How they describe themselves: Think Analytics provides analytic services like data management, simulation, statistical modeling, visualization, scorecard strategy, etc. The team works across the globe and the founders have experience advising several Fortune 500 Clients.

We have developed products for the past 2 years for digital lenders, wherein we automate underwriting, provide Alternate Data Scoring and digitize other functions to enable NBFCs, banks, fintechs to transform into smart and truly digital.

The founders and KMPs have over 50 years of work experience in leading analytics organizations, specializing in credit underwriting and technology solutions with systems thinking.

How they describe their product/innovation: We have developed Algo360 to enable digital lenders to manage risk and increase their loan book by providing credit to new-to-credit and new-to-banking customers.

Our primary solutions include automated credit underwriting and Alternate Data Scoring. Other solutions include white-labeled mobile application, identity solutions, Digital FI, Early Warning Systems etc.

The product has been running on over 8 million applications and providing alternate data profiles and scores in less than 30 seconds.

We are live with several large NBFCs and fintechs, and some banks and e-commerce companies.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Press: Ruchit Shah, Business Development Executive, [email protected], +97 7361 1709

How they describe themselves: Relay is solving the billion-dollar customer engagement challenge by giving businesses the power to create the easiest and most convenient customer interactions. Based on the belief that self-service tools fail because they are generic and put all the work on the customer, Relay proactively engages customers with personalized, simplified support in their neediest moments. Financial services companies can now solve their toughest customer engagement challenges and meet rising consumer expectations for efficient and effective service through mobile communications. Leading organizations that must now compete on customer experience use Relay – a Gartner Cool Vendor – to create more profitable, lasting customer relationships.

How they describe their product/innovation: CX Builder enables businesses to design, configure, and automate hyper-personalized digital customer experiences within the Relay Platform. CX Builder makes it simple for businesses to scale their customer support efforts and easily solve in-the-moment needs for all customers with instant app-like experiences via a mobile-friendly customer feed that does not require customers to download anything. CX Builder is an intuitive drag-and-drop creation tool that empowers marketing, digital, and customer experience teams to build and test mobile-first experiences, make real-time updates, and optimize results based on individual customer needs, all without writing any code.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Chris Golding, VP Bus. Dev., [email protected], 908-229-6102
Press: Will Crowley, Marketing Manager, [email protected], 610-608-3664

How they describe themselves: Round Pegs early-stage validation of digital opportunities unlocks corporate innovation in a result-driven approach, connecting corporate assets with the startup way.

Our solution accelerates digital transformation in companies of all industries worldwide and it has been used for digital products, processes, and business.

During 2017 digital innovations valued at over $30M were created using our solution.

From increasing your digital channels engagement to creating your own fintech, we enable companies to reach consensus and avoid larger investments.

• Validating the opportunity *as a startup would* (Startup Your Idea)
• Co-creating your product with beta users (Squad on Demand)

How they describe their product/innovation: As consumers, we are constantly exposed to new digital solutions that could have a great impact on our company channels and processes or even give birth to new businesses.

However, it is challenging to reach company consensus about a new digital initiative. Round Pegs “Startup Your Idea” validates a digital opportunity through a set of online services connecting you to the right talent under our proven methodology.

Committing 2 hours per week for 8 weeks, you will explore and validate your business opportunity. In the end, you will have an Innovation Plan to discuss with your peers reaching consensus.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Press: Pedro Donati, CEO,  [email protected], 408-844-4218

How they describe themselves: SaleMove is a software company based in New York City that creates customer engagement solutions for the enterprise. Through its full-suite of products, SaleMove enables companies to provide a better customer experience by facilitating contextual conversations with customers across a variety of channels. Without any downloads or installation, SaleMove turns a company website into a full-featured engagement center – allowing companies to identify and observe their highest-value visitors in real-time, communicate with the channel of their choosing (chat, audio, or video), and guide them through resolution with our award-winning CoBrowse technology.

How they describe their product/innovation: OmniCore, SaleMove’s all-in-one customer engagement platform, enables companies to deliver highly contextual sales and support conversations to website visitors in real-time. OmniCore allows company agents to manage live chat, audio & video chat, and CoBrowsing from one seamless, secure, and scalable platform. Through only a single line of code, OmniCore can be up and running quickly and easily – requiring no downloads or installation for your agents or customers. OmniCore allows you to identify your highest-value website visitors, communicate effortlessly through the most relevant channels, and create high-touch engagement with rich visual context – leading to increased online conversion, improved customer support & experience.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Jordan Christopher, SVP Global Sales, [email protected]
Press: Julie Aronson, Marketing Manager, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Saylent empowers financial institutions with data-driven insights and business tools to create profitable products and programs that the market desires.

How they describe their product/innovation: Insights – The Saylent Platform analyzes a financial institution’s internal data, combined with the most relevant external sources, to pinpoint areas of future value and growth in their customer relationships.

Actions – Provides clear, actionable information to reach customers with the products and services they need at that moment in their lives. We recommend a personalized marketing strategy based on data science and automate the outreach campaign to match goals and budgets.

Outcomes – With every campaign, our platform tracks and assesses results to measure the business value and return. Through machine learning, each future initiative is guided by these gained insights into customer data to improve the customer impact and ROI.

Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Russell Prettitore, CRO, [email protected], (o) 508-570-2162, (m) 508-254-2370
Press: Tom Scanlon, Hencove Marketing, [email protected], (o) 781-924-6715, (m) 973-979-5377

How they describe themselves: At Sezzle our mission is to financially empower young consumers. Sezzle allows shoppers to “Shop Now & Pay Later.” Shoppers check out with Sezzle to pay their orders off in 4 interest-free installments, payable every two weeks. Our payment system enables higher average order values and conversion rates at our merchant partner sites.

