FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: FinTech Insights

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: FinTech Insights

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 11 and 12. Register today and save your spot.

FinTech Insights is the premier competitive analysis tool for banks and fintechs that provides all the data they need to outsmart their competition in one powerful, user-friendly platform.

Features

  • See exactly what competitors are doing right now
  • Identify unmet market needs in a matter of seconds
  • Find out how product enhancements would change bank market positioning

Why it’s great

Most digital banking teams develop with a limited view of the market, and FinTech Insights allows them to quickly identify unmet customer needs and market opportunities.

Presenters

Nickolas Belesis, VP of Growth
Belesis is a fintech growth and digital banking specialist, assisting C-Suite executives in utilizing FinTech Insights to skyrocket their digital banking and maximize their NPS scores.
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Konstantine Pappas, Account Executive
Pappas is an experienced fintech executive who is empowering digital banking teams to improve their UX and product offerings.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Bud

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Bud

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 11 and 12. Register today and save your spot.

Bud makes financial decisions simple by turning transactional data into rich customer insights. It enables lenders to get an accurate picture of a borrower’s income, expenditure and credit in realtime.

Features

  • Hyper-personalized insights fueled by generative AI
  • Strategic, smart segment growth unleashed
  • Efficient decision-making grounded in realtime data

Why it’s great

Supercharge personalization, deposits and growth with generative AI for financial services.

Presenter

Edward Masaveckas, CEO & Founder
Maslaveckas is CEO and Co-Founder at data intelligence fintech Bud Financial (Bud). Under his leadership, Bud has grown to some 120 people and secured more than $100M in investment.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Jaid

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Jaid

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 11 and 12. Register today and save your spot.

Jaid is a powerful artificial intelligence SaaS platform that drives intelligent automation of diverse business communications, increasing the speed of resolution to client inquiries.

Features

  • Increases speed of resolution by up to 95%
  • Reduces employee attrition rates by up to 50%
  • Transforms critical data from diverse communications into meaningful actionable business insights

Why it’s great

Jaid delivers solutions, not AI tools, empowering teams to focus on higher-value tasks and what matters most.

Presenters

Dan Kramer, CEO
Kramer has 30 years+ experience in driving strategy and execution in financial services, including previous roles at BNYMellon Asset Services, JP Morgan, and Calastone.
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Ken Dummitt, CRO
Dummitt has 30 years+ experience in global enterprise B2B software sales with a proven record in driving revenue and expansion at high-growth technology companies.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: interface.ai

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: interface.ai

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 11 and 12. Register today and save your spot.

interface.ai’s Sphere is a generative AI-powered multimodal ChatGPT-like AI assistant for financial institutions. It provides both customers and employees with unparalleled banking experiences.

Features

  • Universal channel to enhance customer and employee experiences
  • Personalized and proactive guidance to achieve financial wellness
  • Increased revenue via upsell & cross-sell

Why it’s great

ChatGPT-like universal channel that replaces online mobile banking with an AI assistant providing intelligent guidance, innovative plugins, and personalized AI assistance.

Presenters

Srinivas Njay, Founder & CEO
Srinivas, Founder & CEO at interface.ai, has 10+ years of experience in AI research and led a digital strategy from scratch for a financial institution to scale it to several billion in assets.
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Bruce Gillooly, Sr. Sales Engineer
Gillooly has 30 years of problem-solving experience in banking. He has led teams and understands the pain points organizations face from both a member-facing & employee-facing standpoint.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Bits of Stock

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Bits of Stock

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 11 and 12. Register today and save your spot.

Bits of Stock enables community financial institutions and credit unions to reward in fractional shares of stock. Their purpose is to empower their customers to engage and build loyalty with younger generations.

Features

  • Engage the next generation of account holders
  • Establish the easiest path to financial wellness
  • Embed directly into current digital banking experiences

Why it’s great

Bits of Stock wants users to imagine if they had the opportunity to start earning stocks as a reward in the brands they loved when they turned 16 . . .

