Author: Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz)

Flybits’ Context-aware Apps Deliver Personalized Experiences

Flybits’ Context-aware Apps Deliver Personalized Experiences
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, Flybits

This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2015.

FlybitsLogoOur first presenter of FinovateFall is Flybits showing how it uses user context to personalize apps:

Context-aware apps that deliver personalized experiences have always required lots of custom development. The sheer variety of interfaces usually leads to complex apps that are hard to change. Flybits solves this problem with a simple, integrated way to incorporate all aspects of user context—including location from beacons, wi-fi, etc.—and personalize app behavior. Our SDKs let you Flybits-enable any app and transform it. Our visual Experience Studio gives you unprecedented agility in changing live apps as you refine your customer-engagement strategy. Flybits runs in the cloud for ease of use, scalability, and elasticity.

Presenters: Hossein Rahnama, founder and chief product officer of Flybits, and CEO Jerry Rudisin

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Product Launch: September 2015
Metrics: $4.75M in Series A financing raised to date, 26 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

HQ: Palo Alto, California
Founded: October 2012
Website: flybits.com
Twitter: @FlybitsInc

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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Hypori

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Hypori
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek, Hypori

HyporiHomepage

FF2015_logo_dateThe Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live onstage in front of 1,500 execs at FinovateFall. Get your tickets today and we’ll see you in NYC!

HyporiLogoHypori’s VMI provides remote access to Android virtual machines running in the cloud, solving BYOD challenges with a secure and separate OS.

Features:

  • Security: Separate OS in the cloud
  • Support: Single gold disk of Android to manage
  • Privacy: Like any other mobile app, avoids managing the personal device

Why it’s great
VMI: a mobile-first solution for a security-first mindset. Providing a virtual mobile device running in the cloud, enterprise-owned and -secured.

HyporiPresenter1Presenters

Justin Marston, CEO, Co-founder
Marston is a seasoned entrepreneur and holds multiple patents. He is a published author and a frequent speaker at international conferences.
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HyporiPresenter2Joel Schopp, Senior Software Developer
Schopp has 14 years of experience in virtualization; he previously was a virtualization architect at IBM and AMD.
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Phil Kumnick, SVP of Global Acquirer Processing, Visa
Kumnick is responsible for acquiring products and services, processing strategies for mobile POS, and for partnerships that drive acceptance.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: LiftForward

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: LiftForward
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek, LiftForward

LiftForwardHomepage

FF2015_logo_dateThe Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live onstage in front of 1,500 execs at FinovateFall. Get your tickets today and we’ll see you in New York, 16/17 September!

LiftForwardLiftForwardLogo will show its technology-as-a-service financing platform for manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers. TaaSLift provides a plug-and-play method for businesses to offer their small-business customers products-as-a-service.

Features:

  • Turns a one-time purchase into a subscription service
  • Increases sales and repeat purchases
  • Increases customer loyalty

Why it’s great
By replacing expensive, one-time purchases with affordable subscriptions, TaaSLift helps companies increase sales while strengthening customer relationships.

LiftForwardPresenter1Presenters

Jeffrey Rogers, CEO
Rogers has more than 20 years of experience in building companies. His disciplines include technology, e-commerce, finance and operations.
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LiftForwardPresenter3Michael Grassotti, CTO
Grassotti has more than 20 years of experience as a technology-focused entrepreneur with experience recruiting and leading tech teams, and taking products from idea to market.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: HelloWallet

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: HelloWallet
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek, HelloWallet

HelloWalletHomepage

FF2015_logo_dateThe Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live onstage in front of 1,500 execs at FinovateFall. Get your tickets today and we’ll see you in New York, 16/17 September!

HelloWalletLogoHelloWallet provides independent, personalized financial guidance to individuals through web and mobile-based software applications.

Features:

  • Provides straightforward, sophisticated retirement guidance
  • Enables both modeling and committing to a new retirement plan
  • Integrates seamlessly with other technology

Why it’s great
With Retirement Explorer, individuals can model multiple retirement scenarios and also implement a new plan with a single click, due to partner integrations.

