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The ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator

With its first inaugural class in 2019, The ICBA ThinkTech Accelerator was made possible through a partnership between The Venture Center and The Independent Community Bankers of America. Striving to help community banks keep pace with disruptive financial technologies, the accelerator equipped community banking teams with the tools needed to stay competitive. For fintech entrepreneurs, the program provided mentorship from fintech experts as well as in-depth access to the ICBA executive network and hundreds of their community bank members. Since its beginning, more than 150 community banks have attended the Accelerator program, resulting in transformative fintech partnerships.

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Testimonials

"We love attending these presentations and meeting these Fintech's in this format. In attendance, we commit leaders from each area and value the diversity of presentations. Even if we don't purchase, the conversations these presentations lead to are very valuable for our bank!"

Jackie McVay

SVP & CIO, Kitsap Bank

"It's always helpful to see what is going on in the finance industry tech startup space. All financial institutions have areas for improvement. Knowing what these companies can provide is a potential solution for that improvement."

Joe Thomas

CIO, The Peoples Bank Co.

"Once again, The Venture Center has presented a highly-curated and valuable group of fintech's. The Encore team values your partnership and all that you bring to the table. Thank you! - Erin Melton, Chief of Staff to the Chief Innovation Officer innovation that is happening in a market that has so much legacy technology, and it's amazing to see that they are passionate about what they do. It was a lot of fun to be able to interact with people who truly want to be able to help community banks."

Encore Bank

"The ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator is a really a phenomenal way of introducing more technology into the community banking space. The team of companies that have come together both last year and this year are just top notch. And we're really excited about the opportunities to leverage these new technologies to help provide more solutions for our customers and our business clients."

Stephen Wooters

EVP, Marketing, Digital Banking & Payments, Fairfield County Bank

"Great experience. I really enjoyed the ability to meet with each of these companies one-on-one and see a demo of their product. It is a very useful format. Great variety of companies as well. I would definitely participate again."

