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Curve wins at WIRED Money 2017

New banking alternative Curve has been announced as the winner of the WIRED Money 2017 pitch competition, beating out a number of hotly-tipped startups from around the UK. The mobile money startup won against 7 other fintech disruptors, including Finimize, AgentCASH and Lendr.

Founder and CEO, Shachar Bialick, pitched to a packed crowd on how Curve is building the world’s first ‘connected money’ app - a banking alternative that makes it simpler for people to spend, send, see and save their money.

The company launched a Beta version of its product last year - a new generation of bank card that consolidates all your cards into one, paired with a powerful mobile app that helps you stay on top of your money. Over 50,000 users have signed up, and Curve cards have already been used to make almost £50million in payments in more than 100 countries. After a successful Beta phase, Curve will launch to the mass market this summer.

Bialick also teased a new, world-first ‘financial time travel’ feature set to be announced next month, allowing Curve users to change the bank card they are charged on, after making a purchase. Curve has raised £3.5million in seed funding from a number of VCs and fintech investors, and is expected to close a Series A funding round this year.

One of the judges described the new time travel feature as “really exciting…quite simply, something none of us have seen before”. The judging panel included VC investor Ophelia Brown and Imran Gulemhuseinwala - EY’s Global Fintech Leader and advisor to the Open Banking project.

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