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By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: DRAFT, Fiserv, Flint Mobile, LearnVest, Lending Club, Loop, Market Prophit, MaxMyInterest, planwise, QuantConnect, Ripple, Token, Tradier, TransferWise, Trulioo, WePay, Zopa

On Finovate.com

  • Finovate Debuts: Token Creates a Secure Payment Ecosystem

Around the web

  • PYMNTS chats with Ripple Labs CEO Chris Larsen, co-founder.
  • Forbes lists Transferwise as 1 of 3 fintech startups you should know.
  • Inc. names Planwise, Trulioo, WePay, Flint in its look at the evolution of fintech.
  • After launching with Tradier, QuantConnect saw a 300% jump in user-engagement signals, including traffic, coding and backtesting.
  • Fiserv expands card-production capabilities to speed EMV chip-card migration.
  • TechCrunch column on fintech startups features Lending Club and LearnVest.
  • PYMNTS.com quotes LoopPay CEO Will Graylin in a discussion of how Apple, Google, and Samsung “pitch payments.”
  • Market Prophit adds Nasdaq Last Sale real-time data to its analytics platform.
  • Queens Gazette columnist calls MaxMyInterest “a way to get back at the banking industry for their pitifully low interest rates on savings.”
  • The Financial Times’ review of P2P lending for business and consumers features Zopa.
  • Ernst & Young name TransferWise co-founders Taavet Hinrikus and Kristo Käärmann “Entrepreneurs of the Year” for 2015.
  • Great Friday reading material! Draft co-founder Brad Lawler describes how he was inspired by Finovate.

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.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Banno, blooom, Business Centric Services Groups, CrowdFlower, D3 Banking, EZBOB, FutureAdvisor, Geezeo, Intuit, Meniga, Mint.com, MX, Nomis Solutions, Ping Identity, ProfitStars, Ripple, Strands, Temenos, TipRanks, ValidSoft, Yodlee

On Finovate.com

  • TipRanks Takes Top Prize at IBM Watson Hackathon in Israel

Around the web

  • Greg Smith and Chris Costello of Blooom discuss simplifying 401(k) management with Fox Business News.
  • Nilesh Dusane, Ripple Labs VP for global sales and client relations, talks about distributed ledgers and the future of payments.
  • EZBOB announces Everline as the sole channel for intermediary businesses.
  • Nomis Solutions teams up with Oliver Wyman to help FIs boost profitability in their retail deposit portfolios.
  • Temenos opens new office in Helsinki, Finland.
  • The Financial Brand highlights the need for banks to compete with Mint, MX, D3, Yodlee, Meniga, Geezeo, and Strands.
  • Investopedia features FutureAdvisor’s use for college savings.
  • Ping Identity enhances partner program with new options, benefits and requirements for partners in three programs.
  • BCSG appoints Deutsche Telekom’s Simon Lunn as COO.
  • Strategic News Service FiRe tech conference names ValidSoft a 2015 FiReStarter Company.
  • ProfitStars Banno Mobile named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: North American Mobile Banking Software Solutions 2015 Vendor Assessment.
  • Huffington Post considers advice from Scott Cook, Intuit co-founder.
  • Remember, the application deadline for the Fall 2015 cohort for the SixThirty accelerator is Friday, 10 July 2015.

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.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Acculynk, BBVA, BehavioSec, Betterment, BrightScope, CashSentinel, Heckyl Technologies, Hedgeable, Ixaris, Lending Club, LendUp, Moven, On Deck Capital, Pindrop Security, Ripple, Top Image Systems, TSYS, Vanguard, VISA, Wealthfront, Zenmonics

On Finovate.com

  • “Finovate Debuts: TrueAccord Provides Kinder, Gentler Automated Debt Collection”
  • “HedgeCoVest Adds Two New Models to its Platform”
  • “CashSentinel Closes Seed Round of Undisclosed Amount”

