The W. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University was excited to host lunch for the finalists of the 2022 NXTSTAGE FinTech competition in the Wayne and Kay Woolsey Hall Ballroom. Finalists from across the globe came to Wichita, and before the main competition had a chance to tour Woolsey Hall and dine with faculty and staff from the Barton School.
About the NXTSTAGE FinTech Competition
The NXTSTAGE FinTech Competition is an innovative program that allows FinTech startups from around the world to present their innovative technology solutions to prospective customers in Kansas that they otherwise may not have been able to access. Startups offer potential technology tools – ready to be pilot tested or fully deployed – that can help financial institutions enhance their digital offerings and improve their operations. The competition attracted 94 competitors hailing from 27 states and 13 countries, and eight leading startups have been selected to host in Wichita.
The program’s pilot partners – community banks, credit unions and financial services businesses in Kansas – get to collaborate with startups and become early adopters of next-generation solutions, curated from among the crowded field of FinTech offerings.
2022 Finalists
- Agora Services (New York City) is the next generation of Bank as a service provider, offering a complete Fintech ecosystem that allows banks, credit unions or fintechs to build advanced digital solutions or leverage Agora’s existing white-label solutions.
- Array (New York City) is a financial enablement platform specializing in embeddable tools and white label credit and identity products, used by fintechs and financial institutions to drive greater engagement with customers. > > https://array.com/
- Boss Insights (Toronto, Canada) is a leader in open banking, linking fintech and financial institutions to their small and medium-sized business clients’ financial accounting, commerce, payroll and tax data in minutes.
- ComplYant (Los Angeles) Meet your new digital business tax assistant. We help small business owners remember tax deadlines, budget & save for future bills, and much more.
- Maxwell (Omaha, Neb.) makes it easy for employers to offer personalized benefits & rewards that attract and retain the talent they need.
- Photon Commerce (San Francisco) provides instant straight-through-processing of real-time payments, remittances, checks, invoices, and statements to financial institutions, standardizing ISO20022 data automatically.
- upSWOT (Charlotte, N.C.) serves banks and FIs by helping them build loyalty and expand engagement with their SMB clients, thanks to its white-labeled financial management solution.
- V2verify (Omaha, Neb.) Simplifies Life by replacing MFA, Passwords, and PINs with a simple-to-use voice authentication solution.