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FinovateFall 2024 Sneak Peek Series: Part 6

By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: Bud, Eisen, Fin3 Technologies, FinovateFall 2024, FinovateFall 2024 Sneak Peek, ID-Pal, ModernFi, MoneyKit, QuickFi

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 9 and 10. Register today using this link and save 20%.

Bud Financial

Bud Financial is a transaction intelligence platform transforming raw financial data into rich actionable insights with added customer context and readable outputs for LLMs.

Features

  • Link: Connect consumer debt accounts with a phone number
  • Guide: Provide the best next action to improve financial outcomes
  • Act: Money-saving actions taken in-app by customers

Who’s it for?

Banks and financial institutions

Eisen

Eisen offers account offboarding solutions for financial institutions, streamlining compliance with regulatory outreach, disbursement, and escheatment requirements.

Features

  • Save time on a complex process
  • Stop losing customers
  • Get proactive to reactivate inactives

Who’s it for?

Banks and credit unions.

Fin3 Technologies

Fin3 Technologies is the modern payment solution to physical checks. Fin3 is a trailblazer in the digital payments space and launched a new payment method, Digital Drafts, based on changes to payment law, specifically UCC 12.

Features

Fin3 Digital Drafts:

  • Replaces physical checks
  • Offers all the legal benefits of physical checks but is 100% digital
  • Integrates with core banking software

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, insurance companies, SMBs, and others using physical checks.

ID-Pal

ID-Pal uses 100% AI-powered technology for real-time identity verification and OFAC screening, ensuring seamless customer onboarding, compliance, and zero access to customer data.

Features

  • Provides built-in AI document fraud detection
  • Delivers global coverage and streamlined OFAC compliance
  • Offers seamless integration options and fully customizable

Who’s it for?

Banks, neobanks, community banks, credit unions, payments providers, insurance companies, asset management companies, and financial institutions.

ModernFi

ModernFi helps banks and credit unions grow, retain, and manage their deposits through the ModernFi Deposit Network by enabling extended federal deposit insurance.

Features

  • Delivers first fully integrated and API-driven deposit network available to banks and credit unions
  • Offers first and only credit union focused deposit network
  • Provides powerful digital experience for depositors

Who’s it for?

Banks and credit unions.

MoneyKit

MoneyKit is a superaggregator, a universal API that intelligently aggregates data from multiple sources, maximizing institution coverage, connection success rates, and connection stability over time.

Features

  • Supports data from Akoya, Finicity, MX, Plaid, and Yodlee
  • Offers intelligent routing, data standardization, and enrichment across providers
  • Provides SDKs for the simplest integration of all time

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, community banks, scaled fintechs, wealth management groups, payment providers, and IDV.

QuickFi

QuickFi is the first and only embedded finance platform in the market for secured commercial equipment lending.

Features

  • Offers 100% digital, end-to-end borrower self-service, with 24/7 access
  • Automates credit, contract structuring, business verification, and compliance
  • Completes transactions in minutes vs. days or weeks

Who’s it for?

Banks, equipment manufacturers, and equipment distributors.

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FinovateSpring 2024 Best of Show Winners Announced

FinovateSpring 2024 Best of Show Winners Announced
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Best of Show, Bloom Credit, Cascading AI, Daily news, Kobalt Labs, QuickFi, Remynt, SAVVI AI

The demos are done. The votes have been counted. And the people have spoken. After two days of live fintech demos here at FinovateSpring 2024, we are proud to introduce the winners of Best of Show.

Bloom Credit for its technology that helps banks and credit unions offer a deposit retention and credit building tool to their client base.

Cascading AI for its platform that improves efficiency in banks by 30x by automating rote tasks, enabling banks to leverage that step-change in efficiency to grow their top and bottom lines.

Kobalt Labs for its solution that helps fintechs and financial institutions accelerate and strengthen their third-party diligence, leading to faster and safer paths to revenue-generating partnerships and operational efficiency that doesn’t increase headcount.

QuickFi for its technology that enables banks and manufacturers to give their business customers a fully digital, self-service finance experience that’s fast, intuitive, and consistent with how modern business borrowers prefer to do business.

Remynt for its platform that helps creditors achieve higher recoveries and recapture defaulted consumers as customers when their financial position improves.

SAVVI AI for its solution that helps financial services companies step into the age of AI, with faster, more accurate forecasting, without changing their workflow or processes and using their existing teams.

