FinovateEurope 2016 / Xignite
Presenter Profile:
How they describe themselves: Named one of the 10 Coolest Brands in Banking, Xignite, Inc. provides cloud-based financial market data APIs to help emerging companies and established enterprises deliver real-time and reference market data to their digital assets, such as websites and apps. Xignite’s clients include more than 1,000 financial services, media and software companies from disruptive fintech firms, such as Betterment, FutureAdvisor, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, Robinhood, StockTwits, Wealthfront and Yodlee, to leading financial institutions, exchanges and market data vendors including, Nasdaq , and BMO.
How they describe their product/innovation: With Xignite Cloud Alerts companies can develop mobile and web fintech apps that will react to market conditions in real time, and proactively notify users when specified market conditions are met. Xignite Cloud Alerts can be set to trigger on virtually any type of market condition. For example, you can set up an alert for when AAPL reaches $120 or drops 5%, or when the PE ratio for FB reaches 100.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
Contacts:
Bus. Dev. & Press: Kerry Langstaff, CMO, klangstaff@xignite.com, +1 650 242 4466
Sales: sales@xignite.com, +1 866 965 7627, +1 650 655 3700
Website: xignite.com
Blog: resources.xignite.com/h/c/190077-xignite-blog
Twitter: @xignite
HQ: San Mateo, California, USA
Founded: 2006
Product Demoed: Xignite CloudAlerts
Product Launch: February 2016
Metrics: Xignite serves more than 55 billion API calls per month, and is among the top API providers in the world.
Presenters: Stephane Dubois (CEO & Founder), Austin Bryant (Sales Director)
- Key Executives
Stephane Dubois (CEO & Founder), Al Chang (CTO), Kerry Langstaff (CMO)
Key Stats
- Key Board Members & Investors
Altos Ventures, Startup Capital Ventures, StarVestPartners, John L. “Launny” Steffens
- Key Partnerships
#FintechRevolution API Ecosystem, an industry-wide initiative that connects fintech developers with best-of-breed financial APIs. The #FintechRevolution API Ecosystem is being spearheaded by Xignite and membership is open to financial technology vendors, data providers, service providers and accelerators. Founding members are 21 leading vendors that provide workflow, analytics and data APIs, including Yodlee, Stocktwits, Tradier and Nasdaq and fintech accelerators including Level39 and ValueStream.
- Key Customers
Xignite’s clients include more than 1,000 financial services, media and software companies from disruptive fintech firms, such as Betterment, FutureAdvisor, Motif Investing, Personal Capital, Robinhood, StockTwits, Wealthfront and Yodlee.