Larky’s Web+Mobile Loyalty Platform Helps Financial Institutions Drive Non-Fee Income and Increase Wallet Share

Larky’s Web+Mobile Loyalty Platform Helps Financial Institutions Drive Non-Fee Income and Increase Wallet Share
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Larky is next, demoing its unique web+mobile platform that helps financial institutions boost loyalty, reduce churn, drive non-fee income, increase wallet share and support local businesses.

“Our turnkey system sends users location-based and FI-branded smartphone alerts when they are physically near a merchant discount. Users save $1,000 or more every year, with no behavioral changes. Larky helps you deliver significant added value to your audience so they never again wonder if they should be banking somewhere else. Top of wallet, top of mind.
We are unveiling our new Android app along with our new white-label mobile and web option.
Presenting: Andrew Bank (Co-Founder) & Gregg Hammerman (Co-Founder)
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Product Launch: June 2013
Metrics: $2.3M; 12 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Ann Arbor, MI
Founded: January 2012
Website: larky.com
Twitter: @getlarky

Hoyos Labs Introduces the Mobile App for its Identity Assertion Platform

Hoyos Labs Introduces the Mobile App for its Identity Assertion Platform
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Our next presenter is Hoyos Labs, demoing the Mobile App of the HoyosID Identity Assertion Platform.

“Our mobile app is finally putting an end to the frustration that comes with usernames, passwords, and PINs. This app leverages a user’s smartphone to acquire his or her biometrics, which conveniently and securely replaces log-in information for all their favorite websites.”
Presenting: Hector Hoyos (Founder, Chairman & CEO)
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Product Launch: October 2014
Metrics: 102 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
HQ: New York, NY
Founded: December 2013
Website: hoyoslabs.com
Twitter: @hoyoslabs

Financeit ‘s USA-Compliant Platform Helps Businesses Provide Payment Plans to Customers

Financeit ‘s USA-Compliant Platform Helps Businesses Provide Payment Plans to Customers
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Our next presenter is Financeit. In partnership with FIS, Financeit is demoing Financeit USA Launch, making it easy for businesses of any size to boost their sales by offering payment plans to their customers.

Financeit, in partnership with FIS, is announcing the launch of, and showcasing, a USA-compliant platform. Their Finovate demo shows all of the components required to ensure processes are compliant while still providing end users with an amazing product.
Presenting: Michael Garrity (CEO), Katie Robinson (SVP Strategic Innovation), and Paul Sehr (CTO)
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Product Launch: September 2014
Metrics: Since launch, Financeit has processed over $700M in loans from more than 3,500 merchant partners. Financeit has raised over $21M in Venture Capital and currently has more than 65 employees.
Product distribution strategy: B2B Marketing, Sales and Partnerships
HQ: Toronto, ON, Canada (USA HQ: New York, NY)
Founded: January 2011
Website: financeit.io
Twitter: @financeit

Ayasdi Finance Helps Capital Markets Businesses Better Utilize Data

Ayasdi Finance Helps Capital Markets Businesses Better Utilize Data
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Coming to the stage next is the team from Ayasdi, demoing Ayasdi Finance.

“Ayasdi’s finance application will allow capital markets businesses to automatically identify persistent relationships between market conditions and client trading-behaviors and to generate alerts based on this dynamic information. In addition, this application will be able to utilize Ayasdi’s novel mathematical framework to predict model failure and systematically update the model in states where it fails.
This application will leverage Ayasdi’s powerful platform which integrates machine learning algorithms within a topological framework. This platform gives the application its ability to generate results that take several types of data into account including, but not limited to, social data, numeric data, and the macro economy.”
Presenting: Michael Woods (Principal Data Strategist) & Max Song (Data Scientist)
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Product Launch: October 2014
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), Licensed
HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Founded: June 2008
Website: ayasdi.com
Twitter: @Ayasdi

Data Enrichment Innovator CrowdFlower Collects, Labels, and Cleans Data from an On-Demand Workforce

Data Enrichment Innovator CrowdFlower Collects, Labels, and Cleans Data from an On-Demand Workforce
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Our next presenter is CrowdFlower, demoing its data enrichment platform for data scientists.

