FinovateSpring is quickly approaching. This year’s show, May 10 & 11 in San Jose, California, will be our biggest show yet with 72 winning ideas pitched to more than 1,500 fintech execs. Pick up your ticket to save your seat. While we’re eager to see this year’s demos, we wanted to reflect on the successes of last year’s Best of Show winners (in alphabetic order):
HQ: Singapore
Founded: 2012
Total funding: $12 million
May 2015 demo: Alpha Payments Cloud showed AlphaHub, its omnichannel solution-access platform that helps banks, merchants, MSPs, and ISOs gain access to any solution provider in the world. (Demo video)
Partnerships, presentations, and product offerings since August 2015:
- Feb 2016: Demoed at FinovateEurope 2016 in London
- Feb 2016: Partnered with Sentenial’s pan-European Payment Institution, Nuapay.
- Jan 2016: Partnered with Fiserv
- Jan 2016: Partnered with Alipay
- Oct 2015: Partnered with Macquarie Business Banking
- Oct 2015: Began offering iSignthis KYC services
- Aug 2015: Partnered with Snapcard for to power bitcoin acceptance
HQ: Broomfield, Colorado
Founded: 2002
May 2015 demo: Avoka showed Transact for Financial Services, which combines social, cloud services, and crowdsourcing into the world’s fastest credit card application. (Demo video)
Partnerships, presentations, and product offerings since September 2015:
- Mar 2016: Presented at FinDEVr New York
- Mar 2016: Partnered with eSignLive to Deliver Digital Customer Acquisition in Regulated Industries
- Nov 2015: Introduced digital account opening from within Salesforce
- Nov 2015: Partnered with Trulioo to Provide Instant Digital Identity Verification
- Sep 2015: Demoed at FinovateFall in New York
HQ: Las Vegas, Nevada
Founded: 2015
Funding: $300,000
May 2015 demo: MoneyAmigo debuted its new platform that brings financial services to the underbanked and underserved, delivering traditional banking products in an innovative way. (Demo video)
Activities and media coverage since May 2015:
- Apr 2016: Working on new version
- May 2015: Featured on MarketWatch
HQ: New York, New York
Founded: 2011
Funding: $24.4 million
May 2015 demo: Moven introduced its Financial Health Platform that provides real-time, contextualized notifications and interactions that create “gamified money moments.” (Demo video)
Media coverage and new product features since October 2015:
- Apr 2016: Selected to demo at FinovateSpring 2016
- Feb 2016: Featured in Gartner report
- Jan 2016: Launched offers
- Dec 2015: Offered quick login on mobile
- Oct 2015: Raised $12 million in funding
HQ: Mahwah, New Jersey
Founded: 2014
Funding: $200,000
May 2015 demo: Namu debuted its Joyful Banking which uses new and intelligent behavior modeling to focus on customer behavior and digital experiences to create a new standard in mobile banking. (Demo video)
Namu’s awards and press coverage in 2015:
- Jul 2015: Won “Most Personalized Banking Experience” award from EPAM at the 2015 Citi Mobile Challenge in EMEA.
- Jun 2015: Featured in American Banker
- May 2015: Won “Top Innovation, Best User Experience” in Citi Mobile Challenge
HQ: Durham, North Carolina
Founded: 2007
Funding: $2 million
May 2015 demo: Shoeboxed launched Receipt Capture for Banks solution which boosts the functionality of online and mobile banking apps while providing fraud protection. (Demo video)
Shoeboxed recently received media buzz for its product update and corporate move last year:
- Apr 2016: Featured in USA Today
- Mar 2016: Featured in Forbes
- Dec 2015: unveiled version 6 of its Receipt and Mileage Tracking App for iPhone and iPad
- Mar 2015: moved headquarters to Google-backed startup-hub American Underground @ Main
HQ: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Founded: 2012
Funding: $6.63 million
May 2015 demo: Stratos debuted its dynamic Stratos Bluetooth Connected Card and Digital Card Issuance Platform that analyzes card usage trends and interactively engages card members. (Demo video)
Awards and activities:
- Dec 2015: Ciright One purchased Stratos Card
- Nov 2015: Earned spot among finalists in UBS’s “Future of Finance”
- Apr 2015: Stratos Card began shipping