The ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator
With its first inaugural class in 2019, The ICBA ThinkTech Accelerator was made possible through a partnership between The Venture Center and The Independent Community Bankers of America. Striving to help community banks keep pace with disruptive financial technologies, the accelerator equipped community banking teams with the tools needed to stay competitive. For fintech entrepreneurs, the program provided mentorship from fintech experts as well as in-depth access to the ICBA executive network and hundreds of their community bank members. Since its beginning, more than 150 community banks have attended the Accelerator program, resulting in transformative fintech partnerships.
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| Accrue | Accrue by Core10 enables digital transformation for community banks, with digital lending, digital account opening for consumers and businesses, as well as integration-as-a-service for cores and other fintechs. Check out our Demo Video. | Business account opening | 2022 ICBA |
| Adlumin | Adlumin is the Leading Security and Compliance Automation Platform in the U.S.Our trusted security and compliance automation platform is built to discover threats, malfunctions, and IT operations failures in real-time. In seconds, customers can comply with industry regulations using exclusive reporting features. | Cybersecurity | 2019 ICBA |
| Agent IQ | Agent IQ allows customers to engage with their bank like they engage with friends and family and enables banks to deepen relationships with every one of their customers. | Digital | 2021 ICBA |
| Agora | Agora Services offers financial institutions a robust and customizales cloud-based offering that enables banking customers to utilize and manage accounts in real-time. | Digital | 2019 ICBA |
| Alkami | Alkami:The Alkami Platform enables banks and credit unions to compete with the Megabanks and Fintechs and capitalize on whatever the future brings. | Lending | 2019 ICBA |
| Alpharank | Alpharank gives banks and credit unions data-driven insights to acquire new customers by visualizing problems within their paid and organic activity. | Digital | 2017 FIS |
| Alto | With a self-directed IRA from Alto®, you can invest your retirement dollars in alternative assets. | Wealth | 2017 FIS |
| Arcanum Technology | Arcanum Technology provides an innovative and cost-effective authentication solution that helps financial services organizations, banks and online merchants create a safe and secure business environment for their customers. | Cybersecurity | 2018 FIS |
| Array | Array: Democratize credit data. Deepen connections. | Credit monitoring | 2021 FIS |
| ASA | Facilitate innovation by connecting banks and fintechs seamlessly. | Fintech Enablement | 2023 FIS Cohort |
| Atomic | Atomic The trusted way for people to connect their payroll accounts to an app. | Authentication / direct deposit | 2021 FIS |
| AutoCloud | Fast-track secure cloud adoption with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. | Cloud Infrastructure | 2023 FIS Cohort |
| Azimuth | Effortlessly manage compliance with codified laws and daily tests | Regulatory & Compliance Tech | 2023 FIS Cohort |
| Bankifi | Bankifi is a technology platform designed to make business banking better, enabling banks to provide a set of integrated services - accounting, invoicing and payments - designed around the processes customers use to run their businesses | Banking-as-a-service | 2021 FIS |
| BankLabs | BankLabs Better Bankers. Better Banks. | Lending | 2021 FIS |
| Beauceron Security | Beauceron Security reduces risk for organizations by moving individuals and teams from cybersecurity awareness into demonstrated behavior change. | Cybersecurity | 2021 ICBA |
| Billon | We are Billon. We have civilised blockchain technologies to create the Unified Enterprise DLT System. | Payments | 2018 FIS |
| Bleuco | Blueco is simple & secure, and accepts touchless payments using a phone or a mobile device. Scale your payment services without the need for hardware. | Payments | 2016 FIS |
| Bond.ai | Bond.ai is AI for finance. AI for good. Powered by the world's first Empathy Engine®. | Digital | 2017 FIS |
