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Digital Commerce Group Calgary Fintech Award Announces Top 25 Contenders
Update | Jul 14, 2023
Digital Commerce Calgary Fintech Award
The Calgary Fintech Award has announced the top 25 contenders for the prestigious Digital Commerce Calgary Fintech Award, showcasing the most innovative fintech solutions in Canada.
- The top 25 contenders for the Digital Commerce Calgary Fintech Award have been announced, selected from 150 applications, showcasing the most innovative fintech solutions in Canada.
- These companies are set to compete for over $300,000 in non-dilutive cash, demonstrating their potential to disrupt and reshape the financial technology landscape.
- The top 10 will be unveiled in September, with the award ceremony scheduled for October 4, 2023.
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Below is a look at 10 of the 25 shortlisted fintech companies including a comparable company for reference:
| Company Name | Brief Description | URL | Comparable Company |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerate Financial Technologies | A leading provider of alternative investment solutions. | accelerateshares.com | Wealthsimple |
| Bidmii | A renovation marketplace that guarantees payment security for each party. | bidmii.com | Homestars |
| Blossom | A social app for investors with over 30,000 Canadians sharing their portfolios, trades, and investing ideas. | blossomapp.ca | Mylo (Moka) |
| Calefy | Helps quote and bind insurance digitally. | calefy.com | Zensurance |
| Chata.ai | Builds an API-first solution that empowers financial industry users with easy-to-use self-service analytics. | chata.ai | Ada |
| Credit App Technologies | Building a credit application platform to challenge the monopolistic industry that connects Canada’s 4,000 automotive dealerships with over 60 lenders. | creditapp.ca | Lendful |
| Datz Solutions | Created the Datz RMS as a complete, connected brokerage operating system. | datzrms.com | Vertafore Canada (Keal) |
| DealPoint | Digitizes investor onboarding and investment execution, bringing efficiency to the complicated, paper-based process of fundraising. | dealpoint.io | FrontFundr |
| Elev | Streamlines the off-campus living experience for students and landlords. | elevliving.com | RentMoola |
| Expedier | The first Black led BIPOC focused digital bank in Canada. | expedier.ca | Koho |
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