Author: Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz)

FinovateFall 2015 in the Media

FinovateFall 2015 in the Media
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015

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Although FinovateFall 2015 is over, it left behind plenty of new innovations, piles of fresh business cards, and a plethora of press coverage.

Thanks to everyone who attended, and especially those who spent long hours covering the event on their publication.

Below is the press coverage; if we’ve missed any, please send to julie@finovate.com.

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American Banker
Can an App Fix Debt Collectors’ Image? This Startup Thinks So
by Mary Wisniewski
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Dominant Theme at Finovate: Authentication Needs Fixing
by Penny Crosman
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Bank Innovation
FinovateFall, Day One: All Aboard the Mobile Train
by Phillip Ryan
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FinovateFall, Day Two: Tackling the Identity Problem
by Phillip Ryan
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Why Marketplace Lending Is Set to Boom
by JJ Hornblass
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Barlow Research Associates
Innovations to Excite: Business Banking Customers Benefit
by Donna Arce
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Beyond the Arc blog
Innovation in Financial Services—FinovateFall 2015
by Stephen Ramirez
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Byte Academy
Finovate History—Behind One of The Largest FinTech Conferences
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The Latest Fintech Innovations for Millennials
By Millennial EH
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Celent blog
Mobile, onboarding among dominant themes at FinovateFall 2015
by Dan Latimore
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Why Banks Should Pay Attention to “Assistant as an App”
by Stephen Greer
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Centrumpr.pl
Finanteq z główną nagrodą na Finovate w Nowym Jorku (in Polish)
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CSTMR
FinovateFall 2015: Day 1, Recap + 5 Highlights (and some interesting tidbits)
by Rory Holland
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FinovateFall 2015: Day 2, Recap + 8 Winners
by Rory Holland
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FierceFinanceIT
Open APIs continue to gain steam
By Renee Caruthers
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The Financial Brand
Account Opening and Onboarding Solutions Dominate Finovate
by Jim Marous
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Finextra
Reflections on FinovateFall: Mobile, Money and Millennials
by Dan Glessner
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The Fintech Blog
Fintech’s Zeitgeist
by Michael Halloran
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Forbes
5 New Tech Tools to Save Money and Invest Better
Richard Eisenberg
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Do-It-Yourself Securitization of Marketplace Loans with Startup Ldger
by Amy Feldman
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SMB Cash Advance Firm MCC, Rebranded as Bizfi, Wants to Matchmake Small Businesses and Lenders
by Amy Feldman
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Javelin Strategy and Research blog
FinovateFall 2015 Prequel–A Smorgasbord of Fintech Snark
by Nick Holland
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Ldger blog
How We Prepared for our First Finovate
by Hyung Kim
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Le Temps
New York, nouveau pôle d’attraction pour la fintech (in French)
by Yves Hulmann
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Let’s Talk Payments
BIZFI launches API and White-label Solutions to Increase Small Business’s Access to Capital at Finovate New York
by LTP Team
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Members Development Company
MDC Attends Finovate
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Money Summit
FinovateFall 2015, Day One: Live Blog
by Jon Ogden
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Finovate Fall 2015, Day Two: Live Blog
by Jeff Meredith
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New York Business Journal
Horrible banking is reimagined by these 12 N.Y.C. Fintech startups
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Millennial banking startup and e-commerce innovator take top N.Y.C. Finovate honors
by Michael del Castillo
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Next Avenue
5 New Tech Tools to Save Money and Invest Better
by Richard Eisenberg
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NextFin
Fintech Autumn Tour: conferences, lectures and panel discussions on the state of things
by Hartmut Giesen
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The Paypers
Socure introduces facial authentication solution
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Xignite, 21 innovators to launch the #FintechRevolution API Ecosystem
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Pymnts.com
Are Sound Waves the Future of Mobile Payments?
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FinovateFall 2015 Recap: How Fintech Companies Pitch Innovation
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Making the Mobile Wallet the ‘Better Way’ to Pay
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Why Soundpays Says Sound Waves are the Way to Pay
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Quisk blog
Reflections on FinovateFall: Mobile, money and millennials
by Dan Glessner
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TechDay News
Finovate History—Behind One of the Largest FinTech Conferences
by Emily Hunt
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The Latest Fintech Innovations for Millennials
by Emily Hunt
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WealthManagement.com
Twenty-three Wealth Management Innovations at Finovate Fall 2015
by Ryan W. Neal
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TheWealthNet
First the robo-adviser, now comes the digital private bank (paywall)
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William Mills Blog
FinovateFall 2015 Day 1: Video Recap
by William Mills and Stephen Ramirez
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FinovateFall 2015: Final Recap
by William Mills and Stephen Ramirez
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FinovateFall 2015 Interview with Steven Ramirez and David Eads, CEO of Gro Solutions
by Stephen Ramirez
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FinovateFall 2015 Live Blog—Day 1
by William Mills, Stephen Ramirez, and K.T. Mills
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FinovateFall 2015 Live Blog—Day 2
by William Mills, Stephen Ramirez, and K.T. Mills
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FinovateFall 2015 Morning Video Recap Day 1
by William Mills and Stephen Ramirez
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FinovateFall 2015 Video Interview: William Mills and CCG Catalyst
by William Mills
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FinovateFall 2015 Video Preview
by William Mills
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WMA CEO William Mills Discusses FinovateFall 2015—Video Preview
by William Mills
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Yodlee Interactive blog
Amazing App: How HelloWallet Improves Financial Wellness
by Jenna Cheng
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FinovateFall 2015 is sponsored by The Bancorp, CapitalSource, Envestnet, Financial Technology Partners, Hudson Cook, KPMG, and Zions Bank.