| BotDoc | BotDoc's patented technology functions as the Fed-Ex of data. Using end-to-end encryption, Botdoc picks up the information from one user and drops it off at the correct destination, with a user experience that is simple for your employees and your customers. | Cybersecurity | 2019 ICBA |
| ChangEd | Pay Off Student Loans Effortlessly! Join thousands who manage, track and payoff their student loans with ChangEd! | Student Loans | 2019 FIS |
| Chimney | Chimney is re-imagining financial guidance for the digital age. Chimney drives digital loan growth with the tools, data, and guidance that turns homeowners into qualified borrowers. Check out our Demo Video. | Next Generation Financial Guidance | 2022 ICBA |
| Cirrus Secure | Cirrus Securehelps bankers close deals faster. Our secure document management system ensures organized, efficient transactions. | Automation | 2020 FIS |
| Connect Earth | Connect Earth empowers financial institutions to embed climate features into their products, engaging customers and driving customer acquisition through transaction-based carbon footprint data. | ESG/Transaction Data | 2022 FIS Cohort |
| CRiskCo | CRiskCo works seamlessly with leading accounting software in the cloud to ensure we gather exceptional data that will help us to help you achieve your goals. | Lending | 2019 ICBA |
| Curu | Curu: Stop Losing Accounts. Start Winning Clients. | Financial Wellness | 2019 FIS |
| Dasceq | Dasceq Helps Lenders, Hospitals, Utility Companies, Govt and Debt Collectors Collect More $$ Faster and Cheaper | Repayment | 2020 FIS |
| Denim Social | Denim Social: Connect and Convert on Social Successfully scale conversion-optimized campaigns across all social media channels with built-in compliance, publishing tools and more | Social | 2019 FIS |
| Digital Onboarding | Digital Onboarding's digital engagement platform is built for financial services. Turn account openers into loyal, deep, & profitable relationships | Digital | 2019 FIS |
| Diro | Real-time verifications for the financial sector with global open banking | Open Banking / KYB | 2023 FIS Cohort |
| DocFox | DocFox is a workflow automation tool for digital or in-branch business account opening and handles the business application, intelligent document analysis, and BSA review for complex entities and related parties. Check out our Demo Video | Compliance | 2022 ICBA |
| Dream Forward | Dream Forward takes the headache out of your company's 401K. | Wealth | 2016 FIS |
| eGiftify | eGiftify offers omnichannel gifting & marketing through digital transactions increasing real-life interactions. | Loyalty | 2017 FIS |
| equipifi | equipifi is a white-labeled platform for banks and credit unions with BNPL solutions to help deepen customer engagement, grow market share, increase revenue, and provide consumers with a single place to view, accept, and manage BNPL plans on their existing banking app. | BNPL | 2022 FIS Cohort |
| FI Works | FI Works is a data-driven sales and marketing software platform built specifically for financial institutions. | Data | 2020 ICBA |
| Finosec | The complex labor required for community banks’ information security and cybersecurity feels overwhelming. Finosec offers an automated governance platform to save banks time and enhance exam preparedness. | Cybersecurity | 2021 ICBA |
| Finscend | Finscend: Intelligent credit and debit card dispute processing platform. Enhanced workflow and analytics. Compliance and regulatory control.Up to a 40% reduction in operating costs and higher customer satisfaction. | Digital | 2020 ICBA |
| Fintel Connect | Fintel Connect drives new customer growth through performance marketing. | Digital | 2020 ICBA |
| Finvoice | Welcome to modern lending. Finvoice offers factors and secured commercial lenders a sleek, powerful end-to-end platform to stay ahead of the curve. | Lending | 2018 FIS |
| Finzly | Finzly creates a modern, real-time, and responsive platform for bankers who need to effectively modernize. | Payments/Digital | 2020 ICBA |
| Flutterwave | Flutterwave provides the fastest, most seamless payments solutions to suit your business needs, anywhere in the world. | Payments | 2016 FIS |
| Forage | Enable online government benefits acceptance and outreach | EBT / Payments | 2023 FIS Cohort |
| Fraud.Net | Fraud.net is the future of fraud prevention. | Cybersecurity | 2020 ICBA |
