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Research firm selects Pocketnest for its R&D, market potential, news sentiment analysis, and more
CB Insights features Pocketnest in its fifth-annual Fintech 250 ranking, showcasing the fintech alongside the most promising private fintech companies.
"This year’s Fintech 250 winners are shaping the future of financial services, from payments and banking to investing and insurance,” said Brian Lee, SVP of CB Insights’ Intelligence Unit. “Representing more than 30 countries, these companies are creating safer and more efficient payment methods, and transforming how traditional banking, insurance and investing products are delivered. Together, they not only make financial services more convenient for users, but also make them available to more people, especially traditionally underserved populations around the globe.”
Why Pocketnest?
Pocketnest earned the "Top 250" accolade— from a pool of more than 12,500 private companies—based on factors including R&D activity, proprietary Mosaic scores, market potential, business relationships, investor profile, news sentiment analysis, competitive landscape, team strength, and tech novelty. The research team also reviewed more than 2,000 Analyst Briefings submitted by applicants and used its CB Insights platform to make the final decision.
The Pocketnest team stacked awards and accolades throughout the past year, including Wells Fargo’s 2022 Innovation Challenge finalist designation with a corresponding $50K award.
Pocketnest licenses its platform to financial institutions to boost their cross-sell opportunities; it also licenses to employee wellness programs to help employers boost recruitment, productivity, and retention. Built on behavioral science and psychology, Pocketnest coaches users through 10 themes of financial wellness. Its gamified, almost-addictive approach draws users into the app to keep their financial plan up to date—in just three minutes a week.
Quick facts on the 2022 Fintech 250:
Equity funding and deals: The Fintech 250 cohort has raised over $115B in equity funding across over 1,100 deals since the start of 2017 (as of 9/20/2022). In 2021 alone, winners raised over $51B across 337 equity deals.
Unicorns: There are 159 companies with $1B+ valuations on the list.
Global Reach: Globalization is a key theme for this year’s Fintech 250. The winners represent 33 different countries across the globe - 7 more than last year. Just over half (53%) of the selected companies are headquartered in the US, which is the fewest we’ve seen in the Fintech 250 since 2017. The UK came in second with 31 winners (12%), followed by India with 14 (6%), Brazil with 9 (4%), and Germany with 7 (3%).
About CB Insights
CB Insights builds software that enables the world's best companies to discover, understand, and make technology decisions with confidence. By marrying data, expert insights, and work management tools, clients manage their end-to-end technology decision-making process on CB Insights. To learn more, please visit www.cbinsights.com.
About Pocketnest
Pocketnest, Inc.™ is a Google-accelerated financial wellness app that coaches users through 10 themes of financial wellness. The platform helps users identify and fill gaps in their plans, while identifying cross-sell opportunities for the financial institutions they license to like banks, credit unions, investment advisors, 401k plan sponsors; and employee wellness programs. Launched in 2019, the fintech has been recognized as one of the world’s most innovative startups.