Geezeo Launches TruBusiness to Help FIs Engage Business Customers

Geezeo Launches TruBusiness to Help FIs Engage Business Customers
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Geezeo
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.
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Geezeo debuted TruBusiness, a white-label financial management tool for businesses:

“Small and middle market businesses represent critical markets for FIs. TruBusiness is a white label business financial management tool that helps FIs better engage the market. At the same time, the tool offers robust online financial management to business banking clients, offering business customers and FIs predictive insight and capability beyond the expected.”
Presenting: Shawn Ward, CEO and Peter Glyman, President
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Product Launch: November 2014
Metrics: Geezeo, a rapidly growing, established FinTech firm, is privately held, has 30 employees, and over 300 financial institutions as clients.
Product distribution strategy: Like all Geezeo products, we expect our business financial management solution will be offered to financial institutions directly and via channel partners through other fintech companies with a keen interest in the small to mid-size business banking market.
HQ: Tolland, CT
Founded: June 2006
Website: geezeo.com 
Twitter: @Geezeo

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Minetta Brook’s KNEWSAPP Helps Traders Surface Developing News Stories

Minetta Brook’s KNEWSAPP Helps Traders Surface Developing News Stories
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Minetta Brook
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This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

Minetta Brook launched KNEWSAPP:
“Minetta Brook is launching a web application version of KNEWSAPP, a real-time news scoring and discovery application that is currently available only on the Bloomberg Professional™ platform. KNEWSAPP allows trading and investment professionals to take advantage of news related market inefficiencies by surfacing tickers, topics, and stories that are currently developing in the news. 
This web based product democratizes access to our ground-breaking, real-time, content-discovery technology and to our proprietary scores that lets you surface developing stories from across the entirety of news.”
Presenting: Deepak Bharadwaj, CEO & Founder and Viplav Nigam, VP Engineering
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Product Launch: September 2014
Metrics: $2.4M in funding, 10 employees, over 100 firms in trial & beta, 40,000+ news sources
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Seattle, WA
Founded: September 2011
Website: knewsapp.com
Twitter: @knewsapp

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“Game On!” Kapitall Launches New Mobile App for iOS

“Game On!” Kapitall Launches New Mobile App for iOS
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Kapitall
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This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

Making their way to the stage next is the team from Kapitall, demoing Kapitall Tournament & Pocket.

Kapitall is launching its mobile trading application as well as its latest virtual stock tournament game at FinovateFall 2014. For iOS devices, Kapitall mobile users will have the investing and gaming functionality at their fingertips. Practice, tournament, and live brokerage portfolios will be available to help members of all ages and investing skill sets to learn, play, and invest.
Presenting: Gaspard De Dreuzy (Co-Founder) and Antonio Reyes (Head of Development)
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Product Launch: September 2014
Metrics: $25M raised
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: New York, NY
Founded: March 2008
Website: kapitall.com
Twitter: @Kapitall

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NopSec’s Unified VRM Scans for IT Vulnerabilities

NopSec’s Unified VRM Scans for IT Vulnerabilities
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Nopsec
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.
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NopSec demonstrated how Unified VRM helps FIs scan for and manage IT vulnerabilities:

“Cloud-based vulnerability risk management SaaS.
Unified VRM helps businesses holistically manage IT security vulnerabilities, on premises and in the cloud, in a unified, proactive, and flexible way. Unified VRM aggregates the results of vulnerability scanners, proactively prioritizes vulnerabilities based on business risk, and expedites remediation by streamlining the ticketing process and reports. 
Unified VRM is different from legacy vulnerability scanners in 3 ways: 
1. Focus on remediation – remediation is easier when you know what to fix
2. Automate the process – no more burdensome manual tasks
3. Software that just works – eliminate complexity, improve visibility, and glean insights for better decision making”
Presenting: Steven Leonard, CMO and Michelangelo Sidagni, CTO
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Product Launch: November 2011
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), licensed
HQ: New York, NY
Founded: January 2009
Website: nopsec.com
Twitter: @nopsec