FinovateFall 2015 is partnered with Aite Group, American Bankers Association, Bank Innovators Council, BankersHub, bobsguide, Breaking Banks, California Bankers Association,Canadian Trade Commissioner Service, Celent, The Cointelegraph, CrowdFundBeat, ebanking news, HotWire, IDC Financial Insights, Javelin Strategy & Research, 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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Finovate Alumni News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: BlueVine, CellTrust, Check Point, CoverHound, Engage Financial Technology, eWise, Geezeo, Konto X, OnBudget, PayNearMe, SecureKey, ShopKeep POS, Stratos, Temenos, ThreatMetrix, TIO Networks, Trading Ticket

On Finovate.com

  • “CoverHound Completes $33 Million Series C”
  • “Trading Ticket Picks Up $4 Million in Seed Funding from Citi, Valar Ventures”

Around the web

  • Engage Financial Technology, formerly OnBudget, powers BBVA’s new ClearSpend mobile budgeting app.
  • Eastern Bank to pilot Stratos partner program.
  • PYMNTS considers BlueVine’s approach to factoring.
  • CellTrust named a finalist for Arizona Technology Council’s 2015 Governor’s Celebration of Innovation Awards.
  • SecureKey brings its SecureKey Concierge authentication and ID verification service to the U.S.
  • Temenos executive James Redfern joins eWise as Global Head of Sales.
  • Geezeo unveils new API website with revised REST API and .NET SDK.
  • ShopKeep acquires Ambur, an mPOS software specialist.
  • TIO Networks forms TIO Telecom Solutions, a new division focused on the needs of network operators.
  • ThreatMetrix experiences 50% increase in mobile volume since Sep 2014.
  • Kanto X hits $2+ billion in currency-exchange transactions.
  • Check Point and AirWatch partner to secure the future of the mobile enterprise.
  • 7-Eleven and PayNearMe launch PayNearMe Bill Pay app, a full-service bill-payment center.

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: Corezoid

FinDEVr Preview: Corezoid
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Corezoid.com, FinDEVr 2015 Preview

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateFinDEVr Previews highlight companies presenting new developer tools, platforms and integrations at the second annual FinDEVr, 6/7 October.

Corezoid.com is a cloud operating system that allows companies to build a digital core.
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Why it’s a must-see
Corezoid is a platform for building agile processes that are triggered by real-time events. Corezoid is a PaaS tool for creating IT solutions with the use of automata-based programming with explicit state selection. Corezoid is now available for global access on the Amazon Marketplace. Developers from all over the world can create their own digital core.

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FinDEVr Preview: Enterprise Engineering Inc.

FinDEVr Preview: Enterprise Engineering Inc.
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Enterprise Engineering, FinDEVr 2015 Preview

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateFinDEVr Previews highlight companies presenting new developer tools, platforms & integrations at the second annual FinDEVr, 6/7 October.

