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# FIN/SUM Pitch Contest Winners
- URL: https://www.fintechobserver.com/fin-sum-pitch-contest-winners/
- Published: 2024-03-12T00:44:41.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-12T00:44:41.000Z
- Description: During Japan Fintech Week, Nikkei’s FIN/SUM held its annual startup pitc contest, which brought out four winners.
- Author: Norbert Gehrke
- Tags: #Migrated-1734246964256, #Import 2024-12-15 07:16

During Japan Fintech Week, Nikkei’s FIN/SUM held its annual startup pitc contest, which brought out four winners.

#### Grand Prize: Toggle

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[TOGGLE](https://toggle.ai/ja?ref=fintechobserver.com) is a financial information service that utilizes generative AI to ​​not only predict stock price trends, but also automatically create graphs that compare the price movements of multiple stocks.

#### SMBC Award: Lecto

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*wkUR0v37VgeyyK14v42Hpg.png)

[Lecto](https://lecto.co.jp/?ref=fintechobserver.com) is a Fintech company that develops “Collection Tech”. Lecto improves the troublesome back-end operations of financial services and retail subscription services, as well as complex and individualized work flows, and solves issues for receivables management (customer management) and collection to off-balance sheet management all at once.

#### Mitsubishi Estate Award: Bloomo Securities

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*bvGkiMfH0qEwWaiBLx0C_g.png)

[Bloomo](https://bloomo.co.jp/?ref=fintechobserver.com), a startup developing an asset building app focusing on US stocks/ETFs that had [raised a JPY 800m seed round in April 2023](https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech/bloomo-investment-raises-jpy-800m-in-seed-round-32c9a4fef719?ref=fintechobserver.com), and announced that it has completed the [registration as a Type 1 Financial Instruments Business Operator (FIBO) in June 2023](https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech/bloomo-investment-obtains-type-1-financial-instruments-business-operator-license-79da0cb560d2?ref=fintechobserver.com), has [launched its beta version of the app in February 2024](https://medium.com/tokyo-fintech/bloomo-finally-launches-in-japan-c78beb387370?ref=fintechobserver.com).

#### Special Jury Award: Fivot

![](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*XjM9XPDyCjKpTvD7REHJVw.png)

[Fivot](https://fivot.co.jp/?ref=fintechobserver.com) aims to be a challenger bank that generates the funds needed by society through their corporate lending business “Flex Capital” and the personal savings app “IDARE”, and contributes to economic development.

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