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The BayPay Forum Launchcast
Online Presentation of Innovative Solutions
From Startups around the world
Or innovative Established Companies
Every Week on Wednesday at 11am PST
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In the future, every company will become a Fintech company and Innovation is accelerating in this industry.
Developing internally is becoming more and more challenging to keep up with the market demands. We believe in partnerships between startups and established companies. The BayPay Launchcast allows you to discover new products and services in Fintech.
Our Past Program
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (PST)
Startup-Eazy Connect
Bernhard Höller, CEO
Startup-Eazy Connect™ has developed and patented a personal security concept for trusted biometric registration with liveness detection technology. ID (passport, driver's license) combines facial recognition and finger scanning with camera, guaranteeing a nearly accurate and trusted reliable authentication, which can be installed on any smartphone and laptop. Once this process is completed, Eazy Connect™ can provide a clear, 100% association of biometric data with the individual. In cooperation with Vienna University of Technology, Eazy Connect™ has created PoC ready for Prototype. In collaboration with WU-Vienna, we have developed a business plan for this company and found that the biometric authentication market is growing and growing tremendously. In further research, we found that the online gambling sector, blockchain, health sector, government, banks and many more seem to be perfect markets for Eazy Connect ™ as competition is comparatively weak and the need for secure identification is high.
Speaker bio
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (PST)
VlogEasy
Chris Carmichael, Founder
VlogEasy is a free app that automatically jump cut edits your videos with ZERO editing work required. All you have to do is hit "Record" and VlogEasy will automatically do the Jump Cut editing for you! Vlogging ACTUALLY made easy: VlogEasy lets you create professional grade videos.
Chris used to be one of the first and highest paid Snapchat content creators back in 2015. After building an audience of 200k + followers and working with brands like Disney, Universal, and Lionsgate, he decided to leave Snapchat and pursue building his own video apps with his co-founders based out of Toronto Canada. After two failed attempts at launching video based social networks, they finally found success with their third app, VlogEasy. VlogEasy is the first app that automatically edits videos for creators and entrepreneurs. All you have to do is hit record, and talk to the camera like any vlogger would, and VlogEasy will automatically remove all the dead space where there's no talking in the video - instantly.
11:30 AM - 12:00 NN (PST)
Prodoge
Julian Kopald, Founder
Prodoge is a platform for global business and payments. Anyone with the Prodoge mobile app can connect their crypto currency wallets or Paypal & Stripe and get started sending invoices, payments, creating point of sale checkouts, payment links & widgets, and promote their business by selling their goods & services in under a minute to anyone in the world. Prodoge helps buyers, sellers, friends, and family connect globally, accept or send money, and grow their business.
As a Peer to Peer platform, Prodoge is non-custodial and does not act as a bank, charges zero fees to merchants, or people sending money, and settlements are near instant. No fees, no chargebacks, no waiting for your money. Global business is open to everyone. Start selling and sending payments today.
Available now for iOS & Android. Supporting Dogecoin, Doge Cash, Verge, Digibyte, Bitcoin, and all major credit & debit cards via Stripe and Paypal.
Julian is into Art, Creative Business Adventures, Ideas, Strategies, and Travels. He bought his first Bitcoins for 22 cents on the BTC-E exchange while living in Argentina and ever since has been inspired by the idea of helping to bring currency freedom to the world. He funded the original Bitcoin Dark Wallet, bought "TheBitcoinETF.com" and tried to start a Bitcoin ETF in 2012, before going on to create some of the first multi-currency banking apps, and now Prodoge. He has lived in 9 countries, co-founded the Peak and Spartan Race brands, has worked in AdTech, on Wall Street, studied law at Harvard, and his artwork is regularly featured at exhibits in Los Angeles. In his free time, he has mountain biked the Bolivian Death Road, and enjoys climbing mountains and active volcanoes.
11:30 AM - 12:00NN (PST)
Equa Inc
Shawn Owen, CEO & Founder
Equa is an innovative technology organization that leverages smart agreements and programmable law for entrepreneurs and investors.
Serial Entrepreneur with experience in management and ownership of enterprise operations with a passion for systems development, business operations, product delivery, and client service.