Enterprise Engineering Inc. (EEI) will be presenting its Trusted Network Platform, an advanced data-aggregation and -management software, consisting of both a core engine and an API. This technology drives innovation across industries enabling clients to offer leading products and services to the market, as well as gain insight from the information that is available.

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Why it’s a must-see
Experience a unique, trusted data-aggregation platform that powers the client experience and digital intelligence for the top-tier financial firms. The Trusted Network flexibly addresses multichannel, multiprotocol requirements for all financial solutions. Watch as they access this real-time data via direct connect and other traditional channels.

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FinDEVr Preview: Aerospike

FinDEVr Preview: Aerospike
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Aerospike, FinDEVr 2015 Preview

FinDEVr2015LogoV2DateFinDEVr Previews highlight companies presenting new developer tools, platforms & integrations at the second annual FinDEVr on 6/7 Oct.

Aerospike will present examples of projects that are best served by their decision-engine, which is a NoSQL approach. Aerospike will highlight common data-modeling pitfalls, plusses and minuses of different NoSQL solutions, and examples of hardware deployment and costs.

 

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Why it’s a must-see:
Learn how internet companies—adtech, retail, and social—have built real-time decision and pricing systems based on stateless compute-nodes and a fast, scalable NoSQL data-layer. The new stack will provide access to more data (petabytes) and supports agile, innovative algorithms and libraries that allow fintech companies to build offerings.

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Dynamics Debuts Improvements to Next-gen Payment Card

Dynamics Debuts Improvements to Next-gen Payment Card
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Dynamics, FinovateFall 2015

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

DynamicsLogoDynamics debuted a new program for its next-generation payment card:

The company’s commercial applications are the world’s first fully card-programmable payment interfaces—stripe, EMV, NFC—for use in next-generation payment cards.

Presenter: Jeff Mullen, CEO and founder

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Metrics: $110 million raised; 200 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to business (B2B); through financial institutions

HQ: Cheswick, Pennsylvania
Founded: November 2007
Website: dynamicsinc.com
Twitter: @dynamicsinc

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RedCloud Launches RedCloud 1 to Offer a Mobile Transaction Engine

RedCloud Launches RedCloud 1 to Offer a Mobile Transaction Engine
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, RedCloud

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

RedCloudTechnologyLogoRedCloud Technology launches its RedCloud 1 Platform:

Available on-site, off-site, or as a hybrid cloud solution, RedCloud 1 enables organizations to launch highly disruptive financial services and provides an immensely powerful and flexible transaction engine and processing platform delivered through mobile devices. While the Financial Service Cloud (payments, savings, and/or loans) is our flagship product, we also have Agent, Merchant, and Insurance Clouds.

Separate or combined, our clouds empower banks, mobile network operators, insurers, and fintech companies that process payments with the ability to get a powerful, user-friendly digital offering in to the hands of their customers, positioning them as an innovator. Our clouds are available through a pay-as-you-grow pricing model.

Presenters: Justin Floyd, founder of Red Cloud, and Matthew Smith, product manager

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Product launch: October 2015
Product distribution strategy: Direct to business (B2B); through financial institutions; through other FinTech companies and platforms; licensed

HQ: London, United Kingdom
Founded: February 2014
Website: redcloudtechnology.com
Twitter: @RedCloudTech

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Ethoca’s Alerts Help Online Merchants Avoid Chargebacks

Ethoca’s Alerts Help Online Merchants Avoid Chargebacks
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Ethoca, FinovateFall 2015

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

Ethoca is demonstrating how its Alerts help online merchants stop fraud:

Ethoca Alerts is an award-winning service used by thousands of ecommerce merchants and online businesses to stop fraud, eliminate chargebacks, and increase acceptance. Leveraging Ethoca’s global collaboration network, it provides the industry’s largest source of cardholder-confirmed fraud and customer-dispute data, direct from the card-issuer source.

Ethoca Alerts arrive in near real time rather than weeks later through the normal chargeback process. Merchants now have advance notification of impending chargebacks and can take immediate action to stop them at the source, eliminating unnecessary costs and poor customer experience.

Presenters: Steve Durney, SVP, issuer relations, and Julie Fergerson, SVP, industry solutions

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Metrics: Ethoca is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with international offices located in Austin, Texas; London, England; Dublin, Ireland; and France. Ethoca has 100+ employees.

