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 CNBC covers how SecondMarket is looking to move from trading Facebook to Pinterest.
- TechCrunch reports Boku launched billing partnership with Sprint, giving it partnerships with all 4 major U.S. carriers.
- Meniga's PFM solution powers Sweden's first Smartbank, launched by Skandia.
- SecureKey adds 40 staff in past six months, reaches business and recognition milestones.
- Lendio sees nearly 500% increase in matching businesses with small business loans.
- Check Point launches free ZoneAlarm anti-virus/firewall combo.
- Forbes features article by Mike Alfred, CEO of BrightScope, discussing the differing opinions he, Personal Capital and FutureAdvisor have on the role of financial advisors.
- Fiserv to offer global ACH payments through partnership with Earthport.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.
- Finovate Alums take the stage at the Future of Money Conference 2012.
- Netbanker: Pageonce Removes Billpay Subscription Fee in Favor of Per-Transaction Pricing.
- Hypebot.com followed Personal Capital, Intuit, Boku, Tradeshift, and CashStar at the Future of Money Conference.
- Backbase & GFT sign European partnership agreement.
- State of Washington picks Doxo for paperless files.
- BehavioSec chosen as one of the "Cool Vendors" in Identity Access Management, 2012 report by Gartner.
- Alpena Alcona Area CU selects MoneyDesktop's PFM to offer members a better online banking experience.
- Northwoods CU signs onto Cachet Financial Services' mobile remote deposit capture.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.
Since we are nearing the end of the first quarter, we wanted to look back at all of the Finovate alums who have raised funding over the past few months. Here's the month-by-month breakdown: January -- $25 million raised by 3 companies February -- $57 million raised by 5 companies March -- $68 million raised by 3 companies Note: Funding that companies received before they demonstrated at Finovate was not counted. If you see any funding that is not on this list, please send the name of the company along with a link to the funding information to julie@netbanker.com and I will add it.
- The Independent recommends using Zopa to boost your pension.
- Creditnet examines how BillGuard can fight unwanted credit card charges.
- TechCocktail interviews Ben Milne, Dwolla CEO, at SXSW 2012.
- All Things D looks at SecondMarket CEO's answer to why it wasn't part of the SEC's secondary market ruling.
- Forbes looks at MasterCard's partnership with BOKU.
- Channel Partners turns to Expensify to lower expense-reporting costs.
- SecureKey Technologies and INSIDE Secure bring POS convenience to online merchants.
- Plastyc launches more robust mobile app to empower users who own a smartphone.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You
 Mobile payments company BOKU announced yesterday that it has landed $35 million in funding: "Investors include New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Telefonica Digital, the growth arm of the global telecoms leader, as well as previous investors. Additional participants in the round include Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures."
The California-based company plans to use the funding to hire more employees, continue its global expansion, and broaden its infrastructure. This new round brings the company's total funding to $75 million. To learn more about BOKU, watch its FinovateEurope 2011 demo.
- Netbanker reports: Prosper markets to small businesses.
- InComm patents "Value Insert" solution for more effective RFID card products and services.
- Business Insider rumors that Ashton Kutcher, an Iowa native, participated in Dwolla's recent round of funding.
- BOKU announces another partnership: teams with Vindicia for mobile carrier billing.
- TechCrunch lists Holvi as 1 of 5 startups to watch from Seedcamp's demo day.
- Confident Technologies joins McAfee security innovation alliance.
- miiCard shares its incentive for predictions from the FinovateEurope audience of the top 2012 trends.
- SigFig wins windows 8 First Apps contest.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You
Last week, online mobile payments company BOKU announced that it is working with MasterCard to launch BOKU Accounts, a mobile payments platform:
"The BOKU Accounts platform allows MNOs to issue their subscribers an MNO-branded mobile payment account accessible via both mobile device and the Web. The account allows subscribers to make payments online, in-app, and in-store. In-store purchases via BOKU accounts will be enabled anywhere MasterCard is accepted."
