Blockchain is the world’s most popular web-based Bitcoin wallet and the most highly trafficked Bitcoin website. Blockchain is the de facto search engine for the Bitcoin economy. Blockchain has over 2 million wallets and our footprint continues to grow quickly.

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Blockchain: The Core API for Bitcoin Development
Blockchain’s APIs power most of the Bitcoin companies in the ecosystem. Utilizing our APIs, you can start a Bitcoin business in minutes. From wallet creation to transaction verification, Blockchain’s APIs have you covered.

Toronto-based Bionym is a team of experts in cryptography, biometrics and security. Our first product is the Nymi, a wearable device that enables the user to authenticate once via unique cardiac rhythm and securely and seamlessly assert Persistent Identity to any system.

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Here I Am: Revolutionizing FI and Banking Experiences with Persistent Identity and the Nymi
Balaji presents the Nymi Persistent Identity vision and User flow and reviews the key aspects of the SDK and Developer offering. In addition, he proposes and inspires discussion on select use cases in FinTech where the Nymi can improve engagement, security and customer satisfaction.

BCL Technologies develops API’s for Financial Text Extraction that unlock Big Data in unstructured documents and websites, enabling FinTech Developers to easily extract structured Financial Triplets from any source.

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Unlocking Financial Text
Explore the different use cases for BCL’s Financial Data Extraction API’s for unstructured text, to generate structured data Triplets.

CrowdCurity is a web security marketplace. We connect businesses with security testers. We do bug bounty programs as-a-service. Bitcoin First.

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How to Invite Hackers to Your Website
Too many websites are being exploited, and we need to rethink web security. The best way to stay secure and ahead of the bad guys is to invite good white-hat hackers to test your security. We have made it easy to connect businesses to a crowd of security researchers.

Cloud Lending is an enterprise cloud lending solution provider. Our agile solutions are designed to empower lending businesses to simplify business processes, stay compliant and be future ready.

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Cloud Lending – Enterprise Lending Software
Cloud Lending products enable financial institutions to achieve scale and flexibility by moving the core back office to the cloud. Why did we choose Salesforce? The results that have been achieved by our customers using applications built on the Force.com platform – three-digit growth every quarter.

How they describe themselves: Ayasdi is transforming how the world uses data to solve complex problems by automatically discovering and operationalizing insights from complex datasets. Founded in 2008 after a decade of DARPA and NSF funded research at Stanford, the Ayasdi Platform executes and merges the results of hundreds of machine learning algorithms using Topological Data Analysis (TDA), enabling users to explore their data within interactive and intuitive applications. Funded by Khosla Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), GE Ventures, Citi Ventures, and FLOODGATE, Ayasdi’s customers include General Electric (GE), Citigroup, Anadarko, Boehringer Ingelheim, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and Mount Sinai Hospital.

How they describe their product/innovation: Ayasdi’s finance application allows capital markets businesses to automatically identify persistent relationships between market conditions and client trading behaviors and generate alerts based on this dynamic information. In addition, this application utilizes Ayasdi’s novel mathematical framework to predict model failure and systematically update the model in states where it fails.

This application leverages Ayasdi’s powerful platform, which integrates machine learning algorithms within a topological framework. This platform gives the application its ability to generate results that take several types of data into account, including, but not limited to: social data, numeric data, and the macro economy.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), licensed

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Andrew Bowles, VP Bus. Dev.
Press: Dan Reidy, Reidy Communications Principal, [email protected]
Sales: Eric Knapp, VP North American Sales, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Behalf is a smart, new way for small businesses to finance almost any purchase, fast and fairly.

It starts with our proprietary method of credit scoring, which looks at both the business and its owner in a new way, enabling us to bring much-needed short-term purchase financing to more SMBs.

We pay vendors directly on behalf of SMBs, and take care of collecting repayments on behalf of the vendor. An intelligent twist on the traditional model, it’s better and more efficient for both parties.

No matter where your business is on its growth curve, Behalf is the smartest way to pay.

How they describe their product/innovation: We are showing the value of our platform to vendors through a simple demonstration of how easy it is for a vendor to preapprove his customers, onboard them, and offer them the Behalf credit line they need.

Next, we are demonstrating Behalf’s value for the SMB, including how our flexible credit line increases over time as the SMB demonstrates good credit behavior. We are showing all of this through the view of the customer dashboard and what’s possible there.

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

Contacts:

Bus. Dev. & Press: Jennifer Soffen, Director, [email protected]
Sales: Shai Feinberg, Co-Founder & VP Sales, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Lumpy cash flow and long payment cycles often put a strain on SMB’s working capital. We started BlueVine so that small businesses don’t have to worry about making payroll or being able to buy more inventory. We provide a quick, simple, online solution to let businesses access the capital they need, when they need it.