| Fundseeder | FundSeeder is a financial data and analytics company providing a free trader platform, emerging manager investment opportunities, and customized software for financial institutions. | Data & Analytics | 2016 FIS |
| GasPos | Gas Pos: Fastest-Growing POS With Fuel Control & Fleet Card Acceptance | Payments | 2018 FIS |
| Genivity | Provide your clients with a full picture of their future health and wealth. Set a new Standard of Care with longevity planning, and give your clients personalized models backed by Genivity’s proprietary algorithms. | Wealth | 2019 FIS |
| Griffin | Griffin gives community banks & credit unions a leg up in the 21st Century – helping improve client relationships, increase sales, and compete with large financial institutions. | Digital | 2020 ICBA |
| Harness | Harness is a Financial Data Platform that enables cardholders to program their card, their way. | Digital | 2021 ICBA |
| Hexanika | Hexanika products reduce costs by delivering useable data and robust regulatory reporting at the speed of now | Compliance | 2016 FIS, 2020 ICBA |
| HighSide | Powered by HighSide's distributed Encryption & Authentication Protocol, the HighSide platform enables businesses & governments to secure their data and communications while engaging securely in a decentralized, remote first world. | Cybersecurity | 2019 FIS |
| IDPartner | Verify identity within seconds via financial Institutions | Digital Identity | 2023 FIS Cohort |
| Informed.IQ | Informed.IQ Turn Documents and Data Into Decisions. | Automation | 2021 FIS |
| Kani | Simplify reconciliation for payments firms and processors | Payments Reconciliation | 2023 FIS Cohort |
| Kapitalwise | Kapitalwise enables interactive financial wellness tools, connect data to your clients better than ever, and deliver whenever your clients need you. All through turn-key integrations delivered through Kapitalwise. | Digital | 2019 ICBA |
| Klarivis | Klarivis provides an easy-to-understand picture of community banks' daily business to simplify important decisions. KlariVis helps declutter data to boost productivity, performance, and profitability. Check out our Demo Video. | Data and Business Intelligence | 2022 ICBA |
| LamaAI | Launch and expand lending products confidently. | Commercial & SMB Lending | 2023 FIS Cohort |
| LeapXL | LeapXL: Delivers API integration and application PaaS tools that speed SaaS deployment, collapsing months of development and deployment into a few days and annihilating technical debt. | Digital | 2020 FIS |
| LemonadeLXP | LemonadeLXP is a digital adoption and learning experience platform that helps financial institutions and fintechs drive digital adoption, fluency, and transformation. Check out our Demo Video. | Training and Financial Education Gamification | 2022 ICBA |
| Lendsmart | Simple, Fast, Smarter Lending. Lendsmart’s end-to-end solution automates & digitizes lending and home buying operations for banks, credit unions, and non-bank lenders. | Lending | 2020 ICBA |
| LexAlign | Financial institutions rely on outdated and increasingly ineffective methods for managing the risk of fraud, breach, and noncompliance across their network of customers, vendors, and partners (third parties). LexAlign’s mission is to help financial institutions control this risk by empowering third-party oversight. | Regulatory | 2018 FIS |
| Long Game | Long Game Win the Savings Game. | Financial wellness | 2021 FIS |
| MallIQ | MalllQ: Digitize real-time purchase intent in the physical world and increase activation, frequency, wallet share & retention. | Digital | 2020 FIS |
| Momnt | Momnt powers modern lending solutions that enable businesses to provide low-friction financing to their customers at the moment they need it – all funded by trusted lending partners. | Lending | 2021 ICBA |
| Monotto | Monotto assists financial institutions in improving their technological footprint by offering them white-labeled products that engage their millennial account holders. | Digital Banking | 2016 FIS |
| Mortgage Peer Network | mtgpeer.com Mortgage Peer Network makes it easy to communicate with customers and staff, measure performance. | Social | 2016 FIS |
| NayaOne | Evaluate multiple vendors simultaneously | Digital Transformation Platform | 2023 FIS Cohort |
| Neener Analytics | Neener Analytics gives you the power to fundamentally “know” your applicant, registrant, or customer . . . in just 1-click. | Lending | 2019 FIS |