Financial statements are notoriously difficult to decipher. CrowdFlower puts an end to messy and incomplete financial services data that contributes to a poor customer experience. We are demonstrating how CrowdFlower can quickly and easily collect, clean, and label financial transaction data, from an online, on-demand workforce of over 5M contributors to help businesses provide a superior customer experience.
Presenting: Tatiana Josephy (VP Product) & Seth Teicher (Head of Content & Business Development)
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Product Launch: 2009
Metrics: 80+ employees, 5M contributors, 1.5B judgments completed, 7 years of work is completed in one day on the platform.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), licensed
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Founded: 2009
Twitter: @CrowdFlower

Sender and Privatbank Launch Sender.mobi to Bring Direct Chat Messaging to FIs

Sender and Privatbank Launch Sender.mobi to Bring Direct Chat Messaging to FIs
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Our next presenters are Sender and Privatbank who have teamed up to launch Sender.mobi.

“People communicate with each other via chats with similar interfaces. Businesses communicate with people via Apps with various unique interfaces and UX.
Sender:
  • Creates 2-way communication between businesses and customers like in usual chat environments
  • Enables a friendly and familiar interface for customers
  • Provides the possibility for businesses to create business processes without developers or endless software/Apps updating, reducing App development work by 80%

Sender is like Google’s Search Bar with endless possibilities. It is the first messenger for businesses enabling direct chat communication with customers. Instead of tons of applications, use Sender – the last and only App.”

Presenting: Egor Avetisov (Creative Director), Maria Gurina (Deputy Head of E-Commerce), and Kristina Chaykovskaya (Head of E-Commerce)
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Product Launch: September 2014 at FinovateFall
Metrics: $1M in angel investments, 5 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Wilmington, DE
Founded: November 2013
Website: sender.mobi

EverSafe Helps Protect Seniors Against Financial Abuse

EverSafe Helps Protect Seniors Against Financial Abuse
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Our next presenter is EverSafe, demoing the first technology-based solution to address the challenge of financial abuse of older Americans.

“EverSafe applies technology to combat elder financial exploitation. The service reviews the senior’s financial transactions and credit report activity daily and if suspicious activity is detected, an alert is sent immediately. EverSafe’s sophisticated software employs a set of rules developed specifically for seniors to comb every transaction looking for abnormalities, including unexpected patterns in spending, deposits, and withdrawals. If suspicious activity is confirmed, the resolution process begins. EverSafe tracks the remediation plan and sends follow ups to help curtail further financial exposure.”
Presenting: Howard Tischler (CEO & Founder) & Elizabeth Loewy (SVP Industry Relations & General Counsel)
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Product Launch: Spring 2014 (soft launch)
Metrics: $1.5M raised, 7 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through financial institutions
HQ: Columbia, MD
Founded: January 2012
Website: eversafe.com
Twitter: @EverSafeSeniors

SelfScore’s Consumer Analytics Solution Introduces “Scoring as a Service”

SelfScore’s Consumer Analytics Solution Introduces “Scoring as a Service”
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Our next presenter is SelfScorewith its “scoring as a service” and “data as a service” approach to measuring consumers in better ways using more information.

“SelfScore.com is a consumer analytics service that uses a proprietary algorithm to combine online profiles, phone, and sensor data, psychometric questions, and 360 degree feedback from one’s network to provide insights to users and contextual information to businesses. We believe that with new advances in the social web and smartphones, it is now possible to attain a complete, timely and accurate picture of consumer behavior that benefits both consumers and businesses.”
Presenting: Kalpesh Kapadia (CEO & Co-Founder)
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Product Launch: September 2014
Metrics: Privately funded just under $1M with a team of 8 experts, each with 10-20 years of industry experience ranging from financial services (VISA, Capital One) to tech giants (Amazon, Microsoft, VMware, Google, LinkedIn) to US military (US Cyber Command) and government (US Treasury, Consumer Finance Protection Board) to academia (Stanford and CMU PhD data scientists), currently have a working product undergoing a private beta
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Founded: January 2012
Website: selfscore.com
Twitter: @selfscore

Toopher Broadens its Authentication Suite with Access, Touch, and Halo

Toopher Broadens its Authentication Suite with Access, Touch, and Halo
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Our next presenter is Toopher, demoing its authentication solution that pairs enterprise class security with the location awareness of mobile devices.

