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Next, we have Inner8 on stage with a demo from CEO Doug Doyle and Director of Product Sam Kasle.

Inner8 will be demo’ing an innovative approach for investing.

Inner8 is one of the youngest companies on stage, having launched the private beta just a few weeks ago. They call themselves the “match.com” of investing. They can match people to people, people to specific stocks, or even market conditions to specific stocks.

Next up is another alum of Finovate Startup, Matt Iverson, CEO of Boulevard R.

Boulevard R helps consumers with longer-term financial planning issues such as retirement planning.

Boulevard R helps users create a financial plan online using a 3-step process. The site allows users to work with a certified financial planner. They also have an integration with Advanta credit cards.

Users can go back and use the dashboard to see the plan they’ve produced and alter any of the inputs. They also have a “what if” key to run different planning scenarios.

Next up is Mitchell Savage, EVP of Vidoop. Vidoop also appeared on stage at our Finovate Startup conference in April as Confident Technologies.

Vidoop provides solutions for login authentication and password management.

Vidoop showed an out-of-band authentication solution where during login the server calls the customer via telephone, and the user must either press # or, if preferred, enter a 4-digit PIN code to be authenticated via phone.

They also showed their visual approach, a “secret hidden in plain view,” in production at Charles Schwab.

Banks can use the system free-of-charge if they allow some of the visual images to contain product placements. On the demo, a Smart Car was shown as one of the visual image choices.

Next up is Sybase 365, with a demo from Cameron Franks, director of mCommerce America and Carroll Cucarola, technical account manager.

In its first appearance at Finovate, Sybase will show innovations from their mobile suite for banking and payments.

Sybase showed the broad capabilities of its mobile suite including the intelligent SMS capability that uses natural language syntax so users can determine the command to text a request to the bank, e.g., “what’s my balance” or “balance.”

The next presenter is Gabe Griego, VP marketing at Wesabe. 

Wesabe was the first online personal finance company to integrate social aspects into its service. The Silicon Valley company launched in late 2006 and appeared at Finovate Startup in April.

What’s new
Wesabe has added new graphing capabilities to easier compare your personal data with the community. You can also compare spending at individual merchants based on how the user has rated the merchant: fan vs. user vs. captive.

Next up, one of the newest companies at Finovate, WeSeed. The demo will be shown by Jennifer Openshaw, president/co-founder and Steve Simoncic, creative director. 

WeSeed is an investment site targeted for beginning or novice investors. Its motto is “investing for the rest of us.” They are signing up beta testers now.

Much of this week’s NetBanker coverage will focus on our annual financial innovations showcase in New York City, Finovate 2008. On Tuesday, we’ll post updates on all 24 presenting companies (list here). Wednesday we’ll announce the official Best of Show winners, as voted on by the nearly 400 attendees (see note).

We’d like to thank the presenters shown above and our four sponsors, Qualcomm’s  Firethorn, Microsoft’s MSN Money, RBC Venture Partners, and the law firm Chambliss, Bahner, & Stophel, who also sponsored Finovate Startup.  

But most of all, we applaud our  attendees for continuing their focus on new technology and creative thinking during trying economic times.

Note: There are still a handful of seats remaining, if you’d like to attend click here.