FinovateSpring is quickly approaching. This year’s show, May 10 & 11 in San Jose, will be our biggest show yet with 72 winning ideas pitched to more than 1,500 fintech execs. Pick up your ticket to save your seat. While we’re eager to see this year’s demos, we wanted to reflect on the successes of last year’s Best of Show winners (in alphabetic order):
HQ: Singapore
Founded: 2012
Total funding: $12 million
May 2015 demo: Alpha Payments Cloud showed AlphaHub, its omni-channel solution access platform that helps banks, merchants, MSPs, and ISOs gain access to any solution provider in the world. (Demo video)
What they’ve been up to:
- February 2016: Demoed at FinovateEurope 2016 in London
- February 2016: Partnered with Sentenial’s pan-European Payment Institution, Nuapay.
- January 2016: Partnered with Fiserv
- January 2016: Partnered with Alipay
- October 2015: Partnered with Macquarie Business Banking
- October 2015: Begins offering iSignthis KYC services
- August 2015: Partnered with Snapcard for to power bitcoin acceptance
HQ: Broomfield, CO
Founded: 2002
May 2015 demo: Avoka showed Transact for Financial Services, which combines social, cloud services, and crowdsourcing into the world’s fastest credit card application. (Demo video)
What they’ve been up to:
- March 2016: Presented at FinDEVr New York
- March 2016: Partnered with eSignLive to Deliver Digital Customer Acquisition in Regulated Industries
- November 2015: Introduced digital account opening from within Salesforce
- November 2015: Partnered with Trulioo to Provide Instant Digital Identity Verification
- September 2015: Demoed at FinovateFall in New York
HQ: Las Vegas, NV
Founded: 2015
Funding: $300,000
May 2015 demo: MoneyAmigo debuted its new platform that brings financial services to the underbanked and underserved, delivering traditional banking products in an innovative way. (Demo video)
What they’ve been up to:
- April 2016: Working on new version
- May 2015: featured on MarketWatch
HQ: New York, NY
Founded: 2011
Funding: $24.4 million
May 2015 demo: Moven introduced its Financial Health Platform that provides real-time contextualized notifications and interactions that create “gamified money moments.” (Demo video)
What they’ve been up to:
- April 2016: Selected to demo at FinovateSpring 2016
- February 2016: Featured in Gartner report
- January 2016: Launched Offers
- December 2015: Offered quick login on mobile
- October 2015: Raised $12 million in funding
HQ: Mahwah, NJ
Founded: 2014
Funding: $200,000
May 2015 demo: Namu debuted its Joyful Banking which uses new and intelligent behavior modeling to focus on customer behavior and digital experiences to create a new standard in mobile banking. (Demo video)
What they’ve been up to:
- July 2015: Won “Most Personalized Banking Experience” award from EPAM at the 2015 Citi Mobile Challenge in EMEA.
- June 2015: Featured in American Banker
- May 2015: Won “Top Innovation, Best User Experience” in Citi Mobile Challenge
HQ: Durham, NC
Founded: 2007
Funding: $2 million
May 2015 demo: Shoeboxed launched Receipt Capture for Banks solution which boosts the functionality of online and mobile banking apps while providing fraud protection. (Demo video)
What they’ve been up to:
- April 2016: Featured in USA Today
- March 2016: Featured in Forbes
- December 2015: unveiled version 6 of its Receipt and Mileage Tracking App for iPhone and iPad
- March 2015: moved headquarters to Google-backed startup-hub American Underground @ Main
HQ: Ann Arbor, MI
Founded: 2012
Funding: $6.63 million
May 2015 demo: Stratos debuted its dynamic Stratos Bluetooth Connected Card and Digital Card Issuance Platform that analyzes card usage trends and interactively engages card members. (Demo video)
What they’ve been up to:
- December 2015: Ciright One purchased Stratos Card
- November 2015: Earned spot among finalists in UBS’s “Future of Finance”
- April 2015: Stratos Card began shipping
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