Smarter Authentication from Encap Security Combats CNP Fraud

Smarter Authentication from Encap Security Combats CNP Fraud
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Our next presenter is the team from Encap Security.  The company’s Smarter Authentication solution helps provide a secure, seamless omnichannel experience for financial institutions and their customers.

“In the wake of Target and other large retail breaches, Encap has the first solution that can be used to combat CNP fraud – the way most compromised cards are used. Encap is demoing our authentication solution with an emphasis on the importance of thinking outside the traditional ‘authentication’ box.
Because Smarter Authentication is complex, secure, and provides a simple and seamless user experience, it is ideally suited to address not only mobile and online banking transactions, but also CNP transaction approval.”
Presenting: Adam Dolby (VP Business Development) and David Nayes (Director of Sales)

Product Launch: November 2012
Metrics: Based in Oslo and Palo Alto, Encap Security’s management team has more than 60 years experience and an unrivaled pedigree in authentication, identity management, mobile app security, and mobile financial services. Following a recent funding round, the total investment in Encap Security stands at $6.6 million. Encap Security’s solution is used by major financial institutions, enterprises, and technology integrators including Santander Consumer Bank Norway, EnterCard, and Sparebaken Vest.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms.
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Founded: October 2012
Twitter: @encapsecurity

Artivest’s Online Platform Puts Private Funds Within Reach of Average Investors

Artivest’s Online Platform Puts Private Funds Within Reach of Average Investors
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Our next presenter is Artivest, presenting its online investing platform and Artivest Access funds.
“Artivest’s platform streamlines the process of investing in a private investment fund. Our online platform features a series of Artivest Access funds, which allow our members to invest in leading private funds with low minimums and transparent reasonable fees.
The Artivest team conducts extensive selection and due diligence processes, presenting only those funds that we believe to be truly exceptional. While the traditional process for investing in a private fund required days of travel and mountains of documents, the Artivest platform allows investors to access, evaluate and invest in a fund entirely online.
Once an investor has decided to commit to a particular fund, our online investment flow guides them through a seamless submission process. What’s more, we help fund managers engage more efficiently and effectively with sophisticated investors in our online community.”

Presenting: James Waldinger (CEO) and David Levine (CIO)

Product Launch: Privately launched: January 2014
Metrics: $3.4 million raised; 11 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: New York, New York
Founded: June 2012
Website: artivest.co
Twitter: @artivest

LendUp Launches its RESTful API Platform to Support MultiChannel Consumer Lending

LendUp Launches its RESTful API Platform to Support MultiChannel Consumer Lending
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Our next presenter is LendUp. The socially-responsible lender has earned investment from sources ranging from Google Ventures to Kleiner Perkins.

“LendUp is proud to enable partners to leverage the first RESTful API Lending Platform. We have exposed the same core platform that has built and launched LendUp’s diverse suite of consumer lending products and channels – a fully compliant mobile, web, or custom integration for consumer lending with a focus on market solutions to subprime or payday lending.”
Presenting: Sasha Orloff (CEO & Co-Founder) and Jacob Rosenberg (CTO & Co-Founder)

Product Launch: FinovateSpring 2014
Metrics: $20 million raised from Y-Combinator, Google Ventures, QED Investors, Data Collective, Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Kapor Capital, Thomvest Ventures, SV Angel & Startfund
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed.
HQ: San Francisco, California
Founded: November 2011
Website: lendup.com
Twitter: @LendUpLoans

Rippleshot’s Anti-Fraud Solution Scans the Network to Detect Data Breaches at the Point of Sale

Rippleshot’s Anti-Fraud Solution Scans the Network to Detect Data Breaches at the Point of Sale
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Rippleshot is up next, unveiling their security solution for protecting both the integrity of consumer credit data and the merchant payment network.

