FinovateSpring 2015 launches next month on May 12 and 13. That gives us five weeks to review the 72 companies that will step up on stage in San Jose.
We’ll be featuring seven companies twice a week in our Sneak Peek series. The first set includes:
This will be Finovate’s eighth conference in the Bay Area and our second year in San Jose. Interested in being among the first to see the newest fintech this spring? Pick up your ticket here to join us.
Alpha Payments Cloud’s AlphaHub consolidates the payments world onto one platform enabling banks, merchants, MSPs and ISOs to access any payment type, any solution provider, anywhere.
Features:
- Access every transaction-centric solution vendor
- Consolidate all integrations to one platform
- Mitigate risks and costs by orchestrating across vendor functionality
Why it’s great
The AlphaHub gives instant access to any payment type, any solution provider, anywhere in the world.
Presenter: Oliver Rajic, CEO
Rajic is a global business development leader and payments expert whose vision is bringing the payments world into the 21st century.
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CUneXus is one of just ten to watch on KPMG’s report of “The Best Fintech Innovators of 2014,.” CUneXus stands at the forefront of the transition to a new era of data-driven, on-demand lending and borrowing.
Features:
- Perpetual Loan Approval
- “One-Click” access to preapproved loans at every touchpoint
- Integrated into leading online- and mobile-banking platforms
Why it’s great
CUneXus brings the “one-click” convenience and mobility consumers have come to expect, helping lenders maximize the value and profitability of existing customer relationships.
Presenters
Dave Buerger, Co-Founder, President & CEO
Buerger is an award-winning financial services marketer and strategist with a noteworthy record of achievement, spanning a diverse array of marketing mediums and industry verticals.
LinkedIn
Darin Chong, Co-Founder & COO
Chong draws from 17+ years of experience in consumer financial services with expertise in marketing, operations, and project management.
LinkedIn
DRAFT changes the way people view, think and act about investing by comparing your returns, fees and allocation to top-performing portfolios.
Features:
- Track all of your investments in one spot
- Side by side return, fee, and allocation comparisons
- Obtain a blueprint showing portfolio gaps to help maximize returns and lower fees
Why it’s great
DRAFT has created a better investment benchmark by comparing real portfolios to one another. It’s simple, transparent, and community focused.
Presenters
Brad Lawler, President, co-founder
Lawler has 10 years’ experience in the financial services industry, including as a high-net-worth adviser at a risk-analysis software firm. He also spent time with a big-data infrastructure company.
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Jason St. Peter, CEO, co-founder
St. Peter has 15 years of experience in sales, marketing, and business development in the high-tech industry. Prior to DRAFT, St. Peter created and ran the Dell For Entrepreneurs program for Dell, Inc.
LinkedIn
FundAmerica provides API-enabled escrow, payment processing, and securities compliance to portals engaged in technology-driven capital formation via the JOBS Act (506b/c, Reg A+, 4(a)(6) crowdfunding).
Features:
- Easy-to-implement API and “Invest Now” buttons
- View all data and events in the control panel
- Ensure compliance with federal and state regulations
Why it’s great
FundAmerica provides the crowdfunding industry with the best and only technology-integrated compliance and back-office solution.
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Scott Purcell, CEO, founder
Purcell is a leader in the crowdfunding industry with experience in both technology and securities.
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Jonathan Self, President, CCO
Self-served as a compliance examiner at FINRA, and was a capital markets specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Scott Andersen, General Counsel
Andersen was the deputy chief counsel at FINRA; enforcement director at the NYSE; and assistant attorney general for the state of New York.
SayPay enables users to make or schedule bill payments instantly by simply speaking a one-time, secure “SayPay Code”—all without the need to sign in or remember passwords!
Features:
- Eliminates late charges and interest expense
- Billers get paid faster
- Combines voice recognition, biometric voice authentication and mobile technologies into a seamless user experience
Why it’s great
Financial institutions can re-use SayPay across the enterprise, for website sign-in, online purchases, P2P transfers, step-up authentication and more for optimal return on investment.
Presenter
Steve Hoffman, CEO, founder
Hoffman has 25+ years of experience in payments, digital banking, and authentication, and holds several patents for internet and mobile payment technologies.
StockViews is an online equity research platform that connects investors with independent analysts.
Features:
- A meritocratic platform that pinpoints alpha generators
- Identifies analysts with expertise relevant to the fund manager
- Harnesses the wisdom of crowds to assist investment decisions
Why it’s great
Our product harnesses collective intelligence by identifying and isolating the opinions of analysts who consistently outperform the market.
Presenters
Tom Beevers, CEO, co-founder
Beevers is the CEO of StockViews. He was previously a fund manager at Newton in London. He holds a degree in natural sciences from Cambridge.
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TrueAccord offers a machine-learning-based, automated, and friendly collection platform that effectively services the new age of financial services companies.
Features:
- Adapts to consumer preference with new communication channels; increases satisfaction
- Adapts to consumer behavior; increases recovery
- Easy to audit and control; improves compliance
Why it’s great
Debt collection is ripe for disruption on the heels of alternative lending. TrueAccord is leading the market in rethinking this activity.
Presenters
Ohad Samet, CEO
Samet is head of analytics at Fraud Sciences; worked in new ventures at PayPal; founder at Analyzd; chief risk officer at Klarna; published writer, O’Reilly.
LinkedIn
Nadav Samet, CTO
Samet served as a senior software engineer at Google and contributed to several high-profile projects such as gmail, Google Flights, and more. Holds a masters in science in mathematics from Weizmann Institute of Science.
LinkedIn
CUneXus, developer of sales and marketing technologies for lenders, raised $1 million in new equity funding from an unnamed strategic partner. Combined with a 2013 seed round, the company’s total funding stands at $1.7 million.
