Announced in September, the program is designed to help selected fintech start-up companies with legal know-how that also connects them with leading financial institutions, investors, and potential joint venture partners in order to accelerate their business. FinAccelerate will be hosted at Jones Day’s offices in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

“We are extraordinarily excited about the 21 excellent companies from around the world selected to participate in our accelerator program,” said Abradat Kamalpour, a partner in Jones Day’s San Francisco office and architect of FinAccelerate program. “We thank the over 70 applicants we had in such a short space of time from all across the globe- all of which have amazing ideas and are working to innovate the future of fintech.”

Jay Tambe, Practice Leader of the Jones Day Financial Markets Practuce, said, “The strength, depth and international reach of this selected cohort shows how important the growing FinTech ecosystem is to the future of the financial and banking markets.”

The 21 selected companies are as follows:

1. Astrapilot, Inc. based in California

2. BAXUS based in New Jersey

3. CoinBeam based in the Netherlands

4. Coinroll based in California

5. CrossKudi based in Wisconsin

6. CryptoProof, Inc. based in Delaware

7. Futureproof based in Australia

8. GameKrow based in Portugal

9. idclear based in Gibraltars

10. KOWRII based in Georgia

11. Lucrisma, Inc. based in Texas

12. Messari based in New York

13. Mimicry based in Puerto Rico

14. Optherium Labs based in New Jersey

15. Prediction Strike, Inc. based in New York

16. Radair based in California

17. SCALENS based in France

18. Senken based in Germany

19. Sindric Solutions, LLC based in New Jersey

20. Syndagent based in Maryland

21. Ventu based in California