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ETA names E-Pay Innovation Award finalists at Transact 15

Tuesday, March 31, 2015 — 19:08:16 (EDT)

San Francisco, March 31, 2015 – The E-Pay Innovation Award will be presented by Intuit to the winner today, Tuesday, March 31, at approximately 4:30 p.m. PST on the TRANSACT tradeshow floor in the Payments Next Zone (Exhibit Hall-Lower Level, Moscone South). The Payments Pitch-Off is a shark-tank like competition in which startups demonstrated the latest payments technologies in front of an elite judging panel from the VC world, earlier today. The winning company will receive the E-Pay Innovation Award and a check for $25,000. WHO:

Startups who participated:

1. Allpago – A payment solution provider for global merchants and other payment providers active in Latin America.

2. Bitwage – A new bitcoin-based payroll product that allows American companies to pay employees outside the U.S. in their local currency.

3. eThor – Offers a POS integration platform that provides a 2-way communication system between retail POSs and user devices.

4. Fiverun – A tablet-based solution that enables retail sales associates to provide predictive product advice, create gift registries and checkout customers.

5. InAuth – Offers mobile authentication and anti-fraud solutions for financial institutions and the mobile transaction market.

6. Jory – A mobile point of sale software-as-a-service system for small to medium sized businesses of all kinds.

7. Marqeta – An online-to-offline payments and commerce platform providing enterprises with repeated business and greater customer spend.

8. Pavilion.io – Is currently building a platform for seamless, modern-age business transactions called Gazebo. Gazebo functions as an automated escrow agent, allowing buyers and sellers to transact without trusting each other.

9. PayItSimple – Allows individuals to simply and easily charge any purchase on their existing credit card and pay it back in monthly, no-fee interest free installments.

10. Rippleshot – A provider of technology solutions that helps banks, merchants and processors with quicker and more effective data breach detection.

Judging panel:

1. Brian Ascher, Partner, Venrock 2. Pete Donat, Head of New Ventures, First Data 3. Eric Dunn, SVP, Payments and Commerce Solutions, Intuit 4. Josh Goines, Senior Director, Product Solutions – Global Strategic Partners, PayPal 5. John Huber, SVP, Business Development, Wells Fargo 6. Ben Malka, General Partner, North Hill Ventures 7. Daniela Mielke, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Vantiv 8. Dan Rosen, Partner, Commerce VC

WHEN:

TODAY, 4:30 P.M. PST on the TRANSACT tradeshow floor in the Payments Next Zone (Exhibit Hall-Lower Level, Moscone South). About TRANSACT 15 and the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA)

TRANSACT is the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA)’s annual tradeshow – it’s the largest annual audience for the electronic commerce industry. ETA unites payments and technology, connecting the people that matter in the incubator for innovation, San Francisco. TRANSACT 15 is the must-attend event to access all the industry’s players – industry titans, venture capitalists, growing companies, emerging technologies and startups.

ETA is the global trade association representing more than 550 payments and technology companies like Apple, PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, Google, Wells Fargo and AT&T.

For more information visit: electran.org/events/transact15/ .

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Source: Company press release.