Around the web

  • Dunkin’ Donuts, Fandango, Sundance Catalog and Williams-Sonoma now accept Visa Checkout.
  • Moven updates Android mobile app.
  • The Fintech blog features Q&A with LendUp CEO Sasha Orloff.
  • Bank Innovation profiles Hedgeable and its “one simple trick.”
  • Westpac Banking Corporation and New Zealand Banking Group are testing Ripple for payment transfers between subsidiaries.
  • Ixaris announces €4m Open Payments Ecosystem (OPE) project to support developers building payment apps.
  • TSYS to support Apple Pay when it launches in the U.K. in July.
  • Omnichannel account-opening solution from Zenmonics goes live at BBVA.
  • Austin Energy to adopt PaySecure platform from Acculynk.
  • Investopedia column on the “Top 5 Myths of Robo-Advisors” features Betterment, Wealthfront, and Vanguard.
  • BrightScope launches Fund Pages to provide detailed information about open-ended mutual funds.
  • Sam’s Club using Lending Club to offer financing to SMB customers.
  • FitSmallBusiness.com names OnDeck best provider of small business loans.
  • SunGard terminal selects Heckyl news and sentiment analysis.
  • Pindrop Security granted patent for phone antifraud and authentication technology.
  • Top Image Systems taps Bob Fresnel as new TIS Americas President.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Avoka, Gold Bullion International, Guide Financial, Jack Henry, Kantox, Lending Club, Misys, PayPal, Ripple, Silanis Technology, Taulia, True Potential

On Finovate.com

  • Kantox Picks Up $11 Million in Series B, Doubling Total Capital
  • Guide Financial Acquired by John Hancock Financial

Around the Web

  • Misys unveils its in-memory analytics engine, FusionBanking Insight.
  • True Potential launches its Apple Watch app.
  • Commonwealth Bank of Australia begins testing Ripple as intra-bank transfer solution.
  • Michigan-based Isabella Bank to deploy workflow suite from Jack Henry & Associates.
  • Lending Club CEO talks about the brand-building benefits of going public.
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory partners with eSignLive from Silanis Technology for end-to-end digital e-contracting.
  • Bankless Times features Avoka and its friction-minimizing, customer-onboarding technology.
  • PayPal to provide Touch ID support for its iOS app.
  • Gold Bullion International announces expansion into Asia.
  • eBay partners with Taulia to launch Preferred Supplier Program.

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.

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$680 Million Raised by 29 Alums in Q1 2015

$680 Million Raised by 29 Alums in Q1 2015
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Advanced Merchant Payments, AdviceGames, Aire, App Annie, Ayasdi, Betterment, Bill.com, BlueVine, Bolstr, Coinbase, CoverHound, Finsphere, Funding, Fundings, Global Debt Registry, Kofax, LendingRobot, Lendio, Linkable Networks, Micronotes, Motif Investing, peerTransfer, Pindrop Security, Q2, Ripple, SimplyTapp, Spreedly, Taulia, TransferWise, TrueLink Financial, Xero

cartoonmoneystackThe biggest surprise in our look at first-quarter funding is that the $677 million amassed by 29 Finovate alums was more than 20% of the $3.2 billion invested in the entire worldwide fintech sector.

The $677 million raised was $85 million (+14%) above the same quarter a year ago, and more than triple the first quarter of 2013.

Q1 2015 was also $133 million above the $544 million mark set in the fourth quarter of 2014.

It will be worth watching to see if this record-setting first quarter for Finovate alum fundraising will be a sign of more great things to come for capital-raising in 2015.

