{"id":16454,"date":"2019-08-20T16:17:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurance-journal.ca\/article\/fintech-accelerator-welcomes-second-cohort-of-startup-companies\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T16:17:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T20:17:31","slug":"fintech-accelerator-welcomes-second-cohort-of-startup-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/08\/20\/fintech-accelerator-welcomes-second-cohort-of-startup-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fintech Accelerator welcomes second cohort of startup companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/insurance-journal.ca\/media\/photologue\/photos\/holt_fintech_acceslerator_mtl.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Montreal-based <strong>Holt Fintech Accelerator<\/strong> launched its second cohort this week, bringing together eight new companies from five different countries, to participate in its 12-week program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to support financial technologies that we believe are needed in the Canadian market,\u201d says Holt Accelerator founder and managing partner, <strong>Brendan Holt Dunn<\/strong>. \u201cThis creates direct benefits for Canadian consumers, financial institutions and service providers, while also enabling Canada to be more competitive globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The accelerator\u2019s eight new companies were chosen from nearly 600 applications from over 70 different countries. Participating companies receive training sessions, immersion in the fintech environment and hands-on help from committed financial institutions and venture capital firms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis brings Holt closer to its goals of supporting innovation in the global financial services sector and continuing to help make Montreal, Quebec and Canada a top destination for fintech talent an innovation,\u201d the company said in a statement released this week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/insurance-journal.ca\/article\/fintech-accelerator-welcomes-second-cohort-of-startup-companies\/\">Read the original article at insurance-journal.ca <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal-based Holt Fintech Accelerator launched its second cohort this week, bringing together eight new companies from five different countries, to participate in its 12-week program. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to support financial technologies that we believe&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}