Quick Bridge Funding, a privately-held, Inc. 500 financial services firm, announced it has been named a leader and winner in the 2016 BIG Innovation Awards presented by the Business Intelligence Group based on internally building its new innovative, scalable enterprise financial platform.

Through a trusted network of professional sales partners, Quick Bridge provides short-term working capital loans for small to mid-sized businesses nationwide. It demonstrated innovation in its development and implementation of its new platform that uses technology to improve operations, enhance customer interactions, enter new markets and build overall ROI. The platform provides transparent and real-time access to sales partners, brokers, banks, and other third parties via a robust set of APIs and web portals which allow all to connect seamlessly within the system. Quick Bridge used a video to demonstrate to the judges its capability to process a deal from submission to funding in just seven minutes.

“The BIG Innovation Award showcases our proprietary technology,” said President Ben Gold. “The data-driven platform specifically focuses on user experience for both our broker partners and the business end-user.”

Quick Bridge Funding Senior Vice President and CIO, Hamlet Khodaverdian, said, “Our proprietary technology platform combines the tactical acuity of computers with strategic human insight and guidance. Internally, we consider it an intelligence platform which is learning all the time and complementing our employees’ knowledge. The platform extends into every department within the company and provides a robust set of services and APIs to external partners and business end-users.”

“It was clear from our judges that Quick Bridge was clearly deserving of being recognized as a leader in innovation. We are proud to award them the 2016 BIG Innovation Award,” said Russ Fordyce, managing director of the Business Intelligence Group. “This is well-deserved recognition of your pursuit of excellence and creativity in solving problems.”

Organizations from across the globe submitted their innovations for consideration in the BIG Innovation Awards. Nominations were judged by a select group of business leaders who volunteer their time and expertise to score submissions and provide feedback.

This is Quick Bridge Funding’s second award for its new platform. It was a winner of the 2015 Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA) 2015 Operations and Technology Excellence Award.