FinovateSpring 2024: Celebrating Finovate’s Asian-American and Pacific Islander Alums

FinovateSpring 2024: Celebrating Finovate’s Asian-American and Pacific Islander Alums

May is Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage month. And with FinovateSpring less than a week away, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate the Asian-American fintech innovators who will be demonstrating their latest technologies on the Finovate stage live in San Francisco, California on May 21 through 23.

Tickets for FinovateSpring are still available. Visit our registration page today and save your spot. We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!


Mang-Git Ng

CEO and Co-Founder, Anvil – Document SDK

A former engineer at Dialpad, Dropbox, and Flexport, Ng is CEO and Co-Founder of Anvil. He is also a graduate of the University of Michigan and an alum of the Y Combinator Startup School Online.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Anvil was founded in 2018.

Saujin Yi

Founder and CEO, LiquidTrust

With experience in angel investments at 79 Studios, as a venture partner at Resolute, and a former I-banker at Chanin & CSFB, Saujin Yi is founder and CEO of LiquidTrust. Yi is a graduate of MIT and earned her MBA from UCLA Anderson, where she is a lecturer.

LiquidTrust was founded in 2019. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Chit-Kwan Lin

CEO, Revelata

A Venture Partner at JAZZ, Lin seeks to make everyone become “bionic” when it comes to investment research and analysis. Founder and CEO of Revelata, Lin is a graduate of Harvard University, earning his A.B. in Biochemical Sciences, as well as his S.M. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, at the institution.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Revelata was founded in 2020.

Gary Chao

Co-Founder and COO, Tennis Finance

Former Head of Operations for Juno Finance and Ownit, Chao is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer with Tennis Finance. Chao earned a B.A. in Economics and Psychology at University of California, Los Angeles.

San Francisco, California-based Tennis Finance was founded in 2022.


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FinovateSpring 2024 Sneak Peek Series: Part 7

A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 21 and 22. Register today using this link and save 20%.

Ascent Platform

Ascent Platform’s next-gen Point-of-Sale platform streamlines any product application or form without disrupting existing systems and processes. It learns from each customer interaction to improve subsequent experiences.

Features

  • Includes a no-code builder for rapid deployment of any app or form
  • Does not disrupt current operational processes
  • Offers low acquisition and ownership costs
  • Delivers less friction, less abandonment, and faster growth

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, and CUSOs.

Bloom Credit

Bloomplus by Bloom Credit lets the 106 million thin-file, no-file, and subprime Americans build credit by submitting payments from their DDA accounts to major credit bureaus.

Features

  • Allows consumers to build credit with bills they are already paying
  • Gives consumers access to credit products
  • Allows consumers to access mainstream credit rates

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, and fintechs.

Eqvista

With $70B in assets under administration (AuA) and a user base of 17,000 companies and monthly valuations of $2B in client assets, Eqvista is in a prime position to upsell equity and financial services.

Features

  • Delivers in real-time valuation
  • Provides financing against equity
  • Offers financing for SME segment

Who’s it for?

Banks who want to enter the equity financing space and SMBs looking for alternative sources of financing.

Revelata

Revelata makes investors bionic at research and analysis. Their first product, deepKPI, automatically surfaces company KPI time series buried within the text of billions of pages of SEC filings.

Features

  • Fast: Analysts cut ~1,200 hours per year down to seconds for manual data extraction
  • Trusted: Every data point auditable with one click
  • Simple: Downloads to Excel, works offline

Who’s it for?

Analysts in investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, PE firms, research firms, management consultancies, corporate strategy teams, as well as sophisticated retail investors.

Streetbeat

Streetbeat’s financial AI API streamlines financial operations with real-time, personalized data for each client.

Features

  • Enhances user experience with real-time, personalized financial data
  • Streamlines financial operations and integrates with existing systems
  • Supports advanced functions like backtesting and port

Who’s it for?

Banks, brokers, wealth managers, apps, websites, financial institutions, and financial publications.