A heartfelt thanks to all of our demoing companies for sharing their latest fintech innovations with our FinovateSpring audience. Be sure to check out the Finovate Podcast featuring Greg Palmer in the weeks to come as he interviews FinovateSpring 2024’s Best of Show winners.

Notes on methodology:
1. Only audience members NOT associated with demoing companies were eligible to vote. Finovate employees did not vote.
2. Attendees were encouraged to note their favorites during each day. At the end of the last demo, they chose their three favorites.
3. The exact written instructions given to attendees: “Please rate (the companies) on the basis of demo quality and potential impact of the innovation demoed.”
4. The six companies appearing on the highest percentage of submitted ballots were named “Best of Show.”
5. Go here for a list of previous Best of Show winners through 2014. Best of Show winners from our 2015 through 2024 conferences are below:
FinovateEurope 2015
FinovateSpring 2015
FinovateFall 2015
FinovateEurope 2016
FinovateSpring 2016
FinovateFall 2016
FinovateAsia 2016
FinovateEurope 2017
FinovateSpring 2017
FinovateFall 2017
FinovateAsia 2017
FinovateMiddleEast 2018
FinovateEurope 2018
FinovateSpring 2018
FinovateFall 2018
FinovateAsia 2018
FinovateAfrica 2018
FinovateEurope 2019
FinovateSpring 2019
FinovateFall 2019
FinovateAsia 2019
FinovateMiddleEast 2019
FinovateEurope 2020
FinovateFall 2020
FinovateWest 2020
FinovateEurope 2021
FinovateSpring 2021
FinovateFall 2021
FinovateEurope 2022
FinovateSpring 2022
FinovateFall 2022
FinovateEurope 2023
FinovateSpring 2023
FinovateFall 2023
FinovateEurope 2024

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FinovateSpring 2024 Sneak Peek Series: Part 3

By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: Deeployalty, FinovateSpring 2024, FinovateSpring 2024 Sneak Peek, Instarails, QuickFi, Sherpas, Skyflow

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 21 and 22. Register today using this link and save 20%.

Deeployalty

Deeployalty digitalizes paper receipts and plastic loyalty cards by integrating bank processing on one side and merchant CRMs on the other.

Features

  • Helps transition from paper receipts to digital receipts
  • Adds seamless loyalty features to banking applications
  • Provides an endless source of data for ML and scoring systems

Who’s it for?

Banks and retailers.

Instarails

Instarails is an intelligent, decentralized payout network that makes cross-border payments instant, inexpensive, and inclusive for all.

Features

  • Provides one connection to the world’s disparate real-time payment systems
  • Uses a decentralized network to eliminate fraud and disputes
  • Delivers one platform for inclusive payments in 50+ fiat currencies

Who’s it for?

Banks, remittance companies, mobile apps, e-commerce marketplaces, payment service providers, and enterprise businesses with offshore employees, gig workers, suppliers, and vendors.

QuickFi

QuickFi is the first and only embedded finance platform in the market for secured commercial equipment lending.

Features

  • Embeds easily into lender or manufacturer’s website
  • Offers 100% digital end-to-end borrower self-service, with 24/7 access
  • Provides automated credit, contract structuring, business verification, and compliance

Who’s it for?

Banks, equipment manufacturers, and equipment distributors.

Sherpas

Sherpas is a generative finance platform for wealth management that optimizes operations, personalizes advice at scale, and puts client engagement on autopilot through their AI model, Nima.

Features

  • Extracts data straight from documents
  • Provides information about products, funds, and client performance
  • Analyzes investments, and diagnoses and secures proposals
  • Creates personalized content

Who’s it for?

Wealth managers, private banks, independent financial advisors, asset managers, RIAs, and financial planners.

Skyflow

Skyflow recently released the Skyflow LLM Data Privacy Vault, which allows financial service organizations to leverage the power of LLMs, such as GPT, while maintaining privacy and security.

Features

  • Utilizes LLM while maintaining privacy and security
  • Isolates, protects, and governs sensitive data
  • Improves customer experience through new technologies while protecting sensitive data

Who’s it for?

Anyone who collects sensitive data such as PII, PCI, and PHI.

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Greg Palmer and the Finovate Podcast Showcase Black Voices in Fintech

Greg Palmer and the Finovate Podcast Showcase Black Voices in Fintech
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Bleu, Deposits, Diversity in Fintech, FinGoal, Invest Sou Sou, QuickFi, Speaker series

The stage is not the only place where Finovate celebrates the accomplishments of Black and African-American fintech and financial services professionals.

