Salesforce Accelerate has named the next 14 FinTech companies from across the EMEA to be a part of its latest program.
The new program will begin in the London Salesforce Tower on September 3rd and will last for four months.
Salesforce Accelerate is a virtual program which is designed to provide insights and support companies need to align with Salesforce and accelerate their time-to-market with AppExchange. There are also three in-person workshops which will be held at London, Dublin and Paris.
Previously under the name of Salesforce Incubator, the program has graduated over 40 companies.
Of the companies in the latest cohort, five of them are based in the UK. Each other FinTech company in the group is from a different country – these include Switzerland, France, Israel, Denmark, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Ireland and Luxembourg.
UK-based InsurTech solution Digital Fineprint was one of the companies be in the new group. The company enables insurers and brokers to analyse social media data to improve customer targeting, conversion, sales, cross-sell and retention.
Earlier in the year, the company raised a $2.7m round of funding which was led by Pentech and was put towards increasing its London team and geographical coverage.
Some of the other FinTechs to make the cohort include investment management company Singlify, payment processor Asperato, investment platform InvestGlass, and facial identity verification solution Electronic Identification.
Salesforce Accelerate head of financial services EMEA Joaquin de Valenzuela said, “We are dedicated to helping our financial services customers delight their customers by letting them focus on the experience rather than the product.
“And, as the industry continues to be disrupted, that’s never been more important for our customers. The solutions these fourteen companies are examples of the amazing FinTech and InsurTech solutions being developed across Europe and Israel, reinforcing this region’s position as an innovation hub.”
The remaining companies in the cohort are: streaming API developer Streamdata.io, customer experience solution RELAYTO, compliance support businesses Glassbox, POS system Eposly, subscription management service Subaio, identity verification platform ID-Pal, due-diligence provider for asset managers ume, insurance IOT company Octo Telematics and investment analytics business Venturelytic.
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