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SAS Games’ Platform Helps Students and Families Afford College

SAS Games’ Platform Helps Students and Families Afford College
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, SAS Games
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.
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SAS Games debuted TiViTz College $avings Game-a-thon:

“The TiViTz College $avings Game-a-thon is a market disruptive tool that complements existing financial savings vehicles and provides a solution for families to offset potential student loan debt and help cover the cost of higher education. The Game-a-thon (where students solicit pledges online from friends and family for playing TiViTz games) is similar to a Walk-a-thon fundraiser, only fully automated from pledge solicitation to fund deposit into a savings vehicle.  
The Game-a-thon is positioned to fundamentally change the way families think about affording college and to significantly empower children to take responsibility for and contribute to their own advanced education . . . all while improving their math skills and financial literacy.”
Presenting: Siobhan Mullen, CEO and Stephen Scully, President
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Product Launch: November 2014
Metrics: SAS Games has raised over $5M from angel investors to develop the various TiViTz products, tournaments, and programs. The company has 10 employees to manage tournaments, events, operations, marketing, and promotions, as well as product development with our game developers in Europe (Unit9) and software tool developers based in California and Japan with programmers in Vietnam (SETA International).
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies & platforms, licensed
HQ: Cocoa, FL
Founded: February 2004
Product Demoed: TiViTz College $avings Game-a-thon

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CR2 Demoes BankWorld Money Voucher’s Cash Send App

CR2 Demoes BankWorld Money Voucher’s Cash Send App
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: CR2, FinovateFall 2014
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This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.

Our next presenter is CR2, demoing the Cash Send application of its BankWorld Money Voucher platform.

“CR2 is demonstrating the BankWorld Cash Send application at Finovate. Cash Send is a truly omnichannel product recently deployed. It allows people to instantly send cash to any individual from a mobile app; this cash is instantly dispensed from an ATM without the recipient needing an ATM card or indeed a bank account of any type. It significantly lowers the cost of remitting funds to any individuals outside of the classic banking system.”
Presenting: Kieran Kilcullen (Director, Sales & Marketing) & Patrick Simons (Principal Consultant)
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Product Launch: 2013
Metrics: Over 100 banks in 60 countries have adopted CR2’s solutions. CR2 has a network of well-established offices strategically located in 6 countries: Ireland, Australia, India, South Africa, UAE, and Jordan.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), licensed
HQ: Dublin, Ireland
Founded: 1997
Website: cr2.com
Twitter: @CR2_Ltd

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Malauzai Software Unveils its Mobile Banking SmartApps for Community FIs

Malauzai Software Unveils its Mobile Banking SmartApps for Community FIs
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Malauzai Software
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Finishing off the second session of the morning is Malauzai Software, demoing its SmartwebApps.

“Designed for an exceptional user experience with superior economic value, SmartwebApps delivers the next generation of mobile banking, leveraging the power of an app-like experience on any device, desktop, or browser.”
Presenting: Robb Gaynor (Chief Product Officer & Founder), Danny Piangerelli (CTO), and Craig Agulnek (Director, Product Management)
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Product Launch: September 2014
Metrics: Based in Austin, TX, Malauzai Software has more than 50 employees and 300 customers (190+ live), representing more than 400,000 SmartApp users and 500,000 downloads
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Austin, TX
Founded: July 2009
Website: malauzai.com
Twitter: @malauzaimonkeys

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Thinknum’s Collaboration Tools Help Analysts Build Better Financial Models

Thinknum’s Collaboration Tools Help Analysts Build Better Financial Models
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Thinknum
This post is part of our live coverage of FinovateFall 2014.
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Thinknum showed how it helps financial analysts build better financial models:

