In the final FinovateFall Sneak Peek of our series, we’re showcasing nine companies: eMoney Advisor, Finovera, Luxoft, Minetta Brook, P2Binvestor, SAS Games, SelfScore, Sender, and Top Image Systems.
These companies are coming to the Finovate stage in New York from all over the globe to showcase their newest fintech on September 23 and 24. Tickets are going fast;
get yours here to be a part of it.
Want to see more of what to expect at FinovateFall? Here are some companies you may have missed:
- Sneak Peek #1: Biz Equity, Gremln, Hoyos, Knox Payments, NopSec, and Rippleshot
- Sneak Peek #2: Backbase, BioCatch, blooom, iBillionaire, Patch of Land, and Settle
- Sneak Peek #3: Algomi, FlexScore, HedgeCo Networks, Linqto, Malauzai, and Virtual Strongbox
- Sneak Peek #4: FamDoo, iQuantifi, mCASH, PayItSimple, Toopher, and WorkFusion
- Sneak Peek #5: Business Centric Services Group (BCSG), Diebold (with Zenmonics), Larky, MaxMyInterest by Six Trees Capital, Sonovation, TickSmith
- Sneak Peek #6: MasterCard, Matchi, Misys, Silanis, Sr. Pago, and WingCash
With eMoney Advisor, if you’re a salesman with a practice selling products, it’s not for you. eMoney is built for advisors running a business based on relationships.
Features:
- With EMX, you’ll work smarter, not harder
- Integrations and ease of use are the future
- eMoney’s latest technology will define advisor success
Why it’s great:
With so many enhancements, it’s easy to focus on eMoney’s features–but it’s more important to remember the benefits: eMoney solidifies the advisor/client relationship.
1) Chad Porche, Senior User Interface Designer
2) Kyle Wharton, Director of Business Development
Finovera is transforming Online Bill Pay into holistic personal financial management with eBills and payments at its core designed for banks and credit unions.
Features:
- Receive, view and pay all bills – on bank site
- Enables bill pay with credit cards – Banks get paid for offering Bill Pay
- Great user experience – simple, convenient, attractive and mobile
Why it’s great:
Transform your bill pay from cost center into revenue center
1) Purna Pareek, Founder and CEO
Pareek is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of the company. He founded Finovera to bring simplicity, efficiency and convenience to household bill and information management.
2) Amanda Zepeda, Marketing Manager
Luxoft’s Horizon is a cutting-edge data visualization framework for financial institutions. It enables executives to quickly identify and resolve problems in multiple domains such as risk and regulation.
Features:
- A fast and intuitive access to data
- Ability to collaborate across roles and teams
- Radically shortens the decision-making time
Why it’s great:
Horizon – executive dashboards that give you back control. There is no need to hide.
1) Przemek Berendt, Global Marketing Vice President
Global Marketing Vice President at Luxoft (NYSE: LXFT) responsible for its B2B, B2E, and CSR strategies. Berendt led Luxoft’s winning presentation at Finovate London 2014.
2) Fabrice Aresu, Head of Business Support Group
Aresu is Luxoft’s Horizon Product Manager, focusing on Advanced Data Visualization; he worked 15 years in Finance & Risk software, at Thomson Reuters and Oracle.
Minetta Brook’s KNEWSAPP allows trading and investment professionals to take advantage of news related market inefficiencies by surfacing tickers, topics, and stories that are currently developing in the news.
Features:
- Track news, blog & tweet VELOCITY around your portfolio tickers, in real-time
- Use its linguistics based STORY SCORES to prioritize what you read
- Get to key active topics quickly, with STORY DNA
Why it’s great:
Track news, blog and twitter stories as they develop, well before they become headlines.
1) DB (Deepak) Bharadwaj, Founder & CEO
Technology pioneer at Microsoft & Sun. Built and ran multiple multi-hundred million dollar businesses. Over 20 years of technology expertise with specialty in operations & turnarounds.
2) Viplav Nigam, Head of Engineering
Built & ran NASDAQ’s trading system. Developed ultra low latency news feeds for trading at RTT News. Over 20 years of financial technology experience.
P2Binvestor (P2Bi) is a crowdlending platform for receivables-backed working capital that is supported by a crowd of accredited investors.
Features:
- Integrates with QuickBooks Online (API sync)
- Streamlines the online application and lending process
- Facilitates better account management and underwriting
Why it’s great:
P2Binvestor makes it really easy for borrowers to apply, get funded, and grow their credit line as their business evolves. Up to $5MM available.
1) G. Krista Morgan, President and Cofounder
Morgan has an extensive background in digital marketing and account leadership for blue-chip brands at some of London’s top interactive agencies. COO for P2Binvestor since 2012.
McIlrath is a seasoned technologist with more than a decade of experience developing software applications and working with start-up companies.
SAS Games’ TiViTz College $avings Game-a-thon is a fully automated, easy-to-use, market-disrupting, patent-pending, activity-based fundraising tool for children’s college savings.
Features:
- Complements existing financial savings vehicles
- Creates new college savings accounts and relationships
- Enhances CRA outreach and provides a marketing tool for consumer and business banking
Why it’s great:
The Game-a-thon provides families a solution to afford higher education by significantly increasing children’s savings, while improving their math skills and financial literacy.
1) Siobhan Mullen, CEO
Former aerospace executive and Special Adviser to the NASA Administrator, experienced high-tech entrepreneur in launch services, satellite communicatio
ns and data distribution.
2) Steve Scully, President
Serial entrepreneur and investor with a focus on children’s education through games, inventor of the TiViTz educational games and tournaments.
SelfScore is a disruptive consumer analytics solution that supplements FICO scores and informs a wide array of data-driven decisions.
Features:
- SelfScore measures consumers in better ways using more information
- Online profiles, phone data, and questions inform the score
- Providing insights to users and contextual information to businesses
Why it’s great:
SelfScore uses a proprietary algorithm to attain a more timely and accurate picture of consumer behaviors that benefit both consumers and businesses.
1) Kalpesh Kapadia, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Kapadia’s professional career in finance and technology spans 20 years. Before co-founding SelfScore, managed Equanum Capital, a technology fund, from 2007 to 2012 and was the WSJ #1 Analyst in 2005.
2) Michael Hallinan, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
Hallinan’s professional career spans more than 12 years of strategic innovation. Before co-founding SelfScore, he worked at U.S. CyberCommand and consulted Wall St. firms while at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Sender is the first messenger for businesses, enabling direct chat communication with customers. Sender – like Google’s Search Bar with endless possibilities. Sender – the last and only app.
Features:
- Creates 2-way communication of business with customers like in usual chat
- Provides possibility for businesses to create business processes without developers and endless softwareApps updates
Why it’s great:
People communicate with each other via chats with similar interfaces. Businesses communicate with people via apps with various unique interfaces and user experiences.
1) Kristina Chaiykovskaya, Department Head of E-business in PrivatBank
2) Maria Gurina, Liqpay Business Development Manager at PrivatBank
3) Egor Avetisov, Creative director at Sender
Top Image Systems’ next-generation mobile image capture and processing solutions, like GlassCapture, are designed to make account opening, bill payment and other mobile-initiated process simple and fun!
Features:
- Optimal user experience leads to customer loyalty
- Upfront validation ensures the image is correct
- Perfect image capture enables straight-through processing in the backend
Why it’s great:
FIs that establish a reputation for mobile innovation are likely to benefit in the future from greater market share and more loyal customers.
Smartphone checkbook app MagicMony 
Mobile payments app from BBVA