault. * Checkout at online stores: Agents make purchase requests in plain language, and Agent Commerce Toolkit handles the back-and-forth with the merchant. For each purchase, it chooses a checkout path based on availability, reliability and cost using embedded options like Shop Pay, agentic commerce protocols like Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), or browser automation where neither exists. Developers don't integrate each protocol separately, and merchants don't need to add agent support. "Agent developers want their agents to buy things. They don't want to become payment experts," said Alex Rawitz, Head of Agentic Payments at Crossmint. "With Agent Commerce Toolkit, a developer can go from a saved card to a completed order at a real store in an afternoon." Available today Agent Commerce Toolkit is live and self-serve. To integrate, developers point their AI coding tool, such as Claude Code or Cursor, to the Crossmint docs and describe what they want to build. The coding agent reads the docs, installs the SDK and adds card collection and checkout to the app. Test cards are available in the docs for sandbox testing quickly. Developers who want to see the full flow first can try the open-source reference app on GitHub. It shows every step: saving a card, using that card at real merchants, and letting an agent complete checkout on the user's behalf. These are live purchases, not a simulation. Developers can fork the app, customize it for their own agent and go live. About Crossmint Crossmint is a multi-rail payment infrastructure platform. Trusted by global brands and Fortune 500 financial institutions, Crossmint provides stablecoin, wallets, and agent payment infrastructure with developer-friendly APIs. Crossmint abstracts blockchain and agent complexity, while handling compliance, asset delivery, and fraud protection globally. Media Contact Head of Marketing SOURCE Crossmint