SAVE THE DATE Fintech Venture Day
SAO PAULO , 5TH OF MAY
Be part of FINTECH VENTURE DAYS Near You!
IE Business School, Santander InnoVentures and Accenture would like to invite you to participate in our FinTech Venture Day on May the 5th , 2016.
All FinTech entrepreneurs are invited to apply to the program.The three founding partners will provide winners with support necessary to accelerate business growth.
IE Business School, Santander InnoVentures and Accenture have launched FinTech Venture Days, an innovative program designed to encourage and empower vibrant financial technology(FinTech) startup ecosystems around the world and foster innovation in financial services. The FinTech Venture Days will be held in three cities in 2016: our first edition in Tel Aviv Israel, on February 16th; in May in Sao Paulo, Brazil and now in Madrid, Spain .
Bringing together regional stakeholders, including local investors and experienced entrepreneurs in each geography, FinTech Venture Days will explore the issues faced by Fintech startups and offer support in the form of advice, insight and best practices to help these startups develop and fine-tune their business strategies.
FinTech Venture Days are open to any startup operating within the financial services industry particularly in the areas of payments, alternative lending, wealth management and investment services, client and risk analytics, customer experience, and the digital delivery of financial services.
See more details here: http://venture-days.ie.edu/e/may-saopaulo-2016
FinTech Venture Days are open to any startup operating within the financial services industry particularly in the areas of payments, alternative lending, wealth management and investment services, client and risk analytics, customer experience, and the digital delivery of financial services.
Startups will be selected to participate in a “Pitch Slam” event during the FinTech Venture Day they have applied for and compete to win additional benefits and resources. The winner of each FinTech Venture Day will benefit from expertise and capabilities from each of the three founding partners to help them accelerate business growth:
Evaluation criteria:
• Innovation level of the project submitted to the contest and the arguments that demonstrate its value to turn into a reality.
• Maturity of the project that should be at least in a beta or prototype stage.
• Viability of projects in the FinTech industry.
• Economic and social impacts that its implementation would have.
• Capacity, dedication and experience of the team to implement the project.
IE BUSINESS SCHOOL
SANTANDER INNOVENTURES
Santander InnoVentures is the $100m, early stage VC arm of Santander Group, the largest bank in the euro zone by market capitalization and among the top banks on a global basis, with more than 117 million customers in 10 core markets in Europe and the Americas.
The fund was launched in July 2014 as part of Santander Group’s broader innovation agenda. The objective of the fund is to help FinTech companies grow by leveraging the bank’s resources across all its geographies, while at the same time ensuring Santander customers around the world benefit from the latest know-how and ideas.