FinovateFall 2019 – owl.co

FinovateFall 2019 / owl.co

Presenter Profile:

How they describe themselves: owl.co offers automated solutions for financial institutions to better know their customers by aggregating external data and delivering insights in real-time. Owl.co offers three solutions: 1) automated customer onboarding, 2) instant KYC & AML, and 3) fraud detection tool. The instant KYC|AML tool automates Enhanced Due Diligence on both individuals and companies. All of this is done on a proprietary end-to-end encrypted, zero-knowledge platform that passes all the regulation checkmarks. Owl’s platform is server-independent and fully white-labelled.

How they describe their product/innovation: The instant KYC|AML tool automates Enhanced Due Diligence on both individuals and companies.

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed

Contacts

Bus. Dev. & Press: George Khalife, Head of Bus. Dev. & Marketing, george@owl.co

Key Stats

Key Executives
Sean Merat (CEO & Co-Founder), Vahid Mirjalili (COO & Co-Founder), Sohrab Merat (Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder), Alexey Zhigaltsov (CTO)

Key Investors
Owl recently raised its first round of funding, securing $2.6M CAD. This seed round was led by Luge Capital and Impression Ventures, with participation from Sway Ventures, Inovia Capital, Plug and Play, and Builders VC.

Key Advisory Board Members
Bruce Croxon (Managing Partner, Round13 Capital & fmr. Investor, CBC’s Dragon’s Den), Alain Thibault (fmr. CEO, TD Insurance), Alireza Masrour (Partner, Plug and Play), Brendan Holt Dunn (Managing Partner, Holt Accelerator), Rob Sims (Partner, BCG)

Key Customers
TMX Group – Toronto Stock Exchange, RBC Insurance, Industrial Alliance, Fairstone, Koho, Pacific Bluecross, Sun Life Financial

Finovate Demo
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