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Vancouver-based Finn.ai Wins Serge Kampf Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award in Fintech & Mobility category
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Finalist start-ups competed to secure equity free funding and opportunity to become a Capgemini partner
Vancouver, BC, June 21, 2017--(T-Net)--Capgemini, a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing services, today announced the winners of its Serge Kampf entrepreneurship and innovation awards.
Vancouver-based Finn.ai, which is developing a white-label virtual banking assistant powered by artificial intelligence, has won the Serge Kampf Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award in the Fintech & Mobility category (and is the only Canadian winner or finalist).
The InnovatorsRace50 is a global contest and competition established by Capgemini that invites early-stage startups to showcase their tech-based businesses and seeks to reward promising early-stage start-ups.
InnovatorsRace50 celebrates the life and times of Capgemini Group founder Serge Kampf, the values that embody the Group and the spirit of innovation. Winners received the Serge Kampf entrepreneurship and innovation awards at the finale in June at VivaTech in Paris, the tech show for game changer start-ups.
The four other major winners of the awards in other categories included:
GovTech & Social Enterprises
Lili Smart (France)
Consumers & well-being
Hippogriff (Sweden)
Digital Processes & Transformation
Cupris Health (United Kingdom)
Data & Security
Foxintelligence (France)
This special edition of Innovators Race, to mark Capgemini's 50th Anniversary year, received an impressive 928 submissions from 37 countries. From those submissions, 50 presented their projects to a panel of experts who then nominated the finalists.
The ten finalists will received the opportunity to connect with tech and industry experts from Capgemini in person, leveraging five of Capgemini's Applied Innovation Exchanges (AIEs) located in San Francisco, Paris, Munich, Mumbai and London, and all finalists got to experience the AIE's immersive and transformative environment in order to refine different elements of their projects.
The original top 10 finalists, by category, were:
From June 15 to June 17 at VivaTech, the tech show for game-changer start-ups in Paris, the 10 finalists were invited to present their projects on the Capgemini booth.
On June 16, they pitched in person to an audience and jury. Five winners were awarded with the “Serge Kampf entrepreneurship and innovation award” (See list above) and will each have the opportunity to secure business backing of equity free funding to the tune of $50,000, extensive networking opportunities, participation in international tech events, access to industry experts, and to potentially join the Capgemini partner ecosystem.
“It's exciting to see so many innovative and disruptive start-ups take part in this special 50th birthday edition of Innovators Race this year. I want to thank the hundreds of participants for their detailed and creative entries and wish them all the best. I hope to see them in the market and to collaborate with them in the future,” commented Lanny Cohen, Group Chief Technology Officer and Member of the Group Executive Committee at Capgemini.
Viewers will be able to see Capgemini's “InnovatorsRace50” - ‘best moments' series - in full throughout September and October on the web at www.innovatorsrace50.com.
InnovatorsRace50 was developed in partnership with CNN's program entitled ‘Unicorns' that will also be featured on http://CNNMoney.com/Unicorns, and a special round-up will air on CNN International in October. CNN will publish in June a unique ranking of the 50 most active and promising start-up companies valued at over $1 billion USD in 2017: The Unicorns 50.
About Finn.ai
Finn.ai is a white-labelled virtual banking assistant, powered by artificial intelligence. We put a personal banker in every customer's pocket. For more information, please visit http://finn.ai/ or @finnthebankbot.
About Capgemini
With more than 190,000 people, Capgemini is present in over 40 countries and celebrates its 50th Anniversary year in 2017. A global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing services, the Group reported 2016 global revenues of EUR 12.5 billion. Together with its clients, Capgemini creates and delivers business, technology and digital solutions that fit their needs, enabling them to achieve innovation and competitiveness. A deeply multicultural organization, Capgemini has developed its own way of working, the Collaborative Business ExperienceTM, and draws on Rightshore®, its worldwide delivery model.
Learn more about us at www.capgemini.com.
Rightshore® is a trademark belonging to Capgemini
1 Capgemini's Applied Innovation Exchange currently includes a global network of 10 innovation spaces, known as ‘Exchanges', where organizations are able to immerse themselves in the understanding, experimentation and application of all aspects of emerging technologies, as well as address the business disruptions confronting them and their industries.
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