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A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 23 and 24. Register today and save your spot.
TAZI AI is a machine learning (ML) platform, enabling business experts and data scientists to build and deploy ML models with patented continuous learning and explainable AI.
Features
Easy to use: Usable by business employees who don’t have data science training
Time to value: Deploy models in less than two weeks
Adaptive: Adapts to changes in data
Why it’s great
A no-code ML platform for business experts (and data scientists) to create, update and deploy ML models, allowing them to make smart decisions in dynamic business environments.
Presenter
Zehra Cataltepe, CEO & Co-Founder Cataltepe is a computer science expert with a PhD from Caltech. She is democratizing AI across industries and has 100+ publications in the field of AI and 14 patents. LinkedIn
May is Asian-American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month. May is also the month that brings Finovate back to San Francisco for our annual spring fintech conference, FinovateSpring.
To this end – and to officially launch our Asian-American Month Commemoration – we’re highlighting the women and men of Asian-American heritage who will be taking the stage at FinovateSpring May 23 through May 25.
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 23 and 24. Register today and save your spot.
The Lazu Group’s CULTURL Heritage Calendar offers insights into the history and significance of holidays across many different cultures, helping companies educate and communicate in a multicultural workplace.
Features
Provides a wealth of resources designed to support internal inclusion
Includes 80 holidays, commemorations, and cultural heritage months
Offers 13 toolkits to guide organizations in the creation of diverse content
Why it’s great
The CULTURL Heritage Calendar offers ideas and resources for creating timely content and communication to promote empathy, curiosity and dialogue around the significance of cross-cultural moments.
Presenter
Malia Lazu, Founder & CEO Lazu is an award-winning, tenured strategist in diversity & inclusion who has sparked deep economic development and investment in urban entrepreneurship for more than twenty years. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 23 and 24. Register today and save your spot.
Merlin Investor offers a multi-asset educational, strategizing and tracking tool complementary to any trading platform and designed for any kind of investor.
Features
Access different market data and sentiment all in one place
Create, analyze, compare and backtest an infinite set of investment strategies
Track portfolio performance
Why it’s great
The Merlin platform allows financial institutions to attract and retain customers throughout the entire investment process and not just during the execution of trades.
Presenter
Guido Petrelli, Founder & CEO Before starting Merlin Investor, Petrelli was the CFO and COO of a multinational company operating in the automotive sector for almost 15 years. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 23 and 24. Register today and save your spot.
9Spokes unlocks the potential of open data and open banking by collecting consented data from businesses to give financial institutions a powerful set of tools to engage their business customers.
Features
Cashflow – plan, project and manage cash position
Banking – analyze spending habits and trends
Business Apps – provides a streamlined business management experience using key business apps
Why it’s great
The 9Spokes toolset makes the financial institution the center of their business customers’ daily financial lives – driving customer engagement, cross-selling and up-selling opportunities.
Presenter
Tom Baran, Head of Partnerships Baran has been a growth agent and business development leader concentrating within technology and SaaS verticals. He oversees the product-partnership ecosystem for 9Spokes. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 23 and 24. Register today and save your spot.
Prelim is a white-labeled platform that helps banks digitize business banking. With core integrations and out-of-the-box AML/BSA solutions, they power automation by connecting with any system via API.
Features
Automate business account onboarding with a few clicks
Connect to external providers, including cores, to satisfy AML/BSA/CIP requirements
Launch products and services without re-keying data
Why it’s great
Prelim offers a core integrated business account onboarding solution that allows users to launch other banking products (i.e., treasury & merchant services, lending, etc.).
Presenters
Heang Chan, Co-Founder & CEO Prior to founding Prelim, Chan was a Product Expert for Blend. LinkedIn
Sam Kim, SVP, Head of Banking Platform Before joining Prelim, Sam Kim worked for Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and Enterprise. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 23 and 24. Register today and save your spot.
Savana unifies and orchestrates banks’ processes between the core, back-office, and digital channels to enable frictionless interactions between banks and their customers.
Features
Provides one experience for servicing customers across bank-assisted channels and products
Includes core-to-customer centralization and automation of processes
Digital channels leverage centralized processes via APIs
Why it’s great
Savana enables banks to own business processes and channel experiences holistically, eliminate process silos on the back-end and the front-end, and launch or modernize quickly without risk.
Presenters
David Williams, CPO Williams leads the development and execution of Savana’s product strategy to bring value to banks and their customers. LinkedIn
Larry Edgar-Smith, SVP, Sales Engineering Edgar-Smith combines market intel with industry experience to help shape the strategic direction of Savana’s solutions. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 23 and 24. Register today and save your spot.
Deserve’s configurable credit card platform helps FIs reduce fraud with card controls, deploy launches and feature releases quickly, and drive top-of-wallet with superior cardholder experiences.
Why it’s great
Deserve provides financial institutions with a fully-configurable credit card platform including cutting-edge card issuing, processing, and superior mobile cardholder experiences.
Presenters
Rajan Annadurai, CTO Annadurai leads the vision, strategy, and execution of the Deserve credit card platform. LinkedIn
Shiv Bhatt, Head of Product Bhatt leads Product at Deserve and delivers on a roadmap to provide partners with an integrated full-stack platform that is configurable with fast deployment. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 23 and 24. Register today and save your spot.