Kevin Lycklama

President, Riverview Community Bank

Alumni

Company Name	About	Vertical	Cohort
Accrue	Accrue by Core10 enables digital transformation for community banks, with digital lending, digital account opening for consumers and businesses, as well as integration-as-a-service for cores and other fintechs. Check out our Demo Video.	Business account opening	2022 ICBA
Adlumin	Adlumin is the Leading Security and Compliance Automation Platform in the U.S.Our trusted security and compliance automation platform is built to discover threats, malfunctions, and IT operations failures in real-time. In seconds, customers can comply with industry regulations using exclusive reporting features.	Cybersecurity	2019 ICBA
Agent IQ	Agent IQ allows customers to engage with their bank like they engage with friends and family and enables banks to deepen relationships with every one of their customers.	Digital	2021 ICBA
Agora	Agora Services offers financial institutions a robust and customizales cloud-based offering that enables banking customers to utilize and manage accounts in real-time.	Digital	2019 ICBA
Alkami	Alkami:The Alkami Platform enables banks and credit unions to compete with the Megabanks and Fintechs and capitalize on whatever the future brings.	Lending	2019 ICBA
Beauceron Security	Beauceron Security reduces risk for organizations by moving individuals and teams from cybersecurity awareness into demonstrated behavior change.	Cybersecurity	2021 ICBA
BotDoc	BotDoc's patented technology functions as the Fed-Ex of data. Using end-to-end encryption, Botdoc picks up the information from one user and drops it off at the correct destination, with a user experience that is simple for your employees and your customers.	Cybersecurity	2019 ICBA
Chimney	Chimney is re-imagining financial guidance for the digital age. Chimney drives digital loan growth with the tools, data, and guidance that turns homeowners into qualified borrowers. Check out our Demo Video.	Next Generation Financial Guidance	2022 ICBA
CRiskCo	CRiskCo works seamlessly with leading accounting software in the cloud to ensure we gather exceptional data that will help us to help you achieve your goals.	Lending	2019 ICBA
DocFox	DocFox is a workflow automation tool for digital or in-branch business account opening and handles the business application, intelligent document analysis, and BSA review for complex entities and related parties. Check out our Demo Video	Compliance	2022 ICBA
FI Works	FI Works is a data-driven sales and marketing software platform built specifically for financial institutions.	Data	2020 ICBA
Finosec	The complex labor required for community banks’ information security and cybersecurity feels overwhelming. Finosec offers an automated governance platform to save banks time and enhance exam preparedness.	Cybersecurity	2021 ICBA
Finscend	Finscend: Intelligent credit and debit card dispute processing platform. Enhanced workflow and analytics. Compliance and regulatory control.Up to a 40% reduction in operating costs and higher customer satisfaction.	Digital	2020 ICBA
Fintel Connect	Fintel Connect drives new customer growth through performance marketing.	Digital	2020 ICBA
Finzly	Finzly creates a modern, real-time, and responsive platform for bankers who need to effectively modernize.	Payments/Digital	2020 ICBA
Fraud.Net	Fraud.net is the future of fraud prevention.	Cybersecurity	2020 ICBA
Griffin	Griffin gives community banks & credit unions a leg up in the 21st Century – helping improve client relationships, increase sales, and compete with large financial institutions.	Digital	2020 ICBA
Harness	Harness is a Financial Data Platform that enables cardholders to program their card, their way.	Digital	2021 ICBA
Hexanika	Hexanika products reduce costs by delivering useable data and robust regulatory reporting at the speed of now	Compliance	2016 FIS, 2020 ICBA
Kapitalwise	Kapitalwise enables interactive financial wellness tools, connect data to your clients better than ever, and deliver whenever your clients need you. All through turn-key integrations delivered through Kapitalwise.	Digital	2019 ICBA
Klarivis	Klarivis provides an easy-to-understand picture of community banks' daily business to simplify important decisions. KlariVis helps declutter data to boost productivity, performance, and profitability. Check out our Demo Video.	Data and Business Intelligence	2022 ICBA
LemonadeLXP	LemonadeLXP is a digital adoption and learning experience platform that helps financial institutions and fintechs drive digital adoption, fluency, and transformation. Check out our Demo Video.	Training and Financial Education Gamification	2022 ICBA
Lendsmart	Simple, Fast, Smarter Lending. Lendsmart’s end-to-end solution automates & digitizes lending and home buying operations for banks, credit unions, and non-bank lenders.	Lending	2020 ICBA
Momnt	Momnt powers modern lending solutions that enable businesses to provide low-friction financing to their customers at the moment they need it – all funded by trusted lending partners.	Lending	2021 ICBA
Quilo	Quilo empowers community banks to fully launch core-independent digital lending products in less than six weeks. Check out our Demo Video.	Instant Personal Lending	2022 ICBA
Senso	Senso partners with community banks to accelerate mortgage origination growth by proactively engaging borrowers months before their next home purchase or refinance. Check out our Demo Video.	Lead Generation for Mortgages	2022 ICBA
Sequretek	Sequretek helps banks to “Take Control” of the cyber threats that can impact their brand, compliance, business continuity and assets, when they accelerate their digital transformation, through its offering of percept cloud security platform. Check out our Demo Video.	Cybersecurity	2022 ICBA
Shastic	Through Robotic Process Automation, Shastic speeds communication to shorten the lending cycle inside pre-existing systems.	Digital	2021 ICBA
Teslar	Teslar Software is a SaaS solution that creates highly efficient banks. Improving efficiency ratios is one of the main reasons banks choose to partner with us; banks that use Teslar typically have an efficiency ratio that is 14% better than their peer group.	Lending	2019 ICBA
Unifimoney	Unifimoney is a turnkey digital wealth management solution for community banks. The "LPL Financial" of digital wealth managment. Check out our Demo Video.	Investing and Money Managment	2022 ICBA
Upswot	Upswot increases banking revenue by providing actionable risk, marketing, and business insights collected from business apps SMBs and Mid-Market companies regularly use.	Lending	2021 ICBA
Vero Technologies	Vero Technologies helps community banks offer inventory financing to dealers of manufactured products without requiring investment in new systems or adding additional headcount. Check out our Demo Video.	Floor Plan Lending	2022 ICBA
Wallit	Wallit is a card-linked benefits platform and wellness wallet for teams working in a remote or hybrid model to align their company to achieve employee wellness and drive shared business outcomes.	Financial Health	2020 ICBA
Wealth Stack	Wealth Stack helps community banks offer inventory financing to dealers of manufactured products without requiring investment in new systems or adding additional headcount. Check out our Demo Video.	Financial Wellness Inclusion	2022 ICBA
Wellthi	Wellthi connects banks and credit unions of all sizes to make saving as a group safe, convenient, and transparent. Learn more about how we can support your financial institution or affinity group with our services.	Financial Wellness	2019 ICBA
Zogo Finance	Zogo is a gamified financial literacy app that helps financial institutions engage, educate, and attract Gen Z. They make finance fun, simple, social — and irresistible to younger generations	Financial Wellness	2021 ICBA
ZSuite Technologies	ZSuite Technologies: Commercial escrow has gone digital, and it isn't going back.	Digital Banking	2021 ICBA