Presenters

Arash Asady, CEO & Co-Founder
Asady is a relentless and gritty entrepreneur who holds no punches. He’s a USMC Veteran, recovering Wall Street derivatives trader, and boxing aficionado.
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Steve Bishop, EVP & COO (OMB Bank)
Bishop joined OMB in September 2020, overseeing its physical and digital operations. Preceding OMB, Bishop had two separate stints at Jack Henry & Associates, most recently as Director of Client Services.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: MacroMicro

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: MacroMicro

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 11 and 12. Register today and save your spot.

MacroMicro offers premier macroeconomic investment platform services with over 350,000 registered users globally.

Features

  • Data-driven services with data aggregated
  • AI-driven services to help navigate and analyze
  • User-driven services with community and user-generated content

Why it’s great

Investors and decision-makers easily can make informed decisions through interactive and clear automatically updated charts on MacroMicro’s platform.

Presenters

Rachel Chen, CEO & Founder
Chen has 10+ years of experience in financial market analysis. She’s the Founder and CEO of MacroMicro, the first macro investing platform in Asia. Chen holds a Master of Economics degree from the University of British Columbia in Canada.
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Emilia Wei, Global Project Manager

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Zero Bank Design Factory

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Zero Bank Design Factory

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 11 and 12. Register today and save your spot.

Zero Bank Design Factory is the system development company building Minna Bank’s core system and the first developer in Japan to build a core banking system on the cloud.

Features

  • Digital Native: Fully digital workflow & process
  • BaaS Native: FAPI grade open-API platform
  • API Native: Plug-and-play

Why it’s great

Zero Bank offers a new generation of fully automated cloud-based digital banking systems.

Presenters

Kenichi Nagayoshi, CEO & COO, Zero Bank Design Factory and CEO, Minna Bank
Nagayoshi has over 10 years’ experience in the corporate planning division for banking corporate strategy at Fukuoka Bank and has worked for mergers with other banks from the initial stage.

Quan Yuan, Chief Strategy Officer Manager

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: eSelf.AI

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: eSelf.AI

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 11 and 12. Register today and save your spot.

eSelf.AI’s virtual agents qualify leads, converse with them in real time, and create an innovative and efficient user journey.

Features

  • Improve marketing ROI by qualifying leads better than a regular form
  • Create positive user experience with a human-like experience
  • Customize per use case

Why it’s great

eSelf’s solution is based on advanced generative AI models, enabling creativity and variety in content while making sure nothing inappropriate or incorrect is mentioned.

Presenters

Alan Bekker, Co-Founder & CEO
Bekker is the Co-Founder of voca.ai (acq. by SNAP, Best of Show winner at FinovateEurope 2019) and former head of AI at SNAP. He’s an HBS Alumni, Forbes 30 under 30, and has a PhD in AI.
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Eylon Shoshan, Co-Founder & CTO
Shoshan is an experienced AI entrepreneur specializing in NLP, holding an M.Sc. degree from the Technion. He’s a former Captain in IDF Cyber Security unit and 2020 Israeli Defense Award recipient.
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FinovateFall Best of Show Winners: Fundraising, Acquisitions, New Partnerships, and More!

FinovateFall Best of Show Winners: Fundraising, Acquisitions, New Partnerships, and More!

The only thing more exciting than being chosen to demo your latest innovation at a Finovate conference is winning the accolades our attendees and taking home a Best of Show award. With FinovateFall right around the corner, we wanted to take a look at the companies that won Best of Show at last year’s event and give you the latest on what they’ve been up to in the year since.

Remember that early bird savings for FinovateFall – September 11 through 13 – end this weekend! Visit our FinovateFall registration hub and save your spot today!


Debbie

  • HQ: Miami, Florida, U.S.
  • Founded: 2021
  • CEO: Frida Leibowitz
Left to right: Frida Leibowitz, CEO | Rachel Lauren, COO

Demoed its technology that leverages behavioral psychology and rewards to help users pay off debt faster. Demo video.

Latest update

  • Secured seed funding from Geek Ventures.

