After looking at more than 100 companies, we’ve selected 24 finalists to present at our second annual Finovate Conference Oct. 14 in New York City (registration here). Three will emerge as Finovate Best of Show companies joining last year’s winners: Mint,Mortgage Marvel from Mortgagebot, and Prosper (note 1).
In a single action-packed day, we’ll see several financial startups launch, a few major product overhauls revealed, and a pile of new features shown to the public for the first time. It could be the single biggest “news day” in the history of online finance. Besides the amazing presenter lineup, the audience will contain many well-known industry analysts, members of the press, and banking and technology execs. Here are the subjects that will be covered:
- Person-to-person lending
- Lead generation in financial services
- Personal financial management and online banking
- Mobile banking and payments
- Payments/billing
- Investing and retirement planning online
- Security technologies
- Social media and Web 2.0
Finovate 2008 Lineup (alphabetic order, note 2)
Below is a list of all 24 companies. In all, seven of the companies presented at our sold-out Finovate 2007; three are graduates from Finovate Startup last April; and 14 are new to Finovate. But all 24 will be demonstrating substantial new products and/or features.
- BillShrink <billshrink.com>
- Boulevard R <boulevardR.com>
- CheckFree <checkfree.com>
- Check Point Software<checkpoint.com>
- Credit Karma <creditkarma.com>
- Digital Insight (Intuit) <digitalinsight.com>
- FiLife (Dow Jones/IAC) <filife.com>
- mFoundry <mfoundry.com>
- Mint <mint.com>
- MoneyAisle (NeoSaej) <moneyaisle.com>
- mShift <mshift.com>
- Inner8 <inner8.com>
- Lending Club <lendingclub.com>
- Pertuity Direct <pertuitydirect.com>
- Quicken Online (Intuit) <quicken.com>
- SmartHippo <smarthippo.com>
- Sybase 365 <sybase.com/365>
- Vidoop <vidoop.com>
- Wesabe <wesabe.com>
- WeSeed <weseed.com>
- Yodlee <yodlee.com>
Companies announced Sept. 16 and Sept. 23, 2008:
- Galaxy (Fiserv) <galaxyplus.com>
- Rate Surfer (My Best Interest) <ratesurfer.com>
- Thrive <justthrive.com>
About Finovate 2008
- Date: Oct. 14, 2008
- Place: New York, NY (Crowne Plaza Times Square)
- Cost: $995 through Sep. 30
- Agenda: 12 demos in the morning (7 minutes each, NO POWERPOINT),
12 in the afternoon; each session followed by two hours of networking to meet with presenters for one-on-one discussions - Producer: Online Financial Innovations, publisher of Online Banking Report and Netbanker
- Website: finovate.com
- For videos of the sold-out Finovate 2007, click here
Press: Members of the media should contact Jim Bruene, jim@netbanker.com to secure a press pass.
Note:
1. Winners are selected by audience vote.
2. The list does not include two stealth startups and one company to be named later.