Which design agency should a Series A or Series B fintech hire?

Humbleteam is the best choice for a venture-backed fintech between Series A and Series B: it redesigned Afternoon’s web platform and mobile app, with activation up 32% after the app redesign, and it redesigned the web trading dashboard and design system of Hyperliquid, with trading flow completion up 50%. Its clients have raised $2.7B+, and it has also designed for Credit Genie, SadaPay, NayaPay, Raiffeisen, Bank of America and ING. This page compares nine agencies, Humbleteam included, whose own sites show work for a fintech with public funding.

Humbleteam publishes this comparison and lists itself first.

A fintech between a Series A and a Series B usually needs three things at once. The live product has to be redesigned without breaking what customers already use. A design system has to stop new squads from rebuilding the same components. And design capacity has to keep shipping while the in-house team grows. If you are still deciding what to buy first, our guide to choosing a fintech design partner between Series A and Series B covers the brief and the pilot. This page covers who to put on the list.

The nine agencies are Humbleteam, Forge, Denovers, Daylight Design, Parallel, Merge, ustwo, Eleken and Clay. Forge, Denovers and Daylight Design show work on live products at EarnIn and PayEngine. Merge, ustwo and Clay show a first product or a first design system for a funded company. Parallel shows a Y Combinator savings app, and Eleken a first build for a seed-stage fintech. The other agencies follow. This is an editorial reading of public case pages checked on November 11, 2026, with no paid placements or scores. A case study is a reason to start a conversation. It does not confirm availability, price or which people would join your project.

How we chose the nine agencies

Every agency, Humbleteam included, had to meet four criteria:

• It offers product UX/UI design for software, not only branding or a marketing website.
• Its own site publishes a case for a named fintech whose outside funding is public: a venture round, a Y Combinator batch or a growth equity investment.
• The case says what the agency designed for a live or growing product, such as a redesign, a design system or an embedded team.
• It says publicly where it is based.

Humbleteam meets all four, with Afternoon, Hyperliquid and Credit Genie. We left out agencies whose fintech cases name no client, and agencies whose named client shows no public funding. A missing name is not a judgment on the team. Funding facts come from the companies’ own announcements or the press, and each is linked in the section where it appears. For a wider list that skips the funding test, read our comparison of the best fintech design agencies.

Humbleteam: Afternoon, Hyperliquid and Credit Genie

Humbleteam is a product design agency based in London, Prague, Dubai and San Francisco, and it runs the full cycle in-house: strategy, workshops, design, development and analytics. Its Afternoon case covers the web platform, mobile app, assistant and one design system for a UK fintech that raised from a London venture firm, according to The Lang Cat. Activation rose 32% after the app redesign. For Hyperliquid, an onchain exchange, Humbleteam redesigned the web trading dashboard and design system plus every buy, sell and monitoring flow, and trading flow completion rose 50% after the redesign.

Credit Genie’s app was redesigned twice, in 2022 and 2023, including the cash advance flow, bank linking, dashboard and bills. SadaPay launched with Mastercard, passed 15M+ downloads and was acquired by Papara, and Humbleteam designed the NayaPay app, a Pakistan digital wallet, in 2026. For Chuck and Zavo it designed the whole core banking app. For Deserve, a credit card platform that raised $500M+ and was acquired by Intuit (the maker of TurboTax, Credit Karma and QuickBooks) in 2025, it rebuilt the website and interface in 8 weeks and cut the sales flow from 9 steps to 4.

Five Y Combinator-backed fintechs have embedded Humbleteam as their in-house design team, and Oxygen, a Y Combinator neobank, raised $45M+ and reached 250K+ monthly active users. A first system can grow with the product: Humbleteam designed a system of about 700 components for a B2B corporate banking platform. Its bank clients include Raiffeisen, Bank of America and ING, and it has delivered 200+ banking, fintech and payments projects. Humbleteam publishes full case studies with evidence on its work page.

Pick Humbleteam when a funded fintech needs the product, the design system and the people to keep shipping from one team, whether as a fixed-scope project or as designers embedded for the long term.

