NJ FAST Selection Day 2026
Join us for the fifth NJ FAST Selection Day, where startups will pitch their solutions and share their vision for the future of Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence.
After the thought leadership and startup pitches, join us for an hour-long reception to connect with the entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and investors.
Agenda
1:00 - 2:00pm - Registration & Networking over coffee & light snacks
2:00 - 3:00pm - Startup Pitches
3:00 - 3:30pm - Break & Networking
3:30 - 4:30pm - Startup Pitches
4:30 - 5:30pm - Networking Reception
Startups:
Aithon: AI-powered GTM platform for enterprise tech companies selling into banks, insurers, and fintechs, combining industry-specific account intelligence with automated outreach execution on a single context graph
Guava Insurance: Turns silent insurance policies into active relationships — delivering branded rewards and seamless service directly through WhatsApp and SMS, with zero apps required.
Melow: AI-native data services: turns fragmented enterprise data into an AI-ready foundation and operates production AI workflows on top, each measured against explicit ROI targets.
Gangkhar: AI-native infrastructure for embedded protection instantly and globally.
Cobalt: transforms fragmented enterprise knowledge into the trusted understanding that enables Agentic SDLC from planning to production.
SekurAI: continuous penetration testing for the AI era.
MarvelX: an AI-driven agentic platform that automates insurance claims workflows, integrating with existing systems to reduce manual intervention and operational costs.
Hyperlinear: AI agents that automate complex financial operations at investment firms, starting with reconciliation, compliance, and reporting, while preserving auditability and human oversight.
Ventus AI: powers FIs to deliver a hyper-personalized banking experiences that captures higher spend, deal redemption, share of wallet and retention.
Heka Global: AI-powered consumer identity verification.
Intellebox: An AI‑driven platform for wealth managers, hedge funds, and VCs & Family Offices that up to 80% of advisory functions while scaling personalized client communication 10x.
Avallon: Ultra-realistic AI Voice Agents for Claims Operations - turns complex claims operations into automated resolutions, cutting costs and supercharging productivity with agentic workflows.
Nodes: an AI-native, multi-agent recruiting operating system that automates sourcing, screening, retention risk prediction, and candidate fit scoring for enterprise hiring.
Solid AI: automates the creation and maintenance of business-aware semantic data models for reliable AI.
Financial Wellness Labs: personal financial intelligence that sees a person’s whole financial life and turns it into guidance they can act on, delivered in the moment the decision is being made, wherever they interact with their money
Clarifeye: Enables experts to build and govern AI teammates using their domain logic.
Strala: AI-powered claims processing automation.
EmergeGen: an AI-native data governance platform that unifies fragmented enterprise data into a secure, queryable intelligence layer through proprietary ontology and knowledge graph technology.
Hyponomy: published approved product information for AI discovery, then supports controlled qualification, activation and servicing within your rules.
Directions:
Follow the map below once you arrive at 1 Castle Point Terrace, Hoboken, NJ to navigate to the University Center Complex.