Track received 180 registrations and selected five startups that had an immersive day of bootcamp and brainstorm of strategies.
After six months of hard work, Visa Fintech Startups Acceleration Program, the Track, in partnership with Kyvo Design-Driven Innovation, the exclusive Brazil-based representative of GSVlabs, is now over.
The five startups that participated of the Acceleration Program were presented to the investors and partners on the rooftop at MAC in São Paulo wherein Dataholics were selected the best one. While NextOne was considered, Fintech which had grown the most during Track. Saffe was chosen by popularity. The entrepreneurs had the opportunity for networking.
“Being recognized by the jury at the Acceleration Program Track, means so much to us. That’s how we know we are on the right track. We want to be in the mainstream of both the market and artificial intelligence patterns. We’re working hard in looking for new partnerships and projects with several companies that are on the same path as Visa,” said Daniel Mendes, Dataholics’ CEO.
Track received 180 registrations and selected five startups that had an immersive day of bootcamp and brainstorm of strategies. In six months – three for acceleration and three for incubation – the projects were catalyzed in São Paulo, Brazil and in Silicon Valley, United States. It connected 170 mentors to the global community, where they were able to share experiences with startups and test the foreign investors’ perception about solutions.
Fintechs were guided by theirs mentors, Visa and GSVlabs, with a weekly follow-up service which demonstrated how effectively they were achieving their key business objectives (Key Performance Indicator). They also taught techniques on their business, services, design and advertising. The entrepreneurs had not only exclusive access to the content and studied somes cases of the companies, but also followed Visa’s operation in Brazil and in USA, improving the company’s planning to enter the national market, opening a range of job opportunities in partnership with Visa in the financial market.
“We did a great job strengthening our relationship with the Brazilian startup communities. We also learned a lot from them by using an innovative agenda, by looking to the future, and by engaging the technology in innovative payment transactions. It is interesting that the ending of the program doesn’t mean the end of the connection with those startups. A lot of them are working on solutions that will be used by Visa and by our clients and partners very soon”, says Percival Jatobá, vice-president of products for Visa do Brasil.
“The whole market gets stronger and creates solutions for new challenges. We proved that the Brazilian market has a huge potential, and creating this link with Silicon Valley supports the ecosystem that has developed in the country”, says Hilton Menezes, Kyvo´s founder-partner.
Below are the startups that have participated of the Track Program . Now they face a new stage – increasing their projects and solutions:
- Beetech Câmbio
A company that connects financial technology and innovation to transparency for the main currency exchange services in the world.
- Dataholics Eficiência financeira
A unique platform that collect an enormous amount of data from Facebook, Linkedin, Google+, Twitter and public data, generating a flow of security to the financial transactions.
- Foxbit Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin trading and digital currency platform.
- NextOneSeguros
Platform for increasing revenues in segments.
- SaffePayments
Saffe is a mobile payment app that leverages world-class facial recognition technology to make your life easier and more secure. Saffe’s customers naturally attest the legitimacy of their payments. How cool is that?
GSVlabs – GSVlabs is a global innovation platform that catalyzes startups and connects companies to technologies, business models and investors. Based in the heart of Silicon Valley, home to over 170+ startups that raised over $200 million in 2015. As the access point to a startup ecosystem, major corporations as IBM, JetBlue, 3M, the Times of India, Intel, and AT&T partner with GSVlabs to launch new initiatives, identify talent, and boost new businesses models. GSVlabs creates value through this virtuous circle, captures equity in game-changing startups while provides meaningful innovation services to entrepreneurs and corporations. GSVlabs has global partners in Indonésia, China, Mexico, India and has arrived in Brazil in partnership with Kyvo.
Visa – Across the globe, Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) is leader in card payment transactions in the world. We are a global payments technology company working to enable consumers, businesses, banks and governments to use digital currency. Helping improve lives and economies around the world. Our technology and innovation make digital payments a reality for consumers, businesses, banks and governments.VisaNet can authorize up to 56,000 transaction messages per second. A catalyst for commerce moving to an electronic payment economy has been shown to drive economic growth at every level. In effect, moving to an electronic payments economy means moving into the future of commerce.