The CoreLayer Digital Awards celebrate excellence in fintech and artificial intelligence — spotlighting organizations that drive digital transformation, compliance innovation, and AI adoption across global industries. Each year, honorees are selected based on product innovation, measurable industry impact, user growth, and commitment to ethical technology.
Recognizing the fintech and AI companies that redefined digital transformation across global financial markets, banking, and data automation.

Stripe offers global payments infrastructure simplifying commerce for internet businesses.
Payments Infrastructure Innovator of the Year

Plaid connects consumer financial accounts to fintech apps through secure APIs.
Open Banking Connectivity Award

Wise enables low-cost international transfers with transparent fees and FX.
Cross-Border Payments Excellence Award

Adyen is an enterprise payment gateway unifying online, POS, and mobile transactions
Enterprise Payments Platform of the Year

Carta offers modern equity management for startups, funds, and investors.
Equity Management Solution of the Year

Revolut is an all-in-one digital banking app offering payments, crypto, and investments.
Digital Banking Experience of the Year

Robinhood is democratizing investing through zero-commission trading and mobile UX.
Retail Investing Platform of the Year

Nubank is Latin America’s largest digital bank transforming consumer finance.
Financial Inclusion Impact Award

Marqeta is an open card-issuing platform powering embedded finance experiences.
Embedded Finance Infrastructure of the Year


OpenAI is the developer of ChatGPT and foundational models redefining generative AI.
Generative AI Breakthrough Award

Anthropic is the creator of Claude, advancing safe and interpretable large-language models.
Responsible AI Leadership Award

Hugging Face is a hub for open-source ML models and community collaboration.
Open-Source AI Collaboration Award

DataRobot is an enterprise AI platform for predictive modeling and automation.
Enterprise AI Platform of the Year

Stability AI is an open generative-image ecosystem (Stable Diffusion).
Generative Image Technology Award



Scale AI is a data-labeling and infrastructure provider enabling reliable AI training.
AI Data Infrastructure Award

Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring human-AI creativity in imagery.
Creative AI Platform of the Year

Perplexity AI is a conversational search combining retrieval and reasoning.
Conversational Search Experience of the Year
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