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Wall Street Survivor Teaches Financial Concepts Through Hands-On Experience

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2011
Categories: Wall Street Survivor

Today, Wall Street Survivor demoed a platform that provides hands-on practice to aspiring investors:

“It couples a real-time stock market simulator with content to provide missions. Missions are a set of tasks that teach financial concepts such as creating a portfolio, researching stocks and mastering different trading strategies. Users learn through content and are given virtual cash to test their knowledge on the stock market simulator. Badges and rewards keep users engaged to keep pursuing missions. Wall Street Survivor also has leagues, where users can create their own virtual stock market competitions with their friends or join Wall Street Survivor’s leagues where the top traders win real cash.”

Product Launched: September 2011

HQ Location: Montreal, Canada

Company Founded: 2007

Metrics: 350,000 registered users, 3.5 million page views per month

Website: wallstreetsurvivor.com

Presenting Rory Olson (CEO) & Justin Evans (CPO)

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Samurai by FeeFighters Lets Merchants Accept Payments Online

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2011
Categories: FeeFighters

Next, FeeFighters shared Samurai, a platform that allows merchants to accept payments online:

“Samurai is a feature-rich gateway that provides ultimate flexibility at an affordable price. With Samurai, you’ll be able to integrate payments on your site in minutes. Samurai boasts premium features such as intelligent routing, data portability, and gateway emulation. Send payments anywhere at a transaction level, meaning you can send a transaction where it makes the most sense financially. It’s also universally compatible, so you aren’t locked into a particular provider. Incredibly easy setup at a fantastic and simple price: $10/month + $0.10/transaction, no other costs.”

Product Launched: September 2011

HQ Location: Chicago, IL

Company Founded: April 2009

Metrics: $1.6 Million Seed Round raised, 8 employees, 50,000 unique users/month, over 25,000 credit card processing auctions completed

Website: feefighters.com/samurai

Presenting Sean Harper (CEO) & Sheel Mohnot (Director of Business Development)

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CarryQuote’s IntelliCast Solution Delivers Financial Research and Multimedia Content

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2011
Categories: CarryQuote

This afternoon, CarryQuote shared a mobile research delivery solution, IntelliCast:

“A private-labeled solution that allows you to securely deliver proprietary research and multi-media content directly to your clients’ Apple, Android, BlackBerry, or Microsoft smartphones and tablets.

Through CarryQuote’s unique, SaaS-based mobile technology platform, which offers compatibility across all five major mobile platforms, CarryQuote IntelliCast allows you to place a highly-advanced, branded mobile application in your clients’ hands, and become their “go to” source for the latest financial research. Notably, this turnkey solution can be customized and deployed across all platforms in under six weeks.”

Product Launched: February 2011

HQ Location: Zug, Switzerland

Company Founded: July 2006

Product Launched: February 2011

Website: carryquote.com

Presenting Christian Erlandson (CEO) & Trevor Vale (Head of Sales, Americas)

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PayNearMe Allows Cash Payments for Online Bills

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2011
Categories: PayNearMe

PayNearMe started off the demos after lunch today with a unique payment platform that allows users to pay for online goods, rent, and utility bills using cash.

“PayNearMe combines a load network with a flexible application development platform that enables consumers to conduct a broad range of remote business transactions.We will demonstrate PayNearMe-based applications in international remittance, retail-enabled bill payment, and mobile payments with cash.”

Product Launched: September 15, 2010

HQ Location: Mountain View, CA

Company Founded: 2009

Website: paynearme.com

Presenting Danny Shader (CEO & Founder) & John Minor (VP Product and Support)

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BankSimple Unveils Its Modern Mobile Banking Experience

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2011
Categories: Simple

Finishing off today’s morning session, BankSimple publicly demonstrated its product for the first time:

“It’s a fast, easy-to-use web and mobile experience with advanced features such as a prominent Safe-To-Spend balance, fast natural language search, adjustable savings goals and much more.”

Product Launched: Soon

HQ Location: Portland, OR

Company Founded: October 2009

Metrics: $13M raised, 17 employees

Website: banksimple.com

Presenting Joshua Reich (CEO & Co-Founder) & Adam Erlebacher (VP Product Marketing & Operations)

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MasterCard’s inControl Service Features the Small Business Controller Product

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2011
Categories: MasterCard

This morning, MasterCard demonstrated a feature of inControl, the Small Business Controller service:

“MasterCard inControl is an innovative, flexible service, which enables issuers to easily introduce payment products that offer unparalleled controls and real-time alerts to both consumer and commercial cardholders.

The suite of inControl offerings satisfies strong end-user needs for high security and controlled access to spending accounts, while providing cost-efficiencies and speed-to-market for issuers without the need for any changes in the payment process at the merchant.”

Product Launched: The inControl platform first launched in 2008 with PurchaseControl for corporate clients. Since then, the inControl product suite has expanded to additional products for consumer cardholders. Today’s demo features the Small Business Controller product, which launched this summer.

HQ Location: Purchase, NY

Company Founded: 1966

Product Being Demoed: MasterCard inControlTM

Metrics: In 2010, $2.7 trillion in gross dollar volume was generated on MasterCard products by consumers around the world. Powered by the MasterCard Worldwide Network – the fastest payment processing network in the world – MasterCard processes over 23 billion transactions each year and has the capacity to handle 140 million transactions per hour, with an average network response time of 140 milliseconds and with 99.99 percent reliability. MasterCard’s net revenue for the full-year 2010 was $5.5 billion.

