The Scottish Financial Technology Awards 2019 Finalists

We’ve been shortlisted for the Scottish Financial Technology Awards!

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Our Jen Badger gives us her heart-felt account of what it means to be shortlisted for the Scottish Financial Technology Awards a year on from the launch of WhisperClaims. 

Back in August, we were thrilled to hear that, on the back of our winning ‘Emerging Fintech Company of the Year’ at the Scottish Accountancy and Financial Technology awards, we’d been nominated for two more! We’re up for the ‘Product Innovation’ and ‘Rising Star’ awards at the Scottish Financial Technology Awards.

As a software start-up, any and all recognition is special. You work hard designing, developing and building your product, making something you’re really proud of. Then you start trying to sell it, and suddenly expose your baby to the reality of the world. Fear sets in as you consider how people might respond to your product. But then soon enough, after all of that hard slog, you impress someone. In fact, you impress them so much, they actually nominate you for an award. It’s an amazing feeling.

This latest pair of nominations is particularly special. We set out to produce a truly innovative and disruptive product, so to be recognised in the product innovation category is great validation of our product and business model. WhisperClaims is the only fully automated R&D relief claim platform in the market, and it’s great to have the team’s innovative development work acknowledged. It’s also incredibly flattering, a year since officially launching WhisperClaims, to be listed alongside such well-established names as Autorek, Hymans Robertson and even RBS!

As for the rising star category, well, that’s exactly how we feel! Over the past three years, we’ve risen from three of us sitting around a dining room table, mapping out our ideas on endless sheets of paper, to a fully-fledged company. We’ve got paying customers, a great team and a strong vision for the future, with no plans to slow down!

Having said all of that, if you were to ask me what I’m most proud of over the past few years, it wouldn’t just be the awards and nominations. I’m proud of what we’ve built – a great product, a happy customer base, and, most importantly, a great team. With all of that, no matter how it goes on the night, I know we’ll continue to feel like winners.

If you find yourself at the Scottish Financial Technology Awards on Wednesday 25th September please don’t be shy. We’ll be there, so come say hi!

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