Since inception, Greg Palmer and the Finovate Podcast have showcased Black and African-American innovators, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders in the fintech and financial services space.

As part of our continued commemoration of Black and African-American History Month, today we highlight those conversations. Click the image to access the interview.

Nneka Ukpai – Better

Nate Gibbons – QuickFi

Jacqueline Baker – Author, The Unexpected Leader

Joseph Akintolayo – Deposits

Ariam Sium – FinGoal

William Crowder – Aperture Venture Capital

Sesie Bonsi – Bleu

Sharon Kimathi – Fintech Futures

Adrienne Harris – Superintendent NYS Department of Financial Services

Tosin Agbabiaka – Octopus Ventures

Fonta Gilliam – Invest Sou Sou

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Celebrating African-American Voices and Fintech Innovation on the Finovate Stage

Celebrating African-American Voices and Fintech Innovation on the Finovate Stage
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: AI Squared, Alumni profile, Bankjoy, DataVisor, Diversity in Fintech, FinGoal, QuickFi, The Lazu Group

To kick off Finovate’s commemoration of Black/African-American History Month this year, we’re highlighting some of the Black and African-American fintech professionals who represented their companies and their fintech innovations at our Finovate conferences in 2023.

Andre Llewellyn – Marketing Consultant/Advisory Board Member with AI Squared

Along with company CTO Michelle Bonat, Andre Llewellyn helped demonstrated the new Generative AI-based features on AI Squared’s platform at FinovateFall last year.

The company’s technology enables financial services companies to leverage Generative AI – and their own data – to maximize their enterprise assets.

A marketing consultant and AI Squared Advisory Board member, Llewellyn is a marketing veteran whose insights helped fuel new product and brand launches for Procter & Gamble, Instagram, Hashflow, and Candy Digital. He is a graduate of the NYU Stern School of Business.

Demo video

Michael Duncan – CEO and Founder of Bankjoy

Michael Duncan’s Bankjoy made its first Finovate appearance in 2016.

The company, which returned to the Finovate stage in 2022 and 2023 for FinovateFall, helps community banks and credit unions access modern banking technology. Bankjoy’s solutions help FIs better target specific market niches and deliver superior digital banking experiences.

Duncan (CEO) co-founded Bankjoy in 2015. Headquartered in Royal Oak, Michigan, Bankjoy has more than 60 clients, more than 120 integrations, and serves more than 1 million customers and members of banks and credit unions. This week, the company announced a new partner – Oregon State Credit Union – that will deploy Bankjoy’s online account opening and loan application.

Demo video

Ryan Nichols – Solutions Engineer with DataVisor

Mountain View, California-based DataVisor made its Finovate debut last year at FinovateFall 2023.

Solutions Engineer Ryan Nichols (shown) joined company CRO Kevin McWey on stage as they demoed DataVisor’s Fraud & Risk Platform. The company’s solution supports the entire fraud workflow in a self-service solution that is single and flexible.

A software developer and solutions architect with experience at firms like CenturyLink and Internet publisher Giant Oak, Nichols joined DataVisor in 2021. As of the spring of 2023, he is both a Cryptocurrency Tracing Certified Examiner (CTCE) and a Certified Cryptocurrency Risk Specialist (CCRS).

Demo video

Nate Gibbons – Chief Experience Officer with QuickFi

Nate Gibbons, QuickFi’s Chief Experience Officer, is no stranger to Finovate audience – nor to the Finovate Best of Show awards.

The company, an innovator in embedded financing for business equipment, has won Best of Show on two occasions: FinovateSpring 2022 and 2023. And Gibbons was part of the winning team both times (along with colleague Jillian Munson, VP of Process & Automation with QuickFi).

An alum of the University of Rochester Simon Business School, Gibbons is also a Certified Lease and Finance Professional (CLFP). Previous to his tenure at QuickFi, he was Project Manager and subsequently Vice President at First American Equipment Finance.

Demo video

Malia Lazu – Founder and CEO of The Lazu Group

Malia Lazu is founder and CEO of The Lazu Group.

The company is an Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion firm that consists of The Urban Labs (services) and Lexicon (products). The Lazu Group made its Finovate debut last year at FinovateSpring, demoing its CULTURL Heritage Calendar that offers “content, ideas, and resources for creating timely communication to promote empathy and curiosity and encourage cross-cultural dialogue.”

