Going Green

Finovate's new sustainability scholarship for demo companies

Sustainability Scholarship Program

As the world’s leading fintech demo event, Finovate has shown first-hand the power fintech has to drive change, and that includes social and environmental changes.

Leading companies and brands are championing financial inclusion, diversity, and sustainability to drive the change they want to see in the world.

That’s exactly why we’ve launched a scholarship program: To highlight and help the individuals and companies driving fintech forward through sustainable and equitable practices.

Find out who our FinovateFall 2022 scholarship demos are >>

Environmental: Energy Shares

Energy Shares is a FINRA registered broker-dealer and equity crowdfunding platform for utility scale renewable energy projects in the U.S.

Headquartered in Pasadena, CA. Founded in 2020.

Social: Investii

Investii is an actionable, wealth-building app empowering healthy savings habits, financial confidence, and alternative credit data.

Headquartered in Milwaukee, WI. Founded in 2020.

Governance: MinervaAI

MinervaAI is an AI-driven AML Platform providing simple and effective Sanctions, KYC, KYB, IDV & enhanced due diligence so your business can grow.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 2018.

Person of Color Founded/Owned: Deposits

Deposits.com is SaaS for designing, building, and hosting fintech applications — a step further than first-wave BAAS APIs which remain inaccessible to the majority of banks and brands without CTOs or large tech budgets. Deposits’ plug and play financial technology widens the market and levels the playing field by enabling non technical users to use pre-built templates and drag-and-drop elements to create or customize modern embeddable financial experiences such as wallets, debit, credit, and lending programs that can go live in as little as one day

Headquartered in Dallas, TX, and founded in October 2021. Headcount 24. $725K raised to date. Raising Seed round.

Female Founded/Owned: Debbie

Debbie is the Noom for debt loss, using behavioral psychology and rewards to help users pay off 3x more debt and help lenders recession-proof members.

Headquartered in Miami, FL. Founded in 2021.