At the 2020 Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) Summit, one of the largest technology conferences in the Southeast, TAG announced two award groups that recognized Georgia-based technology companies for their innovation, financial impact, and their efforts at spreading awareness of the state’s technology initiatives throughout the U.S. and globally. What’s key here is that about one-third of the award winners are members of the dynamic and growing FinTech community.
- TAG Top 10 Innovative Technology Companies of the Decade (2010-2019). Four Georgia FinTech companies were recognized among the top 10 technology companies of the decade. The winners were BitPay, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), ParkMobile, and Pindrop.
- 2020 TAG Top 40 Innovative Technology Companies. TAG chose 40 technology companies from over 100 applications across Georgia to create the Top 40 Innovative Technology Companies. In the list of 40 companies, TAG recognized 14 FinTech companies. The FinTech award recipients are listed below
For a complete list of the Georgia FinTech companies, click this link: https://georgiafintech.org/private-companies/
Georgia FinTech Companies Recognized from TAG’s 2020 Top 40 List (Alpha Order)
| FinTech Company | Company Description | URL |
| BitPay | BitPay is the pioneer and the most experienced company in bitcoin and blockchain payments. Its suite of products enables businesses to send and receive cross border payments, also enabling consumers to manage digital assets with the BitPay Wallet and turn digital assets into dollars with the BitPay Prepaid Visa® Card. | https://bitpay.com/ |
| Bluefin | Bluefin Payment Systems is the leader in payment security, specializing in point of sale solutions for retail, mobile, call center and kiosk/unattended environments, and secure Ecommerce technologies. | https://www.bluefin.com/ |
| Brightwell | Brightwell Payments is a payments company offering comprehensive prepaid solutions for corporations and consumers. We provide marketing, design, distribution, and fulfillment services in support of payroll, general purpose reloadable, loyalty, award and promotional programs. | https://brightwell.com/ |
| DataSeers | DataSeers is an Atlanta-based technology company with a product appliance that makes data ingestion and analysis easy for its clients. DataSeers’ platform is capable of handling large amounts of varying data that the financial services industry sees on a daily basis; this includes data from switches, networks, data warehouses and even core banking infrastructure. | https://www.dataseers.ai/ |
| FLEETCOR | FLEETCOR is a leading global provider of commercial payment solutions. The company helps businesses of all sizes better control, simplify and secure payment of their fuel, toll, lodging and other general payables. | http://www.fleetcor.com/ |
| GROUNDFLOOR | GROUNDFLOOR is a unique financial product for individual investors that allows non-accredited and accredited investors alike to participate directly in real estate investment loans on a fractional basis. We open the door to short-term, high-yield returns backed by real estate. | https://www.groundfloor.us/ |
| Instant Financial | Instant aims to fix the pay frequency problem by providing businesses and their employees with an instant pay platform enabling access to collect their pay after every shift. | https://www.instant.co/ |
| Intercontinental Exchange | Intercontinental Exchange builds, operates and advances global financial and commodity markets. We are relied upon to harness data and build the technology that connects participants to the information and innovations that support investing, trading, risk management and capital raising. | https://www.intercontinentalexchange.com/index |
| Layr | We enable companies to get the layer of business insurance protection they need to succeed and pay for it monthly with a credit card. | https://withlayr.com/ |
| MAXEX | MAXEX is the first digital mortgage exchange to enable buyers and sellers to sign one contract and trade with multiple buyers and sellers through a single, trusted entity | https://www.maxex.com/ |
| RoadSync | RoadSync provides a payment solution that eliminates check authorization calls and trips to the bank, improves direct billing collection time, and reduces fraud for the logistics industry. | https://www.roadsync.com/ |
| Stackfolio, Inc | Powered by a machine learning prospecting engine and online transaction wizard, StackFolio’s online marketplace for loan trading is truly changing how hundreds of institutions transact in the whole loan and participation markets. | https://home.stackfolio.com |
| Trust Stamp | Truststamp.ai creates proprietary artificial intelligence solutions; researching and leveraging facial biometric science and wide-scale data mining to deliver insightful identity & trust predictions while identifying and defending against fraudulent identity attacks. | https://truststamp.ai/ |
| Vital4 | Vital Provides cloud-based due diligence data seraches, meeting KYC/BSA requirements and mitigating risks with customers, suppliers, partners and third party relationships. | https://www.vital4.net |
