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How they describe themselves: Thwakk is a technology company specializing in youth customer acquisition platforms. Our customized, private-labeled, web platform integrates a strong financial education curriculum with the excitement of 3D simulation-based game play and rewards to affect positive behavioral change. Financial organizations can mitigate risk through financial education and identify knowledgeable, financially confident customers. We have created a new, exciting business channel to interact with the next generation consumer in a familiar format that they enjoy.
What they think makes them better: : Mo'doh Island is a cutting edge customer acquisition platform with real business applications. Not just financial education, but interactive tools that differentiate you from the competition.
- While competitors struggle to get 5 seconds of a young adult person's attention, youth interact repeatedly and with prolonged exposure with your brand through our exciting, 3D platform
- Incentive-based learning keeps it exciting and creates interaction points with customers
- Customized solutions to build trust in your brand
- Real business applications – capabilities include account opening, loan applications, etc.
- Risk mitigation and the ability to develop knowledgeable, financially confident customers
- With over 100 million active virtual world users and tremendous growth, this is a critical business channel.
Key Executives: Charlie White (COO/Co-founder), Scott Moriarty (CEO/Co-founder)
Investors: Thwakk is self-funded and seeking first-round investment.
Key Partnerships: Finalizing a key sales agreement with a major provider that has a strong distribution capability covering over 2,000 financial institutions in the Northeast and Midwest. Continued support from the Filene Research Institute to help raise awareness within the credit union market.
Customers: Altra Federal Credit Union (LaCrosse, WI; $765 million in assets), Visions FCU (Binghamton, NY; $2.5 billion in assets)
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Sales & Press: Scott Moriarty, CEO, (t): 804-366-7665, (e): scott.moriarty@thwakk.com
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