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):
Alpha Payments Cloud
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:
Avoka
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:
MoneyAmigo
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:
Moven
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:
NAMU Systems
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:
Shoeboxed
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:
Stratos
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: