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Zumigo Raises $6 Million in Investment Led by Intel Capital

By David Penn Posted on August 22, 2014
Categories: Zumigo

Guess which fintech company’s just-completed, $6 million Series B round comes stamped “Intel Inside”?

On Friday, Zumigo announced an investment from Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment and M&A arm, along with participation from existing investors, including Aligned Partners. This Series B round brings Zumigo’s total funding to $7.7 million.

Zumigo’s CEO and Co-founder Chirag Bakshi says the new financing “validates our direction and success and will accelerate growth in our core business of providing mobile location and identity products to financial organizations and enterprises alike.”

In addition to growth in its core business, the company said in a statement that the funding also will help support investments in sales and marketing, as well as in new product development.

Yesterday we shared news that Zumigo will be one of three companies participating in the inaugural Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator. The Accelerator is geared toward startups that are capable of delivering solutions for FIs ranging from security and fraud to payments and operations. The six-month program includes an equity investment between $50,000 and $500,000.

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Zumigo demoed its technology at FinovateSpring 2014.

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Alumni News, 22 August 2014

By David Penn Posted on August 22, 2014
Categories: BankBazaar, BlueVine, Check Point, Continuity Control, EyeVerify, Lending Club, Zumigo

EyeVerify raises $6 million in Series A round, joins Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator.

Find out more about the innovators of FinovateFall 2014 with Part 2 of our Sneak Peek Preview series.

Continuity Control announces $10 million investment.

Zumigo earns a spot in, and an investment from, Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator.

BlueVine brings in $1.5 million in funding. Check out BlueVine’s live demo at FinovateFall.

Four notable website upgrades on Bankbazaar.com.

Houston Chronicle features Lending Club success story.

Check Point Software Technology positioned as a Leader in the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Threat Management.

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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FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 2

By David Penn Posted on August 21, 2014
Categories: Backbase, BioCatch, blooom, FinovateFall 2014, FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek, iBillionaire, Patch of Land, Settle

If you missed the first installment of our FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek series, click here for Part 1.

A few days ago we introduced you to BizEquity, Gremln, Hoyos Labs, Knox Payments, NopSec, and Rippleshot. Today we present another six companies that will be demoing on stage in New York in September.

FinovateFall 2014 is live in New York City on September 23 and 24. And with last year’s show a sell-out, we’re expecting even bigger things in 2014. So save your spot at this year’s show; click here to register today.

Backbase is a software company helping banks in the digital era.

Features:

Beautiful digital banking experience for end customers
Full control over the digital strategy by the bank
Backbase Marketplace to unite vendors and banks looking for fintech innovation

Why it’s great:

Backbase Engage helps banks regain control over their digital strategy.

Presenters:

Peter Chapman, Principal FinTech Strategist

Before joining Backbase, Chapman worked as VP emerging technologies at First Trade Union Bank. Frustrated by the lack of control of the banks to own their digital future, he joined Backbase to fix this.

Jelmer de Jong, Global Head of Marketing

De Jong focused his career on helping companies get the most out of new technologies. He has a strong focus on startups, B2B, product management and marketing.

BioCatch provides innovative online fraud-prevention solutions that dramatically reduce friction and fraud, giving customers confidence to expand their business.

Features:

The Cognitive Biometrics technology enables BioCatch to detect intruders, bots, and fraudsters.

Why it’s great:

BioCatch: Less friction. Less fraud.

Presenters:

Uri Rivner, Co-Founder and VP Business Development & Cyber Strategy

Rivner is recognized globally as an industry expert on Cybercrime and advanced threats. He is a regular speaker in the leading Security and Cyber conferences, and writes a cyber-security blog.

blooom has developed a revolutionary way to open the eyes of 401(k) investors, by outsourcing the management of their 401(k) accounts, regardless of where custodied.

Features:

We don’t use complicated charts or line graphs with a gazillion indecipherable colors
We make it easy to operate (no Ph.D in Finance required)
We rebalance the account, rather than just make recommendations

Why it’s great:

Blooom allows investors to ditch their current strategy of ignoring-it, meaning-to-get-around-to-it, and hoping-for-the-best!