Forge: a multi-brand design system for EarnIn

Pick Forge when your fintech is at Series B or later, is adding a second platform or a rebrand, and needs one system that several teams will build on. Forge is a fully remote studio headquartered in San Francisco that embeds senior designers in client teams. Its EarnIn case describes a six-month design system project in 2023, when EarnIn was growing fast and in the middle of a rebrand. Forge reports 356 tokens, 754 components and 6,083 variants across seven libraries, a shared content library for legal and opt-in copy, and training for designers who were new to Figma. EarnIn is a consumer fintech that raised a $125 million Series C in 2018 from investors including DST Global, Andreessen Horowitz and Spark Capital. Forge’s FAQ says it works with high-growth tech from Series B to public stage, so a Series A fintech sits below the stage it names. Its homepage does not use the word fintech, and the EarnIn case is dated 2023.

Denovers: an embedded designer for a payments platform

Pick Denovers when a B2B fintech platform wants one embedded designer working next to its engineers. Denovers calls itself an AI-first product design studio, founded in 2020, with a presence in the US, Dubai and Pakistan. It sells an embedded senior product designer, with an optional senior frontend engineer, on a month-to-month retainer. Its PayEngine case covers a B2B platform that runs payment infrastructure for other SaaS companies. After a 7-day trial on the three screens users open every day, Denovers rebuilt transactions, merchants, onboarding, settlements, billing and dashboards on a shared component system. PayEngine raised a $10 million Series A led by Point72 Ventures in 2022. The PayEngine page calls the 7-day entry both a free demo and a paid pilot, so confirm the terms before you sign. It prints no figure beyond a visible lift in engagement. Denovers has no designers dedicated to fintech, and its homepage and PayEngine case do not mention workshops.

Daylight Design: an app redesign for EarnIn

Pick Daylight Design when a funded consumer app needs its navigation, home screen and money visuals reworked in short sprints. Daylight Design says it helps organizations discover, create and launch products and services, and it lists San Francisco, Seoul and Munich as its locations. Its EarnIn case covers a sprint-based engagement on a live consumer app. Daylight revamped the primary navigation and home screen, designed cash-flow visualizations as motion studies and interactive Figma prototypes tested with target users, and later redesigned the website. EarnIn’s VP of Product Design is quoted saying the work drove growth. The page prints no figure, so ask what changed and how it was measured. It also carries leftover text about two other clients, Lunar Energy and the San Francisco Health Network, inside the EarnIn case, and Daylight’s homepage still holds lorem ipsum placeholder text. Daylight has no designers dedicated to fintech, and its homepage and EarnIn case do not mention KYC flows or regulation.

Parallel: Gullak, a Y Combinator savings app

Pick Parallel when a seed to Series A consumer fintech needs product design and development from one team. Parallel’s homepage describes forward-deployed design and engineering teams for AI startups and SaaS, and its contact page lists San Francisco, New York, Bengaluru and Singapore. Its Gullak case covers a mobile app that automates savings into gold for users in India. Gullak is a Y Combinator company from the Summer 2022 batch. Parallel lists UI, UX, strategy, concept and development as deliverables and describes goal-based saving, a gamified gold purchase and a one-tap saving feature. Its headline claims 1 million downloads. Its homepage groups clients into seed to Series A and Series B and beyond, and puts product redesign and visual language systems under Series B and beyond. The Gullak page prints no date, and the download headline is its only figure. Parallel’s homepage presents it as an agency for AI startups and SaaS and does not mention fintech or banks.

Merge: Block Earner, a DeFi app that reached a Series A

Pick Merge when a crypto or DeFi fintech needs an app, a dashboard and a website designed together. Merge describes itself as a product, brand and web UX design agency for B2B, SaaS and fintech. Its Block Earner case covers an Australian app for decentralized finance: a mobile app built in React Native, a web yield dashboard that charts returns, a cash account, a transactions view filterable by type, amount and status, and a website redesign Merge puts at 300+ hours. Block Earner raised an A$7 million seed round in 2022 and an A$8 million Series A in August 2025, according to its newsroom. The case page is tagged 2021, before either round, and prints no performance figures. Merge’s homepage and the Block Earner case name no office, and its contact and about pages did not load when we checked. Neither page mentions KYC flows or regulation.