11:30 AM - 12:00NN (PST)
SnapCheck
Ken Kruszka, CEO
SnapCheck is a high speed, highly secure, and universally accepted solution dedicated to eliminating paper checks. By eliminating the 18 billion checks written in the US each year, one million trees could be spared.
We've created a unique open-ecosystem platform for paying anyone anywhere with the familiar form of a check, but without all the problems inherent in paper. Our digital checking solution gives businesses, consumers, and banks the ability to save over $50 billion a year in costs and $20 billion a year in fraud losses.
We've created a unique open-ecosystem platform for paying anyone anywhere with the familiar form of a check, but without all the problems inherent in paper. Our digital checking solution gives businesses, consumers, and banks the ability to save over $50 billion a year in costs and $20 billion a year in fraud losses.
Ken is a FinTech and Mobile Payments pioneer, who holds the distinction of being the first person to send $1 around the world by mobile. In addition to being an accomplished executive, leader, and entrepreneur, Ken also advises early-stage companies looking to establish product-market fit and accelerate growth on a global scale (mentoring for UnBank Ventures, INV Fintech, Founder Institute, and MARL Accelerator). Ken leads SnapCheck in revolutionizing business-to-business payments: eliminating $50 Billion in costs, removing $20 Billion in fraud. Previously, as co-founder and CEO of m-Via, Ken grew the company into an industry-recognized leader in mobile financial services and brought the company to cash-flow positive before leading m-Via through an acquisition by Boom Financial. Ken is a Founding Member of the Faster Payments Council as well as a member of the Fed Improvement Project: Business Payments Coalition. Ken has recently been named a Top Innovator to Watch by Bank Innovation, a Top FinTech Innovator by Aspioneer, and a Leading Corporate Digital Transformation Innovator by Databird. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kruszka/
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (PST)
TrueAccord
Ohad Samet, CEO
Most companies view friendly fraud and unpaid merchant fees as a cost of doing business, but what if there was a brand-positive way to get them paid? Meet TrueAccord, a machine learning-based, digital first debt collection service that consumers, and many of the brands you know, love and trust to handle this delicate matter.
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Ohad Samet is the co-founder and CEO of TrueAccord, a company using machine learning and behavioral analytics to radically change the debt collection process. He was recently appointed to the CFPB's Consumer Advisory Board and is serving as an Advisor for Aspen Institute. Prior to that, Ohad headed fraud analytics for FraudSciences, a company that provided eCommerce fraud prevention and was acquired by PayPal in 2008. At PayPal, Ohad incubated and ran the New Ventures Risk team. After leaving PayPal in 2010, Ohad started two companies. Signifyd is a leading fraud prevention vendor working with Fortune 500 companies to reduce payments fraud. The other, Analyzd, was acquired by Klarna, a European payments company, in 2011. There Ohad served as Chief Risk Officer, in charge of granting real-time short-term credit for Klarna's $2.5B of annual payments volume.
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM (PST)
Sila
Shamir Karkal, CEO
Sila provides Banking and Payments Infrastructure-as-a-Service for teams building the next generation of financial products and services. Our banking APIs replace the need for integrating with legacy financial institutions saving you months of development time, and thousands in legal and regulatory expenses.
Shamir Karkal is co-founder and CEO of Sila. He is also the co-founder of Simple and previous head of the Open Platform of BBVA. Shamir studied physics and computer science at Bangalore University and is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business.
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM (PST)
Retire
Tyler Zanini, CEO
Retire is a web-based platform for users to connect their existing 401(k) and retirement accounts. Retire helps users save $162,125 on average by getting them to switch from high expense fee mutual funds to low expense fee funds. Retire then provides a seamless way to track their contributions and save more, with a dashboard that aggregates multiple accounts and alerts when contributions are made or changes occur.
Tyler Zanini is the co-founder of Retire. Retire helps consumers and employees track and monitor their 401(k) and retirement savings, while shining a light on potential hidden fees. Prior to Retire, he was in senior product and BD roles for a consumer genomics marketplace startup ($320M Series A/B from Kleiner Perkins, DFJ, Warburg, and others). Prior to that, he was in various financial services roles, first as an investment banker with Credit Suisse in their Tech, Media, Telecom coverage group and then with the private equity firm H.I.G. Capital. He did his undergrad at Georgetown.