π Selection Day Visa Innovation Program SEE
The Visa Innovation Program SEE is a fintech pilot-centered collaboration platform spanning across Southeast Europe. The Program is designed to help fintechs scale, supercharge their value proposition and engage with some of the leading financial institutions in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey.
The first Selection Day of the Visa Innovation Program SEE took place for the Bulgarian and Greek Hubs, run by Eleven Ventures and Crowdpolicy respectively, on Monday the 26th of April. In total 99 companies with high levels of maturity coming from Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus and the rest of Southeastern Europe, applied to enter the Program addressing the four Challenges of the Program.
The startups were selected among the 22 shortlisted to enter the Visa Innovation Program SEE and there are more to join from Turkey following the upcoming second Selection Day on the 3rd on May organized by Hackquarters!
The whole first Selection Day of the 26th of April was held online and there was an undiminished interest from the attendees throughout the event. Special thanks to the Advisory committee comprised of Bank executives from: Alpha Bank, Attica Bank, Eurobank, National Bank of Greece, Piraeus Bank, Akbank, Dskbank, Postbank, Raiffeisen Bank, Unicredit Bank and VakifBank who participated actively in the whole Selection Day and process.
βββ 91 participants and executives stayed connected during the whole virtual Selection Day, the spirit was high the whole time as the pitches from all the shortlisted companies were particularly interesting and engaging!
Before and after the official pitching, the shortlisted companies had the chance to meet with senior Bank experts in B2B networking sessions.
ππ And the pitching began! All the presentations from the 22 shortlisted participating companies were really top-notch! We wished them the best of luck!
The Selection Committee of Visa, Eleven Ventures and Crowdpolicy had a difficult duty in selecting the 11 fintechs to enter the 3rd Cohort of the Visa Innovation Program SEE!
In alphabetical order the selected startups here! These are the first 11 startups to be the next fintech stars of the Visa Innovation Program SEE:
- eVostro: Ξ diaspora BaaS Solution for Traditional Banks.
- Fondy: Payment platform for online businesses which gives full control on the sales from invoicing to payouts to your partners.
- FINQware: FinQware is a real time multi-banking cash management solution powered by open banking.
- Finloup: βBuy now, pay laterβ platform that helps merchants get more consumers at the point-of-sale, leveraging Open Banking.
- Parkadoro: Cloud-based, leading parking management software, ideal for small-medium car parks. It works on many devices (laptop, PC, mobile) including inside a POS.
- Roadcube: Loyalty As A Service Platform where companies of all sizes can create any kind of loyalty scheme or loyalty marketplace without development and consumers can follow these schemes via 1 user account.
- Rilla Digital Platform: Rilla is a mobile application for personal finance management, which aims to make the latest fintech achievements accessible to all.
- Tap2Pay: Tap2Pay activates payments on all digital channels: websites, social networks, messengers.
- Welcome Pickups: Welcome Pickups is a global leader in travel mobility and ground transportation serving millions of travelers in more than 55 destinations.
- Woli: Smart Money App for modern families that automates pocket money and helps children grow good money skills in a fun and secure way!:
- Wealthywood: The first DIY wealth-building app for long-term investors. Wealthyhood guides long-term investors to build their wealth over time, by intelligently investing their money, the way they want, with fewer fees
ππ ππ ππ Coming Next: the Kick-off meeting for the selected startups of the Visa Innovation Program SEE. Off we go to a successful 3rd Cohort !
More information: Visa Innovation Program SEE
