Fintech Sandbox - The Data Access Residency

Fintech Sandbox - The Data Access Residency is sponsored by Fintech Sandbox. This residency offers early-stage startups access to essential financial data for testing and development. The data can be used for testing and cannot be used for direct commercialization.

Data Access Residency - Fintech Sandbox For Startups Data Access Residency Fintech Sandbox’s Data Access Residency provides early-stage startups from around the world with premium data feeds and APIs from our industry-leading data partners, saving entrepreneurs tens of thousands of dollars.

Startups accepted into the Data Access Residency receive up to 6 months of free data access from each of our 40+ data partners—such as FactSet, Plaid, S&P Global, Equifax, MSCI, Nasdaq, Associated Press, and many more. Our startups utilize this data to build, develop, and test their products as they work to go to market or launch a new feature.

Check out the available datasets Get access to premier global data sets, APIs, and cloud resources from partners such as S&P Global, Morningstar, Factset, Plaid, AWS, and more. Lowering The Barrier To Entry For Fintech Entrepreneurs Good data is expensive. For an early-stage fintech startup, accessing quality data and the infrastructure resources needed to build and test products can be difficult and costly.

We believe that data should enable innovation, not hinder it. Since our founding, Fintech Sandbox has enabled entrepreneurs from around the world to focus on building innovative solutions through our Data Access Residency. Entrepreneurs from around the world utilize Fintech Sandbox's Data Access Residency to test and build their products and to extend their runways, enabling financial innovation at scale.

DATA & INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDERS AVAILABLE Partnering with the world’s leading data providers in ESG, credit, consumer, news, capital markets, and alternative data plus infrastructure providers for cloud hosting and APIs. Both structured and unstructured data are available. Startups in the Data Access Residency gained access to significant savings through the program, allowing them to continue to build their products and businesses.

Your initial application can be submitted online at any time. There are no cohorts; startups are admitted on a rolling basis. The interview process consists of two rounds of interviews.

The first is a virtual meeting with the Fintech Sandbox team. The second is a virtual demo to the Fintech Sandbox team and several of our Advocates, who are experienced financial services technology executives, venture investors, or former fintech entrepreneurs. Decisions are usually made one to two weeks after the second round interview.

Applying to the Data Access Residency Startups need access to data at different times, so applications are accepted on a rolling basis and startups are onboarded to the Data Access Residency biweekly. Onboarding to Fintech Sandbox Fintech Sandbox has pre-negotiated agreements, on behalf of our accepted startups, for free access to certain data sets for up to 6 months from each of our data partners.

Once accepted into the Data Access Residency, the startup directly signs a free data license agreement with each data partner they choose to work with, which allows the startup to also build a relationship with those data providers. From there, the data partners work with the startup directly to grant access to the respective data sets.

Depending on the data provider, the data set will be available through API, FTP, or another data delivery method. Startups are allowed to work with multiple data partners at a time and will receive 6 months of free data access from each. Because of that, startups are generally active in the program for 8 – 12 months.

Once the 6 months of free data access is over, the startup can decide whether they’d like to enter into a commercial agreement with the data provider and continue to use the dataset. "Fintech Sandbox helped us get rapid access to Yodlee data which we needed to flesh out our prototype." Ravi Balasubramanian, CEO & Co-founder, Sandbox Banking "Fintech Sandbox really moved the needle for us."

Michelle Bonat, Co-Founder, Data Simply “Being a part of the Fintech Sandbox community has been extremely valuable in so many ways from industry exposure to data partners! Physis has unmatched breadth of ESG data and this could have not been possible without the Fintech Sandbox network.

Fintech Sandbox also gave us time to grow, learn, develop, and expand our platform without killing our cash flow, and a phenomenal network of advisors and investors! ” Stefania Di Bartolomeo Founder & CEO, Physis Investment “Being part of the Fintech Sandbox has given MarketReader access to not only a wide variety of data necessary to build our product, but also a fantastic community.

” Evan Schnidman, Co-founder of MarketReader “They have created something truly unique for early-stage fintech founders. With Fintech Sandbox, we are able to tap into enterprise-grade data sources that were previously inaccessible to early-stage startups. It’s more than just a program, they make us feel a part of a community.

” Assel Beglinova, Co-founder/CEO of Paperstack “Having access to that data meant that we were able to show the value of our solution. We could prove we were solving problems that had real ROI attached to them. It created a big advantage for us.

In addition, Fintech Sandbox took us out to do demos for its sponsors. These were incumbent financial institutions that we could not have navigated on our own. ” Nathaniel Storch, CEO of Amenity Analytics “Fintech Sandbox connects the dots.

It helped us meet the right people at the right orgs, quickly and meaningfully. Simply put, it was the fastest path to progress! ” Liam Hale McCarty, CEO, Founder of Verified “The biggest impact is the freedom to innovate on what’s possible.

Fintech Sandbox … helps us learn faster and be agile in understanding how our platform responds to data. ” Lloyd Pierre, Head of AI Squared Federal “Fintech Sandbox is an invaluable and reliable partner for our team at Impactica. In a few months, we have created partnerships with three of the most important industry data providers- all through Fintech Sandbox introductions.

Their support has helped us identify and reach partners that were formerly inaccessible. We could not be more pleased with our decision to apply. ” Ariel Porath, Co-Founder of Impactica Apply To The Data Access Residency Eligible early-stage startups click apply to get access to free data and infrastructure resources.

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