Visa's Everywhere Initiative

Cultivating new relationships with emerging talent in the startup community. Visa's Everywhere Initiative is now closed. Finalists will be contacted over the coming weeks and winners will be selected at the Women in Payments Symposium on 21 November.

Visa’s Everywhere Initiative began in the US in 2015 with the aim of harnessing the creativity and talent within the startup community to generate new ideas for commerce.  Since launch, we’ve taken the competition to China, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and in 2016 we ran the first Visa Everywhere Initiative for Australia and New Zealand.   

We’ve just announced our second annual competition in Australia and New Zealand, with a focus on driving gender diversity in finance and technology. We’re calling for all New Zealand and Australian startups that have at least one woman in their team and are keen to tackle one of two real-life business challenges for a chance win up to AUD$30,000. 

Our partners KITE will help all the finalists prepare for their pitch which will take place at the Women In Payments conference in Sydney on 21 November 2017.

Challenge 1: The Everywhere Consumer Challenge

How can startups leverage Visa APIs to augment their products and ultimately drive more powerful commerce experiences for consumers?

The Brief

The Everywhere Consumer Challenge is a call to the startup community to propose innovative ideas that can fundamentally improve consumer experiences by leveraging the Visa APIs offered through the Visa Developer platform.

The Visa Developer platform offers APIs that accelerate access to Visa’s products and services including payment methods such as Visa Checkout and Visa Direct; general services such as Visa Foreign Exchange Rates and Visa Global ATM Locator; and risk and fraud services such as Mobile Location Confirmation and Visa Transaction Alerts. Learn more about Visa Developer APIs.

The Everywhere Consumer Challenge is a tremendous opportunity for startups focused on consumer engagement, wearable solutions, IoT, P2P value transfer, charitable giving and financial inclusion.

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Challenge 2: The Everywhere Commercial Challenge

How can startups leverage Visa APIs to augment their products and ultimately drive more powerful commerce experiences for merchants?

The Brief

The Everywhere Commercial Challenge is an opportunity to develop solutions that will improve the experience of small businesses, large companies, the public sector, or their employees by leveraging the Visa APIs offered through the Visa Developer platform.

The Everywhere Commercial Challenge is an opportunity for startups focused on solving the problems faced by businesses and those who are motivated to improve the way that organisations make and receive payments.

Have questions?
Email [email protected]

For API Questions email: [email protected] or tweet us at @visadeveloper using #TEI

Prizes

  • Each Everywhere Challenge will have a AUD$25,000 cash prize.
  • A ‘People’s Choice’ prize of AUD$5,000 will be voted on pitch day by audience members.

Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the Australia and New Zealand Visa's Everywhere Initiative 2016:

 

Overall Winner of The Everywhere Initiative Australia and New Zealand

Thought Wired

 

Category Winner - The Everywhere API Challenge for Consumers

Jude

 

Category Winner - The Everywhere API Challenge for Commercial

Proximiti

 

Category Winner - The Everyone, Everywhere Challenge

Rush Digital

 

People's Choice Award

Persollo