PYMNTS.com, a website owned by Business Wire and Market Platform Dynamics, recently published the winners of the 2013 Innovator Awards.
Three Finovate alums were selected as overall Best in Show winners:
First place: Pangea Payments
- Innovation: A new way to send money anywhere, at a flat fee, instantly, leveraging the prepaid rails.
- Finovate demo: Will demo at FinovateSpring 2013 in May 14 & 15
Second place: Waspit
- Description: Combining mobile payments with social media channels to empower and inform the user in everyday purchases.
- Finovate demo: FinovateFall 2012
Third place: Leaf
- Description: Small business payments solution
- Finovate demo: Will demo at FinovateSpring 2013 in May 14 & 15
In addition, five Finovate alums took home Gold awards, five won Silver awards, and seven were awarded in the Bronze category. Here is a summary of all of the winners:
Gold
- Category: Most innovative
- Innovation: PayPal POS Initiatives that leverage its worldwide digital wallet accountholder base.
- Finovate demo: FinovateEurope 2012
- Category: Best credit
- Innovation: The consumer’s advocate for demystifying credit with a range of tools and information resources to help them monitor and manage their financial health.
- Finovate demo: FinovateStartup 2009
- Category: Best B2B innovation
- Innovation: Online working capital for small businesses.
- Finovate demo: FinovateEurope 2013
- Category: Best SMB innovation
- Innovation: Small business payment platform integrated with Quickbooks.
- Finovate demo: Finovate 2009
- Category: Best innovation via ACH
- Innovation: Cash flow management, accounts payable/ receivable management platform
- Finovate demo: FinovateSpring 2011
Silver
- Category: Most invisible
- Innovation: Platform-as-a-Service that powers POS 2.0 commerce solutions.
- Finovate demo: FinovateSpring 2012
- Category: Best credit
- Innovation: Offers consumers “more time to pay” their bills on time to help avoid late fees, overdraft charges, service termination and high cost loans.
- Finovate demo: FinovateSpring 2011
- Category: Best cash
- Innovation: Enables consumers to shop online and pay with cash easily for a wide range of goods.
- Finovate demo: FinovateSpring 2011
- Category: Best SMB innovation
- Innovation: Cloud-based, small business platform that integrates invoicing and payment acceptance in one system.
- Finovate demo: FinovateSpring 2012
- Category: Best comeback
- Innovation: Alternative business financing that helps businesses tap into the capital it needs to run the business.
- Finovate demo: FinovateEurope 2011
Bronze
- Category: Most disruptive
- Innovation: Mobile checkout service that enables one touch payments across multiple applications.
- Finovate demo: FinovateSpring 2011
- Category: Best technology
- Innovation: OneID lets people sign in without usernames and passwords, yet delivers authentication solutions with non-repudiation, keeping both people and businesses safe from today’s biggest identity and personal information threats.
- Finovate demo: Will demo at FinovateSpring 2013 in May 14 & 15
- Category: Best newcomer
- Innovation: Aggregates financial account information and allows users to manage their money in one place, online or with a mobile device.
- Finovate demo: FinovateSpring 2012
- Category: Best credit
- Innovation: Brings together investors with creditworthy borrowers to reduce the cost and complexity of traditional lending.
- Finovate demo: Finovate Startup 2009
- Category: Best debit
- Innovation: Reinventing personal banking with modern online and mobile experiences, no surprise fees, and great customer service.
- Finovate demo: FinovateFall 2011
- Category: Best prepaid
- Innovation: A new way to send money anywhere, at a flat fee, instantly, leveraging the prepaid rails.
- Finovate demo: Will demo at FinovateSpring 2013 in May 14 & 15
- Category: Best check
- Innovation: Mitek’s patented mobile imaging technology allows users to remotely deposit checks from anywhere, at anytime by snapping a picture with their camera-equipped smartphone or tablet, and has become the “gold standard” for mobile check deposit.
- Finovate demo: FinovateSpr
ing 2012