Cachet Financial Solutions Prices IPO, Seeks to Raise More than $7 Million

Cachet Financial Solutions Prices IPO, Seeks to Raise More than $7 Million

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Guess who quietly just went public?

Cachet Financial Solutions announced the pricing of its initial public offering this week. The remote deposit capture (RDC) and mobile wallet solution provider will trade on the OTCBB under the ticker, CHTF CAFN (see update below). Four and a half million shares priced initially at $1.50 have been made available to the public.

Update: Cachet Financial Solutions changes their ticker symbol to CAFN.

Late in trading on Thursday, shares were up more than 1%.
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The goal of the offering is to raise as much as $7.7 million (if an over-allotment option is fully exercised; closer to $6.7 million). Northland Capital Markets is the book-running manager for the IPO, with The Benchmark Company and MLV & Co. serving as co-managers.
Cachet’s SEC filings provide some insights into the company’s finances – at least as of this spring. Cachet Financial Solutions’ revenues of more than $476,000 for the three months ending March 31, 2014 were up more than 145% from the same period a year ago. A comparison of Cachet’s net losses between the two periods reflects similar improvement, with the company trimming its losses by more than 53%. As of March 31, Cachet had more than $91,000 in cash and cash equivalents.
Known for its RDC and mobile money management solutions, Cachet Financial Solutions is a cloud-based, software-as-a-service innovator. With recent deployments at Navy Federal Credit Union, FirstView LLC, and The Bancorp Bank in just the past month, Cachet Financial is taking advantage of the growing interest among banks and FIs to provide better experiences for their customs via technology.
Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Cachet Financial Solutions demoed its technology at FinovateFall 2012 in New York. See a video of the company on stage here.

Alumni News– July 10, 2014

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgOptimal Payments announces partnership with Oink.
  • Braintree releases v.zero SDK, featuring support for Pay with PayPal.
  • Bank Innovation highlights leaders at Ripple, LoopPay, Finect, and Fiserv in its list of 30 key innovators in fintech.
  • Segmint named a Preferred Vendor of MAGNET Global Network.
  • Holvi preps to launch into Irish marketplace.
  • doxo named one of Washington State’s 100 Best Companies to Work For 2014 by Seattle Business magazine.
  • Think Advisor features the different approaches of 3 robo-advisors: Betterment, Personal Capital, and Wealthfront.
  • Cachet Financial Solutions prices Initial Public Offering.
  • DoubleBeam’s GoPago POS system is enabling Slyde, a mobile commerce beacon-enabled shopping app.
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.

Alumni News– July 8, 2014

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgTop Image Systems signs agreement to acquire cloud-based banking solutions provider, EGistics.
  • Prestadero raises more than $670K in series B funding round.
  • ACI Worldwide to bring electronic billpay to Southern Auto Finance Company (SAFCo).
  • P2Binvestor crowdlends $2 million line of credit to fellow Finovate alum.
  • Mike Branton of StrategyCorps discusses the “three big threes of checking” in CB Insight.
  • Lending Club facilitates $1 billion of loans in Q2 2014, which brings it to a total of $5 billion since its inception.
  • ReadyForZero announces two new resource centers: Get Out of Debt and Auto Loan Resources.
  • First American Credit Union hires Insuritas to launch insurance agency to build non-cyclical fee income.
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.

Prestadero Raises More than $670K in Series B Funding Round

Prestadero Raises More than $670K in Series B Funding Round

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A week after we published our quarterly alumni funding roundup for Q2 2014, it looks like Q3 is already off to a nice start on the funding front.

At the beginning of the month we shared news of Moven’s $8 million funding. And the strides Yodlee is making toward an IPO sooner than later made headlines soon after.

And now today we can add Prestadero to the list of Finovate alums that find themselves in a money-raising mood. The peer-to-peer lender finished its second round of funding by raising $677,000 (8.8 million Mexican pesos).
The investment more than doubles the company’s previous total of $400,000 – raised almost a year ago to the week – taking Prestadero’s total capital to more than $1.7 million (more than 13.8 million Mexican pesos).
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Specific investors in this round were not disclosed, but the company referred to the contributors in a statement as “international leaders in the financial services sector in Mexico and abroad.”
Prestadero will use the additional capital to add new functionality to its platform, and to accelerate growth.
Stats:
  • Founded in 2011
  • Headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico
  • Provides unsecured personal loans ranging from 10,000 to 250,000 Mexican pesos
  • Offers approved borrowers rates ranging from 8.9% to 28.9% annually
  • Offered lenders net annualized returns of 15%
Gerardo Obregón is CEO.
Prestadero demoed its technology at FinovateSpring 2013 in San Francisco. See a video of the company on stage here.