 Through BOKU Accounts, users will be able to access deals and rewards (pictured right), and will be provided an enhanced view of their spending.
- SimpleTuition wins the BostInno Insider Award for best higher education blog in Boston.
- TechCrunch reports TradeShift launches instant payment solution.
- Boston Business Journal covers Cartera Commerce card-linked offers.
- Cartera Commerce Card-Linked advertising network generates over $1 bil in merchant sales in 2011, more than previous 4 years combined.
- Tech.li looks at how Expensify takes control of expense reports with less "suck."
- InvestorBee launches Compare Investments tool.
- BOKU works with MasterCard to launch mobile payment platform.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You
- Lodo chosen by 120 banks and CUs.
- Betterment lowers fees, introduces new features.
- WorldPay offers BOKU as mobile payment method to its merchant network.
- Insurance Journal features Mitek's Mobile Photo Quoting app for insurance.
- Credit Sesame launches mortgage comparison tool.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You
- Maine Public Broadcasting Network profiles CashStar.
- Bank Technology News describes how Bill.com uses capital infusion to build a cash flow dashboard for businesses.
- SecondMarket's homepage gets a makeover.
- The CBS Early Show features Weemba, Lighter Capital, and Rebirth Financial.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.
Earlier this week, Forbes published a list of America's 100 most promising private companies. The rankings are based on annual revenue, number of employees, company strengths, partnerships, and a number of other qualifications. Three Finovate alumni made it onto the list, all the top 20: Category: Mobile payments platform Founded: 2009 Funding: $38 million Headquarters: San Francisco
- MasterCard and mFoundry executives discuss partnership.
- The Silicon Prairie names Dwolla number 1 startup in DesMoines, looks for a number 2 startup following the "Dwolla-trajectory."
- Simple is slowly sending out a few dozen invites at a time.
- Prosper announces its support of UK P2P Finance Association.
- The Social Lending Network shows off Lending Club's Trading Platform.
- Bloomberg Businessweek lists Expensify as an app that lets you work like an executive.
- peerTransfer partners with Nelnet Business Solutions, provider of campus commerce services.
- Boku, SecondMarket, & Lending Club listed in Forbes Top 20 Private Companies.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.
Each month we survey the Web-traffic performance of Finovate alums using data from Web-analytics company Compete.
Out of 268 alumni, 80 had more than 10,000 unique U.S. visitors in September 2011 and are included in the tables below. Of those, 33 (41%) had more visitors in September than August. Year-over-year, 42 (52%) had traffic increases.
Private Companies
- Seeking Alpha and Cortera had the highest traffic in September with 2.1 and 2.0 million unique visitors, respectively. Cortera also had the highest increase in number of unique year-over-year visits with over 1.5 more visits in 2011 than in 2010.
- Kabbage had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, up 280x.
- Weemba saw the highest monthly growth percentage with more than 7.5 times the number of unique visitors in September compared to August.
- SmartCredit.com had the highest increase in number of unique year-over-year visitors, growing by 126,000.
 Source: Compete.com retrieved the week of October 26, 2011
1) The previous month recorded was August 2011 2) Sears Credit Score is powered by CreditKarma.com 3) Truaxis was formerly BillShrink 4) Kasasa is powered by BancVue
Public companies
- CheckFree had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, with over 7 times the number of visitors this year than last year.
- Intuit had a notable increase in number of unique, year-over-year visitors, increasing by 300,000 visits.
- Check Point had the highest month-over-month percent growth, with 41% more visitors in September than in August.
 Source: Compete.com retrieved the week of October 26, 2011
1) The previous month recorded was July 2011. _______________________________________________________ Notes: 1. We reviewed 268 Finovate alumni. Only those with at least 10,000 unique visitors in July are listed. 3. NM = not measurable 4. t= tie 5. Compete estimates online visitors based on the activity of a panel of more than 2 million U.S. Internet users. It is only an estimate of traffic and may undercount at-work usage.