Top 10 Overall Investments

  1. Xero: $111 million in February
  2. Coinbase: $75 million in January
  3. Betterment: $60 million in February
  4. TransferWise: $58 million in January
  5. App Annie: $55 million in January
  6. Ayasdi: $55 million in March
  7. Motif Investing: $40 million in January
  8. Ripple Labs: $30 million in January
  9. Bill.com: $50 million in February
  10. Pindrop Security: $35 in February

Previous Quarterly Comparisons

  • Q1 2015: More than $676 million raised by 29 alums
  • Q4 2014: More than $544 million raised by 25 alums
  • Q1 2014: More than $600 million raised by 8 alums
  • Q1 2013: More than $155 million raised by 14 alums

January: More than $275 million raised by 14 alums

February: More than $264 million raised by 8 alums

March: More than $136 million raised by 7 alums

If you are an alum that raised money in the first quarter of 2015, and do not see your company listed, please drop us a note at research@finovate.com. We would love to share the good news! Funding received prior to becoming an alum not included.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Avoka, BancVue, CashStar, DRAFT, EyeVerify, Fidor Bank, Fuze Network, ID.me, Jwaala, Klarna, Larky, MiiCard, Motif Investing, P2BInvestor, Patch of Land, Prosper, Ripple, Roostify, SocietyOne, Trizic, WattzOn

On Finovate.com

  • DRAFT, Fidor US, Roostify to Present Solutions at Yodlee Ynext Incubator
  • $680 Million Raised by 29 Alums in Q1 2015

Around the web

  • BizJournals lists BancVue as one of Austin’s Best Places to Work in 2015.
  • American Banker interviews James Varga, CEO of miiCard, on sharing identity information.
  • Motif adds new trading alerts.
  • P2Binvestor selected as new network company by Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network Colorado (BENCO).
  • MaineBiz takes a look at CashStar and its new offices in downtown Portland.
  • Mountain America rolls out its new biometrics login technology courtesy of EyeVerify.
  • Fuze Networks acquires LiveMinutes’ online workspace platform.
  • Jwaalla celebrates signing its 100th credit union client, Palisades FCU.
  • Business Insider looks at how Klarna and its one-click payment technology could help save the newspaper business.
  • Reid Hislop tapped as new chief marketing officer at Avoka.
  • Inc. Magazine features ID.me CEO Blake Hall in a column on veteran entrepreneurs.
  • Equities.com talks crowdfunding and real estate with Jason Fritton, Patch of Land CEO.
  • Financial News interviews Ripple CEO, Chris Larsen on the future of the financial infrastructure.
  • SocietyOne has originated more than $30 million on its platform since launching in 2011.
  • Prosper announces record first quarter, with $595 million in loans through the platform, up 200% from Q1 2014.
  • WattzOn to help Montana residents save on energy expenses via the Bozeman Energy Smackdown.
  • Larky selected by the Kentucky Bankers Association to provide mobile local rewards program for member banks.

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Ripple Labs Reels in $28 Million, Eyes Asia Expansion

Ripple Labs Reels in $28 Million, Eyes Asia Expansion
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Funding, Ripple

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Back in January, we speculated about a funding round for Ripple Labs. Today, the organization behind the Ripple Protocol officially announced it closed the venture round, which totals $28 million. Added to the three rounds the company received in 2013, the San Francisco-based company’s total funding stands at $37 million.

Major investors in the new round include:

  • IDG Capital Partners
  • Venture arm of CME Group
  • Seagate Technology
  • AME Cloud Ventures
  • ChinaRock Capital Management
  • China Growth Capital
  • Wicklow Capital

This global mix of venture capital and strategic investors aligns with Ripple’s focus on banking in tandem with worldwide corporate treasury use-cases. Dave Morton, senior VP, finance and treasury at Seagate Technology says, “With its real-time settlement capabilities, we recognize the opportunity for Ripple to reduce money-transfer costs, create transparency, and increase working capital in corporate treasury use-cases.”

Larsen plans to use the funds to expand into Asia and facilitate customer onboarding by supporting more access to liquidity in the Ripple system. Also supporting the Asia expansion effort, IDG Capital partner’s Li Feng will join Ripple Labs’ board of directors. Feng was an early investor in Baidu, Tencent, Xiaomi and CreditEase.

