Like any fintech conference, it’s not complete without a few business pitches.
At the recent Fintech Generations conference, eight companies took the stage for Demo Day. The pitchers were selected as part of Queen City Fintech’s Spring Cohort class, and were considered to be “startups that will be growing in the Queen City from March 25 to June 11.” Demo Day was their capstone event.
From Charlotte
Charlotte-based startup Bundle talked of their mortgage-shopping aspirations. Founder Eric Mager said he started Bundle because of conversations about mortgage shopping during his career as a mortgage lender.
“I realized there was no good online solution for what homebuyers really care about when they’re shopping for their mortgage,” Mager said. “People care about their privacy.”
Bundle is a mortgage platform which assists home buyers with many aspects of the home-buying process. They can learn about the home buying process, create a budget, connect with mortgage lenders, compare rates and get answers to questions. Mager emphasized that it’s private, and homebuyers can search and hold conversations anonymously.
“On Bundle, we never sell your email address or your phone number, period. We also understand that people want a trusted advisor,” Mager said. “This is a complicated process, and they want someone who can help them through that process.”
Pitching for another Charlotte-based company, Myriad Solutions, was Jim Finerty. His company is offering a solution for organizations to access the efficiency of cloud storage with the privacy and control of on-site storage.
“We’re making the cloud a safe place for business’s critical data,” Gilbert said.
Not From Charlotte
Other pitchers were considered to be growing companies in the area. They represent a range of solutions across the fintech space.
Esgro, based in Atlanta and pitched by co-founder Caleb Gilbert, gives those in the gig economy (such as freelancers, contract workers and artists doing commission pieces) a way to protect themselves from payment cancellation.
Winston Salem-based One Donation, pitched by COO Graham Treakle, hopes to increase corporate social responsibility with their payroll-deduction donation app that allows employees to contribute to causes they care about.
Optimone, based in Singapore, pitched their revolutionary technology infrastructure solution for collaborative trade finance and corporate finance. Boston-based Genesis AI pitched their marketplace for AI products and services. Chicago-based RentHub pitched their real-time rental housing market analytics software. And Cincinnati-based Wunderfund, a usful tool for startups, pitched their investment crowdfunding platform.
Mentor Awards
This impressive conglomeration of companies were all mentored by Queen City Fintech mentors. Sean Fitzgerald of Chapel Hill-based Strabble, which advises early-stage businesses on how to achieve growth, and Senior Director of User Experience at AIG Mandy Linton, both received the inaugural “Superstar Award,” for excelling at mentorship.
Another Demo Day is over. But the growth is expected to continue for this unique cohort of startups shaping the future of financial technology.
