MILAN FINTECH SUMMIT: A SELECTION OF THE BEST OF ITALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL INNOVATION
Among the over 70 candidates from 18 countries, 10 Italian and 10 international companies were selected based on their potentials on the market.
Milan, 23 November 2020 – The Fintech companies deemed as having the highest market potential will be the protagonists of the second day of Milan Fintech Summit, the international event dedicated to the world of Finance Technology, scheduled as a streaming live on 10 and 11 December 2020. It is promoted and organised by Fintech District and Fiera Milano Media – Business International supported by the City of Milan through Milano&Partners, and sponsored by AIFI, Assolombarda, Febaf, ItaliaFintech and VC Hub.
Following the call launched on an international level and a careful selection by such experts in the sectors as the Conference Chair Alessandro Hatami and representatives of the organizing committee, today they announced the 20 companies that will be given the opportunity to be on the digital stage to present their own ideas and solutions for the future of financial services.
Among the over 70 candidates from 18 countries, 10 Italian and 10 International companies were selected.
The Italian companies are: insurtech Neosurance, See Your Box and Lokky; WizKey, Soisy, Cardo AI, Stonize and Faire Labs, operating in the lending and credit sector; Trakti offering cybersecurity solutions; Indigo.ai dealing with artificial intelligence.
The international ones that were selected are: Insurtech Descartes Underwriting and Zelros (France); Keyless Technologies (UK), CYDEF – Cyber Defence Corporation, Tehama (Canada), dealing with DaaS and Cybersecurity and Privasee (UK), operating in the data market protection; Pocketnest (USA), a SaaS company; Wealth Manager Wondeur (France), DarwinAI (USA) operating in the artificial intelligent sector and Oper Credits (Belgium), operating in the lending and credit field.
These realities, which will be introduced to a parterre of selected Italian and International investors and to fintech experts, were chosen based on the criteria of: innovativeness of the proposal, potential size of the target market, scalability of the proposal, potentials in capital raising; type of the employed technological solution.
The Milan Fintech Summit will thus help introduce the potential of our fintech companies abroad reinforcing the role of Milan as European capital of innovation, an ideal starting point for international companies that want to enter the Italian market.
FINTECH ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, AN OPEN DOOR EVENT
The program of the event is available on the official site and a physical appointment of the summit is already scheduled for next year, on 4 and 5 October 2021. The December appointments are open to all those interested in knowing and understanding in depth the potentials of fintech. You can register now for free using this link, or purchase a premium ticket to participate as listeners to the pitch session (the only closed door part of the program) and be entitled to other benefits offered by the Summit partners.
Fintech District
Fintech District is the reference international community for fintech ecosystem in Italy. It acts with the aim of creating the best conditions to help all the stakeholders (start-ups, financial institutions, corporations, professionals, institutions, investors) operate in synergy and find opportunities of local and international growth. The companies that decide to adhere have in common the tendency to innovate and the will to develop collaborations based on opening and sharing, The community now consists in 160 start-ups and 14 corporate members choosing to participate to the creation of open innovation projects by collaborating with fintech. Fintech District also has relationships with equivalent innovation hubs abroad to multiply the opportunity to invest and cooperate, establishing its own role as access door and reference in the Italian market. Created in 2017, the Fintech District has its seat in Milan in Palazzo COPERNICO ISOLA FOR S32, in Via Sassetti 32. Fintech District is part of Fabrick.