According to Chris Larsen, CEO and co-founder of Ripple:

Our mission is to modernize decades-old payments infrastructure with IP-based technology so value moves around the world as freely, easily, securely and transparently as information on the web today. Financial institutions, market makers and corporations are laying the foundation for this internet of value, contributing and providing liquidity for global payments. With investors like CME Group and Seagate joining the fold, we’re well positioned to accelerate adoption amongst these key customers.

Ripple seeks to create another set of rails for international money-transfer by functioning as a distributed-payments technology that connects the world’s disparate financial networks to securely transfer funds in any currency in real time.

Ripple Labs debuted as OpenCoin at FinovateSpring 2013.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Avoka, Bill.com, BillGuard, Cloud Lending, Coinbase, Credit Karma, Credit Sesame, D3 Banking, INETCO Systems, Intuit, Jumio, Kabbage, Kony Solutions, Kreditech, MasterCard, On Deck Capital, PayItSimple, PayPal, planwise, Prosper, Ripple, TransferWise, Trulioo, ValidSoft, Venmo, WePay, Zopa

On Finovate.com

  • PayItSimple Pulls in $10 Million Line of Credit
  • Ripple Labs Reels in $28 Million, Eyes Asia Expansion
  • P2P Lending Meets High Street Banking as Metro Bank Partners to Lend via Zopa
  • Credit Sesame Raises $16 Million in New Funding
  • Planwise Raises $750,000, Nearly Doubling Total Capital

Around the web

  • Fox Small Business News names 11 Finovate alums in list of Hot Fintech Startups to watch.
  • Edenred México S.A. incorporates INETCO’s Insight software platform.
  • D3 Banking taps Jeffrey Walker as chief information security officer.
  • MasterCard launches P2P payments service, MasterCard Send, to help businesses reimburse rebate consumers without checks.
  • nTrust to deploy ID verification technology from Trulioo.
  • North American Savings Bank (NASB) partners with ACI Worldwide for online, mobile banking and billpay.
  • Avoka, Bill.com, BillGuard, CoinBase, Credit Karma, Jumio, Kabbage, Kreditech, OnDeck, Prosper, TransferWise, Trulioo, Venmo and WePay earn spots on Inc.com’s “20 Financial Technology Startups You Need to Know.”
  • ImageWare selects ValidSoft’s voice biometrics solution.
  • Kony teams with Citrix, to offer customers a mobile app solution from mobile design and development to enterprise mobility operations.
  • Altifi.com features Cloud Lending Solutions’ Cloud Lending Exchange.
  • ZD net: Intuit tightens PayPal integration with data synchronization app.

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.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Asseco, BizEquity, CashStar, Digital Insight, Dwolla, FinanceIt, FIS, Lending Club, LendKey, Nomis Solutions, Ripple, Trizic, Wallaby Financial, Xero, Zopa

On Finovate.com

Around the web

  • Wallaby Financial partners with NXT-ID to bring Wocket Smart Wallet to Wallaby customers.
  • Asseco SEE teams up with UniCredit CEE to launch its fully native new generation tablet banking solution in six Eastern European countries.
  • Nomis Solutions taps Michael DeGusta as vice president and chief architect.
  • Service Credit Union offers mobile banking services with Touch ID, courtesy of pilot program run by Digital Insight.
  • Financeit partners with eOriginal Inc., bringing eSignature technology to Financeit customers.
  • Studio Movie Grill launches digital gift cards powered by CashStar.
  • Banking Exchange column on real-time payments in the U.S. features FIS, Dwolla, and Ripple.
  • Zopa to help provide financing for Uber drivers looking to buy their cars, rather than rent them.
  • American Banker features LendKey. Check them out at FinovateSpring next week in San Jose.
  • American Banker reports that partnerships fuel Lending Club’s unexpectedly fast growth.
  • BizEquity launches new ‘Adviser Office’ service.
  • Pepperi partners with Xero to extend cloud accounting with mobile sales automation.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Coinbase, Currency Cloud, Encap, Green Dot, InComm, IP Commerce, MX, Open Bank Project, PayPal, Ripple, Stratos, Temenos, Top Image Systems

