Congratulations to our 8th Founder Showcase Champion – Neo! Here is their winning pitch;
Neo is an online lender that taps financial and social data to better evaluate creditworthiness and provide more affordable car loans. While current car loans rely solely on credit scores, Neo uses a more comprehensive approach to evaluate loan affordability. This enables better rates and significant savings over traditional loan sources – specifically the 84 million Gen Y consumers with limited or no credit history (which is 40% of the car buying population). They are currently funding auto loans as part of their private beta loan program.
Coming in an extremely close second place (they lost by one vote) was I-DISPO. I-DISPO is the largest community for sharing and booking appointments online. This Paris-based startup also recently secured a partnership with Bing in France to power all restaurant reservations directly on the search results page. At the event they also announced their entry into the U.S. market.
Winning the Demo Table Competition was Whit.li. Whit.li uses context-based pattern matching to enable companies to organize users based on compatibility to create a faster, more personalized online experience.
TechCrunch did a nice writeup of the event here.
Thanks to the over 500 people that joined us at the event! The next one is just around the corner.