It's almost that time of year.
The 2017 Benzinga Global Fintech Awards is a competition to showcase the companies with the most impressive technology that are paving the future in financial services and capital markets.
To get you prepared for this year's awards, Benzinga will profile each fintech company that has applied. Want to get involved? Submit your company here.
For this installment, we spoke with Abhishek Agarwal, CEO and founder of Croudify (answers have been edited for length and clarity).
Croudify
What does your company do? What unique problem does it solve?
Croudify utilizes machine learning and artificial intelligence to maximize investment gains on P2P and crowd lending platforms like LendingClub Corp LC.
Proprietary Product Suite Includes:
- Real-time loan ratings engine (industry first).
- Cross-platform loan aggregation view (industry first).
- Goal advisor (industry first).
- Tax efficient Investing (coming soon): Our tax planning tool allows you to do tax efficient investing thus adding a net return of 1–2 percent.
We have customers varying with banks, hedge funds to retail customers.
How long have you been in business?We launched our ratings and trading platform in November and our high-frequency trading engine in January.
Where are you located?We are located in Fremont, California (SF Bay Area).
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Who is your company's leadership? What kind of experience do they have?Agarwal holds an MBA from the Wharton School and is a CFA charter holder. He is also a certified financial risk manager and has an engineering degree from IIT.
We at Croudify are building an ecosystem to make investing in fintech assets comparable to investing in corporate bonds. We hope with our tools we can help to make this asset class bigger than corporate bonds.
If you’re looking for cool fintech startups and access to top financial institutions, and are sick of attending stuffy corporate conferences, the Benzinga Global Fintech Awards is the event for you. From its first year in 2015, the competition grew to over 250 applicants and over 500 attendees in 2016.
Connect with us on social media — use the hashtag #BZAwards and #Fintech to spread the word! Image Credit: Screenshot from Croudify
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