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:
- Overall Winner: $100,000 USD
- Audience Favorite: $20,000 USD
- Visa Direct: $20,000 USD
- 2nd Place: $20,000 USD
- 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
