LICUOS, the global B2B netting and payment platform, was announced yesterday as the winner of the “Innotribe Startup Disrupt” contest at Next Bank Madrid out of 9 finalists and more than 40 original participants. As Fermín Bueno, organizer of Next Bank Madrid, said: “the selection of the finalists was not easy as we have received more than 40 registrations of a very high quality”.
Next Bank Madrid and Innotribe look to gather the finalists of the Innotribe Startup Disrupt Contest as part of its search to find the most innovative and disruptive startup within financial services in Spain.
For the Next Bank Madrid and Innotribe competition, LICUOS competed against 8 other startups in the event supported by Wayra, a Latin American and European start-up funding firm created by Telefónica, as well as the IE Business School in Madrid. This year’s finalists were:
- Fintonic – http://www.fintonic.com – @FINTONIC
- Tradeslide – http://www.tradeslide.com – @TradeSlide_ES
- Bull4all – http://www.bull4all.com – @bull4all
- Captio – http://www.captio.net – @Captio_es
- Kantox – http://www.kantox.com – @KantoxFX
- swaPay – http://www.swapay.com – @swapay
- Glownet – http://www.glownet.com
- TwitterTransfer – http://www.twittertransfer.com
- LICUOS – http://www.licuos.com – @LICUOS_EN
LICUOS has also taken part recently in the FinovateSpring 2013 in San Francisco, the Innotribe Startup Challenge in New York and the Thinking Digital Startup Competition in Newcastle, presenting its innovative technology for cash and working capital management.
LICUOS´ patent pending core technology enables companies, regardless of their size or industry, to compensate, pay and finance their commercial debts, allowing them to reduce their funding needs and their client´s credit risk exposure. The algorithms search and provide the optimized netting, payment and funding proposals for companies in an efficient, automated and cost-effective way. As a result, businesses are able to optimize their working capital and cash management activities and reduce their dependence on the banking system.
Thanks to the award received, LICUOS will participate at SIBOS (Dubai, 16 to 19 of September), the annual banking and finance conference organized by SWIFT, where it will present its technology to thousands of financial institutions and investors through a demo slot. Additionally, LICUOS will be provided access to a number of global initiative accelerating services:
- 30 days of co-working in any of the 13 Wayra Academies and access to its network.
- 3 months in Area31, the IE Business School Incubator in Madrid.
- 5 mentoring sessions in the IE Mentor Network.
Currently, LICUOS is working with several Spanish companies in order to deploy a pilot version of their solution in the coming months, and is also building a strategic partnership network with a number of different consulting firms, financial institutions and business software providers.
“We are honored that the judges, Next Bank Madrid, SWIFT Innotribe, Wayra and the audience, selected LICUOS as the most disruptive startup” said Iker de los Ríos, CEO of LICUOS, “The Innotribe Startup Disrupt is a great initiative, where for a change we were able to make our pitch on home turf. We’ve spent the greater part of the last 6 months travelling across the US and Europe pitching our business to potential partners and investors, and its satisfying to know there is as much, or even more interest in fintech here in Spain“.
We’d like to thank Next Bank Madrid, SWIFT Innotribe, BBVA, Accenture, ThoughtWorks and the other Next Bank Madrid Partners for making the event possible.
For further information about Next Bank Madrid, please visit: http://www.nextbankmadrid.com/ or follow @NextBankMadrid on Twitter.
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