Heather Stowell, Author at Finovate

FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Rillavoice

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 21, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Rillavoice

Rillavoice offers conversation intelligence software for offline sales and service. Bank branch associates talk to customers face to face. The software records, transcribes, and analyzes their conversations with AI.

Features

2000x more visibility than in-store audits. 100x faster. At a fraction of the cost.
Makes branch managers 25x more productive at coaching.
Allows reps to improve conversion rates by 30%.

Why it’s great

Rilla is basically an AI coach that doesn’t sleep, eat, or get tired and is always there to give real-time feedback to in-store associates on how they can improve their conversations.

Presenters

Sebastian Jimenez, CEO
Jimenez is the Founder and CEO of Rillavoice. He graduated with a degree in Data Science from NYU and has worked in startups since. He was selected into the Forbes Next 1000.
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Michael Castellanos, Chief Data Scientist
Castellanos developed Rilla’s proprietary machine learning algorithms to analyze in- person audio. He used to work for the Department of Defense developing signal processing algorithms to detect enemy objects from sonar.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: txtsmarter

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 21, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, txtsmarter

txtsmarter, the only ecomms compliance surveillance service that collects, encrypts, and archives all iMessage, Android SMS/MMS, WhatsApp, and social chats in real-time mitigating compliance data leaks.

Features

Compliant with current e-comms regulations to avoid sanctions and fines
Allows employee e-comms supervisions to avoid comms related data gaps
Protects company’s brand and reputation from headlines

Why it’s great

txtsmarter is the only company that captures iMessage, Android SMS/MMS, WhatsApp, and others in real-time, retroactively at the root level, without using third-party apps or secondary number protocols.

Presenters

Nuri Otus, CEO & Founder
As CEO and Founder, Otus drives the overall strategic, business, and financial direction for txtsmarter and all interaction with partners, shareholders & investors.
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Sabine Zimmerhansl, COO
As COO, Zimmerhansl focuses on running the company’s operations, including product development, legal and compliance, finance, and strategic marketing, and eComms.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: FinGoal

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 19, 2022
Categories: FinGoal, FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek

FinGoal’s insights platform sits atop digital banking and personal financial data. Premiering at Finovate, their Aggregator Switch Kit allows fintech developers to switch data aggregators in minutes.

Features

Coverage: The best, most enriched and open data in the industry
Access: Data is shared easily across ecosystems
Cost: Better cost structures for aggregation, enrichment and account verification

Why it’s great

Fintech developers should not be hostage to their aggregation provider.

Presenters

Ariam Sium, VP Product
Sium leads Product at FinGoal and uses the tenets of focus and value to govern each product decision made in the rapidly adapting world of fintech.
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Jenn Underwood, Product Analyst
Underwood brings an expertise in personal finance to our product development. Her passion for equitable financial services and value-based savings greatly enriches the UX.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: LemonadeLXP

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 19, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, LemonadeLXP

LemonadeLXP is a digital growth platform that helps FIs and fintechs turn frontline staff into digital experts and support customers as they switch to digital banking.

Features

Turn staff into digital experts with addictive microlearning
Support staff and customers with technology walkthroughs
Optimize digital customer experience, grow digital banking business

Why it’s great

LemonadeLXP is the fastest and easiest way to provide staff and customers with the training and support they need to become experts on digital banking capabilities.

Presenters

John Findlay, CEO
Findlay is a serial entrepreneur, a lifelong innovator, and an expert in digital engagement. Outside of work he’s a dad, husband, athlete, musician, and geopolitics nerd.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Palturai

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 19, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Palturai

Palturai BusinessGraph is a leading Knowledge Graph Platform, adding a new dimension of network analytics to businesses. Make more informed decisions and identify hidden opportunities and risks.

Features

Sales & Marketing – discover new leads in business networks
Risk, Fraud & Compliance – identify trouble spots in business ecosystems
Investigations & Forensics – uncover hidden legal structures

Why it’s great

Palturai BusinessGraph is pre-loaded with 66M+ companies, 60M+ people and 211M+ relationships. The solution is actively deployed at Tier-1 financial services and public sector institutions.

Presenters

Bernhard Ritz, Regional President, North America
Ritz is the Regional President for Palturai in North America. He spent two decades at SAP and held various management roles in Corporate Strategy and Strategic Business Development.
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Noel Billingsley, Head of Business Operations, North America
Billingsley leads operations for Palturai in North America. A former career banker and serial entrepreneur, he brings unique experience in guiding the introduction of Palturai to the NA market.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: OpenAlt

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 19, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, OpenAlt

OpenAlt offers a capital raising and custodial platform for private businesses and their investors, including private offerings marketplace, due diligence, transaction processing, and data reconciliation solutions.

Features

Private market investment research and due diligence
Transactional automation
Seamless custodial integration and reporting

Why it’s great

OpenAlt bridges the gap between financial advisors and investable private businesses to allow for better diversification of the investment and retirement portfolios.

Presenters

Nikita Brodskiy, Co-Founder
Brodskiy has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry and FinTech. He holds an M.S. in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Anton Charnotski, Co-Founder
Charnotski is a seasoned software architect, platform builder, and engineering leader. He has extensive experience in the custodial space and holds an IRA Services Professional certification (CISP).

