FIN/SUM Pitch Contest Winners
During Japan Fintech Week, Nikkei’s FIN/SUM held its annual startup pitc contest, which brought out four winners.
Grand Prize: Toggle
TOGGLE is a financial information service that utilizes generative AI to not only predict stock price trends, but also automatically create graphs that compare the price movements of multiple stocks.
SMBC Award: Lecto
Lecto is a Fintech company that develops “Collection Tech”. Lecto improves the troublesome back-end operations of financial services and retail subscription services, as well as complex and individualized work flows, and solves issues for receivables management (customer management) and collection to off-balance sheet management all at once.
Mitsubishi Estate Award: Bloomo Securities
Bloomo, a startup developing an asset building app focusing on US stocks/ETFs that had raised a JPY 800m seed round in April 2023, and announced that it has completed the registration as a Type 1 Financial Instruments Business Operator (FIBO) in June 2023, has launched its beta version of the app in February 2024.
Special Jury Award: Fivot
Fivot aims to be a challenger bank that generates the funds needed by society through their corporate lending business “Flex Capital” and the personal savings app “IDARE”, and contributes to economic development.
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