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Growth Labs from Capital One is a new initiative to help young FinTech businesses get off the ground and collaborate with a major player.

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What is Captial One
Growth Labs?

Growth Labs at Capital One is our new way to ensure that young businesses have a channel through which they can reach us. Watch our introduction video or scroll down for more details about the programme.

Capital One Growth Labs
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This initiative is our way of contributing to the ecosystem and helping great ideas get to market quicker.

Our bold ambition is to bring simplicity and humanity to banking and credit around the world. If you’re a startup that can help people to succeed with their money, we can work together.

10-week programme of collabroation
Access to data sets
Mentoring
Opportunity for long-term interaction
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Sign-up for a 10-week collaboration

Growth Labs at Capital One is our new way to ensure that young businesses have a channel through which they can reach us. Watch our introduction video or scroll down for more details about the programme.

Education

Learn about regulation in the finance industry, as well as what compliance you need in place to contract with a large organisation like us.

Strategy

Breaking into this industry is hard, so with internal and external mentoring and workshops we’ll help you with your go-to-market strategy.

Partnership

At the end of the 10-weeks, pitch your ideas for ongoing relationship to our Programme Committee of directors and if we’ve liked working with you, the collaboration can be ongoing.

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Growth Labs
2016 Challenges

We’ve recruited some of our best internal team leads to support you on your journey. There are technologies and products they’re particularly interested in working with and we will prioritise teams that are focused on these.

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Timeline

07 May
Applications Open
29 May
Applications Close
12 June
Pitch Day
18 June
Finalists Announced
01 July - 13 September
Growth Labs
20 September
Demo Day + Closing Dinner
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About L Marks

L Marks is a corporate innovation specialist and early stage investor. We build bridges between large corporates seeking to innovate more quickly with young companies with disruptive technologies, products and services.

We take a practical approach to the way we work by running bespoke accelerator and scouting projects for some of the UK's best known brands including John Lewis, DPD and William Hill. We work with our clients to identify where they believe the opportunities and challenges are in their business and then turn these into opportunities for improvement and innovation.

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About Capital One

L Marks is a corporate innovation specialist and early stage investor. We build bridges between large corporates seeking to innovate more quickly with young companies with disruptive technologies, products and services.

We take a practical approach to the way we work by running bespoke accelerator and scouting projects for some of the UK's best known brands including John Lewis, DPD and William Hill. We work with our clients to identify where they believe the opportunities and challenges are in their business and then turn these into opportunities for improvement and innovation.

Ready to apply to Growth Labs?

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