Lazu is a speaker, a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an author. Her book, From Intention to Impact: A Practical Guide to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, was published this year. Lazu is also a former banking professional, having worked as EVP and Chief Experience and Culture Officer for Berkshire Bank in Boston.

Demo video

Matthew Parker – Founder and CEO of ModernTax

ModernTax founder and CEO Matthew Parker introduced his company to Finovate audiences last year at FinovateSpring. ModernTax is a data company that makes tax and financial data on non-public entities more accessible. The company has created a verification platform that includes more than seven million businesses, and ModernTax has validated tax records for “hundreds of thousands” of them.

Before launching ModernTax, Parker was co-founder and CEO of Rapidly.co, a SaaS platform that connects accountants, enrolled agents, and tax professionals to their clients online. We caught up with him last fall to talk about the founding of ModernTax and what it means to have a more transparent financial ecosystem.

Demo video.

Ariam Sium – VP of Product with FinGoal

FinGoal first introduced itself to Finovate audiences at FinovateFall in 2021. But it was the company’s return to the Finovate stage the following spring that earned the Colorado-based fintech its first Best of Show award.

Led by Ariam Sium, VP of Product (shown) and Jenn Underwood, Product Analyst, FinGoal’s demo of its Aggregator Switch Kit showed how developers can readily transition from their current data aggregator to access the most enriched and reliable data available.

Finovate VP and host of the Finovate podcast Greg Palmer sat down with Sium in the wake of FinGoal’s Best of Show win last year. Check out their conversation from last summer.

Demo video

Benjamin Harvey – CEO of AI Squared CEO

AI Squared made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2023. The company, founded in 2019 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., specializes in helping companies integrate AI and machine learning functionality into any web-based application. Leading the company’s demo was founder and CEO Benjamin Harvey.

With a Master’s degree and a Doctor of Science in Computer Science – as well as years spent as both a Research and Assistant Professor – Harvey brings a wealth of academic experience to the challenge of entrepreneurship and innovation in the fintech space.

We discussed this, and other aspects of his background and goals, in a Finovate blog interview back in August of last year.

Demo video

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FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: QuickFi

FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek: QuickFi
By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2023, FinovateFall 2023 Sneak Peek, QuickFi

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

QuickFi’s latest e-commerce technology allows business borrowers to shop and consummate financing for business equipment – all within minutes, instead of days or weeks.

Features

  • Embeds easily into lender or manufacturer’s website
  • Offers 100% digital, borrower self-service, and accessible 24/7
  • Provides automated credit, contract structuring, and business verification

Why it’s great

With this latest technology, banks and manufacturers can now offer a combined online shopping and financing experience that is 100% digital, fully self-service, and able to be completed in minutes.

Presenters

Nate Gibbons, CXO
Gibbons oversees QuickFi’s customer experience strategy, leveraging automation and technology to enable dramatic improvements to the borrower experience.
LinkedIn

Jillian Munson, VP, Process & Automation
Munson leads core technology projects at QuickFi. She develops seamless user experiences for both internal and external business processes.
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Best of Show: The Finovate Podcast’s Greg Palmer Chats with the Faves of FinovateSpring

Best of Show: The Finovate Podcast’s Greg Palmer Chats with the Faves of FinovateSpring
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: 1Kosmos, 9Spokes, Flybits, Podcasting, QuickFi, SAVVI AI, Wink

Check out Finovate VP and host of the Finovate Podcast Greg Palmer (@GregPalmer47) as he interviews the innovators that won Best of Show awards at FinovateSpring in May.

From digital transformation and payments to customer experience and the future of finance, the Finovate Podcast is a great way to hear from some of the most innovative talents in fintech.

Finovate VP Greg Palmer talks with Nate Gibbons of QuickFi on reimagining business financing and successfully managing rapid growth. Demo video.

Greg Palmer sits down with Tom Baran of 9Spokes on open banking and personalization in the SMB space. Demo video.

Greg Palmer interviews Jens Hinrichson and Robert MacDonald of 1Kosmos on the future of password-optional authentication. Demo video.

Greg Palmer talks with Deepak Jain of Wink on the future of biometric payments. Demo video.

Greg Palmer chats with Maya Mikhailov of SAVVI AI on on no-code AI solutions you can implement right now. Demo video.

Greg Palmer catches up with Hossein Rahnama of Flybits. Demo video.