“Rippleshot technology scans credit card transactions across the entire payment network profiling merchant transactional behavior and looking for suspicious patterns. When fraudulent activity occurs on the network Rippleshot can quickly sort through hundreds of millions of credit card transactions to quickly identify the compromised point of purchase that all the fraudulent cards have in common. Since fraudulent spending with compromised cards takes place over weeks and months, quick detection helps banks reissue cards and stop fraud before it occurs, thereby saving over 25% in potential fraud losses.”
Presenting: Canh Tran (CEO & Co-Founder) and Lucas Ward (COO & Co-Founder)

Product Launch: April 2014
Metrics: $500,000 bootstrapped & 8 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through payment processing partnerships with merchants
HQ: Chicago, Illinois
Founded: June 2013
Website: rippleshot.com
Twitter: @RippleAlerts

New Technology from Spreedly Turns its Credit Card Vault in the Cloud into an Industry API for Consuming Card Data

New Technology from Spreedly Turns its Credit Card Vault in the Cloud into an Industry API for Consuming Card Data
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Spreedly is on its way to the stage right now. The company is launching its Payment Method Distribution & Card-on-File Updater.

“Prior to today, Spreedly could take a stored card and pass it against a Spreedly integrated payment gateway. With today’s announcement three new things are happening. Firstly, customer’s can create their own end points to which they want to pass cards. No more relying on Spreedly to do the work. Secondly, those end points can be more than just payment gateways. Think of it as an industry API for consuming card data (hotel, ticketing, restaurant, and transportation). And thirdly, customers can use Spreedly to automatically update cards across 60+ gateways, which means no more lost revenue from lost or expired cards.”
Presenting: Justin Benson (CEO) and Brendon Prebble (Business Development)

Product Launch: April 2014
Metrics: We have raised $1 million in angel funding, have 150 customers, and are processing approximately 160,000 successful CC transactions (worth around $15 – 20 million in top-line revenue) monthly on our platform
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: Durham, North Carolina
Founded: January 2008, hard pivot in March 2013
Twitter: @spreedly

OnBudget’s Latest Technology Gives Customers a Virtual Envelope Budgeting System

OnBudget’s Latest Technology Gives Customers a Virtual Envelope Budgeting System
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Our next presenter is the team from OnBudget with a 21st century wrinkle on an old school budgeting strategy.

“OnBudget combines a free, simple-to-use app with a free (& totally fee-free) household Budget Card that links to a user’s checking or savings account. Users effortlessly set up and manage budgets, track spending and view spending trends in real time by category. The OnBudget platform analyzes transactions, identifies trends and interacts with users in real time, becoming an instant virtual “envelope budgeting system” that helps banked customers manage daily living expenses, It’s uncomplicated, intuitive, real time, habit-forming and, best of all, totally free.”
Presenting: Jim Collas (CEO & President) and Mike Corrales (VP Marketing)

Product Launch: November 2013
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through financial institutions, licensed
HQ: San Diego, California
Founded: 2012
Website: onbudget.com
Twitter: @On_Budget

Radius Debuts its Big Data Solution to Help FIs Define, Identify, and Market to Their Best Customers

Radius Debuts its Big Data Solution to Help FIs Define, Identify, and Market to Their Best Customers
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Radius is our next presenter, demoing its modern solution for marketing to small businesses.

With Radius, you can connect your prospect and customer data to our living, breathing database of 27 million SMBs in the United States. Analyze your customers based upon hundreds of business attributes to define your best market segments. Once you’ve defined your best customers, create look-alike lead lists, deploy campaigns, and measure conversion.
Presenting: Darian Shirazi (CEO)

Product Launch: March 2014
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: San Francisco, California
Founded: 2009
Website: radius.com
Twitter: @radius

Pellucid Analytics Unveils its Pitchbook-Enhancing Technology for Financial Professionals

Pellucid Analytics Unveils its Pitchbook-Enhancing Technology for Financial Professionals
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Coming to the stage now is the team from Pellucid Analytics

“Pellucid fixes pitch book creation. It is a tablet and browser-based product tailored to the needs of advisory professionals that compresses the time required to perform a broad range of pitch book-related activities from days to seconds. Rather than collecting data, running analytics, designing charts, and formatting slides, Pellucid users leverage a large gallery of print-ready charts populated with current data and formatted to firm-specific branding standards. Assembling such charts into a pitch book is a simple drag-and-drop exercise. As a result, users can focus on applying judgment to information and crafting a compelling message directly relevant to their clients.”
Presenting: Adrian Crockett (CEO & Co-Founder) and Jamie Ballingall (Chief Scientist & Co-Founder)

Product Launch: April 2014
Metrics: 39 team members
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), licensed
HQ: Boulder, Colorado
Founded: November 2011
Website: pellucid.com
Twitter: @pellucidapp

Market Prophit’s Big Data Analytics Help Investors Generate Alpha Through Better Sentiment Analysis

Market Prophit’s Big Data Analytics Help Investors Generate Alpha Through Better Sentiment Analysis
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Market Prophit is our next presenter. The company is showing its “Morningstar + Klout” solution for both retail and institutional investors and traders looking to improve the way they use sentiment analysis in their overall investing decisions.

