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It's not the new version of "crypto-" (if anything it's the old version as they've been around a while), but it can indeed just be a hypeword

Https://projectpiglet.com

I'll tell that to investors, people who click the link, etc. That's because it describes that I'm working with / in the financials space (aka financial statistics, and investing as it relates to assets of some kind).

Now... I personally, classify the company is a "human analytics" company. The system learns about people. Off the platform I can build insider threat detection (if deployed within companies), I can build a search engine for experts / people, I have a way to track brand strength, sentiment around politians, create curated news updates provided via email, etc. Even track the "strength" of a mene

All those are already on the platform or are demos...

Is it a fintech company? Yes, to people looking for fintech, but is it also A, Y, and Z - sure. Defining what a company does is difficult in some cases; fintech is currently what is describing anything really working with money and / assets to make money.

[0] https://parsey.nl

Technology is more fundamental to how a company aims to be better than the competition (or at least how it markets itself as better than the competition). Which in practice often means having software doing exactly the same thing as software in other companies, but less bricks and mortar, customer service and established reputation.

Everything Morgan Stanley or HSBC does depends on computers and their bottom line is hugely affected by the quality of things like their trading algorithms, but "better software" is less intrinsic to why people would consider using them than, say a "Fintech" oriented challenger bank, or a HFT fund, or a stock recommendation report marketing itself as being purely "Big Data" driven.

I have a friend who started a company which manages travel rewards and was pitching his startup as 'disruptive fintech'.