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FinovateSpring 2023 Best of Show Winners Announced!

FinovateSpring 2023 Best of Show Winners Announced!
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: 1Kosmos, 9Spokes, Alumni News, Best of Show, Daily news, Flybits, QuickFi, SAVVI AI, Wink

There’s still one more day to enjoy FinovateSpring. But as far as the live demo portion of our program is concerned, the Best of Show celebrations have begun. With that in mind, please join us in congratulating the winners of Best of Show at FinovateSpring 2023.

1Kosmos for its technology that automates user onboarding for workers and customers, protecting against stolen and synthetic identities while eliminating ATO and fraud. Video.

9Spokes for its technology that unlocks the potential of open data, giving financial institutions a powerful set of tools to engage business customers. Video.

Flybits for its personalization platform that enables financial institutions to deliver best-in-class personalized digital banking experiences. Video.

QuickFi for its 100% digital, self-service equipment financing platform that enables business equipment financing in minutes. Video.

SAVVI AI for its technology that helps any FinCo team build and deploy AI apps in minutes. No data scientists, pre-existing data, or custom infrastructure required. Video.

Wink for its biometric payments and identity platform that enables users to say goodbye to passwords and fraud – and say hello to secure and simple authentication. Video.

On behalf of the entire Finovate team, we want to thank all of our demoing companies, our partners, and our sponsors. We also want to express our gratitude toward our attendees in the fintech and financial services industry who bring so much positive energy to our events. We look forward to seeing you again next year right here in San Francisco for FinovateSpring 2024!

Notes on methodology:
1. Only audience members NOT associated with demoing companies were eligible to vote. Finovate employees did not vote.
2. Attendees were encouraged to note their favorites during each day. At the end of the last demo, they chose their six favorites.
3. The exact written instructions given to attendees: “Please rate (the companies) on the basis of demo quality and potential impact of the innovation demoed.”
4. The six companies appearing on the highest percentage of submitted ballots were named “Best of Show.”
5. Go here for a list of previous Best of Show winners through 2014. Best of Show winners from our 2015 through 2023 conferences are below:
FinovateEurope 2015
FinovateSpring 2015
FinovateFall 2015
FinovateEurope 2016
FinovateSpring 2016
FinovateFall 2016
FinovateAsia 2016
FinovateEurope 2017
FinovateSpring 2017
FinovateFall 2017
FinovateAsia 2017
FinovateMiddleEast 2018
FinovateEurope 2018
FinovateSpring 2018
FinovateFall 2018
FinovateAsia 2018
FinovateAfrica 2018
FinovateEurope 2019
FinovateSpring 2019
FinovateFall 2019
FinovateAsia 2019
FinovateMiddleEast 2019
FinovateEurope 2020
FinovateFall 2020
FinovateWest 2020
FinovateEurope 2021
FinovateSpring 2021
FinovateFall 2021
FinovateEurope 2022
FinovateSpring 2022
FinovateFall 2022
FinovateEurope 2023

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FinovateSpring 2023 Sneak Peek: QuickFi

FinovateSpring 2023 Sneak Peek: QuickFi
By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2023, FinovateSpring 2023 Sneak Peek, QuickFi

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 23 and 24. Register today and save your spot.

QuickFi’s latest e-commerce technology allows business borrowers to shop and consummate financing for business equipment – all within minutes, instead of days or weeks.

Features

  • Easily embeds into lender or manufacturer’s website
  • 100% digital, borrower self-service, and accessible 24/7
  • Automated credit, contract structuring, and business verification

Why it’s great

With this latest technology, banks and manufacturers can now offer a combined online shopping and financing experience that is 100% digital, fully self-service, and able to be completed in minutes.

Presenters

Nate Gibbons, CXO
Gibbons oversees QuickFi’s customer experience strategy, leveraging automation and technology to enable dramatic improvements to the borrower experience.
LinkedIn

Jillian Munson, VP, Process & Automation
Munson leads core technology projects at QuickFi. She develops seamless user experiences for both internal and external business processes.
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Celebrating Black History Month with Voices from the Finovate Stage

Celebrating Black History Month with Voices from the Finovate Stage
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Altro, Bankjoy, Deposits, Diversity in Fintech, FinGoal, QuickFi, Spave, Speaker series, unitQ

For a second year in a row, Finovate is commemorating Black History Month by showcasing those Black and African-American founders and executives who demoed their company’s fintech innovations on the Finovate stage in 2022.

