The Fintech Innovation Lab, which launched in NYC in 2011, just held its demo day for the 20 startups in 9th London cohort. See our June 2020 post to watch demos from its latest NYC batch.
The companies were divided into 4 categories, each with 5 startups:
- Data
- Emerging Tech
- Security
- Purpose (e.g., solutions for specific market verticals)
Purpose Startups
Description: Tracking carbon footprint and social impact through payments data
HQ: Slough, UK
Founded: 2010
Funding: $6.0M
Company links: Website | Twitter (1,800 followers)| Crunchbase
Description: Debt management platform
HQ: London, UK
Founded: 2019
Funding: $2.2M
Company links: Website | Pitchbook
Description: Embedded donations
HQ: London, UK
Founded: 2017
Funding: Not available
Company links: Website | Twitter (270 followers) | Crunchbase
Description: Impact investing analysis & tracking
HQ: London, HQ
Founded: 2019 (based on Twitter start date)
Funding: Not available
Company links: Website | Twitter (2 followers) | Crunchbase
Description: Pay-as-you-drive model for Electric Vehicles
HQ: London, UK
Founded: 2020 (based on Twitter startdate)
Funding: Unknown
Company links: Website | Twitter (60 followers)
Data Startups
Description: AI auditing
HQ: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Founded: April 2020
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fairly-aiFunding: Unknown
Company links: Website | Twitter (16 followers) | Crunchbase
Description: AI-driven data entry and analysis
HQ: London, UK
Founded: Nov 2018
Funding: $850k
Company links: Website | Twitter | Crunchbase
Illumr – Removing bias from data sets
Description:
HQ: London
Founded: August 2013
Funding: $350k
Company links: Website | Twitter (210 followers) | Crunchbase
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Description: Tools to query and manage data in real-time
HQ: Lausanne, Switzerland
Founded: 2015
Funding: $9M
Company links: Website | Twitter (31 followers) | Crunchbase
Description: Climate change risk analytics
HQ: London, UK
Founded: 2018 (based on Twitter startdate)
Funding: Unknown
Company links: Website | Twitter (173 followers) | CBInsights
Security Startups
Description: AI enterprise data risk platform
HQ: London, UK
Founded: 2019
Funding: $2.3M
Company links: Website | Twitter (570 followers) | Crunchbase
Description: AI analyst for Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)
HQ: London, UK
Founded: 2017
Funding: Unknown
Company links: Website | Twitter (500 followers) | Crunchbase
Description: Payment and ID without sharing personal data
HQ: London, UK
Founded: Oct. 2016
Funding: Unkown
Company links: Website | Twitter (6,000 followers)| Crunchbase
Description: Frictionless security for conversations
HQ: London, UK
Founded: December 2010
Funding: Unknown
Company links: Website | Twitter (540 followers) | Crunchbase
Description: Synthetic data for quicker and privacy-compliant development and testing
HQ: London, UK
Founded: Jan 2019
Funding: $150k
Company links: Synth | Blog | Crunchbase
Emerging Tech Startups
Description: Infrastructure optimization
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
Founded: April 2018
Funding: $45.6M
Company links: Website | Twitter (32 followers) | Crunchbase
Description: Automated testing of data metrics
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Founded: Unknown
Funding: $125k
Company links: Website | Crunchbase
Description: Wealth manager productivity
HQ: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Founded: June 2015
Funding: $1.1M
Company links: Website | Twitter (1,400 followers) | Crunchbase
Description: Next-generation spreadsheet
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Founded: 2012
Funding: Unknown
Company links: Website | Crunchbase
Description: Cross-industry corporate identity to facilitate due diligence
Founded: Unknown
Funding: Unknown
Company links: Website