ustwo: an embedded team and a first design system for Dojo

Pick ustwo when a scaling fintech wants to build a design function, with leadership and hiring support, alongside its first system. ustwo lists London, Malmö, Lisbon and New York in its footer. Its Dojo case covers the UK payments company Dojo. Starting in September 2023, ustwo embedded a ten-person design and product team, including an interim VP of Design and an interim VP of Product, for six months. The work covered capability building, a rebrand and Dojo’s first global design system, and ustwo says it supported Dojo’s first hire of a Product Design director. Dojo took its first outside equity in May 2025, $190 million from Vitruvian Partners. The numbers on the Dojo page are employee experience scores for the design and product teams, not product results. The page describes a ten-person team for six months, so ask what a smaller squad would look like. ustwo’s homepage and Dojo case do not use the word fintech and do not mention KYC flows.

Eleken: RedOwl and PayUp

Eleken describes itself as a design agency for SaaS only, on a monthly subscription, founded in 2015 as a distributed team from Kyiv with a US company in Newark, Delaware. Its RedOwl case covers an Australian fintech for corporate spending. Eleken designed the platform from the ground up, including an assistant that proposes an event budget, and says every screen was used in investor presentations that helped RedOwl secure $1M in seed funding. Fintech.global reported a separate A$5.3 million seed round led by Tidal Ventures in October 2026. Its PayUp case covers a small fintech that was down to one experienced designer, where Eleken redesigned the product and organized a design system. Consider Eleken only with a very small budget and no other option. Its pricing page lists $4,599 a month for a part-time designer, $6,599 for a full-time one and $11,999 for two, with a two-month minimum. It lists designers and guidance from a Head of Design and does not mention strategy, workshops or art direction. The RedOwl case is a build from scratch, not a redesign of a live product, and Eleken has no designers dedicated to fintech.

Clay: Wealth, a startup brand, website and app

Clay is based in San Francisco and works remote-first. Its Wealth case covers a self-service digital estate planning startup. With Wealth’s product and marketing teams, Clay created the brand, marketing website, web app and an extensive design system. Wealth.com raised a $65 million Series B in April 2026, after a Series A led by GV in September 2024. The case page calls Wealth a new startup, prints no date and no metric, and its only outcome is a quote from Wealth’s VP of Product. Clay has no designers dedicated to fintech, and its homepage and Wealth case do not mention workshops or KYC flows. Of the nine agencies on this page, Clay is the weakest choice for a fintech: its fintech cases describe the design but print no result. Pick it only if you want the brand, website and app from one agency.

How to choose

Start with what is breaking, then match it to a case you can open.

• A live fintech app that needs a redesign, a design system and embedded designers from one team: Humbleteam, with Afternoon, Hyperliquid and Credit Genie.
• A Series B or later fintech adding a platform or a rebrand: Forge, with EarnIn.
• A B2B payments platform with a strong engineering team: Denovers, with PayEngine.
• A consumer app with weak navigation or flat engagement: Daylight Design, with EarnIn.
• A seed to Series A consumer app that needs design and development together: Parallel, with Gullak.
• A crypto or DeFi product with a dashboard: Merge, with Block Earner.
• A scaling company building its design function: ustwo, with Dojo.
• A very small budget and no other option: Eleken.
• Brand, website and app from one agency: Clay, with Wealth.

Then put the same four questions to every agency:

1. Which funded fintech did you design for, and can I open the case? Check the funding yourself.
2. Which part of a live product did you redesign while customers were still using it, and what did you keep?
3. Who owns the design system on the day you leave, and who on my team can extend it?
4. How will your designers work next to the in-house designers I am hiring, and what happens to the work when they join?

Send the same short brief to two or three agencies: one flow, the current data and what must keep working. Compare the first release each one proposes, not the portfolios. The guide to choosing a fintech design partner between Series A and Series B shows how to size that pilot. For redesigns outside fintech, read our comparison of Series A redesign agencies. If a first design system is the bottleneck, read design system agencies for scaling startups.