How they describe their product/innovation: BlueVine gives small businesses an advance on their invoices that they can use to cover expenses or grow their business. We integrate with the most popular cloud accounting software so SMBs can request funds with a click of a button. There is no cost to sign up, no minimum volume requirements, and no termination fees. We offer businesses both discretion over their customer relationships, and control over their financing needs. BlueVine works with B2B companies with invoice terms of 15 to 90 days and funds invoices with a face value of $500 or more. Customer credit lines typically start between $5,000 and $15,000 and can go up $50,000. Funds can be available as fast as 24 hours, and sooner for returning customers.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Eyal Lifshitz, CEO, [email protected], 888-505-3149
Press & Sales: Edward Castano, VP Operations, [email protected], 888-505-3149

How they describe themselves: Founded in 2009, CrowdFlower is the leading data enrichment platform for data scientists. Its quality-control technology is the most accurate and fastest way to collect, label, and clean data from an on-demand workforce.

The platform automates the management of their online workforce to tackle tasks that require human intelligence – like search relevance tuning, data categorization, image annotation, metadata creation, sentiment analysis, transcription, and deduplication.

Backed by Trinity Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners, CrowdFlower has secured over 150 customers, which include LinkedIn, Intuit, Flickr, Edelman, and eBay.

How they describe their product/innovation: Financial statements are notoriously difficult to decipher. CrowdFlower puts an end to messy and incomplete financial services data that contributes to a poor customer experience. We are demonstrating how CrowdFlower can quickly and easily collect, clean, and label financial transaction data, from an online, on-demand workforce of over 5M contributors to help businesses provide a superior customer experience.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), licensed

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Seth Teicher, Parternships & Bus. Dev., [email protected]
Press & Sales: Renette Youssef, VP Marketing, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Blooom is a whole new way to 401k. In the US, there are over 50M people participating in employer sponsored retirement plans, commonly 401ks. The vast majority of these folks are significantly mismanaging their accounts. In short, blooom’s mission is to fix as many of these 401ks as possible. Pie charts and line graphs with a gazillion indecipherable colors aren’t helping anyone these days – especially the average 401k investor. Blooom has developed a revolutionary way to open 401k investors’ eyes and outsource the management of their 401k – regardless of where it is held. We are an online Registered Investment Advisor firm that was co-founded by a few Midwest guys that have over 30 years experience in managing investments.

How they describe their product/innovation: The blooom app collects basic user data (name, email, age), and asks the user to select where their 401k is currently held. Once selected, the user’s credentials are entered and blooom goes to work to analyze their current investment allocation across 25,000+ different funds to generate a comparative analysis without a bunch of financial mumbo jumbo. Blooom displays how their 401k should be allocated and gives the user some latitude to adjust the recommended allocation. In a few more steps, the user can then hire blooom to make these changes and, more importantly, rebalance and adjust the allocation for the user going forward. It is a new and intelligent way to get help with your 401k . . . all for just $10 per month.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through benefits exchanges, Professional Employment Organization, and small businesses

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Gerry Hollis, Bus. Dev. Director, [email protected]
Press: Chris Costello, CFP & Co-Founder, [email protected]
Sales: Kevin Conard, Co-Founder, [email protected]

How they describe themselves: Dynamics was founded and seeded in 2007 by Jeff Mullen, its President and CEO. Dynamics produces and manufactures intelligent powered cards such as advanced payment cards. Focused on introducing fast-cycle innovation to top card issuers, the company’s first commercial application is the world’s first fully card-programmable magnetic stripe for use in next-generation payment cards.

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: [email protected]
Press: [email protected]

How they describe themselves: BioCatch is a leading provider of behavioral authentication and threat detection solutions for mobile and web applications. Available as a cloud-based solution, BioCatch collects and analyzes more than 400 bio-behavioral, cognitive, and physiological parameters to generate a unique user profile. Banks, eCommerce websites, and mobile apps use BioCatch to significantly reduce friction associated with risky transactions and protect users against cyber threats.

How they describe their product/innovation: BioCatch is a cognitive behavioral biometrics technology that tracks how users interact with web and mobile applications. At the core of the technology lies a unique, patent pending Invisible Challenges mechanism. This mechanism is responsible for the interaction of the user with the application. So, whenever a user interacts with an application, a subtle dynamic cognitive challenge is injected and the user responds without being aware to the fact it was there.

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

Contacts:

Bus. Dev.: Uri Rivner, VP Bus. Dev. & Cyber Strategy & Co-Founder
Press:  Rachel Glaser, GK PR for BioCatch, [email protected], +972 54 250 9439
Sales: Len Crosson, VP Sales, [email protected]