Alumni News– July 7, 2014

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgAmerican Banker features Tradeshift in a column on startups innovating in the small business bill pay space.
  • Credit Union Broadcast interviews Greg Ewald, VP of Marketing for Loop.
  • Zighra partners with Toyuma to launch a Kickstarter project to launch PassZweipe, a password manager app.
  • Billhighway to provide automated donation processing for The Michigan Humane Society.
  • Open Bank Project organizing Hack/Make The Bank hackathon in Berlin. Check out more builder tools at FinDEVr this Fall.
  • Bill.com, ZenPayroll, and Expensify earn spots Sqrl blog’s list of 39 apps you didn’t know could grow your business.
  • Narrative Science’s Kris Hammond is featured in Business Insider’s Technology section.
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.

Alumni News– July 3, 2014

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgMisys launches new, modular core banking solution, FusionBanking Essence.
  • MicroStrategy, TIBCO listed among 16 most significant business intelligence software vendors in new Forrester report.
  • The New York Times Business Day interviews Adam Nash, CEO of Weathfront.
  • Wired Money startup pitch competition features Finvoate alums CurrencyTransfer and eToro.
  • Facebook chooses Braintree as sole payments provider for its FbStart program.
  • Tradeshift makes CPO Rising’s 2014 Hot Tech Prospect list.
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.

Emida Launches New Smartphone Android POS App

Emida Launches New Smartphone Android POS App

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Just in time for the second half of 2014, Emida’s Android POS app is ready for launch.

Traci Jones, VP of Global Product Development said, “We know through our 20 years of experience that we excel in prepaid technology simply because we understand the needs of our partners, worldwide.”

The new Android app is optimized for both Android smartphones and tablets, and provides much of the same functionality as Emida’s POS terminals. The app is available to all of Emida’s U.S. partners.
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Emida maintains an international network that allows carriers, service providers, merchants, retailers and others to offer prepaid products to their customers via standard POS terminals. These prepaid products and services range from wireless and long distance, to bill pay and lottery, to stored value card and international top-up.
Take a look at a handful of Emida metrics:
  • Headquartered in Foothill Ranch, California
  • Operates in 37 countries worldwide
  • Supports network with more than 54,000 retail points
  • Network annual dollar payment volume of more than $1.5 billion
  • Network processes more than 240 million annual payment transactions
David Kirtman is CEO.
Emida demoed its technology as part of the FinovateFall 2012 conference in New York. See the company in action here.

Seeking to Raise $75 Million, Yodlee Files for its Initial Public Offering

Seeking to Raise $75 Million, Yodlee Files for its Initial Public Offering

Thumbnail image for YodleeLogo2012.jpgEarlier this year, we were thrilled to announce the first company to go public as a Finovate alum, Q2.

This week we learn that another alum, Yodlee, is taking the IPO plunge, as well.
With a goal of raising $75 million, Yodlee has filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, indicating its intention to become a public entity.
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According to The Silicon Valley Business Journal, Yodlee plans to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol, YDLE.
Yodlee is one of the engines powering a variety of digital and mobile technologies in the fintech space, from digital wallets to PFM solutions. The company’s account aggregation abilities and vast collection of transactional data from consumers and businesses are widely sought after by startups and established companies alike.
A few metrics about Yodlee shared in the S-1:
  • More than 750 organizations in more than 10 countries use Yodlee’s platform
  • More than half of the 15 largest banks in the United States are Yodlee customers
  • More than 100 million end users reached by Yodlee technology via the company’s network of partners
  • More than 15 million paid users as of the March 31, 2014
  • Revenues in 2013 grew 21% to more than $70 million
  • Revenues during the first three months of 2014 grew 34% to more than $19 million
  • Net loss of $1.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2013
  • EBITDA of $4.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2013
  • EBITDA of $885,000 for the three months ending March 31, 2014
Yodlee is a three time Best of Show winner, having taken home trophies after demos at Finovate 2009, FinovateFall 2013, and FinovateAsia 2013. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Yodlee recently announced partnerships with Startupbootcamp, 25fifteen, and Entrepreneurial Spark. Anil Arora is Yodlee’s president and CEO.