Presenters:

Chris Costello, Co-Founder and Certified Financial Planner

Costello has 20 years experience and builds the model used to generate 401(k) recommendations, allowing blooom users to tap into advice traditionally only available to investors with a gazillion dollars.

Randy AufDerHeide, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

AufDerHeide handles all the fancy, schmancy IT stuff. If it involves computers, code, Internet stuff, he’s the guy. He also makes everythin
g work smoothly, helping deliver a great experience to bloom users.

iBillionaire taps into the investment strategies of Wall Street billionaires and provides unique and exclusive data on investment activity and trends.

Features:

Provides insights into billionaire investment portfolios and stock picks
Sends real-time alerts on buys, sells, and prices
Allows users to track their own portfolios and the iBillionaire Index

Why it’s great:

With iBillionaire, anyone can invest like a billionaire.

Presenters:

Raul Moreno, Co-Founder and CEO

Moreno is a serial entrepreneur with a background in finance and tech. His previous ventures include social app discovery platform, Kinetik, and he previously worked as an analyst at GFG Capital.

Patch of Land is a peer real estate (P2RE) lending marketplace presenting its real-time, due-diligence engine.

Features:

Proprietary risk and credit-modeling system increases accuracy of risk profiling
Full-stack integration with existing platform and processes
Significant scale and velocity of underwriting

Why it’s great:

We are creating an efficient, scalable system for underwriting and complex real estate lending transactions and pricing risk appropriately.

Presenters:

Brian Fritton, CTO

Fritton is a seasoned eCommerce expert who oversees the development of Patch of Land’s in-house platform and leads the research and implementation of our technology initiatives.

Settle is a mobile-payment platform built to create greater customer loyalty by hastening the checkout process while improving the overall customer experience.

Features:

Bridge mobile payments and loyalty
Target marketing to consumers based on their paying behavior
Transfer P2P cash easily

Why it’s great:

Settle brings easy mobile payments to customers and allows merchants to make the most of customer data.

Presenters:

Stas Matviyenko, CEO

Matviyenko studied in Austria, worked for the Ukranian government (banking research). Founder at Advice Wallet (the biggest mobile loyalty program in CIS countries), believes in mobile payments, geek.

Anna Polishchuk, COO

Polishchuk has a Masters degree in international business and is passionate about design and technology. She worked as Market Research Analyst at an international company and co-founded Advice Wallet.

Our Sneak Peek series continues on Tuesday with another six companies that will demo their fintech innovations at FinovateFall 2014 next month.

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EyeVerify Raises $6 Million in Series A Round, Joins Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator

By David Penn Posted on August 21, 2014
Categories: EyeVerify, Zumigo

With participation from Wells Fargo, Qihoo 360 and Sprint, as well as existing investors, EyeVerify just announced that it closed a $6 million Series A funding round.

The investment takes EyeVerify’s total capital to more than $10 million.

In a statement, EyeVerify CEO Toby Rush pointed to the fact that the investors included “the largest security software firm in the world, the leading bank in the U.S., and a wireless network operator serving more than 50 million U.S. customers” to underscore what he called the strong “marketplace validation” of the investment.

And the good news comes in twos for EyeVerify, with the company announcing that it is part of the inaugural class of the Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator. EyeVerify will participate in the new, semiannual fintech bootcamp along with two other companies, including fellow Finovate alum, Zumigo. Participation in the program includes a “direct equity investment” ranging from $50,000 to as much as $500,000. The specific investment in EyeVerify was not immediately available.

EyeVerify’s innovation is the way it approaches eye-based, biometric authentication. The company’s technology uses the veins within the whites of the eyes to take an “eye print” that is as unique to the individual as a fingerprint. Eyeprints can be used in a range of authentication situations, from helping secure employee mobile devices to providing greater security for mobile banking customers. Kevin McGinnis, vice president of Sprint’s Pinsight Media+ division said, “With mobile security evolving beyond passwords, we are pleased to invest in EyeVerify and its easy-to-use, innovative biometric solution.”

Founded in 2012 and based in Kansas City, Kansas, EyeVerify last demoed its Eyeprint Validation technology at FinovateSpring 2014. See the company’s Best of Show winning demo here.