Finturf provides a complete point-of-sale financing solution for contractors, medical offices, retailers, and other businesses, connecting customers to multiple lenders.
Features
Includes multiple lenders all in one place and automated lender matching
Provides control over lenders and offers presented to customers
Delivers detailed application status, as well as user and company performance
Why it’s great
Finturf’s multi-lender platform boosts sales by increasing approval rates, with flexible financing options.
Presenter
Narek Khachatryan, Head of Product Narek Khachatryan is an accomplished fintech product executive who excels in product strategy, scaling startups, and point-of-sale financing, with strong problem-solving and collaboration skills. LinkedIn
A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 23 and 24. Register today and save your spot.
FINTEQ is a technology startup from Poland building the next-gen risk-free payment accelerator and striving to change how companies improve their cashflows in a healthy and sustainable way.
Features
Lowers purchasing costs in the supply chain
Provides debt free trade finance alternatives for suppliers
Generates extra profits for the business
Why it’s great
FINTEQ has created a mobile payments accelerator in a supply chain.
Presenters
Rafal Chrabol, CEO Chrabol is an executive in IT and finance with more than 15 years of experience. He is the Founder and CEO of FINTEQ and the Board Advisor for financial technology at the Polish Corporate Treasurers Association. LinkedIn
Aleksandra Chrabol, Media Editor As a highly creative and open-minded media editor, Chrabol is responsible for delivering the most relevant and eye-catching content across all digital networks.
With new challenges come new opportunities, and fintech has always been at the forefront of creating tools to help consumers, businesses, and traditional financial institutions overcome their obstacles. And given all of the changes taking place in financial services, there’s never been a better time for fintechs to shine. That’s why at FinovateSpring next month, we’ll showcase 50+ fintechs as they demo their newest developments from the Finovate stage.
So far this year, we have 25 new demoing companies. We wanted to highlight them because we figured they might be new to you, as well. Here’s a rundown of the new-to-Finovate demo companies currently on the roster:
1kosmos 1Kosmos automates user onboarding for workers and customers, protecting against stolen and synthetic identities while eliminating ATO and fraud.
9Spokes 9Spokes unlocks the potential of open data, giving financial institutions a powerful set of tools to engage business customers.
AI Squared AI Squared simplifies and accelerates AI integration to provide increased adoption of AI to impact organizations and lives.
AutoCloud AutoCloud offers risk management for multi-cloud infrastructure as code.
Bankable Fintech Bankable Fintech offers an unbiased source for financial technology partnerships, vendors, and service providers.
bluCongnition bluCognition provides machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, and big data services.
Cloverly Cloverly provides tools for businesses and organizations to become carbon neutral by connecting online buyers to local renewable energy through its Sustainability-as-a-Service platform.
Curinos Curinos’ machine-learning, AI-driven engine, Amplero, allows financial institutions to break free from rules-based marketing and achieve true personalization.
Deception and Data Truth Analysis D.A.T.A. provides lightning fast and highly accurate analysis of due-diligence documents for their level of deceptiveness and truthfulness.
Deserve Deserve’s mobile-first credit card platform is fully-configurable and offers cutting-edge card issuing, processing, and underwriting technologies.
FINTEQ & Smart Faktor Smart Faktor’s FINTEQ is an Early Payments Platform that factors in sustainability. The company’s supply chain financing turns a business’ working capital into profits.
Finturf Finturf brings point-of-sale financing to brick-and-mortar retailers and service providers like home improvement contractors and medical offices.
Front Financial Front Financial offers users real-time, aggregated data from their third party accounts. The company authenticates into over 300 banks, brokerages, CeFi exchanges, or DeFi wallets without screen scraping.
Hyperswitch Hyperswitch is a payment facilitator-as-a-service that helps merchants connect to any number of and a wide variety of payment processors.
IDMERIT IDMERIT is the one-stop shop for customer and business verification, helping companies fight fraud and meet KYC and AML regulations.
Kani Payments Kani Payments offers transaction reporting and reconciliation as well as business intelligence that helps businesses make informed decisions.
ModernTax ModernTax is API platform that democratizes access to tax records for business services companies.
Pangea Technologies Pangea’s FX hedging platform powered by AI addresses FX risk and global currency volatility for companies that have global costs, revenue, or employees.
pave.dev Pave helps credit risk teams to identify healthy borrowers, optimize credit limits, and improve collections outcomes.
PayTic PayTic offers software-as-a-service that helps card issuers and fintech businesses control risk and compliance through digitizing the payments back-office functions.
Savana Savana is a core-agnostic digital delivery platform that enables truly frictionless interactions between banks and their customers across channels.
Setuply Setuply offers a client onboarding automation platform that delivers innovation and experiences for clients and vendors.
The Lazu Group The Lazu Group is an equity, diversity, and inclusion firm that helps organizations move from intention to impact and future-proof their business model.
Total CollectR Total CollectR is a white-label solution that leverages AI to help customers resolve delinquent accounts using the communication channels they prefer.
Wink Wink enables any institution to offer identity and payments experiences through biometrics.
Be sure to keep an eye out for demo updates leading up to the event, which takes place May 23 through 25 at the Marriott Marquis in San Francisco. Don’t miss your chance to register!