Horizn

  • HQ: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Founded: 2012
  • CEO: Janice Diner
Left to right: Horizn’s Colm Bermingham, Sr. Director Sales | Steve Frook, CRO

Demoed its platform that helps financial institutions maximize their investments in digital technology. Demo video.

Latest update

  • Acquired by conversational AI company Inbenta.

LemonadeLXP

  • HQ: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  • Founded: 2021
  • CEO: John Findlay
 Lemonade CEO John Findlay

Demoed its digital growth platform that helps financial institutions and fintechs turn staff into digital customer service experts. Demo video.

Latest update

  • Partnered with Newburyport Bank to facilitate staff and customer transition to digital banking.

Quilo

  • HQ: New York City, New York, U.S.
  • Founded: 2020
  • CEO: Boris Fuzayloff
Left to right: Don Shafer, Co-founder & Chief Evangelist | Boris Fuzayloff, Co-founder & CEO

Demoed its technology that empowers lenders to syndicate individual personal loans at the time of underwriting. Demo video.

Latest update


Stratyfy

  • HQ: New York City, New York, U.S.
  • Founded: 2017
  • CEO: Laura Kornhauser
Left to right: Dmitry Lesnik, Chief Data Scientist | Laura Kornhauser, CEO and Co-Founder

Demoed its technology that helps FIs leverage AI-based decision making to boost access to financial services. Demo video.

Latest update

  • Teamed up with Beneficial State Foundation to help combat racial disparities in lending.

Themis

  • HQ: New York City, New York, U.S.
  • Founded: 2021
  • CEO: Neepa Patel
Themis’ Founder and CEO Neepa Patel

Demoed its collaboration platform to help support and encourage partnerships between banks and fintechs. Demo video.

Latest update

  • Named a finalist in multiple categories including “Startup of the Year” by the U.S. Fintech Awards.

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Mahalo Banking

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Mahalo Banking

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 11 and 12. Register today and save your spot.

Mahalo Banking offers the industry’s first and only online banking solution to fully integrate comprehensive neurodiverse functionality directly into its platform. This inclusive approach allows credit unions to be truly member-centric.

Why it’s great

Mahalo Banking is at the forefront of bringing full inclusivity into digital banking, allowing the 20% of the population with neurodiverse traits who have trouble using banking apps to have a great experience.

Presenters

Denny Howell, Co-Founder & COO
Howell is an experienced tech and entrepreneurial professional with a demonstrated 25+ year history of working in technology, services, financial and fintech industries.
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Dan Domek, Co-Founder & CTO
Domek is an experienced leader in software design, system analysis, problem-solving, and process optimization.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Flybits

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: Flybits

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 11 and 12. Register today and save your spot.

Flybits is an award-winning personalization platform, enabling financial institutions to deliver best-in-class personalized digital banking experiences across mobile, web, and the metaverse.

Features

  • Deliver hyper-personalized experiences
  • Bring the person back into personalization by contextualizing digital touchpoints and interactions
  • Become a leader by creating interactive VR experiences

Why it’s great

The Flybits Cardholder Lifecycle Management Solution is an always-on solution that elevates cardholder experiences at every lifecycle stage, personalized for every moment while driving business results.

Presenters

Hossein Rahnama, CEO & Founder
Rahnama is a visiting MIT professor, co-founded the DMZ, and has 40+ publications/patents.
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Chris Pinkerton, CGO
Pinkerton has over 15 years of experience working with companies like Google, 3M, and Microsoft to apply insight to their acquisition and monetization models.
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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: DataVisor

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: DataVisor

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 11 and 12. Register today and save your spot.

DataVisor delivers sophisticated AI-powered solutions to keep companies and their customers safe from fraud and abuse.

Features

DataVisor’s Real-Time Payments Fraud Solution is

  • Designed for real-time payments fraud scenarios
  • Provides real-time alerts and mitigates threats without delays
  • Includes generative AI powered automation

Why it’s great

The only fraud platform with embedded generative AI powered automation.

Presenter

Ryan Nichols, Solutions Engineer
Nichols is grounded in software development and cloud solutions architecture. His expertise lies in crafting solutions for Cybersecurity, AML, and Fraud SaaS platforms.
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