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AcceptEmail Removes the Hassle from Paying Bills

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: AcceptEmail, FinovateFall 2015

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

AcceptEmail demonstrated how it’s making it easier for customers to pay bills:

AcceptEmail delivers payment requests directly to the customer’s mobile device or desktop via various messaging solutions including email, IM, QR code, and social media. The customer may make a payment any time and from anywhere, directly from the inbox, with just a few clicks. There are no apps to download, no registering, no logging in.

Payment may come from the customer’s bank account via Verified ACH, by credit or debit card, or via a third-party method. Once the payment goes through, the status bar changes from blue (due) to green (paid) in real time. Customers love AcceptEmail’s simplicity and convenience.

AcceptEmail presenters: CTO Geerten Oelering and CEO Peter Kwakernaak

Product Launch: April 2014
Metrics: 20 employees; offices in Amsterdam, Brussels, London, and New York
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

HQ: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Founded: September 2006
Website: acceptemail.com
Twitter: @AcceptEmail

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DAVO Technologies Collects, Files, and Pays Sales Tax on Merchants’ Behalf

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: DAVO Technologies, FinovateFall 2015

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

Next, DAVO Technologies showed how its solution automatically collects, files, and pays sales tax on merchants’ behalf:

DAVO Sales Tax is the automated sales tax solution for small to mid-sized merchants. DAVO’s patented process automatically and passively collects, files, and pays sales tax for a merchant utilizing the ACH and card payments networks. This unique process integrates with a merchant’s POS and back-end accounting packages, setting aside the total sales tax collected daily, holding it safe and secure. DAVO’s goal is to do for sales tax what ADP and Paychex did for payroll.

Presenter, center: CEO of Davo, Owen Brown

Product Launch: February 2015
Metrics: $2.2 million; 6 team members; 142 acquired customers
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

HQ: Portland, Maine
Founded: September 2011
Website: davotechnologies.com

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Alfa-Bank Debuts Sense, a New Way of Mobile Banking

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: Alfa-Bank, FinovateFall 2015

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

Alfa-Bank debuted its mobile banking communication feature, Sense:

Sense is a new way of mobile banking for universal banks. Sense works like Google Now for customers, predicting the next thing they might need. It’s more gentle and personal than the ordinary bank app and communicates like Facebook Messenger.

Presenters: Vladimir Urbanksky, CEO, Alfa-Bank; Nikita Filippov, CEO, Octoberry; and Artem Molchanov, project manager, Alfa-Lab

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through other fintech companies and platforms

Website: alfabank.com

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Ormsby Street Presents its New Credit Risk Solution, CreditHQ

By David Penn Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, Ormsby Street

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

Our final demonstration of this session comes courtesy of Ormsby Street.

CreditHQ takes data from major credit-data suppliers and uses that to allow small businesses to check the credit status, payment performance, and financial health of the companies they invoice. The CreditHQ Insight Engine explains what each piece of information means within the context of the relationship that a business has, and gives options on what actions might be taken.

Presenter: Martin Campbell, managing director

Product launch: January 2015

Metrics: Ormsby Street is founded as a spinoff from BCSG, which owned a simple credit-risk product originally dating back to 2008. CreditHQ now has more than 26,000 customers in the United Kingdom with a weekly growth rate of 10%.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions

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

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Twilio’s Authy Debuts OneTouch Authentication

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: Authy, FinovateFall 2015

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

Authy a division of Twilio, showed how its OneTouch streamlines two-factor authentication:

Authy OneTouch is the next generation in strong authentication: frictionless and more secure. Authy OneTouch streamlines 2FA for consumers by making it a simple “yes” or “no” approval of a push notification initiated-request on an authorized mobile or wearable device—there are no one-time password codes for users to enter or manage. Based on public cryptographic key processes, Authy OneTouch provides nonrepudiation and protects against phishing and man-in-the-middle attacks for any logon or event, such as changes in account settings, high-risk transactions, or credit card purchases.

Presenter in center: Dan Killmer, lead solutions architect

Metrics: 11,000 apps in-site protected; millions of users worldwide
Product distribution strategy: Developer-driven sales, outbound enterprise and channel sales

HQ: San Francisco, California
Founded: 2012
Website: Authy.com
Twitter: @Authy

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Crowdability Launches its “Stock Screener” for Early Stage Private Companies

By David Penn Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: Crowdability, FinovateFall 2015

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

The co-CEOs of Crowdability are next.

CrowdabilityIQ is the world’s first independent “stock screener” for early stage private companies. It provides subscribers with a way to quickly identify the most promising private market investments.

Each day, the CrowdabilityIQ software automatically gathers and analyzes data about new startups that are raising capital on various funding platforms. After collecting data from the platforms and other online sources, CrowdabilityIQ prepares an easy-to-understand, 10- to 15-page research report on each investment opportunity, including a number of proprietary metrics and data points. Investors can use the CrowdabilityIQ interface to rapidly filter and surface reports and opportunities that are most suitable for their investment objectives.

Presenters: Crowdability’s Co-CEOs Matthew Milner and Wayne Mulligan

Product Launch: September 2015

Metrics: $1 million raised; 50,000+ subscribers
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C)

HQ: New York City, New York
Founded: March 2014
Website: crowdability.com
Twitter: @crowdability

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Alpine Data Introduces Touchpoints to Help Businesses Gain Insights from Big Data

By David Penn Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: Alpine Data Labs, FinovateFall 2015

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

Our next demonstration is from Alpine Data Labs.