| Neural Payments | Neural Payments offers a P2P solution via a hybrid with closed and open loop payment capabilities leveraging existing front and back-office systems. | P2P Payments | 2022 FIS Cohort |
| Nickels | Nickels offers white-label products that harness the power of behavioral science to enable financial institutions to better help their customers manage their finances, ultimately enhancing customer relationships, business opportunities, and the brand for banks and credit unions. | Credit Card/Debt Management | 2022 FIS Cohort |
| OakNorth | OakNorth Credit Intelligence to transform commercial lending. | Lending | 2021 FIS |
| Omnetrium | With Omnetrium - Save. Win. Repeat. | Deposits | 2017 FIS |
| Pay Your Tuition | Pay Your Tuition Funds (PYT) connects families and banks to provide innovative solutions to finance higher education. We believe that technology and data can unlock new solutions to bridge the higher education funding gap. | Student Loans | 2018 FIS |
| Plinqit | Plinqit your way to what you need most.Decide how much you need to save and we’ll take care of the rest—saving made simple! Best of all, it’s free*! | Deposits | 2017 FIS |
| Privacy Lock | Privacy Lock is the first fully automated data privacy compliance solution for banks and financial services companies. | Data Privacy | 2022 FIS Cohort |
| Quilo | Quilo empowers community banks to fully launch core-independent digital lending products in less than six weeks. Check out our Demo Video. | Instant Personal Lending | 2022 ICBA |
| Quotanda | Quotanda’s Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) supports dozens of schools, universities, financial institutions, foundations and governments around the world in managing innovative, efficient financial aid. | Student Loans | 2017 FIS |
| Railz | Railz Real-time accounting data on your customers. | Data-as-a-service | 2021 FIS |
| Redactable | Redactable is a web-based application that helps companies permanently redact their confidential documents. Think of us as a 'DocuSign' for redaction. | Automated Redaction | 2022 FIS Cohort |
| Sardine | Sardine is a modern fraud detection and compliance platform for banks and FinTechs to confidently move money. | Fraud/Compliance | 2022 FIS Cohort |
| Sendmi | Using Sendmi™, employees can get their pay up to two weeks early and send it to any US & Mexican bank account, prepaid cards, or pay bills in 21 different countries. | Payments | 2019 FIS |
| Senso | Senso partners with community banks to accelerate mortgage origination growth by proactively engaging borrowers months before their next home purchase or refinance. Check out our Demo Video. | Lead Generation for Mortgages | 2022 ICBA |
| Sequretek | Sequretek’s AI- and ML-driven technologies ensure that companies are armed against all threats, known and unknown; and drive down the cost of ownership. | Cybersecurity | 2020 FIS |
| Sequretek | Sequretek helps banks to “Take Control” of the cyber threats that can impact their brand, compliance, business continuity and assets, when they accelerate their digital transformation, through its offering of percept cloud security platform. Check out our Demo Video. | Cybersecurity | 2022 ICBA |
| Shastic | Through Robotic Process Automation, Shastic speeds communication to shorten the lending cycle inside pre-existing systems. | Digital | 2021 ICBA |
| Silot | Silot powers smart banking ecosystems with AI that learns and makes decisions with you. | Payments/Digital | 2020 FIS |
| Sonect | Sonect lets you withdraw money with your smartphone. Don’t bother going to the bank: with Sonect you can use your smartphone to pick up cash. At over 2,300 partner shops. It’s secure, it’s easy and it’s everywhere. | Payments | 2018 FIS |
| Stratyfy | Stratyfy's products help you make decisions by leveraging both your expertise and your data. Stratyfy is intuitive and easy to understand, enabling all stakeholders to achieve their objective, understand outcomes, and access the information they need. | Data | 2020 FIS |
| Surfly | A truly scalable platform, Surfly offers a real-time web sharing technology and enables remote collaboration by showing others what you see in your web browser. | Digital | 2020 FIS |
| Syngo | Syngo helps banks uncover transaction monitoring risks with automated modeling of good behavior. | Transaction Monitoring/Risk | 2022 FIS Cohort |
