Columbia Threadneedle Investments Selects Three Firms for 2022 MassChallenge FinTech’s Start-up Accelerator Program
20 Januar 2022 - 03:00PM
Business Wire
Columbia Threadneedle Investments today announced the selection
of three innovative fintech start-ups for this year’s MassChallenge
FinTech accelerator program. In working with these firms, Columbia
Threadneedle, and its parent company Ameriprise Financial, hope to
utilize new technologies in the areas of data analysis, data
collection and automation.
The three start-ups are:
- Util uses cutting-edge technology and a vast evidence
base of peer-reviewed academic and scientific articles to map and
measure how companies positively and negatively impact the UN
Sustainable Development Goals and over 2,000 sustainability
themes.
- OnCorps provides intelligent automation solutions to
increase efficiency and reduce risk within leading financial
services firms.
- Datia offers a data platform for sustainable finance
that automates data collection and reporting on ESG for asset
managers.
Jay Leopold, executive sponsor and head of North America
Investment Risk at Columbia Threadneedle said: “Investment
strategies that incorporate responsible investment practices
require asset managers to collect and distill much more data into
their processes today than in the past. We look to make innovative
use of technology to transform this data into actionable investment
insights that ensure we provide best-in-class products and services
to our clients.”
“As a long-time participant in MassChallenge’s FinTech program,
we are energized to collaborate with the fintech community to find
new approaches to meet asset management’s ever-evolving
challenges,” Leopold added.
Columbia Threadneedle is one of nine challenge partners in the
2022 program, which pairs financial services firms with
enterprise-ready start-ups to accelerate outcomes-driven
partnerships. This year, 25 start-ups were selected to solve
challenges presented by the nine firms. The program runs from
January to June 2022.
Columbia Threadneedle and Ameriprise have participated in the
MassChallenge FinTech Program since 2019 and have completed
successful proofs of concept with several fintechs, including
ForwardLane, FiVerity, Cognicor and Alkymi. The collaboration
between Columbia Threadneedle and Diffeo won MassChallenge’s first
place award in 2019 in recognition of the successful collaboration
between both firms. In addition, based on work completed during the
2020 program, Ameriprise recently extended its relationship with
Cognicor to enhance its client support model through AI
chatbots.
About Columbia Threadneedle Investments
Columbia Threadneedle Investments is a leading global asset
manager that provides a broad range of investment strategies and
solutions for individual, institutional and corporate clients
around the world. With more than 2,500 people, including over 650
investment professionals based in North America, Europe and Asia1,
we manage $714 billion of assets across developed and emerging
market equities, fixed income, asset allocation solutions and
alternatives.2
Columbia Threadneedle Investments is the global asset management
group of Ameriprise Financial, Inc. (NYSE: AMP). For more
information, please visit columbiathreadneedleus.com. Follow us on
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Columbia Threadneedle Investments (Columbia Threadneedle) is the
global brand name of the Columbia and Threadneedle group of
companies.
1 As of November 8, 2021, Columbia
Threadneedle Investments including BMO GAM (EMEA)
2 As of September 30, 2021. Includes all
assets managed by entities in the Columbia and Threadneedle group
of companies
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