Ariam Sium – VP of Product with FinGoal

Sium not only leads Product at FinGoal, the self-described “Listener. Thinker. Doer” also led FinGoal to a Best of Show award at FinovateSpring last year. In her role at FinGoal, Sium said that she uses the tenets of focus and value to govern each product decision made in the rapidly changing world of fintech.

FinGoal most recently demoed its technology at FinovateFall in September. The Boulder, Colorado-based company offers an insights platform that helps financial institutions better understand their customers.

Joseph Akintolayo – CEO and Founder of Deposits

Akintolayo is a “builder of ethical products that solve complex problems in fintech, insurtech, and social enterprise.” As CEO and founder of Deposits, Akintolayo heads a startup that offers banks, brands, and communities a plug and play solution to deliver financial services such as payments and lending, without requiring coding experience.

Deposits made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall in September. The Dallas, Texas-based company was founded in 2021.

Left to right: Joseph Akintolayo and Samuel Ailemen of Deposits

Samuel Ailemen – Director of Mobile and Identity at Deposits

As Director of Mobile and Identity at Deposits, Ailemen helped lead the company’s demo at FinovateFall 2022. A fraud prevention expert who is “building cool stuff everywhere”, Ailemen leverages his talent as “a software engineer who loves research” to solve real-world problems using new technologies.

Nathan Gibbons – Chief Experience Officer at QuickFi

Gibbons oversees the customer experience at QuickFi, a company that provides “nearly instant,” self-service 24/7 term financing to business equipment buyers. Demoing the company’s technology at FinovateFall last year, Gibbons and colleague Jillian Munson earned QuickFi its first Finovate Best of Show award.

A C-suite executive with QuickFi since 2018, Gibbons previously spent more than 11 years as Project Manager and later Vice President with First American Equipment Finance. QuickFi was launched by founders of First American Equipment Finance in 2018.

Michael Duncan – CEO and Founder of Bankjoy

Founder and CEO of Bankjoy, Duncan demoed his company’s Business Banking Platform at FinovateFall 2022. The company he launched in 2015 offers a range of modern banking technology solutions, including mobile and online banking, as well as a banking API.

Before founding Bankjoy, Duncan spent more than four years as a Programmer/Analyst and later Software Development Manager at Michigan First Credit Union.

Michael Broughton – CEO and Co-founder of Altro

Broughton co-founded and is CEO of Altro, a solution that helps consumers build credit through non-traditional recurring payment processes such as rent and even monthly subscriptions to services like Netflix. Altro’s app is free-to-use, and helps increase financial literacy while boosting existing credit and helping stabilize credit histories. The company made its Finovate debut last May at FinovateSpring.

Broughton is also Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for the USC Credit Union (since 2017), and was both a Scout at Sequoia Capital and a Thiel Fellow at The Thiel Foundation.

Christen Wright – Head of Product at Spave

As Head of Product at Spave, Wright was part of the three-person demo team that won Best of Show at the company’s Finovate debut last May at FinovateSpring. Spave is a financial wholeness solution that enables users to easily save and donate as they purchase products and services. The Spave app provides purchase tracking and analysis, goal setting, group giving, and more.

Wright has a diverse background, having served in senior management roles at AT&T and Delta Air Lines. A member of 100 Black Men of Atlanta, a mentoring and empowerment organization for African American youth, Wright is a graduate of the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, where he earned an MBA.

Anthony Heckman – as Director of Sales at unitQ

Heckman was part of the founding team at unitQ, a company that turns customer insights into data-driven decisions for firms ranging from Chime to fellow Finovate alum Klarna. At FinovateSpring 2022, Heckman led the company’s live demo of its unitQ monitor, which serves as a centralized, searchable, repository for customer feedback.

Heckman founded TWC Advisors in October of last year. The firm specializes in providing go-to-market and sales support to early-stage, high-growth, VC-backed startups.

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FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: QuickFi by Innovation Finance

FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek: QuickFi by Innovation Finance
By Madeline Clines Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2022, FinovateFall 2022 Sneak Peek, QuickFi

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateFall in New York on September 12 and 13. Register today and save your spot.

QuickFi® allows business borrowers to obtain low, fixed-rate business equipment term-loans in minutes, instead of days or weeks. The borrower completes the loan process on a mobile device, 24/7/365.

