Innotribe, SWIFT’s startup engine, today unveiled the 15 companies that are finalists for the $50,000 prize for best startup to be awarded at the upcoming Sibos Dubai. We’ve narrowed down the 15 to the 10 we think are best, and rank ordered them based on what we know about the companies right now. (Some of the startups are early stage ventures.) Our votes for best Innotribe startups: z-crd, a modern secure and scaleable cloud-based international transaction system that cuts out middlemen, reduces transaction costs and offers services currently unheard of. Any startup that out and out aims to compete with Visa, MasterCard and American Express gets our respect. Quantum4D, visual analytic software that allows users to access large-scale data systems, and construct, edit and explore interlinked 3D arenas and workspaces intuitively. We’re not sure this visualization of massive amounts of data means anything, but it sure does look cool. Azimo, a platform that uses mobile and social technology to reinvent the way that economic migrants send money back to their families in the developing world. This is crowded space, but there is certainly great potential for any venture that can master this tricky consumer need. The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, an automated service [...]
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