Zip Named to CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies 2026 for Second Consecutive Year
Zip Named to CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies 2026 for Second Consecutive Year
As fintech matures and AI reshapes the infrastructure beneath it, CNBC recognizes Zip as one of the top fintech companies in the world – alongside Stripe, Visa and PayPal
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zip, the AI platform for enterprise procurement trusted by Anthropic, AMD, Visa, and OpenAI, today announced its inclusion in CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026 list, as one of 60 companies recognized in the Enterprise Fintech category. Developed in partnership with Statista, the annual list named the top 500 fintech companies from 3,500 assessed worldwide across more than 25,000 data points. The recognition adds to a series of recent accolades for Zip, including being named a Leader for the second time in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Spend Orchestration 2026 Vendor Assessment (#US54663526, July 2026), a Visionary in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Source-to-Pay Suites, and inclusion in the Forbes Fintech 50 for 2025 and 2026.
Zip has processed more than $500 billion in spend and saved its customers over $10 billion through its AI suite, serving enterprises including AMD, Anthropic, Discover, Dollar Tree, Northwestern Mutual, OpenAI, and T-Mobile.
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“Making this list for a second year matters even more now than it did last year, because the stakes in procurement have gotten higher,” said Rujul Zaparde, Co-founder and CEO of Zip. “Procurement decisions carry real financial, legal, and compliance consequences. AI only earns a place in those workflows when every action can be governed, audited, and trusted. Our customers have shown that enterprises don’t have to choose between moving fast with AI and maintaining the controls their business depends on.”
Zip’s recognition comes as CNBC identifies autonomous AI agents as a force demanding new infrastructure to keep enterprises controlled and compliant – the problem Zip built for. Earlier this summer, Zip launched Superagents, the first fully governed, auditable AI agents for procurement. These specialized agents unblock stalled approvals, review and redline contracts, code and route invoices, and manage tail-spend negotiation, with every action logged, audited, and bound by the same policies and approval chains enterprises already have in place.
Zip has processed more than $500 billion in spend and saved its customers over $10 billion through its AI suite, serving enterprises including AMD, Anthropic, Discover, Dollar Tree, Northwestern Mutual, OpenAI, and T-Mobile. In June 2026, a commissioned Total Economic Impact™ study conducted by Forrester Consulting, based on interviews with global enterprises ranging from $10 billion to $45 billion in revenue and up to 150,000 employees, found that a composite organization achieved 3.3% savings on spend flowing through Zip, a 386% return on investment, and full payback in under six months.
To learn more about Zip, visit zip.com.
About CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies
The World’s Top Fintech Companies list, produced annually by CNBC and market research firm Statista, recognizes companies transforming financial services through technology innovation. The comprehensive evaluation process analyzes both general and segment-specific KPIs to identify leaders across eight categories, including Payments, Neobanking, Alternative Financing, Wealth Technology, Digital Assets, Enterprise Fintech, Insurtech, and Regtech. The 2026 list evaluated 3,500 companies and more than 25,000 data points beginning in February 2026. The resulting list of 500 companies spans more than 50 countries and territories, and marks the fourth year of CNBC and Statista’s partnership.
About Zip
Zip is the leading AI platform for enterprise procurement. Through one platform, Zip unifies how companies purchase – replacing fragmented tools and manual processes with intelligent orchestration and governed AI agents that procurement teams and employees actually want to use. Zip is the only procurement orchestration platform with full intake-to-pay capabilities and the most widely deployed, fully governed AI agents in enterprise procurement. Zip has delivered billions in customer savings and powers modern procurement for hundreds of global enterprises, including Anthropic, AMD, Discover, Dollar Tree, OpenAI, T-Mobile, and more. To learn more, visit zip.com.