Features

  • Includes flexible integrations for global manufacturers, serving direct, dealer & ecommerce sales channels
  • Uses disclosed, fixed interest rates on borrower-friendly terms, with no hidden fees or costs
  • Available 24/7

Why it’s great

The QuickFi® platform dramatically improves the business borrower experience by enabling self-service, borrower-friendly, digital financing 24/7/365.

Presenters

Nathan Gibbons, Chief Experience Officer
Gibbons is CXO of QuickFi and oversees the platform’s customer experience strategy, leveraging automation and technology to enable dramatic improvements in the borrower experience.
LinkedIn

Jillian Munson, Technology Project Manager
Munson leads core technology projects at QuickFi. Munson develops seamless user experiences for both internal and external business processes.
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Best of Show: The Finovate Podcast’s Greg Palmer Chats with the Faves from FinovateSpring

Best of Show: The Finovate Podcast’s Greg Palmer Chats with the Faves from FinovateSpring
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Array, Best of Show, FinGoal, FinovateSpring 2022, Horizn, Keep Financial Technology, Podcasting, QuickFi, Spave

Join Finovate VP and Host of the Finovate Podcast Greg Palmer as he shares his video conversations with companies that earned Best of Show honors at FinovateSpring in May.

Greg Palmer talks with Rob Frohwein, co-founder of Keep Financial, which won Best of Show honors at FinovateSpring 2022. Demo video.

“What Keep does is it enables employers to implement what we call ‘investing cash plans’ which is a new compensation technique that enables an employer to issue what’s essentially a retention bonus, but that cash is provided on the front end of some period of time … There’s an ongoing obligation of the employee to stick around the company for whatever the vesting period is and, once they hit that vesting period or vesting periods along the way, that portion, or all of the debt that they owe for getting that retention bonus up front, disappears.”

Greg Palmer chats with Susan Sarensen Langer, CEO of Spave, which won Best of Show at FinovateSpring 2022. Demo video.

“Spave is all about helping realize financial wholeness and more balance in their life. You can think of Spave as a number of apps altogether. It’s Mint. It’s Acorns. It’s Digit. It’s United Way. It’s Venmo. All in one. We want people to be able to use their spending, so Spave is all based on people’s spending … (That) spending ignites micro amounts that we call “spavings”. So you can either round up spare change, you can apply a percent, you can spave now and do a one-time donation or one-time savings (set-aside) … We’re helping people decide how they’re going to save for their future, give to the causes that they care about and live a more balanced whole life.”

Greg Palmer interviews Nathan Gibbons, Chief Operating Officer at QuickFi, one of the companies that won Best of Show at FinovateSpring 2022. Demo video.

“QuickFi is a business financing platform that really is meant to serve banks and manufacturers. It enables them to offer their business customers a secure, completely digital way of applying for an consummating lower rate term loans in a matter of minutes instead of days or weeks. (This is) because the platform is 100% digital and self-service. It really allows banks and manufacturers to close more loans and more sales faster and much more cost-effectively.”

Greg Palmer talks with Leigh Gross, SVP of Sales and Revenue with Array. FinovateSpring 2022 Best of Show winner. Demo video.

“We’re an innovation platform that helps banks, credit unions, and other fintechs offer cutting-edge financial tools to their customers. For example, we offer credit and identity protection solutions, personal privacy components that we allow our partners to easily embed within their experience so they can offer these services directly to their customers.”

Greg Palmer chats with Ariam Sium, VP of Product with Fingoal. FinovateSpring 2022 Best of Show winner. Demo video.

“We build insights and data infrastructure for financial institutions. The fintech space has a lot left to be desired when it comes to serving actual human beings. And that’s really where (Fingoal) shines. When it comes to our insights, it’s the personalization that actually makes them worth anything. And when it comes to our technical solutions for our clients … at the end of the day we’re improving the overall user experience. It’s also nice that it happens to save the financial institutions money and time.”

Greg Palmer catches up with Janice Diner, CEO, and Steve Frook, SVP of Global Sales with Horizn, which won Best of Show honors at FinovateSpring 2022. Demo video.

“We solve quite a few business problems (for financial institutions). But the three that Steve probably will talk about a little later is reduce the cost to serve digital customers, increase the number of fully-digital customers, drive mass adoption of new products and features. We do this by educating both customers and employees across the full bank ecosystem: retail banking, business banking, wealth management, insurance, just to name a few.”

Stay tuned for more videos from Greg Palmer and the Finovate Podcast’s Conversations with Best of Show winners.

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