Martin Mejia ’26 Wins Inaugural Mass Fintech Hub Pitch Battle
Martin Mejia ’26 won the inaugural Mass Fintech Hub Pitch Battle, beating out eight other schools for a plethora of prizes, including being featured on the fintech podcast, “What the Heck, Fintech” with Rob Sarnie.
Mejia pitched his fintech idea, which began in Associate Professor Linghang Zeng‘s fintech course this past fall. Utilizing the power of artificial intelligence forecasting, LendPilot is a fintech platform seeking to help early-stage small businesses manage cash flow and build credit history.
The Mass Fintech Hub Pitch Battle, hosted by Stonehill College, brought together teams from nine Mass Fintech Hub member schools to compete with their fintech ideas. Each group had four minutes to pitch their idea, then four minutes to answer questions from the judges. Second place went to Stonehill College, and third place to WPI. Judges rated each group on problem identification, innovation and solution, market opportunity, economic and societal impact, team capacity, and the clarity and persuasiveness of the presentation.
The competition’s panel of fintech professionals included John Valentine, open innovation champion at MassChallenge, Ashley Nagel Eknaian, chief digital officer/SVP at Eastern Bank, Jagathi Gururajan, global executive at Novus Laurus and strategic advisor at Fintech Women, Craig Colson Jr., chief of staff at Fidelity Private Shares, Ryan Gatti, SVP, head of innovation at Citizens, and Ralph Dangelmaier, CEP and strategic payments advisor at Payments Advisor Team.
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