How they describe their product/innovation: Sezzle is an alternative payment system designed for e-commerce checkouts. Our system allows for seamless signup as the user checks out, requiring minimal additional information to underwrite and capture payments from our users. First-time users can check out in under a minute. Repeat users are recognized and can check out in a matter of seconds.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Paul Paradis, CRO & Founder, [email protected]
Press: Charlie Youakim, CEO & Founder, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Simpler Trading is a market-leading platform for interactive financial trading education that equips intermediate and advanced traders with accelerated trading know-how to help them take control of their financial future. Led by experts with 200 years of collective trading experience, trading ideas are implemented in real-time – via real investments made with personal accounts – across stocks and equity options, as well as futures and Forex. Founded in 2010, Simpler Trading has provided expert guidance and coaching to over 350,000 customers across the USA and globally.

How they describe their product/innovation: Trading charts and the software packages that aggregate them are extremely popular tools for trading the markets, as they provide a simple way to visualize and analyze historical prices for a particular market and how those prices have changed over time. While Simpler Trading recognizes the robust features of some of our competitors’ charting platforms, Simpler Charts offers a simpler, more succinct option to lower the barrier to entry for trading education. This lighter offering, combined with Simpler Trading’s educational content, will help new and/or struggling traders get from zero to trading confidently and consistently in substantially shorter time.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Brittany Burns, Head of Corporate Development, [email protected]
Press: Meg MacDougal, Sr. Mgr Caliber Corporate Advisers, [email protected], 512-299-5471

How they describe themselves: Sitehands bridged the gap between people and technology to create Field Services 2.0. Spanning 190+ countries with a global network of 20,000+ certified technicians, we created the world’s first on-demand marketplace for IT field services. If you need a person, in any location, to perform IT field services, Sitehands delivers.

Sitehands was built to revolutionize the way IT field services work is delivered and to ensure customers receive dependable outcomes in a frictionless and cost-efficient model. No one company is big enough to do this, but a marketplace and a community is – and that’s what we are.

How they describe their product/innovation: Sitehands is bringing innovation to hands-on field services work. As the only outcome-driven platform that currently exists, Sitehands delivers a white glove model that provides accountability, real time updates, and transparency for every field service transaction.

At Finovate, we are demoing our new Technician Application. This app is built for technicians to engage on IT field service work in a way that enables them to work anywhere and get jobs done faster with 24/7/365 support from the Sitehands Service Operations Center.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Ashley Evans, VP Community Growth & Brand Development, [email protected], 860-460-5444
Press: Jaimie Anzelone, Director of Marketing & Communications, [email protected], 646-430-1674

How they describe themselves: Spreedly gives you one connection to more transactions.

Accepting payments can be a challenge when you have innovative, growing, or global business models. With Spreedly, you connect once to our payments infrastructure and secure card vault. You can use tokenized card data to transact with virtually any payment API or gateway worldwide. That lets you do more transactions in more markets with more partners all while keeping customer card data secure and PCI compliant.

How they describe their product/innovation: Networked Commerce could be executed by a delivery company that aggregates corner stores and fulfills their orders. Or, when a travel company bundles rental cars and hotels rooms with the purchase of a flight. Or, when a voice-enabled device is used to fulfill orders from a network of providers.

This demo shows how Spreedly opens up the vast possibilities of Networked Commerce:

• How businesses can connect payments systems to partners and scale to an unlimited network size
• How a consumer can discover a product or service through web, mobile, or voice and make a purchase seamlessly via these networks
• How the merchant can process transactions even when multiple merchants are involved

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Sales: Kelly Ross, VP Sales, [email protected]
Press: Peter Mollins, VP Marketing, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: SecuredTouch is the expert in behavioral biometrics for digital transactions, delivering continuous authentication technologies to strengthen security and reduce fraud while improving customers digital experience.

SecuredTouch seamlessly collects and analyzes a dynamic set of over 100 different behavioral parameters like scroll velocity, touch pressure and finger size to automatically create a unique user behavioral profile, continuously verifying the user.

Our mobile-optimized solutions require no enrollment, they are easy to implement, and provide real time alerts of suspicious activity from login to logout.

Today, SecuredTouch award-winning solutions are used by clients around the world, including financial institutions and e-commerce.

How they describe their product/innovation: Behavioral biometrics is a cutting-edge scientific field that overcomes the weaknesses of older authentication methods while ensuring strong and continuous authentication and a friction-free user experience.

No two users use a touchscreen or navigate through websites and applications in quite the same way. SecuredTouch has identified that even after a few seconds, using two or three parameters, it can be determined whether a user is who they say they are and differentiate human behavior vs. bots and device vs. emulators.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Mark Freeman, Head of Bus. Dev., [email protected], +972-54-8040980
Press: Noa Benari, [email protected], +972 50-6683318

How they describe themselves: Stealth Security provides innovative security software for organizations targeted by an ever-increasing number of sophisticated and advanced bot attacks. The Stealth solution, easily deployed in the cloud or on-premises, uses patented machine learning and behavioral analysis technology to first automatically discover all web, mobile, and API application targets across the customer’s network, then detect in near real-time advanced bot attacks targeting those assets. Stealth also employs automated mitigation and deception controls to block attacks or misdirect fraudsters. Stealth technology deploys across multiple verticals, including financial services, retail, media, gaming, and more. Learn more at www.stealthsec.com.

How they describe their product/innovation: OFX is a major attack vector targeted by bad bots to gain access to confidential data your customers trust you to keep safe. Don’t miss our 7-min demo session, where you’ll see how we use patented technology to detect and block these attacks.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts

Bus. Dev.: Franklyn Jones, CMO, [email protected]
Press: Tony McIlvenna, VP of Worldwide Sales, [email protected]