11 hours Ago By Dominic Sow
Fintech Sandbox , a nonprofit that provides early-stage startups around the world with free access to critical datasets and infrastructure through its Data Access Residency, experienced significant growth in 2024. With its data and industry partners and sponsors, the nonprofit was able to increase its impact by expanding the organization’s Data Access Residency and hosting community-led events, including Boston Fintech Week . This momentum sets up the nonprofit to make an even greater impact in 2025, spurring fintech innovation and giving startups the resources they need to succeed.
“We are witnessing the results of the most significant confluence of innovation, intellect and investment in financial services in a generation. We are proud of our 10 year-long effort to partner with our industry’s most forward-leaning market and alternative data providers to give fintech entrepreneurs from around the world unparalleled access to the inputs they need to build their solutions,” said Sarah Biller , Co-founder of Fintech Sandbox. “Our entrepreneurs have built technologies to improve complex legacy processes, created new products, services and distribution channels, connected personal mobile devices to payment and lending capabilities, and built AI-enabled risk analytics among other capabilities.
They have played a central role in improving our industry’s resilience and expanding access to financial services as well as raised venture capital for their companies and hired teams to grow their capabilities. Access to data has been central to their success and efforts to make our industry, economies and societies better.” Fintech Sandbox Grows in Data Partners, Sponsors, and Global and National Reach In 2024, Fintech Sandbox increased its global and national reach, with new data partners and sponsors, expansion into the Midwest and a clear emphasis on artificial intelligence among their startups.
Highlights include: Boston Fintech Week & Demo Day Return, Spotlighting the Industry’s Rapid Technological Advances and Bringing together the Community As part of its goal of raising unexpected voices and fostering community, the organization puts a highlight on key events throughout the year. It held its tenth Demo Day, which took place in April and gave promising startups across the globe the opportunity to showcase technologies and products built through the Data Access Residency. This year’s Demo Day addressed key themes such as financial infrastructure to support work, life and small business, as well as emerging technologies and the future of capital markets.
Fintech Sandbox will soon announce details for Demo Day 2025. The seventh annual Boston Fintech Week was held in October. This year’s theme was “Fintech at Full Throttle: The Rapid Advance of Innovation,” and the event brought together the global fintech community to explore the accelerating pace of change in the financial industry.
Key highlights included: “When we asked ourselves before launching Fintech Sandbox what really stood in the way of entrepreneurs’ ability to achieve product market fit, lack of access to data stood out amongst other factors. Throughout our journey, we have found that fintech founders who gain access to high quality datasets, no matter where they are located globally, more rapidly build the next generation of products, services and analytics for an evolving financial services sector,” said David Jegen , Co-founder of Fintech Sandbox. “While unprecedented technological advances are constantly altering the needs of entrepreneurs and the role of data in their ventures, providing high-quality, differentiated datasets is more important than ever in building a sustainable financial future.
We are thrilled to continue making an impact in the next decade and beyond.”.