Alpine Touchpoints allow businesses to scale their data-science efforts by bringing insights directly to business users. Touchpoints’ individual, configurable experiences allow users to gain access to powerful predictive and machine learning models without ever touching the data.

Presenters: Steven Hillion, chief product officer, co-founder; Josh Lewis, VP, industry applications

Product Launch: September 2015

Metrics:$32 million raised; 50 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

HQ: San Francisco, California
Founded: 2011
Website: alpinenow.com
Twitter: @AlpineData

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Capriza Helps Businesses Go Mobile without Coding, Integrations, or APIs

By David Penn Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: Capriza, FinovateFall 2015

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

Making their way to the stage next is the team from Capriza.

Capriza’s end-to-end simplification platform enables IT and lines of business to mobile-enable critical business workflows in a matter of days without any coding, APIs, or integration. The solution is applicable for packaged applications such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, as well as custom-built solutions. Capriza disrupts the speed and economics of the journey by extending the capability of legacy applications, in a simple and useable way, onto any smartphone, tablet, or desktop.

Presenters: Ivan Prafder, VP, regional business development, and Stephen Insdorf, senior solutions engineer, seated

Metrics: Capriza is venture-backed funded by Andreesson Horowitz, Charles River Ventures, and Tenaya Capital with a total raise to date of $53 million. Capriza has offices in North America and Europe, with 51-100 employees in each who are fluent in English, Mandarin, French, and Spanish.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

HQ: Palo Alto, California
Founded: July 2011
Website: capriza.com
Twitter: @Capriza

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BehavioSec Reveals On-demand Service

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: BehavioSec, FinovateFall 2015

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

BehavioSec debuted BehavioSec on Demand:

We are revealing our new BehaviorSec on Demand service. We have extended the proven and tested technology from BehavioSec’s large banking installation of behavioral biometrics that work as an additional layer of security, and we implement it as a transaction-based service in the cloud. This helps organizations that need better control of who is accessing their service and that suffer from fraudsters compromising the integrity of companies and individuals.

Presenter: COO Olov Renberg (COO)

Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
Founded: 2009
Website: behaviosec.com
Twitter: @BehavioSec

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Advisor Software’s Wealth Management Cloud Serves Up Widget-based Applications

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: Advisor Software, FinovateFall 2015

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

Advisor Software debuted its Wealth Management Cloud:

Wealth Management Cloud™ was launched in March of 2015 to address an unmet need in the financial services industry: a platform to facilitate the rapid prototyping and development of multi-platform, multi-user, mobile-ready wealth-management applications. Our cloud platform exposes 20 years of intellectual property via APIs, widgets and apps rather than through traditional licensed software. This modular framework offers innovative companies a library of plug-and-play wealth-management building blocks, allowing them to quickly develop new applications while affording them complete control over their user experience.

Presenters: Margarita Petrova, UX designer (seated), and Erik Jepson, chief customer officer

Product Launch: March 2015
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Walnut Creek, California
Founded: June 1995
Website: advisorsoftware.com
Twitter: @AdvisorSoftware

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moBills from Walletron Gives Billers a New Payment and Presentment Channel via Smartphone

By David Penn Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: FinovateFall 2015, Walletron

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

Making its way to the stage next is the CEO of Walletron.

Walletron’s moBills allows billers to open a new payment and presentment channel in a centralized location on smartphones. Customers receive in their mobile wallet an updated, branded bill, their moBill, every month. Ongoing notifications remind customers to pay, confirm processed payments, and light up users’ devices when their next bill arrives. Payments occur in only a couple of taps.

Once enrolled in moBills, consumers remain authenticated and no further login is required. Full PDF statements can be viewed on users’ phones, and billers now have an immediate connection to customers other than the (often lost or deleted) email. moBills finally provides billers with a true alternative to paper statements.

Presenter: CEO Garrett Baird

Product Launch: April 2015
Metrics: 2 million-plus wallet items added by users, bootstrapped to date
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms

HQ: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Founded: 2013
Website: walletron.com

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Adobe Presents Adobe Experience Manager Forms, Turning Complex Document Transactions into Engaging Experiences

By David Penn Posted on September 16, 2015
Categories: Adobe, FinovateFall 2015

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

Starting us off after the lunch break here on day one of Finovate is the team from Adobe.

With Adobe Experience Manager Forms, financial institutions can transform complex form and document transactions into simple, engaging digital experiences—anywhere, anytime, on any device—improving user experiences, increasing operational efficiencies, and reducing paper and manual processes.

By leveraging the Adobe Marketing Cloud, financial institutions can efficiently personalize and optimize digital form and document experiences for clients and prospects, increasing satisfaction, brand loyalty, and conversion rates. Automatically inserting targeted-offers into form-and-document experiences increases cross-sell rates, while personalizing communications through preferred channels helps deepen relationships.

Adobe presenters: Chris Young, director, financial services strategy, and Neal Wadhwani, principal, financial services solutions

Product Launch: May 2015
Metrics: As one of the largest software companies in the world, Adobe achieved revenues of more than $4 billion USD in 2013. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., our stock is traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol ADBE.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B)

HQ: San Jose, California
Founded: 1982
Website: adobe.com
Twitter: @AdobeMktgCloud

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