Website: mastercard.com/us/company/en

Presenting Dana Duman (VP, inControl Global Product Development)

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Lighter Capital’s RevenueLoan: Where Entrepreneurs Fund Entrepreneurs

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2011
Categories: Lighter Capital

Later this morning, Lighter Capital demonstrated its lending platform with a social twist:

“RevenueLoan is our light-weight and flexible financing option that fits an unmet need in the small business funding market. Our revenue-based finance model exchanges growth capital for a fixed percentage of a company’s revenues.

Entrepreneurs prefer this as there’s no dilution, no loss of control, and no fixed repayment schedule. For us, this provides a more scalable funding strategy as we have more consistent of repayment than venture investors while achieving higher rates of returns than banks. We’re also the first small business lender to build a company’s social media and web presence directly into our loan evaluation process.”

Product Launched: August 9, 2011

HQ Location: Seattle, WA

Company Founded: June 2010

Metrics: Funding raised to date: $6 million, Number of employees: 10, Number of financings to date: 10, Total $ value of financings to date: $1.4 million+

Website: lightercapital.com

Presenting Andy Sack (Founder & CEO) & Randall Lucas (Principal & VP Finance)

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Jingit Helps Consumers Earn Cash for Brand Engagement

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2011
Categories: Jingit

This morning, Jingit demonstrated its platform that helps consumers earn cash in exchange for brand engagement:

“With Jingit, you earn real cash (not credits, points or virtual currency) by engaging with brands. Instantly spend that cash to buy goods online with your Jingit balance, or in the real world with a Jingit Visa® Debit Card.”

Product Launched: August 2011

HQ Location: Minneapolis, MN

Company Founded: January 2010

Website: jingit.com

Presenting Joe Rogness (Co-CEO) & Todd Rooke (Co-CEO)

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planwise Helps Consumers Grasp and Plan Their Financial Future

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2011
Categories: planwise

Next to step up to the podium is planwise, a startup who aims to help all consumers understand and plan their financial future:

“We are to demo the core proposition of planwise, which enables the consumer to > Learn > Plan > Quote > Apply > Get Advice around any life plans they may have and the credit products that would be required to make them happen.

The tools enable any consumer from all ranges of demographic, age, financial or computer knowledge to better understand how the plans they make today affect their finances in the future, so they can make better decisions. We will be launching with demoing mortgage products.”

Product Launched: September 2011

HQ Location: San Francisco, CA

Company Founded: January 2011

Metrics: Money raised: $50,000, employees: 5, registered users: 50 pre-launch private beta, Traffic: Alexa Ranking 74,000 at August 1st, banks signed: 2

Website: planwise.com

Presenting Vincent Turner (CEO)

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InComm and CorFire Bring a Tailored Mobile Wallet Experience

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2011
Categories: InComm

Next this morning, InComm demonstrated its platform that enables retailers to directly involve themselves in the consumer experience:

“InComm’s innovation is a mobile commerce platform that will deliver promotion, loyalty, and general payment solutions to national merchants and their customers. This will differ from other mobile wallet platforms in that the solution will tailor to the retailer’s needs, providing a merchant-branded environment and thus, the ability to be directly involved in the consumer’s wallet experience.

When combined with loyalty and gifting, merchants will have a fully functional application that simplifies the consumer’s life, reducing the need for magnetic swipe technology and harboring next generation technologies such as near field communication.”

Product Launched: TBD, but likely Nov. 2011

HQ Location: Atlanta, GA

Company Founded: 1992

Metrics: $13 billion in retail transactions in 2010, More than 40 percent growth year-on- year in most product categories, More than 225,000 integrated retail locations, Available on five continents, 28 countries, 1,400 employees, 74 worldwide patents, unique monthly visitors: 6,825

Website: incomm.com

Presenting Dustin Young (VP Product Strategy) & John Anderson (VP E-Commerce & Mobile)

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oFlows Helps You Go Paperless

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2011
Categories: oFlows

Next up this morning is oFlows, which demonstrated how you can use its platform to go paperless:

“This year we have expanded beyond financial institutions and have made the oFlows technology platform available to everyone. So if you are still using paper for your applications, purchase orders, order forms or just about any other kind of transaction, oFlows can help.

We take your products, forms and rules and put them into a completely paperless mobile platform that will run the rules, make offers, fill the forms, get them signed and manage all of the required supporting documentation – all from iPads, Android tablets and smartphones. And because oFlows seamlessly integrates with payments systems, you can complete complex transactions or take deposits on the spot. So now you can transact anywhere, anytime without having to lug around a clipboard full of paper forms.”

Product Launched: September 2011

HQ Location: San Francisco, CA

Company Founded: 2009

Website: oflows.com

Presenting Scott Pitts (CEO) & Rajesh Jayaraman (CTO)

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FamZoo Helps Parents Teach Good Money Habits

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2011
Categories: FamZoo

This morning, FamZoo demonstrated a co-branded version of its product that helps parents instill children with good financial habits:

“FamZoo Partner Edition allows credit unions, banks, financial advisors, and other financial organizations to offer a co-branded version of the FamZoo Virtual Family Bank to their client families. Using FamZoo Partner Edition, organizations can:

Develop an ongoing relationship with next generation clients early on
Provide a natural on-ramp to real world financial products
Deliver innovative, hands-on youth financial education that is more effective than existing content and games.”

Product Launched: September 2011

HQ Location: Palo Alto, CA

Company Founded: August 2006

Metrics: Private funding $900K, 2 employees, initial product launched January 2010, 1565 registered families, 8% trial-to-paid conversion rate, $425K of spending/giving transactions by kids tracked to date.

Website: famzoo.com

Presenting Bill Dwight (Founder & CEO)

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