How they describe themselves: Uplinq is the first, global credit assessment platform for small business lenders.
With a first of its kind solution, Uplinq utilizes billions of statistically validated data points to support a small business lender’s assessment of the credit worthiness of their business customers, within their existing credit processes. It’s Credit Assessment as a Service.
As a purpose driven company our mission is to help small business owners gain access to fair and ethical credit.
How they describe their product/innovation: Core highlights of the Uplinq platform include:
- Billions of alternative data sets that have served as a foundational component for over $1.4T USD in underwritten loans
- Benchmarks against industry & internal credit scores
- Output of regulatory compliant data sets that meet IFRS-9 & Basel III standards and can be stress tested
- Statistical validation of all data sets through comprehensive validation studies – not a black box
- Serve as a significant extension of existing credit bureau services
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), Through financial institutions, Through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts:
Bus. Dev.: Ron Benegbi (CEO)
Press: Christina Levin (Director, Caliber Corporate Communications), [email protected], 718-300-1597
How they describe themselves: unitQ turns customer feedback into data-driven insights that help companies like Chime, Current, Klarna and Greenlight improve product quality. unitQ consolidates user feedback across support tickets, social media, and app reviews into a central repository. Our AI-driven platform automatically buckets feedback into hundreds of granular categories, visualizes trends over time, and alerts you to emerging issues. unitQ helps companies detect and fix urgent issues faster and incorporate crucial user feedback into product decisions.
How they describe their product/innovation: The unitQ monitor is a centralized, searchable repository for customer feedback. It instantly translates feedback into English from 70+ languages worldwide. In this demo, we show you how your customer support and member services teams can use the unitQ monitor to truly understand your customer experience: their pain points, what they care about, and what they want. So that you can keep them happy and drive retention and growth.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts:
Bus. Dev.: Anthony Heckman, Head of Business Development, [email protected]
Press: Jason Wu, Director of Marketing, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: With the Very Good Security (VGS) data security and compliance platform, startups can offload their data security burden and instead focus on delivering innovative, differentiated products to their customers. VGS users enjoy a Zero Data™ approach to security, retaining the business value of sensitive data without the cost and liability of securing it themselves – which enables startups to dedicate more resources toward growing their business.
How they describe their product/innovation: Imagine being able to collect sensitive data from end-users or customers, operate on that data, and exchange it with third parties without the original data ever touching your network. This demo walks you through how the VGS Zero Data Platform makes it possible to extract the business value from sensitive data without touching it, while descoping your organizations from compliances like PCI DSS and fully controlling the customer experience yourself.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts:
Bus. Dev.: Alanna Frost Nardella, Channel Manager, [email protected]
Press: Paula Belikove, Senior Director of Corporate Communications,
[email protected]
How they describe themselves: Zeta is a modern banking tech company providing an Omni Stack comprising modern credit and debit processing, BNPL, core banking and mobile experiences. Zeta provides its products to banks and fintechs globally. Co-founded in April 2015 by Bhavin Turakhia (CEO) and Ramki Gaddipati (CTO), the company currently has over 800 employees across its offices in the US, UK, Middle East, and Asia. Learn more @ www.zeta.tech or follow us on social media.
How they describe their product/innovation: Zeta will demo its modern cloud native Omni Stack banking platform, showcasing specific digital 1st consumer use cases. During the demo, we will showcase how the platform can deliver a modern credit card experience with best in class UI/UX, ability to manage the card from the app, rich statements, BNPL like features etc. We expect the demo to show that the platform can deliver a “digital” credit card as a PaaS or SaaS offering.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Jeff Van Wie, [email protected]
Press: Rishav Kumar, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Created by young adults for young adults, financial technology company Zogo is on a mission to promote financial wellbeing. Backed by scientific research, our award-winning app offers bite-size modules and tangible incentives to make financial literacy education accessible, fun, and rewarding. We partner with over 100 financial institutions, including banks in all 50 U.S. states, to help them educate, engage and empower the next generation of financial decision makers.
How they describe their product/innovation: Zogo’s new loyalty/rewards platform revolutionizes the way financial institutions distribute rewards. Zogo has built a gamified, customizable way of rewarding customers that increases customer engagement. For example, customers can earn rewards for logging into their mobile banking app, swiping their debit or credit cards, completing financial education modules, visiting a branch, and much more, and the entire reward experience is completely integrated into a financial institution’s mobile banking app.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev. & Press: Louden Richason, SVP Strategic Partnerships, [email protected], 724-610-8996
How they describe themselves: Vymo is the Sales Acceleration Platform for 60+ financial service firms like Berkshire Hathaway, AIA, AXA, Allianz, Generali, Sunlife, BNP Paribas.
Vymo helps frontline reps report data & learn how to engage customers, it helps managers make data-backed preemptive interventions & improve the team’s outcomes, and it helps leaders with insights that help plan & resource for the business.
Vymo has 200,000+ users globally, is recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor & is a notable mention in the Forrester Sales Tech Report.
