Column
Column is a nationally chartered bank that sells its own core, ledger, and payment rails as APIs to fintechs building deposits, payments, lending, and card products.
Forbes reports "$50 million-plus from cofounders" with no outside venture capital. No institutional round has been announced.[1]
Not disclosed. One outlet speculates Column is "likely worth at least" $6B by analogy to Plaid's $6.1B valuation, but this is a journalist inference with no transaction or third-party mark behind it.[2]
No institutional investors on record. The company is described as bootstrapped by CEO William Hockey and co-founder Annie Hockey using personal capital, including proceeds from Hockey's Plaid stake.[1][2][3]
Net revenue is reported at $200M in 2025 (per company) and $100M in 2024 (per company); Sacra independently estimated $55.1M in 2024 revenue, up 126% year-over-year. The gap between the company's $100M figure and Sacra's $55M estimate is unresolved and material.[1][6]
William Hockey, Co-founder and CEO[2][3][5]
Annie Robertson Hockey, Co-founder and board director[2][3][5]
William Hockey, CEO[5][7][9][8][10]
Alexander V. Du, Chief Operating Officer[5][7][9][8][10]
Brian Fishbein, Chief Investment Officer[5][7][9][8][10]
Azba Habib, Chief Compliance Officer[5][7][9][8][10]
Nick Rasines, Head of Sales and Partnerships[5][7][9][8][10]
Víctor Lafuente, GM, Correspondent Banking[5][7][9][8][10]
Column · Sep 2026[5]
Exclusive: Column CEO William Hockey On Brex, Bootstrapping, China · Sep 2026[2]
Lead Bank · lead.bank · Named directly as Column's rival in the same slice: the only other chartered U.S. bank with a BaaS API, competing for the same fintech sponsor-banking customers and the same deposit and payment revenue.[6][2]
Cross River Bank · crossriver.com · Named as a direct competitor for the same fintech banking partnerships, and reported to be eyeing an IPO, which frames the public-market comparison set for Column.[2][3]
Synctera · synctera.com · Named by a fintech investor as a challenger that pressures Column's pricing, and named alongside Unit and Treasury Prime as the middleware BaaS alternative a fintech buyer would weigh against going direct to a chartered bank.[2][6]
Unit · unit.co · Named as a middleware BaaS platform that Column is positioned against; the same fintech buyer choosing between a direct charter relationship and a middleware layer would evaluate it.[6]
Treasury Prime · treasuryprime.com · Named as a middleware BaaS platform that Column is positioned against for the same fintech banking integration budget.[6]
Fiserv · fiserv.com · Named as one of the two decades-old processors that much of the industry still relies on for transfers, deposits, and card transactions, the incumbent spend Column's in-house core is meant to displace.[2][3]
FIS · fisglobal.com · Named alongside Fiserv as the incumbent core processor that fintechs and banks route through today, the substitute behavior Column is selling against.[2][3]
JPMorgan Chase · jpmorgan.com · An independent analyst argues JPMorgan offers the same services, and Ramp is cited as working with both Column and JPMorgan, making it a real alternative for the same buyer.[2]
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Column
Column is a nationally chartered bank that sells its own core, ledger, and payment rails as APIs to fintechs building deposits, payments, lending, and card products.
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