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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Engage People

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 14, 2022
Categories: Engage People, FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek

Engage People is the only loyalty network that enables program members to pay with points directly at checkout. The global technology provider connects loyalty programs with global payment systems.

Features

It is a convenient, frictionless, and cost efficient tech solution that enables conversion of loyalty points to currency increasing consumer engagement and interaction.

Why it’s great

It offers easy integration with existing platforms and programs.

Presenter

Len Covello, CTO
Covello is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Engage People, leading the long-term technology vision of the company. He is responsible for driving continued innovation in the loyalty sector.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Goalry

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 14, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, Goalry

Goalry is a unified “Money Mall” experience that converges personal finance management (PFM) with shopping to help members reach goals in one immersive space.

Features

Everything to achieve goals and comparison shop with a single login
Virtual real estate for embedded tech
Interactive and future-proof design

Why it’s great

Goalry’s platform improves the customer journey by providing a full funnel experience for everything finance and shopping in one virtual, immersive space.

Presenter

Ethan Taub, CEO & Founder
Taub has 20 years of executive experience ranging from billion-dollar brands to startups. His mission is to unify a disconnected finance landscape to create efficiencies.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: KuantSol

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 14, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, KuantSol

KuantSol Enterprise SaaS democratizes end-to-end modeling for banking, financials, and fintech. KuantSol drives more than 50X gain in operational efficiency, modeling time, quality, and compliance.

Features

Offers E2E modeling, validation, and compliance without dependence on data scientists, IT, and third-parties
Reduces cycle time from months to days
Reduces costs and resource requirements by more than 25X

Why it’s great

The first end-to-end risk modeling technology that is a one-stop shop for all time series and machine learning modeling that shortens cycle time and costs by more than 50X.

Presenters

Alex Shahidi, CEO & Co-Founder
Shahidi is the Co-Founder of KuantSo and is a founder or member of five startups with two exits. He is a pioneer in SaaS and cloud technologies, author of papers and patents on data protection, transformation, and infrastructure.
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Aytekin Oldac, Co-Founder & Chair of Board
Co-Founder of KuantSol, a businessman, and founder of a health services provider, Aytekin is an investor of Code2 and Pyramos software. He has previously served with PwC and IBM Cloud and compliance.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Ever Green 3C

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 12, 2022
Categories: Ever Green 3C, FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek

EG3C’s Financial Wellness Center helps credit unions build financial literacy with their members and community through interactive, educational content delivered via website, mobile app, API, or SDK.

Features

Created by a credit union for credit unions
Offers content that can be private-labeled and customized
Provides access to user data and dashboard, and CMS to supplement with your own content

Why it’s great

Creating good educational content is very time consuming. By leveraging EG3C’s Financial Wellness Center, employees can spend more valuable time engaging with members and the community.

Presenters

Ben Maxim, CTO at Reseda Group and VP Digital Strategy & Innovation at MSUFCU
Maxim serves in a dual role as Vice President of Digital Strategy and Innovation for MSUFCU and as Chief Technology Officer for MSUFCU’s wholly-owned CUSO Reseda Group and its subsidiary companies.
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April Clobes, President & CEO at MSUFCU and CEO of Reseda Group
Clobes is President & CEO at MSU Federal Credit Union and CEO of Reseda Group, MSUFCU’s wholly owned CUSO. She has established MSUFCU as a leader in innovation in the CU space.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: ToroAlerts

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 12, 2022
Categories: FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek, ToroAlerts

ToroAlerts‘ fintech app removes emotions from trading by bringing Wall Street technology to Main Street with accuracy and precision using ML and AI with predictive analytics.

Features

Risk management tool for crypto
Easy tool for alternate investment
Crowd-sourced verified intelligence

Why it’s great

The performance from our fully automated algorithmic trading software is unforgettable. Our 2021 portfolio returns include:

Cannabis – 147%
Crypto – 876%
Options – 120% (YTD)
S&P500 – 47% (5yr avg)

Presenters

Rohit Srivastava, Chief Visionary Officer
A math and quantitative analysis geek combined with advanced technological experience with an in-depth knowledge of investments and trading has led Srivastava to innovate and build “Smart Frequency Trading.”
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Josh Kincaid, CMO
Kincaid is the Chief Marketing Officer at ToroAlerts. In his spare time, he produces a cannabis business podcast called The Talking Hedge and hosts “Interviewing CEOs” for Seeking Alpha.
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FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek: Buddy

By Heather Stowell Posted on April 12, 2022
Categories: Buddy, FinovateSpring 2022, FinovateSpring 2022 Sneak Peek

Buddy’s industry-transforming Insurance Gateway is the simplest way for software companies to manage and sell insurance products to customers.

Features

Offers a single, forward-compatible gateway connection allows customers to source, connect, transact, fulfill, and analyze any type of insurance
Ability to add or swap insurance products without writing new code

Why it’s great

A simpler, faster connection enables businesses to better match their customers and users with the right insurance products, increasing conversion rates. Let Buddy handle all the insurance-y stuff.

Presenter

Charles Merritt, CEO & Co-Founder
Buddy Co-Founder+CEO Charles Merritt is an experienced marketer, strategist, and innovator. He held leadership roles in online travel, fintech, and consulting before launching insurtech Buddy in 2018.
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