Visa Everywhere Initiative 2022

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Visa Everywhere Initiative is a global, open innovation program that tasks startups to solve payments and commerce challenges for Visa, clients, and customers everywhere. It provides a premier global platform to demonstrate your ground-breaking solutions to the world.

 Visa Everywhere Initiative is looking for products that deliver innovative payment and commerce solutions to consumers and businesses. These include but are not limited to:

Enablers of digital services and digital issuers

  • Blockchain and cryptocurrency
  • Crowdfundin
  • Banking as a service
  • BIN sponsorsIssuer / processors
  • Program managers

Digital issuance

  • Blockchain and cryptocurrency
  • Alternative lending
  • Personal financial management
  • Money transfer and remittance
  • Digital banking (aka neobanks)
  • Digital wallets, P2P, and transfers
  • Employee benefits
  • Payables
  • Corporate cards (aka expense management)

Value-add for merchants and/or consumers in regard to finance

  • Data and analytics
  • ID, authentication, and security
  • InsurTech
  • Loyalty
  • Merchant services and tools
  • Process and pay infrastructure
  • Retail technology

Small/medium-sized business

  • Money movement (disbursements, intra-account, P2P vendor, payments)
  • Acceptance (e-commerce, mobile acceptance)
  • Risk management (chargebacks, etc.)
  • Brand management (community building, etc.)

Prizes:

Five monetary prizes will be awarded during the global finals event:

  1. Overall Winner: $100,000 USD
  2. Audience Favorite: $20,000 USD
  3. Visa Direct: $20,000 USD
  4. 2nd Place: $20,000 USD
  5. 3rd Place: $10,000 USD

The overall winner, 2nd place-winner, and 3rd place-winner are all eligible to win the Audience Favorite prize.

North America

  • Overall winner: $10,000 USD
  • Audience Favorite winner: $10,000 USD
  • Visa Direct winner: $10,000 USD

How to Participate

Visa will select the top 5 regional finalists in each region listed below. Next, each region will select a winner that will move forward to the global finals event.

  • North America
  • Europe
  • Asia Pacific
  • Latin America
  • CEMEA [Central Europe, Middle East, Africa] – For this region’s five finalists, one spot is reserved for an Egyptian startup and one spot is reserved for a Saudi Arabian startup.

North America:

  •  Applications close: March 31, 2022 
  • Regional finals event: June 1, 2022 (live-streamed on TechCrunch)

For More Information: Visa Everywhere Initiative 2022

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