On Finovate.com

  • MX Raises $30 Million in Series A Investment

Around the web

  • Encap Security to support Samsung fingerprint scanner as part of version 3.0 of its Smarter Authentication technology. See Encap at FinovateSpring 2015 next month in San Jose.
  • Dutch banking group ABN AMRO to deploy wealth-management solution, WealthSuite, from Temenos.
  • Top Image Systems wins recognition at 2015 IT Innovation Awards (IT Innovationspreis) for MobiPAY.
  • PayPal partners with Tillster, an online ordering platform.
  • Green Dot names MasterCard its exclusive transaction processor and network gateway.
  • American Banker: New Moves by Coinbase, Ripple Advance Digital Money Tech.
  • Currency Cloud appoints former Deutsche Bank CIO, Mitchel Lenson, as a non-executive director.
  • IP Commerce launches new version of Commerce Sync to automatically transfer sales info from a POS system or e-commerce solution into accounting software on a daily basis.
  • InComm partners with Russian internet giant Mail.Ru Group.
  • Stratos now shipping its all-in-one smart credit card. Come see Stratos at FinovateSpring in San Jose.
  • Open Source Project.com features Open Bank Project.

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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Advanced Merchant Payments, Coinbase, Currency Cloud, Digital Insight, Expensify, Fiserv, MasterCard, Ripple, SocietyOne

On Finovate.com

Around the web

  • Digital Insight to provide Touch ID functionality in mobile banking apps.
  • Coinbase unveils its bitcoin exchange and wallet service in the U.K.
  • The Currency Cloud appoints former Deutsche Bank CIO, Mitchel Lenson, to non-executive director.
  • Green Dot Bank chooses MasterCard as its transaction processor and network gateway.
  • Columbia Bank picks Fiserv DNA for its account-processing platform.
  • The Finanser interviews CEO and co-founder of Ripple Labs, Chris Larsen.
  • AMP Credit Tech launches Amplifi Capital to directly finance unsecured loans to under-served small businesses in the U.K.
  • Expensify debuts new automatic statement-reporting feature.
  • ComputerWorld: SocietyOne makes case for peer-to-peer lending.

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Ripple Labs Taps Former Yahoo Executive Brad Garlinghouse as New COO

Ripple Labs Taps Former Yahoo Executive Brad Garlinghouse as New COO
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Ripple

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The latest news in digital currencies is a major personnel pickup for Ripple Labs. Brad Garlinghouse, a former executive at both Yahoo! and AOL, will join Ripple Labs as its new COO.

Ripple Labs CEO and co-founder Chris Larsen said Garlinghouse will help the company as it transitions “from building a strong pipeline to execution and exceptional growth.” Garlinghouse was president of applications and commerce at AOL, and spent six years at Yahoo! He was also CEO of Hightail (formerly YouSendIt), and sits on the board of Ancestry.com.

BGarlinghouse_RippleLabs_cropGarlinghouse (pictured) echoes one of Larsen’s favorite themes—the “Internet of Value”—in talking about Ripple’s unique contribution to financial technology. “The opportunity to define the actual framework for the Internet of Value is an order of magnitude bigger than anything else underway in payments today,” he said.

Ripple Labs developed and supports Ripple, a settlement protocol that enables financial networks to securely transfer funds in any currency in real-time. The technology has been integrated and deployed by financial institutions like Fidor Bank AG, currency-exchange businesses like Saldo.mx, and market makers like GSR Markets.

For more on Larsen and the Internet of Value, check out our review of his presentation at the Bank Innovation Conference earlier this year.

Ripple recently made headlines with news of a $30 million investment that put the company’s valuation at more than $100 million. The company opened up its developer portal in March, and lent its technology to the new accelerator for digital currencies launched by CrossCoin Ventures.

Ripple Labs made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2013 (as OpenCoin). The company was founded in September 2012, and is headquartered in San Francisco.

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