“There are many financial technology corporations that specialize in writing data to users. However, as financial analysts, we saw firsthand how there is no software to manage and leverage the content we created. So we built Thinknum, enabling analysts to take advantage of collaboration tools and cloud computing to build better financial models.”
Presenting: Justin Zhen, Co-Founder
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Product Launch: December 2013
Metrics: $1M raised, 3,500 analysts on the platform
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions
HQ: New York, NY
Founded: December 2013
Website: thinknum.com 
Twitter: @thinknum

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Knox Payments Leverages ACH to Deliver Cost-Effective, Speedy Online Transactions

Knox Payments Leverages ACH to Deliver Cost-Effective, Speedy Online Transactions
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Knox
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Knox Payments is our next presenting company. Knox leverages the ACH network to facilitate transactions online.

“Knox Payments facilitates payments for merchants online, allowing them to transact with their customers/users, who never have to create accounts or enter their bank routing and account numbers, let alone input their address and other information when transacting online. End users simply log in to their online banking to make a payment, and we instantly verify their account, all for just $0.18/transaction (paid by the merchant). Knox means less cart abandonment, more security, and increased conversion. all while saving on payment processing fees.”
Presenting: Thomas Nicholas, President & Co-Founder
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Product Launch: February 2014
Metrics: Raised $1,555,000 to date; 25 employees (13 in United States and 12 in India); 70 customers (and adding more each day)
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: Richmond, VA
Founded: February 2014
Twitter: @KnoxPayments

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Rippleshot Demoes its Cloud-Based Technology to Detect Bank Card Data Breaches

Rippleshot Demoes its Cloud-Based Technology to Detect Bank Card Data Breaches
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, Rippleshot
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Next to the stage is anti-fraud innovator, Rippleshot.

“Rippleshot’s sophisticated web user interface allows card issuers to spot breaches early, view trends in compromised card spends, efficiently reissue compromised cards, and deploy real-time declines rules to stem the losses in the meantime. The merchant portal gives ADT-like alerts so merchants can stop their breach sooner and have time to prepare their response to the public.”
Presenting: Randal Cox (Chief Scientist & Co-Founder) & Lucas Ward (CTO & Co-Founder)
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Product Launch: April 2014
Metrics: $800,000 raised, 10 employees; $500,000 revenues
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other FinTech companies and platforms, licensed
HQ: Chicago, IL
Founded: June 2013
Twitter: @Rippleshot

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Behalf Unveils its Proprietary Credit Scoring Solution for Small Business

Behalf Unveils its Proprietary Credit Scoring Solution for Small Business
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Behalf, FinovateFall 2014
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Making its way to the stage next is the team from Behalf to demo its Vendor Platform.

“We are showing the value of our platform to vendors through a simple demonstration of how easy it is for a vendor to pre approve his customers, onboard them, and offer them the Zazma credit line they need.”
Presenting: Benjy Feinberg (CEO) and Andrew Abshere (Director, Product)
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Product Launch: August 2014
Metrics: $10M, 25 employees
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through other fintech companies and platforms
HQ: New York, NY
Founded: 2011
Website: behalf.com

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WingCash’s Electronic Wallet Combines Payments and Promotions with Digital Currency

WingCash’s Electronic Wallet Combines Payments and Promotions with Digital Currency
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, WingCash
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As we near the midpoint of our second session this morning, our next presenter is WingCash. WingCash provides an innovative system of electronic wallets that combine payments and promotions with digital currency.

“WingCash will demonstrate how to use a cloud-based, smart wallet to 1) make purchases using any internet enabled device while at retail locations using US currency, eGift, ePromo, and eRewards cash, and 2) send and receive US currency, eGift, ePromo, and eRewards cash to family or friends.”
Presenting: Bradley Wilkes (CEO & President), Steve Curtis (VP & Director, Sales), and Vilash Poovala (CTO)
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Product Launch: December 2010 – US Currency, July 2013 – Branded Cash
Metrics: Privately funded, 10K+ wallets
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, through other fintech companies and platforms, licensed
HQ: Lehi, UT
Founded: November 2009
Website: wingcash.com
Twitter: @wingcash

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