Each month we survey the Web-traffic performance of Finovate alums using data from Web-analytics company Compete.
Out of 268 alumni, 75 had more than 10,000 unique U.S. visitors in August 2011 and are included in the tables below. Of those, 41 (55%) had more visitors in August than July. Year-over-year, 45 (60%) had traffic increases.
Private Companies
- Seeking Alpha -- the most-trafficked in August with 2.5 million unique visitors -- also had the highest increase in number of unique month-over-month visits with 300,000 more visits in August than in July.
- Budgettracker.com saw the highest monthly growth percentage with more than 6.5 times the number of unique visitors in August compared to July.
- Betterment had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, up 88x.
- Cortera had the highest number of unique year-over-year visitors, growing by 1.5 million.
Source: Compete.com retrieved week of October 3, 2011 1) The previous month recorded was July 2011
Public Companies - Fiserv had the highest month-over-month percent growth, with 50% more visitors.
- CheckFree had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, with over 5 times the number of visitors.
- S1 also had a high percentage growth year-over-year, doubling its visitors.
Source: Compete.com retrieved the week of October 3, 2011 1) The previous month recorded was July 2011. _______________________________________________________ Notes: 1. We reviewed 268 Finovate alumni. Only those with at least 10,000 unique visitors in July are listed. 3. NM = Not measurable 4. t= Tie 5. Compete estimates online visitors based on the activity of a panel of more than 2 million U.S. Internet users. It is only an estimate of traffic and may undercount at-work usage.
Each month we survey the Web-traffic performance of Finovate alums using data from Web-analytics company Compete.
Out of 255 alumni, 59 (23%) had more than 10,000 unique U.S. visitors in July 2011 (see tables below). Of those, 19 (32%) had more visitors than in the previous month and 25 (42%) were flat. Year-over-year, 26 (44%) had an increase, 10 (17%) were flat, and 23 (39%) were down.
Private Companies Notable successes: - Seeking Alpha had the most traffic in July with more than 2 million unique visitors.
- eToro saw the highest monthly growth percentage with 3 times the number of unique visitors in July compared to June.
- Bundle had the highest increase in number of unique month-over-month visits, with 450,000 more visitors in July than in June.
- eRollover had the highest percent year-over-year traffic increase, with 260,000 more visitors from last July.
Source: Compete.com retrieved week of August 15, 2011 1. The previous month recorded was May 2011 2. Sears Credit Score is powered by CreditKarma.com 3. Kasasa is powered by BancVue
Public Companies Notable successes: - PayPal had the highest number of U.S. visitors in July, with more than 30 million visitors.
- Jack Henry & Associates saw the highest monthly growth with twice as many visitors in July than June.
- Wipro Technologies had the highest year-over-year growth, with 3 times as many visitors this year compared to last year.
- FIS Global and Online Resources also doubled their traffic compared to last year.
Source: Compete.com retrieved the week of August 15, 2011 1. The previous month recorded was May 2011. _______________________________________________________ Notes: 1. We reviewed 255 Finovate alumni. Only those with at least 10,000 unique visitors in July are listed. 3. NM = Not measurable 4. Compete estimates online visitors based on the activity of a panel of more than 2 million U.S. Internet users. It is only an estimate of traffic and may undercount at-work usage.
BOKU, a mobile payments startup, announced yesterday that it has launched direct payments agreements with two of France's largest cell phone carriers, Bouygues Telecom and SFR. Combined, these two carriers account for 32 million French customers.
"These deals give BOKU nearly 100% coverage of the French mobile market, which is nearly 50 million mobile subscribers total. Bouygues Telecom and SFR are actually launching a new service, called Internet + Mobile, allowing consumers to purchase goods online and use BOKU to pay with their mobile phone number. BOKU says the purchase process only requires two-clicks and gives online merchants access to a full range of price points of up to 10 Euros."
BOKU negotiates direct relationships with mobile carriers to mitigate transaction costs passed down to the consumer.
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