| Tapcheck | Tapcheck is a financial wellness benefit that allows employees to access their earnings before payday.Tapcheck uses an intuitive mobile app to give workers greater control over their finances, which reduces their stress at home and increases their productivity at work. | Earned Wage Access | 2022 FIS Cohort |
| Tax Status | Tax Status Continuous access to IRS records, data and insights on any business or individual. | Authentication / lending | 2021 FIS |
| Teslar | Teslar Software is a SaaS solution that creates highly efficient banks. Improving efficiency ratios is one of the main reasons banks choose to partner with us; banks that use Teslar typically have an efficiency ratio that is 14% better than their peer group. | Lending | 2019 ICBA |
| Themis | Themis provides a holistic view of compliance through a single platform consisting of 30+ modules to manage policies, procedures and controls. The platform integrates with the disparate suite of compliance tools that exist across a company in order to instill greater trust with clients, vendors and regulators. | Compliance Workflow Automation | 2022 FIS Cohort |
| Triple | Enhance transaction data quality, fraud detection, and rewards programs | Transaction Data Enrichment | 2023 FIS Cohort |
| TrustStamp | TrustStamp: Mitigate fraud, retain customers, and reach a broader base of users worldwide with AI-powered identity solutions at the intersection of biometrics, privacy, and cybersecurity. | Cybersecurity | 2020 FIS |
| Unifimoney | Unifimoney is a turnkey digital wealth management solution for community banks. The "LPL Financial" of digital wealth managment. Check out our Demo Video. | Investing and Money Managment | 2022 ICBA |
| Upswot | Upswot increases banking revenue by providing actionable risk, marketing, and business insights collected from business apps SMBs and Mid-Market companies regularly use. | Lending | 2021 ICBA |
| Verikai | Verikai applies Machine Learning to more accurately assess individual and group risk for the insurance industry. Utilizing behavioral data, Verikai’s platform will help you better understand your groups and outwrite the competition. | Data | 2018 FIS |
| Vero Technologies | Vero Technologies helps community banks offer inventory financing to dealers of manufactured products without requiring investment in new systems or adding additional headcount. Check out our Demo Video. | Floor Plan Lending | 2022 ICBA |
| Voleo | With Voleo, Invest Smarter, Invest Together. Best-in-class investment club apps and software | Wealth | 2019 FIS |
| Vymo | Vymo Sales Acceleration For Financial Institutions. | Customer relationship management | 2021 FIS |
| WalletFi | Walletfi is The Subscription Management Platform for community banks, credit unions, and fintechs. | Digital | 2017 FIS |
| Wallit | Wallit is a card-linked benefits platform and wellness wallet for teams working in a remote or hybrid model to align their company to achieve employee wellness and drive shared business outcomes. | Financial Health | 2020 ICBA |
| Wealth Stack | Wealth Stack helps community banks offer inventory financing to dealers of manufactured products without requiring investment in new systems or adding additional headcount. Check out our Demo Video. | Financial Wellness Inclusion | 2022 ICBA |
| Wellthi | Wellthi connects banks and credit unions of all sizes to make saving as a group safe, convenient, and transparent. Learn more about how we can support your financial institution or affinity group with our services. | Financial Wellness | 2019 ICBA |
| XpenseOne | Introducing XpenseOne, a bank-branded expense management solution used to capture, approve and reconcile business expenses for SMB customers. The first-ever digital automated expense management solution integrated within a bank's online banking portal for a singular user experience. | Digital | 2020 FIS |
| Zogo Finance | Zogo is a gamified financial literacy app that helps financial institutions engage, educate, and attract Gen Z. They make finance fun, simple, social — and irresistible to younger generations | Financial Wellness | 2021 ICBA |
| ZSuite Technologies | ZSuite Technologies: Commercial escrow has gone digital, and it isn't going back. | Digital Banking | 2021 ICBA |
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