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

CoGo

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

 

Ophelos

Description: Debt management platform

HQ: London, UK

Founded: 2019

Funding: $2.2M

Company links: Website | Pitchbook

 

Percent

Description: Embedded donations

HQ: London, UK

Founded: 2017

Funding: Not available

Company links: Website | Twitter (270 followers) | Crunchbase

 

Vested Impact

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

 

Zeti

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

Fairly AI

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

 

Freyda

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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Raw Labs

Description: Tools to query and manage data in real-time

HQ: Lausanne, Switzerland

Founded: 2015

Funding: $9M

Company links: Website | Twitter (31 followers) | Crunchbase

 

Sust Global

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

Contingent

Description: AI enterprise data risk platform

HQ: London, UK

Founded: 2019

Funding: $2.3M

Company links: Website | Twitter (570 followers) | Crunchbase

Elemendar

Description: AI analyst for Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)

HQ: London, UK

Founded: 2017

Funding: Unknown

Company links: Website | Twitter (500 followers) | Crunchbase

Nuggets

Description: Payment and ID without sharing personal data

HQ: London, UK

Founded: Oct. 2016

Funding: Unkown

Company links: Website | Twitter (6,000 followers)| Crunchbase

 

SQR Systems

Description: Frictionless security for conversations

HQ: London, UK

Founded: December 2010

Funding: Unknown

Company links: Website | Twitter (540 followers) | Crunchbase

 

Synth

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

Granulate

Description: Infrastructure optimization

HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel

Founded: April 2018

Funding: $45.6M

Company links: Website | Twitter (32 followers) | Crunchbase

 

Hubble

Description: Automated testing of data metrics

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Founded: Unknown

Funding: $125k

Company links: Website | Crunchbase

 

Responsive AI

Description: Wealth manager productivity

HQ: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Founded: June 2015

Funding: $1.1M

Company links: Website | Twitter (1,400 followers) | Crunchbase

 

STOIC

Description: Next-generation spreadsheet

HQ: Palo Alto, CA

Founded: 2012

Funding: Unknown

Company links: Website | Crunchbase

 

Umazi

Description: Cross-industry corporate identity to facilitate due diligence

Founded: Unknown

Funding: Unknown

Company links: Website