Toopher Access will allow clients to provide their customers with invisible authentication for logins and critical actions. Toopher Touch incorporates biometrics into the authentication process and Toopher Halo offers seamless deauthentication based on powerful geofencing technology. When the user leaves a specified geofence, Tooper will log them out automatically, ensuring full session security.”
Presenting: Josh Alexander (CEO & Co-Founder) & Evan Grim (CTO & Founder)
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Product Launch: Q1 2015
Metrics: 20 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
HQ: Austin, TX
Founded: September 2011
Website: toopher.com
Twitter: @toopher

Six Trees Capital Introduces its Cash Management Solution, MaxMyInterest

Six Trees Capital Introduces its Cash Management Solution, MaxMyInterest
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Making its way to the stage next is Six Trees Capital introducing MaxMyInterest, a way of helping investors dynamically allocate their cash in an optimal manner to maximize returns on cash and FDIC insurance.

“MaxMyInterest is a new automated cash management solution that helps depositors earn more on their cash balances via their existing checking account and online savings accounts. Max’s patent-pending technology platform uses proprietary algorithms to help ensure cash is dynamics allocated to the member’s banks offering the best interest rates at any given point in time. Max also helps keep cash below the FDIC limits at each bank. Max includes other powerful cash management tools, including monthly cash sweep and Intelligent Funds Transfer (SM) technology, which makes managing a portfolio of online bank accounts as simple as ‘checking’ and ‘savings’.”
Presenting: Gary Zimmerman (CEO & Founder) & Richard Wu (Director, Engineering)
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Product Launch: April 2014
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, licensed
HQ: New York, NY
Founded: July 2013
Twitter: @maxmyinterest

WorkFusion Launches its Active-Learning Automation Technology Pairing Machine Learning with Crowdsourcing

WorkFusion Launches its Active-Learning Automation Technology Pairing Machine Learning with Crowdsourcing
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Our next presenter is WorkFusion, demoing their Active-Learning Automation solution.

Finding opportunities to automate is hard, building algorithms is harder, and maintaining effective automation is hardest. WorkFusion solves these problems by actively tracking human work for patterns and training algorithms to follow them. When data sources or formats change, the platform reengages human workers to retrain algorithms, delivering adaptable, unbreakable automation.
Presenting: Max Yankelevich (CEO) & Adam Devine (VP Product Marketing)
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Product Launch: September 2014
Metrics: Seven of the top 10 financial data providers use WorkFusion to build and refresh data products, leading FIs use WorkFusion for high-volume data work, $23M raised in total (Mohr Davidow: $15M series B in February 2014, iNovia: $5M series A, Greycroft and RTP Ventures: $2.3M seed), 68 employees, NYC HQ, GigaOm’s #1 rated crowd management platform, on American Banker’s Top 10 FinTech Companies to Watch, SIIA CODiE nominee in 2 categories.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: New York, NY
Founded: June 2010
Twitter: @crowdcomputing1

VerifyValid Launches its Smartphone-Optimized Mobile Checkbook

VerifyValid Launches its Smartphone-Optimized Mobile Checkbook
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VerifyValid is our next presenter. VerifyValid’s eChecks allow users to make check payments to anyone from anyplace they have access to the Internet.

“The VerifyValid Mobile Checkbook is the first ever general purpose checkbook for the smartphone, allowing users to write, approve, send, and deposit check payments from their iPhone. Now, VerifyValid has created a consumer-focused mobile app that replaces transaction fees with sponsored content. Users are able to send and receive checks at now charge while advertisers can speak directly to consumers at the moment that they write or receive a check payment.”
Presenting: Paul Doyle (CEO & Founder)
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Product Launch: October 2014
Metrics: More than 50,000 users of the system (including payees) and more than $400M in transaction value to date
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Grand Rapids, MI
Founded: 2011
Twitter: @verifyvalid