Alumni News– July 2, 2014

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgSafetyPay announces partnership with Alpha Payments Cloud.
  • Reuters Insider interviews Igor Gonta, CEO of Market Prophit.
  • Q2 partners with Easy Solutions to bring multi-factor authentication to FIs.
  • Yodlee files for initial public offering; seeks to raise $75 million.
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.

Q2 Partners with Easy Solutions to Bring Total Fraud Protection Suite to FIs

Q2 Partners with Easy Solutions to Bring Total Fraud Protection Suite to FIs

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Courtesy of a new partnership between Q2 and Easy Solutions, more than 340 financial institutions will now have access to a suite of omni-channel fraud prevention solutions.

Integrating Easy Solutions’ Total Fraud Protection Platform will give banks and credit unions are Q2’s virtual banking technology additional protection against attacks including phishing, farming, malware, Man-in-the-Middle and Main-in-the-Browser.

Jay McLaughlin, chief security officer and senior VP of Q2 said, “Security and fraud protection are crucial pieces of what customers depend on us to provide.” Added VP of Worldwide Sales at Easy Solutions, Alberto Arango, “Q2 is an innovator and has seen impressive growth in acceptance of its platforms, delivering virtual banking to more than 3.5 million retail an commercial users.”
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Q2 is an innovator in the field of cloud-based virtual banking. The technology company specializes in providing solutions for community banks, regional banks, and credit unions. the company was most recently in the press announcing a handful of deployments at financial institutions like First Financial Bank and Urban Partnership Bank.
Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company launched an initial public offering in March, and trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker, QTWO. Matthew Flake is CEO.
A few metrics on Q2:
  • Revenue growth of 51% in 2013
  • Market capitalization of more than $495 million
  • Trailing 12-month revenue (as of March 31, 2014) of more than $60 million
Q2 demoed its Risk & Fraud Analytics solution at FinovateSpring 2011 in San Francisco. See the company’s demo here.

Moven Raises $8 Million to Help Launch Overseas Expansion

Moven Raises $8 Million to Help Launch Overseas Expansion

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Growing the business and expanding offshore are now possible thanks to the $8 million (£4.7 million) in funding just raised by Moven.

Leading the series A round was SBT Venture Capital. Among those also participating were: 

  • Anthemis Group
  • New York Angels
  • Route 66 Ventures
  • Standard Bank
Additional unnamed angel investors were also involved in the round. This latest investment takes Moven’s total capital to more than $12 million.
Moven founder and CEO Brett King broke the news at the Wired Money conference on Tuesday. And as reported in Wired UK, Moven will also be announcing two major partnerships, one in Canada and one in New Zealand, that Brett believes will help take the company closer to its 10 million app download goal.
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Moven helps consumers better control their spending and manage their finances without traditional budgeting. What is compelling is the way Moven tracks not just whether spending is above or below trend, but also where the extra spending is coming from. This gives users a great deal of insight, as well as a lot of control over spending and saving. Moven’s technology includes a mobile app, a debit card, and a contactless sticker.
Moven emerged from beta this spring after receiving more than 100,000 invite requests from eager, would-be early adopters. Shortly afterward, the company announced that it had partnered with fellow Finovate alum, MoneyDesktop, to make it easier for Moven users to aggregate their outside accounts. 
Moven was founded in March 2011, and is headquartered in New York City.
Winner of a Best of Show award for their demo at FinovateEurope 2013, Moven was last on the Finovate stage for FinovateSpring 2013 in San Francisco. See a demo of the company in action here.

Alumni News– July 1, 2014

  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgPuget Sound Business Journal profiles Doxo co-founder and CEO, Steve Shivers.
  • Techcrunch column on the “un-banking of America” highlights a dozen Finovate alums.
  • Mentors International deploying Mambu’s cloud banking platform.
  • Finovate alums raise more than $600 million for second quarter in a row.
  • People’s Trust Federal Credit Union teams up with Insuritas to provide insurance solutions for its 26,000 members.
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.