• About.com features HelloWallet.

• Newfination hosts Coverhound CEO Basil Enan who talks about its online insurance service.

• ProgrammableWeb interviews Michael Sconfield, Developer Evangelist of Dwolla API.

• Caribbean360 reports that the Inter-American Development Bank is testing Entrepreneurial Finance Lab's psychometric method of testing creditworthiness.

• Fort Mill Times takes a look at TipRanks. See them demo at FinovateSpring in San Francisco.

• Bazaarvoice appoints former Convio Inc. CEO Gene Austin as president.

• PayMobl reviews Pageonce mobile bill payment app.

• Innovation Agency launches new features for Innovation Café to make it easier to manage and keep users up to date

• Realty Mogul wins top honors at Founder Showcase pitch competition.

This quarter, both January and Feburary funding exceeded $50 million. Most of February's funding can be attributed to On Deck Capital's $42 million round.

Over three months, 15 companies raised more than $155 million, This is very similar to last year's first quarter funding* when we saw a total of 11 companies raise more than $150 million.

Here's the Q1 summary for 2013:

• Azimo: $480,000 -- blog post
• BillFloat: $21 million -- blog post
• Clover: $3 million -- blog post
• PayNearMe: $10 million -- blog post
• Prosper: $20 million-- blog post
• True Office: $3 million -- blog post

• Affinity Solutions: $6.75 million -- blog post
• CoverHound: $5.5 million -- blog post
• DeviceFidelity: $1 million debt financing -- blog post
• On Deck Capital: $42 million -- blog post
• Tuition.io: $1 million -- blog post

• DeviceFidelity: $470,000 -- blog post
• SoMoLend: $2 million -- blog post
• Q2ebanking: $20 million -- blog post
• Wealthfront (formerly KaChing): $20 million -- blog post

In addition, the San Francisco-based startup announced that Source Interlink Media, along with returning investor Blumberg Capital, has made a strategic financial investment in CoverHound.

To learn more about CoverHound, watch its FinovateSpring 2012 demo.

• Two Guys and Your Money podcast features Planwise.

• Business Insider reviews BillGuard.

• University FCU & Bank of Lake Mills deploy the Mortgagebot front-end POS automation.

• Geezeo adds 4 credit unions.

• 2 Minute Finance receives a demo of CoverHound's technology at FinovateSpring.

• Wipit and Punchcard form partnership.

• Tradeshift to Offer Taulia's Dynamic Discounting.

• Startup Beat interviews CoverHound CEO, Basil Enan.

• Acculynk and National Payments Corporation of India Announce Internet PIN Debit Partnership.

• miiCard Launches Twitter Trust Campaign By Verifying Real Identities.

• PaySimple Named Red Herring Americas Top 100 Winner.

• Financial Post discusses Kashoo's mobile distribution strategy.

• High Beam Research reports on DoughMain's financial education pointers.

• TechCrunch reports BOKU Scales Up, Will Power Carrier Billing For In-App Payments In The T-Mobile Mall.

• CU Times reports MoneyDesktop Adds 17 Credit Unions as PFM Users.

• Check Point Introduces New Security Acceleration Module with Advanced SecurityCore Technology for High Performance in Low Latency Environments.

• CNN Money Launches New Investing Home Page with StockTwits Trending Tickers.

• Advocate's Studio recommends Enloop for when you need a fast business plan.

• Bill.com integrates with NetSuite to deliver seamless, cloud-based financial management.

• Inc.well interviews Candace Klein, CEO of SoMoLend, about crowdfunding.

• Virtual Piggy partners with World Industries.

• Wonga launches in South Africa.

• American Banker considers if Dwolla is a threat or opportunity for banks.

• Soshable covers Klarna, CoverHound, Giftly, ZipZap, BillGuard, Dwolla and Virtual Piggy.

• The Next Web takes a closer look at the tech that powers LearnVest.

• BCSG partners with Sage to offer MyBusinessWorks customers the bookkeeping application Sage One Accounts.

• ValidSoft announces partnership with Spindle to provide advanced payments security solutions to US-based customers.

• Fast Company names Laura Mather, Founder and Chief Visionary of Silver Tail Systems, as one of the Most Creative People in Business.

More than 60 leading fintech innovators, both startups and established companies, are gearing up to present at the annual FinovateSpring conference in San Francisco May 8 and 9.

Each company provided a sneak peek of what they'll demo on stage next month. Below is the first installment of these teasers. We'll have more next week.

Don't miss your chance to see the live demo from each company and meet the execs responsible. Get your FinovateSpring ticket here.

Balance Street

The premier direct marketplace between consumers and creditors for the purpose of debt settlement, Balance Street, provides consumers the opportunity to relieve their debt burden without fees. Consumers use its web-based automated system to negotiate with creditors directly, avoiding debt settlement companies who charge exorbitant fees (up to 20% of total debt owed).

Eliminating this 20% market inefficiency makes for a better financial outcome for consumers and creditors. With over $780 billion in credit card debt in the U.S., the Balance Street technology will revolutionize the way debt is settled.

Innovation type: Cards, marketing, PFM

Bazaarvoice

See how leading brands are harnessing the power of online word-of-mouth to boost customer referrals, sales, retention, advocacy, and company innovation while building the world's most powerful social data asset.

Innovation type: Communications, marketing, sales and customer service

BehavioSec

No one wants a complicated process for logging in to online or mobile banking. European banks have been forced to go down this route with hardware tokens and smart cards.

So now when U.S. banks will be rolling out new multi-layered security on the front-end following FFIEC, will we see the same thing here?

With BehavioSec's solution there is a better choice. They add multilayered security through the use of behavioral biometrics. So when the user connects via mobile or online, the technology helps verify that they are who they say they are. Learn more at FinovateSpring 2012.

Innovation type: Identity, mobile, security

BillGuard

BillGuard identifies deceptive, erroneous and unauthorized charges on consumer payment cards using advanced crowdsourcing and big-data mining techniques that harness the collective knowledge of millions of consumers reporting billing complaints online and to their banks. 

• Fiserv wins Celent's XCelent Award for enterprise-wide compliance solutions.

• USA Today Money columnist recommends TradeKing & Zecco as platforms for investing in stock.

• The Mortgage Professor takes a look at Credit Sesame.

• Productive Web Apps features CoverHound.

• The Seattle Times discusses the benefits of BillGuard.

• Army Times covers SaveUp.

• Braintree's payment gateway available for Magneto users.

• Prosper adds 13 new loan categories for borrowers.