How they describe their product/innovation: Our product can be classified as a solution portfolio. We are able to adapt our value proposition based on what the customer in question needs at the time. This can range anywhere from lead allocation and management systems to activity capture for advisors. Vymo can act as a stand-alone CRM, but can also act as a layer of intelligence and automation on top of a pre-existing CRM. Vymo also has its own analytics and reporting tool for managers to surface metrics unique to their business.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev. & Press: Atul Vidhu, Demand Generation, [email protected], +91 9739022584
How they describe themselves: At Veritran, we believe in improving our clients’ business by making their customers’ lives better.
Through our enterprise Low-Code platform, we speed up and simplify the development of future-proofed immersive digital channels that create a top-notch user experience.
We are innovation drivers serving companies worldwide, reaching millions of users, and running billions of secure transactions annually.
How they describe their product/innovation: We are demoing the power and efficiency of using exponential technologies such as Low-Code to build a White-Label Digital Wallet while meeting and exceeding customers’ expectations and accelerating time to market.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev. & Press: Cassia Di Roberto, Sales Director, [email protected] & Karla Guzman, Bus. Dev. Director, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Founded in 1995 and servicing the transaction accounts of over 30 million consumers and business owners, Velocity Solutions is the leading provider of revenue-driving solutions for community banks and credit unions. Our Velocity Intelligent Platform® powers all of Velocity’s solutions, using machine-led intelligence that delivers powerful analytics and drives revenue, loans, account holder engagement and non-interest income to our client financial institutions.
How they describe their product/innovation: Akouba™ by Velocity Solutions is a secure, cloud-based digital lending platform for retail and commercial lending. The Akouba platform was built to reduce end-to-end time of loan origination, increase profits and give both borrowers and financial institutions a streamlined experience. Akouba is the only small business loan origination platform endorsed by the American Bankers Association.
Product distribution strategy: Through financial institutions
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: [email protected]
Press: Beth Planakis, Director of Marketing, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Trusted by more than 300,000 businesses in over 100 countries, Veem offers a suite of domestic and international payment services to establish and strengthen partner and supplier relationships. With automated KYC processes and two-way verification, Veem is safe and easy to use, licensed and regulated in each country and state it serves.
How they describe their product/innovation: The Partner Connect Product by Veem is a minimal code integration that allows banks to provide their clients with an all-in-one, global payments platform built for small and mid-sized businesses. Delight clients with access to multiple functions, including accounts payables and receivables, and provide a unique experience with your bank’s branding at the forefront.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Olivier Veyrac, Bus. Dev., [email protected]
Press: Maggie Lastayo, Marketing Manager, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: unitQ’s leading product quality monitoring platform empowers fintechs and banks to take a data-driven approach to product quality so they can fix the right quality issues faster.
How they describe their product/innovation: unitQ’s approach to product quality is why category-leading brands like Chime, NerdWallet, and Greenlight Financial have better product quality, retention, engagement, and are beating the competition.
Our AI-enabled platform determines what’s impacting their product right now, and helps teams efficiently identify, prioritize, and fix quality issues that matter.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Anthony Heckman, Head of Bus. Dev., [email protected]
Press: Jason Wu, Director of Marketing, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: UNest is the leading provider of financial planning, saving, and investment tools for parents to help their children achieve their dreams. Over the past 2 years, UNest has experienced levels of growth that place it as one of the fastest-growing fintech apps of all time. UNest gained popularity by helping families add to their savings in three easy ways: Gifting, Rewards, and Referral bonuses. UNest partners with credit unions and employers to offer our best-in-tech child savings account solutions to their members and employees.
How they describe their product/innovation: UNest will demo our financial planning, saving, and investment app for parents and kids. We will show how we effectively eliminate the complexity and limitations of legacy 529 and custodial products with a paperless approach that takes less than 5-minutes to set up. Our gifting and rewards features will be highlgihted to illustrate how easily our customers are growing their investment accounts. Furthermore, we will show how partnering with UNest allows Credit Unions and employers to offer UNest as a benefit to their members and employees.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C)
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Mike Van Kempen, COO, [email protected]
Press: Chloe Etsekson, VP Communications, [email protected]
How they describe themselves: Unblu empowers banks and insurance companies to connect with their customers across the omnichannel. Unblu’s Conversational Platform is a secure, collaborative engagement solution that helps over 160+ of the world’s leading financial institutions to deliver an in-person experience online. Unblu transforms the customer journey, empowering advisory, sales, and support teams to increase online conversions, deliver better customer experience and build successful business relationships.
How they describe their product/innovation: We will showcase how the Unblu Conversational Platform allows banks and insurance companies to provide customers with a seamless customer experience. Using a retail banking use case, we will demonstrate the most innovative features of the Unblu 7 platform, including: AI Client Conversation, Meeting Scheduler: ability to schedule a digital meeting, Collaboration Suite: A range of collaborative capabilities, Archive entire engagement inclusive of audio/video and screen sharing content, Ecosystem Integration: store all elements of engagement in CRM.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms
Contacts
Bus. Dev.: Lisa Joseph, President, North America, [email protected]
Press: Allison Sands, North American Marketing Director, [email protected]