HelloWalletPresenter1Presenters

Matt Fellowes, Chief Innovation Officer at Morningstar, Founder of HelloWallet
Fellowes has been named a “Game Changer” and a “Tech Titan” for building companies and innovations that help all Americans achieve financial mobility.
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HelloWalletPresenter2Andrew Vincent, Senior Product Manager
Vincent is passionate about building engaging products that solve user problems and make life better. This is evident in the the work he has done in education, construction, and financial technology.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: InforcePRO

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: InforcePRO
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek, InforcePRO

InforceProhomepage

FF2015_logo_dateThe Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live onstage in front of 1,500 execs at FinovateFall. Get your tickets today and we’ll see you in New York, 16/17 September!

InforcePROInforcePROLogo will show a post-sale life insurance policyholder platform which enables one-click policy reviews by highlighting issues and opportunities in real time.

Features:

  • One-click policy reviews with conversion options, UL funding tracking, etc. on life insurance Inforce book
  • No manual effort in data acquisition
  • Orphan policyholders engagement

Why it’s great
Post-sale life insurance policyholder engagement simplified through automated in-force policy annual reviews.

Inforcepropresenter1Presenters

Karan Kanodia, Co-Founder
Kanodia is co-founder of InforcePro and is responsible for the overall strategic direction as well as designing the product architecture and leading InforcePro’s development teams.
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Inforcepropresenter2Cameron Jacox, Co-founder
Jacox is responsible for sales and marketing management, working to achieve profitability for clients such as ScotiaBank, Desjardins, and Financial Horizons.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Dealflow.com

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Dealflow.com
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Dealflow, FinovateFall 2015, FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek

DealflowHomepage

FF2015_logo_dateThe Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live onstage in front of 1,500 execs at FinovateFall. Get your tickets today and we’ll see you in New York, 16/17 September!

Dealflow.comDealflowLogo is building a deal portal for institutional investors and professional deal-makers.

Features:

  • Multi-asset class platform
  • Targeted algorithmic outreach
  • 9,000 applications for membership pre-launch

Why it’s great
It is solving the largest problem in the business of raising capital with software that creates targeted outreach to institutional investors.

DealflowPresenterPresenter

Steven Dresner, CEO
Dresner is founder and CEO of Dealflow.com and is responsible for corporate strategy; he has started, managed, and sold two successful companies.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: additiv

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: additiv
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: additiv, FinovateFall 2015, FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek

AdditivHomepage

FF2015_logo_dateThe Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live onstage in front of 1,500 execs at FinovateFall. Get your tickets today and we’ll see you in New York, 16/17 September!

AdditivLogoAdditiv is based on a powerful platform. Additiv Digital Finance Suite (DFS) conceptualizes and implements digital innovation and business models for the financial services market, banking and insurance.

Features of DFS:

  • Additiv DFS: digitization realized fast and efficiently
  • Offers references for full self-service, hybrid, or personal adviser-focused solutions
  • Focuses on the private, retail, mass affluent and insurance markets

Why it’s great
Time is money. Additiv DFS has implemented innovative solutions in a very short amount of time for many customers. It starts with rapid prototyping to get a fully functional solution in six weeks.

additivpresenterPresenter

Michael Stemmle, Founder, Owner and CEO
Stemmle is a long-term consultant with a focus on the development and implementation of business, sales and distribution strategies for the financial and insurance industries.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Empyr

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Empyr
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Empyr, FinovateFall 2015, FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek

EmpyrHomepage

FF2015_logo_dateThe Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live onstage in front of 1,500 execs at FinovateFall. Get your tickets today and we’ll see you in New York on 16/17 September!

EmpyrLogoEmpyr is an online-to-offline ad platform created for publishers such as banks and card issuers.

Features of Empyr:

  • Your consumers get cash back at restaurants, gas, grocery etc.
  • Banks earn revenue from each transaction
  • It works with any debit or credit card

Why it’s great
The vast majority of commerce—93%, or more than $4 trillion dollars—is offline. Yet, there is no simple way to track a customer from the point of seeing an ad online to making a purchase offline, known as online-to-offline commerce.

