In these two days, several themes emerged and several companies stood out. Not every company in attendance offers a solution that’s right for financial cooperatives, but for those that do here are 30 names credit unions need to know, in order of appearance:
HQ: Washington, DC
Date Founded: January 2017
Product Demoed: BreachRx
Why You Need To Know Them: BreachRx aims to take the crisis out of breach response and turn it into a routine business process. In today's world, that's all too important.
HQ: Durham, NC
Date Founded: April 2018
Product Demoed: Zogo Teen Financial Literacy App
Why You Need To Know Them: Zogo partners with financial institutions to reward kids for learning financial literacy. Who wouldn't want to get paid to learn?
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Date Founded: July 2014
Product Demoed: MoEngage Intelligent Consumer Engagement Platform
Why You Need To Know Them: MoEngage offers consumer analytics and the ability to automate hyper-personalized campaigns across web, mobile, and email. Credit unions can further leverage data to better contextualize their marketing efforts.
HQ: East Windsor, CT
Date Founded: September 1999
Product Demoed: iInsure for Businesses
Why You Need To Know Them: Insuritas is improving the way people and businesses manage risk by deploying white-labeled, digital insurance agencies within a banking ecosystem. Think cross selling made easier.
HQ: Austin, TX
Date Founded: 2014
Product Demoed: ALTR Data Security Platform
Why You Need To Know Them: ALTR’s programmable data security and governance embeds directly into application code, neutralizing privacy and breach risks.
HQ: Walnut Creek, CA
Date Founded: July 2019
Product Demoed: Breach Clarity
Why You Need To Know Them: Breach Clarity was founded to empower consumers and financial providers to prevent post-breach fraud.
HQ: Ann Arbor, MI
Date Founded: January 2013
Product Demoed: Plinqit
Why You Need To Know Them: Plinqit creates higher user engagement for financial institutions while aligning data, behavior, and incentives through financial literacy.
HQ: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Date Founded: 2015
Product Demoed: PayFi
Why You Need To Know Them: PayFi enables banks, fintechs, processors, and merchant service providers to move money between bank accounts in real time. Real-time payments are coming. Now's the time to prepare.
HQ: Reston, VA
Date Founded: 2013
Product Demoed: Business Lending-as-a-Service
Why You Need To Know Them: StreetShares’ business lending as a service helps banks and credit unions enter the small business lending market quickly and efficiently.
HQ: Toronto, Canada
Date Founded: 2004
Product Demoed: IndiVideo
Why You Need To Know Them: IndiVideo creates interactive personalized videos to engage and motivate customers and collect data insights for deeper consumer understanding. The founder believes personalized videos are the future of member communication.
HQ: Toronto, Canada
Date Founded: May 2012
Product Demoed: Horizn Customer Platform
Why You Need To Know Them: Horizn focuses on equipping front-line employees and customers directly with the knowledge to improve customer experience and increase digital adoption.
HQ: London, England
Date Founded: 2014
Product Demoed: Personal Finance Concierge
Why You Need To Know Them: ebankIT says it is leading the digital banking revolution with its omnichannel digital banking platform.
HQ: Plano, TX
Date Founded: April 2016
Product Demoed: Illuma Shield
Why You Need To Know Them: The company offers passive voice authentication for call centers, a necessary tool to improve the member call-in experience.
HQ: Lehi, UT
Date Founded: 2010
Product Demoed: MX Enabled
Why You Need To Know Them: MX helps financial institutions and fintechs quickly and easily collect, enhance, analyze, present, and act on their financial data.
HQ: London, England
Date Founded: March 2017
Product Demoed: Qwil Messenger
Why You Need To Know Them: Qwil offers safe and compliant client chat for your business. Members will contact a credit union using any available channel, which means an institution must carefully consider its technology offerings.
HQ: New York, NY
Date Founded: 2012
Product Demoed: OmniGuide
Why You Need To Know Them: Glia creates digital first moments that simplify and transform communications between businesses and their customers.
HQ: Lehi, UT
Date Founded: January 2010
Product Demoed: BlytzPay
Why You Need To Know Them: BlytzPay’s text-to-pay solution makes billing and communication simple, streamlined, and secure.
HQ: London, England
Date Founded: March 2016
Product Demoed: SalaryFits platform
Why You Need To Know Them: SalaryFits is focused on empowering individuals by leveraging their salary as a form of payment.
HQ: Vancouver, Canada
Date Founded: August 2017
Product Demoed: Owl 360
Why You Need To Know Them: owl.co offers automated solutions for financial institutions to better know their customers by aggregating external data and results in real-time.
HQ: Arlington, MA
Date Founded: 2000
Product Demoed: Visual Engagement Platform
Why You Need To Know Them: Glance helps organizations deliver advisory services, visually engage with customers, and shepherd them through online transactions.
HQ: Baltimore, MD
Date Founded: January 2017
Product Demoed: White-label charitable giving account
Why You Need To Know Them: Pinkaloo helps financial institutions attract and retain customers and increase deposits and fees by powering their customers’ charitable giving. Relevant for today's member who makes choices based upon a company's mission and values.
HQ: Toronto, Canada
Date Founded: 2013
Product Demoed: Flybits
Why You Need To Know Them: Flybits enables financial institutions to deliver hyper-personalized customer experiences, leveraging contextual intelligence and AI.
HQ: Charlotte, NC
Date Founded: May 2012
Product Demoed: Finzly Bank Operating System
Why You Need To Know Them: Finzly enables digital banking transformation for financial institutions. The company aims to “free banks from the limitations of their core systems.”
HQ: Sunrise, FL
Date Founded: March 2015
Product Demoed: Payment Risk Optimizer
Why You Need To Know Them: ValidiFi is powering decisions and payments with proprietary data, technology, and customized strategies to increase life, reduce risk, and facilitate payments.
HQ: El Dorado Hills, CA
Date Founded: January 2011
Product Demoed: masterQueue
Why You Need To Know Them: Using AI, masterQueue automates unstructured data to simplify debt collections in compliance with state and federal regulatory and data privacy laws.
HQ: Miami, FL
Date Founded: 2015
Product Demoed: Fortress Identity Biometric Authenticator
Why You Need To Know Them: Fortress Identity’s biometric authentication securely validates users to tightly control access to accounts, sites, transactions, and networks.
HQ: Portland, OR
Date Founded: February 2010
Product Demoed: ARM Mimic
Why You Need To Know Them: Through a synthetic data process, ARM Insight transforms billions of transactions into rich insights used for data monetization, data security, and AI.
HQ: Arlington, VA
Date Founded: November 2016
Product Demoed: Adlumin
Why You Need To Know Them: Adlumin delivers a compliance automation platform for the financial sector, especially useful in today's complex environment.
HQ: Toronto, Canada
Date Founded: August 2014
Product Demoed: Data Collaboration Platform
Why You Need To Know Them: Cinchy is a data collaboration platform that aims to keep information connected, controlled, and accessible.
HQ: Vancouver, Canada
Date Founded: October 2011
Product Demoed: Global Gateway
Why You Need To Know Them: Trulioo is a global identity verification company providing secure access to trusted data sources to verify individuals and businesses in real time.