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Continuity Control Announces $10 Million Investment

By David Penn Posted on August 21, 2014
Categories: Continuity Control

Referring to its $10 million investment as “growth funding,” compliance-management specialist Continuity Control says it is even better positioned to expand its regulatory intelligence platform for FIs.

The company’s total capital now stands at $12 million.

River Cities Capital Fund led the way in an investment round that included participation from BancVue and the family of IBM founder Thomas Watson, as well as others. Impressively, the $10 million raised was twice the amount Continuity Control had initially sought.

Speaking of the investment, Continuity Control CEO and Co-founder Andy Greenawalt said, “The interest generated in this round of investment further validates our vision for compliance management and the opportunity it represents in the community financial industry.”

What will Continuity Control do with the additional capital? According to the company, research and development are near the top of the list. But faster movement overall is what Continuity Control is counting on with the new investment. “The faster we progress, the sooner we’ll fulfill our mission to eliminate the tedious, manual effort historically involved with compliance management.”

An innovator in the field of compliance technology for financial institutions, Continuity Control specializes in helping credit unions and community banks reduce the costs and time involved in meeting regulatory requirements.

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in New Haven, Connecticut, Continuity Control demoed its technology at FinovateSpring 2010. See the company’s demo video here.

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Zumigo Earns Spot in and Investment from Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator

By David Penn Posted on August 21, 2014
Categories: EyeVerify, Zumigo

Of the three companies participating in the inaugural Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator, two are Finovate alums. One is EyeVerify, which also reported a $6 million dollar investment on Wednesday. The other is Zumigo.

What was it about Zumigo in particular that caught Wells Fargo’s eye? According to Zumigo, the big bank is especially interested in the company’s mobile location intelligence technology, which provides authentication services for mobile transactions. Zumigo’s solution allows financial institutions to be more proactive than is “current industry practice,” according to Chirag Bakshi, founder and CEO of Zumigo.

“Zumigo’s innovative technology for financial services institutions such as Wells Fargo can detect fraudulent transactions before (they) impact their customers,” Chirag added.

In the words of Steve Ellis, executive vice president and head of Wholesale Services at Wells Fargo, the goal of the Accelerator is to increase the bank’s “visibility into technologies and ideas that will stoke innovation across the enterprise.” And considering that two out of the three companies participating are security/authentication-related, Wells Fargo may be telling us a lot more about the kind of innovation major banks are looking for than it may seem. The third company, Kasisto, is a New York startup that specializes in conversational artificial intelligence technology.

Participating in the Accelerator includes an equity investment of between $50,000 and $500,000. Zumigo did not immediately disclose the level of investment it received. The program lasts for six months, and will provide business planning expertise geared toward developing “innovative ideas and stoke innovation across the Wells Fargo enterprise.”

Zumigo was founded in 2009, and demoed its Assure solution at FinovateSpring 2014. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California.

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Alumni News– August 21, 2014

By David Penn Posted on August 21, 2014
Categories: AnchorID, BioCatch, Digital Insight, EyeVerify, MasterCard, PayNearMe, Taulia, Yodlee, Zumigo

American Banker takes a look at the new Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator, with alums EyeVerify and Zumigo in the inaugural class.

Check out our first FinDEVr Preview, featuring Yodlee Interactive. Join Yodlee at FinDEVr in San Francisco this fall.

The Paypers spotlights BioCatch and the company’s cognitive science-based biometric technology. See BioCatch at FinovateFall in New York next month.

MasterCard partnership with Zimbabwe’s EcoCash designed to boost mobile money services in Africa. MasterCard is a presenter and sponsor of FinDEVr, the first fintech event for developers.

Taulia sees more than 350% growth in second quarter of 2014.

Mergermarket.com features AnchorID in latest report. See AnchorID’s live demo at FinovateFall in NYC.

GECU providing members with online and mobile digital banking services from Digital Insight.

PayNearMe partners with Systems & Methods to offer a way to pay child support in cash. Check out PayNearMe at FinDEVr.

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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FinDEVr Preview: Yodlee Interactive

By David Penn Posted on August 20, 2014
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, Xignite, Yodlee

In the weeks leading up to our inaugural FinDEVr conference, we’re taking a look at the more than 40 speakers who will be making presentations. Click here to see the full agenda.

