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List of winners of top fintech conference, Finovate

Finovate has really become the go-to tech conference for fintech startups to launch themselves and new products. There really isn’t another conference dedicated to financial startups that competes with Finovate.

The show has grown from 250 attendees to over 1200 this year. Many of today’s leading Finance 2.0 startups have presented at Finovate at some time or another. I haven’t seen a connection (yet) between presenters at the show and future success (growth, M&A, etc.) but it’s still early for this industry.

Thanks to Famzoo (who presented last year) for putting together Finovate’s winners throughout the years.

Check it out below.

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Finovate and the future of financial startups

I wasn’t at Finovate so I can’t be accused of drinking the Kool Aid.

But it seems to me that startups targeting the financial industry are not only interesting again, but downright exciting.

As the winners were announced, I couldn’t help but think that the long-anticipated changes people in the industry (and out) have been waiting for are a lot closer to being reality.

Ultimately, this is about the future of investing, startups, and the $11,000,000,000,000 question.

Couple of themes are emerging from the winner’s circle…
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