SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by 24/7 Intouch is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Capitalists / Angel Investors. Eight companies within the Payment and FinTech Technologies category will dazzle a live audience, panel of three judges and co-emcees with their ideas, innovations, product and/or service on Saturday, March 12. Three of those eight companies will be asked to return on day two, Sunday, March 13, to present to a new group of co-emcees and judges. A grand prize winner for each category will be selected at the end of day two as part of the evening SXSW Accelerator Awards Ceremony.
Payment and FinTech Technologies that deliver new consumer or business payment methods, including new forms of currency; that deal with the extension of credit and other lending processes; equities t...
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SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by 24/7 Intouch is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Capitalists / Angel Investors. Eight companies within the Payment and FinTech Technologies category will dazzle a live audience, panel of three judges and co-emcees with their ideas, innovations, product and/or service on Saturday, March 12. Three of those eight companies will be asked to return on day two, Sunday, March 13, to present to a new group of co-emcees and judges. A grand prize winner for each category will be selected at the end of day two as part of the evening SXSW Accelerator Awards Ceremony.
Payment and FinTech Technologies that deliver new consumer or business payment methods, including new forms of currency; that deal with the extension of credit and other lending processes; equities trading; transaction processing; asset management, insurance and any other functions traditionally provided by banks and investment banks are welcome in this category. Major Banks is themselves beginning to create “iBanks” – evidence that there is considerable entrepreneurial opportunity for disruption in this category.
Emcees
Robin Wauters- Tech.edu
Niki Manby- Citi Ventures
Judges
Cyan Banister-Venture Hacks
Andrew McLaughlin- Betaworks/Path/Digg
Christine Herron- Intel Capital
Round #2 Payment and FinTech Technologies Finalists
Koho Financial
Koho.ca
Vancouver, Canada
Koho is what banking should be; no fee, modern, mobile, with spend categorizations, automatic savings and much more.
Loqr
Loqr.io
Braga, Portugal
Mitigate risks of identity theft, credentials abuse and fraud with a simply powerful, smartphone based, authentication solution. Loqr assures only you can access your accounts or approve your transactions, performing multimodal validations compliant with organizations' highest security requirements!
Mobeewave
movbeewave.com
Montreal, Canada
Mobeewave brings together their expertise in, respectively, payments and embedded systems, and is powered by their conviction that mobile will drive the next generation of commerce.
SayPay Technologies
saypaytechnologies.com
Pleasanton, CA
SayPay's disruptive authentication technology improves the user online experience, offers better security, and eliminates fragmented solutions like passwords, security questions, and hardware tokens.
Round #1 Payment and FinTech Technologies Finalists will pitch at 3:30pm in Salon B
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