First up is Yodlee Interactive. Yodlee was a presenter at the first Finovate event in 2007, and continues that tradition by being a big part of the inaugural FinDEVr. In addition to its keynote address, Yodlee will deliver three workshops on the second day (see below).

For more information on FinDEVr, the first event for fintech developers, coming to San Francisco on September 30, visit FinDEVr here.

Yodlee is the platform for financial innovation. More than 600 companies globally, including seven of the top ten US financial institutions, rely on Yodlee to power personalized financial apps and services for millions of consumers, driving retention, engagement, and revenue.

Leveraging the industry’s largest data platform, Yodlee also delivers real-time insight into consumer behaviors to create more dynamic interactions – anywhere, anytime, on any device.

Yodlee Interactive is focused on making the Yodlee platform available everywhere that entrepreneurs, partners, and developers building digital financial apps and services can use to create value. As the architects of a new digital ecosystem, Yodlee Interactive optimizes the wisdom of the financial technology crowd to create, catalyze, and distribute innovations faster through an open and secure data API.

Used by hundreds of companies, both small and large, Yodlee Interactive is the horsepower behind today’s coolest and most personalized digital experiences.

At FinDEVr, Yodlee Interactive will be giving a keynote address and will provide three workshops for builders. The titles, topics, and presenters for the keynote and workshops are below.

Keynote: Demystifying the Yodlee Data

What is the Yodlee platform and what value do the Yodlee Interactive APIs open up to developers?

Joseph Polverari

Chief Strategy & Development Officer, Yodlee;

Founder & General Manager, Yodlee Interactive

Joe Polverari is focused on making the Yodlee platform available everywhere that value can be created by entrepreneurs, partners, developers building digital financial apps and services.

Joe is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program, holds a juries doctorate and degree in Economics from Santa Clara University.

Cheung Tam

Director API Product Management, Yodlee

Previous to Yodlee, Cheung served as Senior Product Manager, Developer Platform at Intuit. Cheung is a technologist with advanced degrees in business and engineering and has over 15 years of development, product, and project management experience.

Workshop Session #1

How to Build an App with Financial Data: Hands on help from Yodlee Interactive and the hot app builders who are leading the charge.

Anita Hayrapetian

Senior Solutions Engineer, Yodlee Interactive

Anita is a customer focused sales engineer with in-depth technical knowledge and superior presentation and interpersonal skills. Successfully developed and deployed more than 20 major projects including auction, e-commerce and ERP systems for global computer component re-sellers.

Session also features Cheung Tam and Guest Developers.

Workshop Session #2

Yodlee’s Instant Account Verification (IAV) API for Managing Risk and Fraud

Lori Martel

Vice President, Platform Product Management, Yodlee

Session also features Jayasree Iyer and Guest Developers

Workshop Session #3

Supercharge your Apps with Wealth Data from Yodlee & Xignite

Deviprasad Kocherry

Product Manager, Yodlee

Al Chang

Chief Technical Officer, Xignite

Look forward to our next FinDEVr Preview featuring TD Ameritrade Institutional next week.

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FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 1

By David Penn Posted on August 19, 2014
Categories: BizEquity, FinovateFall 2014, FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek, Gremln, Hoyos Labs, Knox, Nopsec, Rippleshot

With the busy product development and release schedule that comes with the autumn season, FinovateFall is the perfect place to see what’s new in fintech.

This year, 71 companies will step up to the Finovate stage at the NYC Hilton Midtown on September 23 and 24. Tickets are going fast; register for yours today.

Here’s an inside look at six of these hand-picked companies:

BizEquity has invented the first and only patented way to value any business in real-time and in the cloud online.

Features:

BizEstimate feature that pre-values over 28 million private businesses
Patented, online real-time business value and tailored advice and alerts to each user
Business ValueMonitoring Dashboard

Why it’s great:

BizEquity’s mission is to democratize business valuation knowledge globally to every small business and financial institution through its patented cloud-based service.

