Competition recap

SC Ventures Fintech & AI Pitch Competition 2026

Thank you to all the founders, investors and partners who joined us for the SC Ventures Fintech & AI Pitch Competition. The event brought together a strong group of early-stage startups shaping the future of fintech and AI. After a highly competitive round of pitches, we’re pleased to announce this year’s winner.
Winner Spotlight

Nextvestment is an AI-native wealth engagement and behavioural intelligence layer that enables wealth institutions to deliver personalised, institution-approved guidance at scale, without re-platforming or increasing headcount. Recognised as one of the 2025 WealthTech100 most innovative companies, Nextvestment participates in the Monetary Authority of Singapore PathFin.AI programme and powers the AI financial guidance capability underpinning Phillip Securities’ POEMSGPT, deployed within its flagship trading platform. By transforming client questions, behavioural signals, and portfolio context into institution-controlled, audit-ready insights, Nextvestment enables banks to move beyond static digital experiences and deliver insight-driven, compliant client engagement within regulated production environments.

Why the Judges Chose Them

Strong vision for the future of financial services
Large addressable market and clear scaling potential
Compelling execution and team​
Learn more about the finalists
Aereve is a globally recognized RegTech100 company delivering multilingual, on-chain and off-chain compliance analytics for banks, insurers, and enterprises. Powered by patented fuzzy logic technology for native languages, Aereve is setting the global  ‘East Meets West’ standard for TradFi and Web3 compliance.
COLLYBUS is a live, fully regulated institutional grade trading platform and brokerage (Australian AFSL + Singapore MAS CMS IPA) that unifies fragmented digital asset markets into a single, compliant operating layer.

Fineksi is an SaaS company that helps financial institutions streamline their credit process and detect for fraud by ingesting all the borrowers documents and providing AI-based credit analysis. This allows them to process loans faster without sacrificing quality and to reduce non-performing loans.

Nextvestment is an AI-native wealth engagement and behavioural intelligence layer that enables wealth institutions to deliver personalised, institution-approved guidance at scale, without re-platforming or increasing headcount.

The yufin merchant platform has started with the Philippines, extending the reach of FMCG & financial services to grow their customer base on one hand while monetizing deep local insights of last-mile merchants to acquire & service this growing customer base on the other hand.

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