HQ: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Product launch: 2011
Website: ethoca.com

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PaySwag Launches Payment Collection App for the Underbanked

PaySwag Launches Payment Collection App for the Underbanked
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, PaySwag

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

PaySwagLogoPaySwag will tell us about the launch of its simple payment-collection app:

PaySwag‘s payment, rewards, education, and feedback engine offers a gamified mobile experience for improving the financial lives of the underbanked. The mobile app simplifies the collection of payments, fees, and fines with cash or cards. Customers are rewarded for paying on time, completing financial and life skills education, and maintaining communication.

Never before has this demographic been incentivized with Amazon gift cards, Redbox rentals, or Starbucks lattes just for keeping a payment plan. The robust administrative back-end also provides advanced workflow, security, integration, and analytics capabilities.

Presenters: PaySwag’s CEO Max Haynes and CTO Mark Miller

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Product launch: September 2015
Metrics: $500,000 privately funded to date; 8 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to business (B2B); through financial institutions; through other fintech companies and platforms; licensed

HQ: Reno, Nevada
Founded: October 2014
Website: payswag.com

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Quisk Launches Digital Services Platform

Quisk Launches Digital Services Platform
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, Quisk

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

QuiskLogoQuisk debuted its digital services platform:

Quisk is demonstrating several consumer transactions, including person-to-merchant (P2M), person-to-person (P2P), and more, powered by its patented cloud-based digital services platform. Quisk works with banks to integrate its platform to back-end core banking platforms and offers an API for third-party developers.

Unlike current mobile-network 0perator-led mobile money initiatives, Quisk is the next generation of mobile money: bank-led, interoperable, and for a wider range of transactions. For consumers: Quisk is your money from your bank, but without the cash, without the cards, and without the wallet.

Presenters from left: CTO Praveen Amancherla and Dan Glessner, chief marketing officer

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Product launch: September 2015
Metrics: $20 million+ raised; revenue in second half of 2015; active projects in two countries in the Caribbean and Middle East; ~30 employees (tech- and payments-industry veterans)
Product distribution strategy: Direct to business (B2B); through financial institutions

HQ: Sunnyvale, California
Founded: January 2010
Website: quisk.co
Twitter: @quiskpay

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LiftForward Debuts Technology-as-a-Service Marketplace-loan Platform

LiftForward Debuts Technology-as-a-Service Marketplace-loan Platform
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, LiftForward

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

LiftForwardLogoThen, LiftForward debuted TaaSLift, a Technology-as-a-Service Marketplace-loan Platform:

LiftForward’s marketplace-loan platform is the basis for the launch of its new Technology-as-a-Service platform, TaaSLift, for corporations, manufacturers, suppliers and retailers. TaaSLift provides a plug-and-play method for businesses to offer their small business product as a service.

This month, Microsoft launched its first TaaSLift program, providing members with software, support and a new Surface Pro III every 12, 24, or 36 months. By replacing expensive, one-time purchases with affordable subscriptions, TaaSLift helps companies increase sales while strengthening customer relationships.

Presenters: LiftForward CEO Jeffrey Rogers and CTO Michael Grassotti

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Product launch: July 2015
Metrics: LiftForward capitalization: $2.3 million, Series A, August 2014; $2 million debt financing, August 2014; $7 million debt financing, March 2015; $250 million debt financing, July 2015; 10 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to business (B2B); through financial institutions; through other fintech companies and platforms

HQ: New York City, New York
Founded: September 2013
Website: liftforward.com
Twitter: @LiftForward

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LiquidLandscape Debuts Notebook, a Risk-visualization Workspace

LiquidLandscape Debuts Notebook, a Risk-visualization Workspace
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, LiquidLandscape

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

LiquidLandscapeLogoNext, LiquidLandscape debuted Notebook, its risk-visualization workspace:

LiquidLandscape Notebook is a collaborative, risk-visualization and -exploration workspace. Problem identified, problem communicated, problem solved.

Presenters from left: Co-founders David Lin, CTO, and CEO Margit Zwemer

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Product launch: June 2015
Metrics: Barclays/Techstars Accelerator, London
Product distribution strategy: Direct to business (B2B)

HQ: San Francisco, California
Founded: July 2013
Website: getliquidlandscape.com
Twitter: @lqdlandscape

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