Presenters:

1) Mike Carter, CEO
Carter is former Managing Director of The Musser Group, former Founder and CEO of Dashboard Systems, and former Chief Marketing Officer for U.S. Interactive.
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2) Semyon Fishman, Vice President of Engineering and Technology
Fishman is former Vice President of Product Engineering at Valex Consulting and former Lead Engineer for the Math Forum.

GREMLN Financial Social Media offers secure social media tools for the financial services industry. It’s a full marketing and analysis suite wrapped in a security layer to maintain compliance.

Features:

Pre-approved content libraries
LinkedIn client prospecting
Mobile social media compliance platform

Why it’s great:

Social media involvement is essential, but it can be dangerous for financial services companies. Gremln makes it possible to participate and succeed in social media…safely.

Presenters:

1) Ryan Bell, CEO
LinkedIn

2) TJ Tavares, Senior Sales Executive
LinkedIn

Hoyos Labs‘ app will finally put an end to the frustration that comes with usernames, passwords and PINs by replacing them with your unique biometrics.

Features:

Acquires users’ biometrics via smartphone to replace all log-in information
Works with Apple and Android smartphones and tablets, and with PCs
Increased convenience and security for users

Why it’s great:

Hoyos Labs’ app allows users to increase the convenience and security in their life by removing the need to ever remember their log-in information.

Presenter:

Hector Hoyos, Founder and CEO

Hoyos is a biometrics veteran and entrepreneur who has dedicated his life to the development of innovative technologies that change existing business paradigms and have a profound impact on society.

Knox Payments is a merchant tool for payments to and from bank accounts online for just $0.18/transaction.

Features:

Fastest online and mobile checkout process
Accept ACH payments without needing your customers to enter bank routing and account numbers
Instantly verify bank account and sufficient funds

Why it’s great:

Fastest, cheapest checkout process for you and your customers.

Presenter:

Tommy Nicholas, Head of Product
Nicholas earned his BA from the University of Virginia. He founded CitySwig and helped grow Coffitivity to over 2 million users.
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NopSec is a cloud-based vulnerability risk management SaaS.

Features:

Correlate vulnerabilities with real-time threats and exploits
Drill down into the most critical risks across the full software and hardware stack
Analyze vulnerabilities using keyword searches

Why it’s great:

Remediate what matters most, faster.

Presenters:

1) Steven Leonard, Chief Marketing Officer
Leonard is responsible for all areas of marketing strategy and execution. Prior to NopSec, he spent 17 years at Microsoft Corporation.
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2) Lisa Xu, Chief Executive Officer
Xu is responsible for strategic direction, sales, and operations. Prior to NopSec, she advised Fortune500 enterprises on data security, privacy and technology risk management.
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3) Michelangelo Sidagni, CTO

Rippleshot detects bank card data breaches. Its cloud-based solution helps banks proactively stop fraud before it occurs and protects merchant brand reputation.

Features:

Next generation fraud prevention — stopping fraud before it occurs
24/7 monitoring — detecting breaches faster
Early warning alerts — proactively protecting merchants, consumers and credit card issuers

Why it’s great:

It’s not if you are going to be breached, it’s when. Rippleshot’s 24/7 monitoring proactively detects, mitigates and stops fraud before it occurs.

Presenters:

1) Lucas Ward, Co-Founder and CTO

Ward is a proven technology leader. At Fundspire, he created an innovative product to change the way hedge funds viewed and analyzed their data.

2) Randal Cox, Co-Founder and CSO

Cox has over a decade of experience in the credit card industry, modeling credit card and ATM fraud, ultimately culminating in the co-founding of Rippleshot.

Stay tuned later this week for a look at six more companies set to debut their new technology at FinovateFall this September 23 & 24 in New York.

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PayPal Announces Access to its One Touch Mobile Payment Solution

By David Penn Posted on August 19, 2014
Categories: PayPal

For mobile shoppers using PayPal, instant gratification just got a little more instantaneous.

PayPal announced today that it is opening up beta access to its One Touch feature. This feature allows people to pay with PayPal with a single swipe from inside other apps. Initially available only to iOS users, the feature will be accessible for Android users in September when the product is officially launched.

