Looking for a few good financial innovation startups

[heather...@gmail.com]

Barcampers!

I'm looking for a few good financial innovation startups for the 2012
Innotribe Startup Challenge.

The Startup Challenge a year long program with three regional events
introducing finance startups to M&A, Innovation Heads and Investment
divisions heads at banks and VCs in the financial industry. I'm
kicking off the program with a New York event on Feb 8, 2012. I want
some serious West Coast representation in New York, and invite you to
apply or share the event with anyone you think should apply.
Applications are due January 13th and applicants should offer
financial services, products or technology solutions.

Judges will pick 15 companies to pitch to invite only investors and
representatives from M&A, Innovation and Investments at banks. Two NY
finalists will be invited to demo at the Future of Money and Tech in
SF in April and advance to compete at the global challenge in Osaka in
October for a 50k prize. We are holding two other regional events
later this year in Bangkok (April) and Belfast (June) with the
finalists from each region competing in Osaka.

Full details and to apply are at: http://innotribestartup.com/
Our current list of judges and representing companies are at (and
we're still adding lots!): http://innotribestartup.com/pages/judges-and-participants/
and includes CITI, VISA, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Paypal, First
Republic Bank, Banco Sabadell, Capital One, Standard Chartered and
others.

Let's see some West Coast representation!

-Heather