Fintech Startups Pitch Competition by Wallet Max
➡️ Join us as we kick off the New York Fintech Week 2026
📍Fintech Pitch Competition & Investor Panels
📅 April 20th @ 5-9 PM ET
🎤 Pitch, judge, speak, or just attend and network
🔗 If you are a startup team interested to pitch, an investor interested to judge, or an executive interested to speak:
Please submit your interest at: www.getwalletmax.com/contact
Deadline for all submissions is February 28th EOD
New York FinTech Week in April brings together an inclusive community of startup, investor, and corporate ecosystem builders.
Join us for a diverse Startup Pitch Competition and Panel of FinTech Investors/Executives that trigger meaningful networking and mutual exchange of resources. Reserve your seat at the conversation today!
✅ Connect with startup leaders, impact investors, and corporate executives.
✅ Discover how to enhance sustainable and inclusive practices, and grow your business.
✅ Join a community of ecosystem partners and service providers in FinTech.
Reserve your space today.
Who this is for:
Startups – early visibility and relationships that extend beyond one pitch
Investors – access to ideas before the market crowds in
Executives – insight into what’s coming before it hits your roadmap
Policy/non-profit leaders – exposure to market-driven 'sustainable' impact
Talent/ecosystem builders – pathways to jobs/partners shaping the future
Anyone across tech, finance, and adjacent industries – a trusted community
And if you simply care about where fintech is actually headed - you’ll find your people in the room, where real conversations and connections happen.
We’re building on last year’s momentum, and widening the circle this time.
🔗 Register here: luma.com/FintechPitchWM26
Let’s keep building what works.
Read more about monthly Climate Forward™ events from Wallet Max throughout 2026:
🎯 https://getwalletmax.com/climate-forward
Your Pitch Host & Panel Moderator:
Bhuva Shakti, Founder & CEO at Wallet Max
Agenda:
5:00 PM to 5:30 PM: Check-in, Networking, Lite Bites/Drinks
5:30 PM to 7:00 PM: FinTech Week - Startup Pitches
Line Up of Judges (FinTech Investors & Industry Experts): TBA
Line Up of Startups (FinTech Enabled / Any Industry): TBA
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM: Panel Discussion & Winners Announcement
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM: Q&A, Networking, Lite Bites/Drinks
Reserve your space today!
Note that photographs will be taken throughout the event and will be used for marketing purposes only.
Upon registration, your payment method on Luma will be charged. Please note that there are no refunds for this event given the exclusive nature.
About Wallet Max:
Wallet Max is an inclusive global community of corporate executives and venture capitalists with a mission to expand fundraising access for high-growth startups in the technology, AI, fintech, and climate sustainability sectors.
With more than 10 investments directly in impact entrepreneurs thus far, Wallet Max’s network of 2,000 innovators and 60 partners regularly meet in person and virtually throughout the year to mutually exchange connections and drive collective action. Wallet Max ecosystem of events and initiatives are prominent during the New York Fintech Week, the New York Tech Week, and the New York Climate Week every year.
Wallet Max's Planet Positive Podcast is a monthly interview with investors driving impact globally. Aligned with our mission to challenge the status quo, we showcase personal and professional journeys of diverse investors (Angels, VCs, PEs, Family Office, Corporate Venture) looking to leverage inclusion and impact without compromising growth of investments. Supporting sustainable innovations is good for people's wellbeing, planet survival, and financial profits.
Learn more about Wallet Max success and 2026 global initiatives: https://getwalletmax.com/climate-forward
About CLA:
CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) exists to create opportunities for our clients, our people, and our communities through our industry-focused advisory, digital, audit, tax, and outsourcing services.
https://www.claconnect.com/en/
About Bhuva Shakti:
Bhuva Shakti (she/her) is the futuristic founder and CEO driving sustainable innovation at Wallet Max, a global community of corporate executives, policy leaders, and venture capital investors expanding fundraising access for high-growth impact startups. With an MBA from Columbia University in New York and as a senior executive director on Wall Street for three decades, Bhuva has managed diverse financial portfolios and launched several digital transformation products for investment banks, capital markets, and payment networks.
Bhuva’s leadership and risk governance oversight, during the global financial crisis and the pandemic, was pivotal for the success of regulatory compliance and mergers acquisitions at the world's top banks and credit rating institutions. Bhuva is a board director and C-Suite advisor for people and planet friendly businesses, without compromising profits, and a keynote and TEDx speaker advancing economic inclusion and climate-fintech partnerships.
Bhuva is the USA country director for World Business Angels Investment Forum and the Chief Ethics & Culture Officer for Women in AI worldwide. She leads fundraising strategy and product operations for market expansion and manages investor relations from diligence to investment. Bhuva is the founder of Bhuva’s Impact Global, offering board and enterprise risk advisory services for public and private corporations.