In an interview with VentureBeat, Braintree CEO Bill Ready put “one-touch buying” at the center of what to expect when it comes to payments over the next few years (recall that Braintree was acquired by PayPal in September 2013). Bill believes part of this has to do with the challenge of entering data on mobile devices, especially smartphones. But this initiative also responds effectively to the Prime Directive of E-commerce Innovation: “More Time Shopping, Less Time Transacting.”

The feature is optional, and users have both the ability to opt-in/opt-out, as well as specify which source of funding you want to be used for your One Touch transactions (PayPal balance, linked bank account, or credit card). Calling One Touch payments “the magical experience that every mobile user will come to expect,” Bill may be engaging in a touch of hyperbole. But in a world in which Amazon is increasingly interested in the payments business, it is interesting to see PayPal leverage Braintree technology in order to strike back at Amazon on its own “one-step shopping” turf.

There will be a handful of merchant apps available initially as part of the developer beta, with other merchants coming on board in the weeks to come. Soon any developer with access to the Braintree v.zero SDK – and anyone who uses PayPal – will be able to take advantage of One Touch. More information on the technology for consumers and merchants is available here. Developers can find out how to get started, including accessing the SDKs at PayPal’s developer portal.

And speaking of developers, join PayPal at FinDEVr for the company’s presentation on how wearables are changing the payments landscape. The first fintech event for developers, FinDEVr will be held from September 30 to October 1 in San Francisco. For more information, visit our FinDEVr page.

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Alumni News– August 19, 2014

By David Penn Posted on August 19, 2014
Categories: CAN Capital, Geezeo, GoBank, Kabbage, NICE Systems, On Deck Capital, Palo Alto Software, PayPal, Quisk, ReadyForZero, Top Image Systems, Yseop

LivePlan launches its Black Widow update to enhance performance monitoring.

Bank Innovation looks at GoBank’s decision to shorten holding periods for mobile check deposits.

NICE Systems earns 2014 Star Performer award from Speech Technology magazine.

Top Image Systems partners with Allied Payment Networks to implement MobiPAY.

Time features ReadyForZero as 1 of 50 Best Websites for 2014.

Hiveage compares OnDeck, Kabbage, PayPal Working Capital, & CAN Capital Come see OnDeck at FinDEVr.

Quisk awarded US patent for enabling consumer activated security for a mobile payment system.

The Rude Baguette interviews Yseop CEO, John Rauscher.

New partnership brings Geezeo’s PFM solution to MEA’s native mobile banking platform. See Geezeo at FinovateFall 2014 in New York.

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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Alumni News– August 18, 2014

By David Penn Posted on August 18, 2014
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Betterment, Cardlytics, Coinbase, Expensify, Klarna, Personal Capital, Ripple, Silanis Technology, SumUp, Xero

Silanis Technology releases e-signature solutions for Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. See Silanis at FinovateFall 2014 in New York.

Michael Grillo of ACI Worldwide talks about the role of mobile devices in fighting payments fraud.

Klarna announces appointment of Jon Kamaluddin to its Board of Directors.

SumUp earns double-digit million dollar investment led by Life.SREDA

Xero’s Customer Experience team wins Bronze Stevie Award in 2014 International Business Award. Check out Xero’s presentation at FinDEVr in San Francisco this October.

TechCrunch: Coinbase acquires blockchain explorer, Blockr.io.

Silicon Angle: Why Cardlytics ditched sample data for its real-time analytics tactics.

Forbes features Personal Capital.

EE Times reviews the similarities and differences between Ripple and bitcoin.

Forbes column on “the other sharing economy” profiles Expensify.

Investors.com checks in with Betterment on strategies for meeting retirement financial challenges.

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 Blog

Author: David Penn

Zumigo Raises $6 Million in Investment Led by Intel Capital

Alumni News, 22 August 2014

FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 2

EyeVerify Raises $6 Million in Series A Round, Joins Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator

Continuity Control Announces $10 Million Investment

Zumigo Earns Spot in and Investment from Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator

Alumni News– August 21, 2014

FinDEVr Preview: Yodlee Interactive

FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 1

PayPal Announces Access to its One Touch Mobile Payment Solution

Alumni News– August 19, 2014

Alumni News– August 18, 2014