“Market Prophit is demoing its full functionality with its recently launched proprietary quantitative blogger ranking system. Market Prophit quantitatively scores and ranks financial bloggers in social media based on the accuracy of their stock calls and track record of predictions. Using our unique ranking system, Market Prophit generates sentiment signals that have less noise than generic, crowd-based sentiment signals and generate more alpha based on historical back tests. 
Our innovation is the ability to take unstructured conversations and turn them into quantifiable measures of predictability and performance in real time, allowing for easy search and discovery of quality information by investors without having to wade through millions of messages.”
Presenting: Igor Gonta (CEO & Founder)

Product Launch: June 2013
Metrics: Self-funded; 2 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, New York
Founded: January 2011
Twitter: @MarketProphit

Stockpile Gift Cards Enable Consumers to Give the Gift of Stock Ownership

Stockpile Gift Cards Enable Consumers to Give the Gift of Stock Ownership
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Stockpile is our next presenter. The Palo Alto-based company is demoing its Stockpile Gift Cards.

“For the first time ever, people are able to give a Gift Card of Stock for birthdays, graduations, Bar Mitzvahs, Christmas, and other occasions. Pick a company and dollar amount (say $50 of Apple) and pay with your credit card. The recipient gets their stock by entering a claim code and either logging into their Stockpile account or signing up for one.”
Presenting: Avi Lele (CEO) and Dan Schatt (Chief Commercial Officer)

Product Launch: June 2014
Metrics: $2.8 million; 11 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: Palo Alto, California
Founded: December 2010
Website: stockpile.com

New Loan Origination Technology from defi SOLUTIONS Ushers in Era of Auto Lending 3.0

New Loan Origination Technology from defi SOLUTIONS Ushers in Era of Auto Lending 3.0
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Our next presenter is defi SOLUTIONS, an innovator in the field of auto lending.

defi SOLUTIONS is taking auto lending to the next level with the industry’s first fully configurable LOS that can launch within days, not months. defi SOLUTIONS has introduced an intuitive, web-based system that provides lenders the ability to choose the functionality that is right for their company without costly development time. Lenders are able to instantly make changes to the defi system to meet changing market demands.
Presenting: Stephanie Alsbrooks (CEO & Founder) and Chris Holt (Senior Engineer, Automation)

Product Launch: August 2012
Metrics: defi SOLUTIONS launched its initial product in 2012 and has positive cash flow with approximate annual revenue of $1.7M for 2013. We have 15 employees, just hired 2 more, and have 5 more openings.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)
HQ: Grapevine, TX
Founded: February 2012
Twitter: @defiSOLUTIONS

CREALOGIX Brings E-Learning Management to its Digital Banking Suite

CREALOGIX Brings E-Learning Management to its Digital Banking Suite
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Coming up next to the stage is CREALOGIX. The Zurich-based company is the leading independent software house in Europe, and the market leader for digital banking in the Swiss market.

CREALOGIX has seamlessly integrated an e-learning management system into its online banking suite. The short interactive e-learning units are directly integrated into the transactions of online banking customers with the aim of combining regulatory compliance with the effortless development and enhancement of the financial expertise of customers in a unique manner by combining ramification and contextual compliance.
This creates a win-win situation for the bank and its customers. As a leading provider of comprehensive and advanced online banking and e-learning platforms, CREALOGIX is able to offer a unique and unprecedented degree of integration depth of the two areas separated until now.
Presenting: Geraldine Critchley (Head of Product Marketing) and Ivan Inderbitzin (Sr. E-Learning Author)

Product Launch: Q3 2014
Metrics: CHF 50M in sales, 270 employees, CHF 100M in market capitalization & listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (CLXN)
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), licensed
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
Founded: June 1996
Twitter: @CREALOGIX