2013 PYMNTS.com Innovator Awards Winners Announced

Forty-seven Companies across Sixteen Categories Representing “What’s Next” in Payments Innovation

Winners selected by payments industry judges and announced at The Innovation Project 2013 Awards Dinner at Harvard University’s Annenberg Hall

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PYMNTS.com, the leading platform for news and content related to “what’s next” in payments innovation, released its list of winners for the 2013 PYMNTS Innovator Awards. Winners were chosen across sixteen categories by a panel of judges with deep and practical expertise in payments and payments innovation. The top finalists in each category were given an award at the PYMNTS.com Innovator Awards Dinner held this year on March 21, 2013 at Annenberg Hall on the Harvard University Campus as part of The Innovation Project. B.J. Novak, writer, actor and producer of the award-winning comedy series, The Office, served as the Awards Dinner emcee. The Innovation Project 2013 was hosted by PYMNTS.com, the leading platform for news and content on “what’s next” in payments innovation and is dedicated to changing the way that the payments industry, thinks, creates and ignites innovation.

The winners are:

	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Most Innovative	PayPal	Amex	Adyen
Most Disruptive	Square	Discover	Braintree/Venmo
Best Technology	MoCa	First Data/Cardspring	OneID
Best Newcomer	Stripe	PayPerks	MoneyDesktop
Most Invisible	FlowPay	IPCommerce	C-Sam
Best Credit	Credit Karma	Billfloat	Lending Club
Best Debit	Green Dot	Walmart/Amex	Simple
Best Prepaid	Western Union	Seamless	Pangea
Best Check	ING	ZipMark	Mitek
Best Cash	Loomis	PayNearMe	ItsLikeCash
Best B2B Innovation	Kabbage	Silicon Valley Bank/Mineral Tree	Bottomline Technologies
Best POS Transformation	Groupon	LightSpeed	GoPago
Best SMB Innovation	Intuit	PaySimple	BillingOrchard
Best Comeback	Bluesnap	Capital Access Network	Rapid
Best Merchant Innovation	Starbucks	Dunkin' Donuts	Home Depot
Best Innovation Via ACH	Bill.com	BIM (Buy It Mobile Network)	n/a

A complete list of all finalists by category with descriptions of their innovations can be found here.

The 2013 PYMNTS.com Innovator Award Program Judges include: David Evans, author of Paying with Plastic and Founder of Market Platform Dynamics; Hans Morris, Managing Director, General Atlantic; Dan Rosen, Managing Partner, Commerce Ventures; Karen Webster, CEO Market Platform Dynamics and President of PYMNTS.com, and Matt Witheiler, Principal, Flybridge Partners.

About The Innovation Project

Over 2 days, 100 speakers and 500 senior members of the payments industry will change the way that the payments and its broader commerce ecosystem thinks, talks, delivers and ignites innovation. On March 20^th and 21^st the greatest minds in commerce and payments will assemble at Harvard University near Boston to kick the conversation about innovation up to an entirely different level at a program called The Innovation Project. Speakers and delegates are among the most senior executives and elite innovators from literally every established payments company worldwide, along with the CEOs of the most innovative start-ups in the space. One of its five modules includes pairing industry CEOs with external thought leaders such as Al Gore (former US VP), Steve Levitt (Freakonomics), Eric Reis (The Lean Startup), Rosie Rios (US Treasurer), Russell Simmons (RushCard), Raj Date (CFPB), and Josh Lerner (Architecture of Innovation) to challenge the conventional wisdom around what it will take to get merchants and consumers to adopt new ways to shop and pay. The Innovation Project also hosts the industry’s 2013 PYMNTS.com Innovator Awards, given to 15 of the industry’s top innovators over dinner, which this year will be emceed by B.J. Novak of The Office and will introduce delegates to 40 of the hottest “next generation” payments innovators.

About PYMNTS.com

PYMNTS.com is reinventing the way in which companies in payments share relevant information about the initiatives that shape the future of commerce and make news. This powerful B2B platform is the #1 site for the payments industry by traffic and the premier source of information about “what’s next” in payments. C-suite and VP level executives read it daily for these insights, making the PYMNTS.com audience the most valuable in the industry. It provides an interactive platform for companies to demonstrate thought leadership, popularize products and, most importantly, capture the mindshare of global decision-makers. It’s where the best minds and best content meet on the web.