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Please join us on Oct 2, 2014 (6 to 9pm) at Orrick, 1100 Marsh Road, Menlo Park, CA, for our next event titled:

  Mobilizing Talent to "Mobil-lize" Financial Inclusion- Startup Demos

This event is part of our on-going strategy of helping FinTech start-up companies showcase their products and connect to each and every part of the payment eco-system. During that event, we will present the five Western FinCapDev Mobile App Competition finalist teams as well as other startups in the same space. Each company will have an opportunity to demo their apps.

Administered by the Doorways to Dreams Fund (D2D Fund) and the Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI), FinCapDev is a mobile app competition that challenges entrepreneurs across the nation to create apps that help millions of underserved Americans make smarter financial decisions and achieve better access to financial services.

In 2014, the competition is supporting 10 finalist teams who submitted their apps to app stores on September 15 and will compete for a $100K cash prize purse at the FinCapDev Demo Day on October 30.

In a first-ever collaboration, the BayPay Forum and NYPAY are proud to be hosting sister events, one in the Bay Area and the other in New York, to give members a first look at these new apps before they compete at Demo Day.

On October 2, in Orrick's Menlo Park offices, the BayPay Forum will host the FinCapDev team and four of the five Western FinCapDev finalist teams (based in the BayArea) in an event that will allow them to demo their apps. In addition to seeing the demos, attendees will have a chance to interact with the innovators and engage with them as potential partners, investors, employers, mentors, or advisors.

The five FinCapDev finalists on the West Coast are:

    •    2055 (San Francisco): RichFund is a mobile savings app that will get people excited about their future and motivated to make it a reality. The app will help users open retirement savings accounts and understand how much they need to save today to reach their future goals. (2055 wil not be participating)

    •    Alcanza (Mountain View): Based on a bingo-like Mexican game, Alcanza targets the Latino population and works to lay the foundation of future financial security by reducing the cognitive demands of daily financial decision making and breaking down future goals into a set of achievable tasks.

    •    BillGuru (San Francisco) : BillGuru will help families build their financial capability by learning which bills to prioritize when they don’t have enough to pay them all.

    •    Planwise (San Francisco) : Planwise seeks to enable all users to easily understand both their current finances and the future impact of any financial decisions they make through a simple, visual interface.

    •    Trackr (Oakland): Trackr is a mobile app for parents and kids that will reward kids for completing tasks while instilling sound financial values and mindful spending early in life.

 Other start-ups include:

•    DoubleBeam

•    Sekur.me

Agenda

6:00pm Networking

6:50pm Welcome and Opening (Greig Heibel, Parner at Orrick and Daniel Chatelain, Managing Director at The BayPay Forum)

7:00pm Overview of FinCapDev Competition (Maria Lajewski, CFSI and TBD, D2D)

7:10pm StartUp presentations (10 mn each)

• Alcanza- Caroline Ang, Caleb Chacha
  
• BillGuru- Yoni Blumberg
  
• Planwise- Vincent Turner
• Trackr- Trish Powell
  
• DoubleBeam- Ted Tekippe, CEO
• Sekur.me- Jack Bicer, CEO
  

8:20pm Conclusion

8:30pm More Networking

About the companies involved

The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) is the nation's foremost authority on consumer financial health. Leading a network of innovators committed to building high-quality financial products, CFSI believes that finance can be a force for good in people's lives and that meeting consumer need responsibly is ultimately good for both the consumer and the provider.

The Doorways to Dreams Fund (D2D) works with the financial services industry, government agencies, national non-profit groups, grassroots community agencies, and public policy organizations to generate promising ideas, pilot test financial products and services, build awareness of the needs and potential of low-income communities, and advocate inclusive social and economic policies.

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Founded in San Francisco a century and a half ago, Orrick today is named by Law360 as one of the “Global 20” leading firms. Our platform offers clients a distinctive combination of local insight and global reach across 25 offices.