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The Startup Magazine recommends SizeUp as the first tool to find your big idea in it’s article Your Guide to Starting a New Business in 2017. According to the article, “…every business begins with a spark of imagination. Once you have thought of the idea, it is time to start answering some critical questions. Which market are you appealing to? Is that market already saturated? If so, how can you find your unique edge to stand out? If you seek professional
The BAI Beacon conference for financial service executives presented a session on opportunities for small business Fintech including a panel of small business Fintech experts and pioneers including Kathryn Petralia, Co-Founder of Kabbage, Ruth Polachek, former Head of Citi Accelerator and FinCheck, Anatalio Ubalde, Founder of SizeUp, Zack Chestnut of RevolutionCredit, and moderator Matt Gamser, CEO of SME Finance Forum. The FintechStage session covered the significant opportunities that exist for serving small businesses and how Fintech companies have identified ways to serve this historically underserved market segment.
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SizeUp spoke at MaRS Discovery District “Toronto meets Silicon Valley Fintech” conference to join other Silicon Valley-based Fintech companies to speak about the work it is creating and how it can be brought to Canadian markets. The event was hosted at the MaRS headquarters in Toronto in partnership with Plug and Play. It also included a session with Tim Clark, CIO, TD Wealth; Aayaz Pira, SVP, CIBC Digital; Michael Tang, Partner & Head of Global Digital Transformation, Deloitte; Steve Kirsch, CEO of Token; and RJ Carver, Manager PnP FinTech.
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Canadian banks and financial service organizations attending included TD, BMO, CIBC, RBC, Scotiabank, Desjardins, Tangerine, Bank of Canada, Sun Life, Canadian Western Bank, ATB Financial, and Toronto Stock Exchange.
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Plug and Play Fintech sourced over 800 Fintech startups worldwide to select twenty-four startups, including SizeUp, for the Plug and Play Fintech accelerator. The program is designed for financial technology startups. The startups will gain access to Plug and Play’s extensive network of top banks and financial institutions that have been specifically curated to work with them. Partners of the program include Deloitte, Bank of the West, BanRegio, BNP Paribas, Capital One Growth Ventures, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Finstar Labs, Intuit, JCB, MUFG, Santander, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, TD Bank, USAA, and U.S. Bank.
Plug and Play’s venture team, VC Partners, and corporate partners select the startups that are accepted into the program, resulting in less than a 3% acceptance rate. “We are thrilled to be working with some of the best fintech startups in the world, before the world knows them,” says George Damouny, Principal of Plug and Play Ventures.
The Fintech startups selected include CCOBOX, Dobot, Eximchain, Flowcast, Instrument Capital, Lenny, Netki, Neurensic, NUCO, Omniscience, Redrock Biometrics, ShoCard, ShopInbox, SizeUp, Stellar Development Foundation, The Sun Exchange, Tierion, Tradle, Trunomi, Vault, and xPressTap.
Read the Plug and Play Fintech news release and learn more about the PnP Fintech program.
