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FinTech Sandbox, a Boston-based nonprofit supporting fintech startups, has announced a series of events highlighting innovative solutions built by Sandbox participants.
According to the official release, Demo Day 4.0 will take place at Fidelity Investments in Boston on Thursday, April 20, 2017, followed by a private innovation tour and Sandbox alumni reception on April 21. Demo Day will feature presentations from seven chief executives showcasing the solutions their companies have developed with free access to data:
- Alpaca - Building AI and Database technology for financial trading, and one of CBInsights’ “41 Startups Bringing AI To Fintech.” AlpacaScan provides a truly mobile-first trade idea discovery experience to the millennial generation. (San Francisco)
- Elsen - Elsen’s quantum-computing based “Platform as a Service” enables anyone to harness vast quantities of data to make better decisions and quickly solve the most complex problems. (Boston)
- FutureFuel - Offering a best-in-breed SaaS platform empowering employers to “turn on” student debt repayment as a new employee benefit — enterprise-wide and/or for special employee populations. (Boston)
- Stessa - Helping property owners make informed decisions about their investments by bringing together all relevant data in one place, in real-time. (San Francisco)
- TellusLabs - Combining decades of satellite imagery with a machine learning platform to answer critical, time-sensitive economic and environmental questions. (Boston)
- Vetr - Mobilizing the investor community to more accurately predict future stock prices in order to help people make better investment decisions. (New York)
- Virtual Cove - Engaging your brain by transforming data into virtual reality. This results in 35-500x faster time-to-insight when compared with visualization approaches limited by flat screen displays. (Boston)
This bi-annual event is likely to attract over 350 FinTech Sandbox sponsors, partners, and startups; members of the media, industry analysts, academics, and specially-invited decision-makers from venture funds and financial services firms.
Speakers include Adam Broun, Chief Operating Officer at Boston-based Kensho, who will share insights on building a FinTech analytics startup.
The private Innovation Tour and Alumni Reception for the FinTech Sandbox community will be hosted by Sandbox sponsor Fidelity Investments.
“FinTech Sandbox Demo Days provide residents a platform to demonstrate the possibilities of their product to an audience of potential customers who would actually use the technology,” said Jean Donnelly, Executive Director at FinTech Sandbox. “With every event, we focus on creating collisions within the financial services industry to encourage collaboration between startups and incumbents.”
