“Can a modular, core-agnostic digital banking platform transform community banks' deposit growth and business onboarding without requiring a full core conversion?”
Founded in 2023, Linker Finance entered the market as a modular digital banking and CRM platform purpose-built for U.S. community banks — specifically targeting deposit growth, business onboarding, and retail banking modernization without requiring core conversions. The company has positioned itself as infrastructure middleware that connects to legacy cores (Fiserv, Jack Henry, FIS) rather than replacing them. In 2026, Linker operationalized its own thesis by powering Always.bank, a consumer-facing digital-first bank built on its own platform, demonstrating both product maturity and a reference-architecture use case.
Linker Finance uses Sardine for fraud prevention.
Linker Finance was founded by Jorge Garcia, Alejandro Corpeno and Claudia Bardales and is founded in 2023, headquartered in Pasadena, California, United States.
Linker Finance has raised $3.72M in total (latest round: Seed (Alloy Labs strategic investment, April 2025)).
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