EmpyrPresenterPresenter

Jon Carder, Founder and CEO
Carder is a serial internet entrepreneur who, by the age of 30, had founded three multimillion-dollar online businesses. The most successful, ClientShop, was sold to Internet Brands in 2006 for $10+ million dollars.
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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Finanteq

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Finanteq
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Finanteq, FinovateFall 2015, FinovateFall 2015 Sneak Peek

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FF2015_logo_date The Sneak Peek series looks at the innovators demoing live onstage to 1,500 execs at FinovateFall. Last chance for tickets!

FINANTEQLogoFinanteq is continually helping innovative financial institutions win in mobile.

Features:

  • Next-generation mobile banking
  • Offers real value over banking and payments
  • Simplifies customers’ everyday lives

FinanteqPresenter1Why it’s great
Superwallets transform m-banking into an m-commerce platform.

Presenters

FinanteqPresenter2Kate Miroslaw, Key Account Manager
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Tomasz Perski, m-Commerce Operations Manager
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Artur Małek, Marketing Manager
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Last Call! FinovateFall Tickets Going … Going …

Last Call! FinovateFall Tickets Going … Going …
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015

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If you’ve put off registering for FinovateFall, there’s little time to spare! Tickets to the conference taking place 16/17 September in New York are selling fast as we approach the 1,500 mark. Pick up yours now.

The two-day show will be packed with live demos of new fintech innovations, interspersed with bursts of high-impact networking. If you’ve never been to a Finovate conference before, check out the list of presenters, subject matter, and attendees. Here’s the final schedule:

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If you have any questions about FinovateFall, contact info@finovate.com.

We’ll see you in New York!

FinovateFall is sponsored by The Bancorp, CapitalSource, Envestment, Financial Technology Partners, Hudson Cook, KPMG, and Zions SBIC.

FinovateFall is partners with Aite, American Bankers Association, Bank Innovators Council,BankersHub, bobsguide, Breaking Banks, California Bankers Association, Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Celent, CoinTelegraph, Crowdfund Beat, Ebanking News, Hotwire, IDC Financial Insights, Javelin,Let’s Talk Payments, Mapa Research, Mercator Advisory Group, MergerMarket, The New Economy, NYPAY, The Paypers, SME Finance Forum, and World Finance.

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FinDEVr Early Bird Ticket Discount Ends Friday

FinDEVr Early Bird Ticket Discount Ends Friday
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr 2015

FinDEVrdemoshot

If you’ve been thinking of a trip to San Francisco to connect with the fintech-developer community, we have the event for you. Head to USCF’s Mission Bay campus, 6/7 October, for the second annual FinDEVr.

Not only do developers get a special, half-price ticket, everyone saves an extra $100 at the early bird ticket rate, available only through this Friday, 11 September.

The two-day, dual-track conference will be packed with more than 60 companies showcasing new tools, techniques and APIs. The final agenda is below, check here for the presenter lineup:

FinDEVrAgenda

This year’s conference is slightly different from last year’s. We’ll host presentations followed by Q&A sessions, and intersperse demoes with networking breaks.

We’ll be returning to the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco and will see you there!

If you have any questions about the event, check out the FAQ section of the FinDEVr homepage, or contact SanFran@FinDEVr.com.

FinDEVr is sponsored by Yodlee Interactive. Our event partners are the Bank Innovators Council, BankersHub, BayPay Forum, bobsguide, California Bankers Association, Celent, The CoinTelegraph, Mercator Advisory Group, and SF Fintech.

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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Auvenir, Avoka, Backbase, Betterment, BizEquity, Eco-Mail, Fiserv, Nostrum Group, Novabase, Ormsby Street, Payoneer, Wealthfront, Yseop, ZipZap, Zopa

On Finovate.com

  • “Last Call! FinovateFall Tickets Going … Going … “
  • “FinovateFall 2015: Mapping Fintech’s International Neighborhood”

Around the web

  • The Forrester Wave: Omnichannel Banking Solutions report recognizes Backbase as leader.
  • BizEquity signs contract with Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.
  • North American retailer Newegg chooses Payoneer to simplify its cross-border payments.
  • Zopa and Nostrum Group earn spots on The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 roster.
  • Philippine bitcoin-remittance service Rebit teams up with mobile money-transfer specialist, ZipZap.
  • Let’s Talk Payments looks at Wealthfront and Betterment in a discussion on the effectiveness of robo-advisers.

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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