Innovators from Avoka to Yodlee are taking the stage to practice their presentations here on rehearsal day at FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.
FinDEVr San Francisco 2014: Helping Developers Do What Developers Do Best

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Innovators from Avoka to Yodlee are taking the stage to practice their presentations here on rehearsal day at FinDEVr San Francisco 2014.
We’ll be kicking off the first FinDEVr conference on Tuesday, September 30. There you’ll meet the developers and builders behind fintech companies such as Yodlee and Visa, and have the opportunity to code with them and others during several workshop sessions.
UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center1675 Owens Street Suite 251San Francisco, CA 94143-3008
Day OneOn Tuesday, September 30, registration begins at 8AM and we’ll serve a light breakfast until 9AM, at which point the presentations will begin. We’ll have a single-track schedule featuring presentations and intermittent networking sessions.
Day TwoOn Wednesday, October 1, registration and a light breakfast will run from 8AM to 8:30 AM, and the first workshop will begin at 8:30AM. We’ll have workshops throughout the day, running alongside separate presentation sessions in the afternoon.
Ahead of the FinDEVr conference next Tuesday and Wednesday, 50 companies will make their way to the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.
While 14 of the companies are local to the bay area, others will travel from all over the U.S. and even the globe to present their APIs, SDKs, and other tools at the first ever FinDEVr conference.
Here’s what the spread looks like (click to enlarge):
If you’re already registered, be sure to join the community of other developers on the Bizzabo app. Just download Bizzabo from the app store and search “FinDEVr”.
See you in San Francisco!
Bringing Big Data to bear to help companies market to small and medium-sized businesses, Radius announced this week that it had raised $54.7 million in funding in its Series C round. The infusion of capital takes the San Francisco-based company’s total financing to more than $80 million.
The Series C was led by Founders Fund, and included participation from a host of new and existing investors:
In the calm between the FinovateFall and FinDEVr conference storms, we’ve received news of three recent fundings from Finovate alums. Along with BillGuard and Bionym, one more Finovate alum announced funding this week.
Taulia has raised a total of almost $76 million since its 2009 launch. Previous funding includes:
Series B
Series D
Taulia demonstrated at FinovateSpring 2012, where it debuted its Early Payment Network.
In a round led by Ignition Partners and Relay Ventures, Toronto-based authentication specialist, Bionym has brought in $14 million in new funding.
Bionym is the maker of the Nymi, a wearable authentication solution that uses an individual’s cardiac rhythm to provide a unique identifier that makes pass codes and PINs passé.
There will be a lot going on over the course of the two day FinDEVr conference in San Francisco next Tuesday and Wednesday. You can still pick up your ticket here.
Each of the companies below will have 6 minutes on stage to show off what their tools are all about:
PayStand, an online payment solution that offers zero transaction fees
Plaid, an API that powers fintech applications
Plaid is an API for financial infrastructure – we give developers the tools they need to build applications that interface with banks.
Prudena is a subscription-based online community that provides value analysis to developers.
SecureKey Technologies delivers authentication solutions for online consumer services
Sekur.me eliminates passwords by turning your phone into your digital identity.
SimplyTapp provides host card emulation
Tagcash, a digital payments and rewards company
The TxPUSH Initiative makes real time account events available to third party apps.
Thinknum provides technology for financial analysts to host their financial data in the cloud.
Trulioo a cyber identification company.
FinDEVr, the first event for fintech developers, is right around the corner. For the past few weeks we’ve introduced you to some of the innovators who will be presenting, demoing, and holding workshops on Day One.
Today, we’re happy to help you get to know some of the companies that will be showcasing and sharing their APIs, SDKs and more on Day Two.
BCL Technologies develops APIs for Financial Text Extraction that unlock Big Data in unstructured documents and websites, enabling FinTechDevelopers to easily extract structured Financial Triplets from any source.
Toronto-based Bionym is a team of experts in cryptography, biometrics, and security. Our first product is the Nymi, a wearable device that enables the user to authenticate once via unique cardiac rhythm and securely and seamlessly assert Persistent Identity to any system.
Blockchain is the world’s most popular, web-based Bitcoin wallet and the most highly trafficked Bitcoin website. Blockchain is the defacto search engine for the Bitcoin community. Blockchain has over 2 million wallets and our footprint continues to grow quickly.
CrowdCurity is a web security marketplace. We connect businesses with security testers. We do bug bounty programs-as-a-service. Bitcoin First.
Entersekt is an innovator in transaction authentication and mobile app security. Our one-of-akind approach to harness the power of electronic certificate technology with the convenience of mobile phones providing financial institutions and their customers with full protection from online and mobile banking fraud.
Google Cloud Platform enables
developers to build, test, and deploy applications on Google’s highly scalable and reliable infrastructure. This suite of services allows developers to choose from computing, storage, and application services for web, mobile, and backend solutions.
GreenAddress IT is a leader in securing bit coins and providing instant clearing confirmations. It supports desktop, mobile, and web apps, and offers a very featureful and secure wallet as well as APIs to enable third party developers.
Kiind helps businesses reward their employees and customers with gift cards., With Kiind, you can easily send personalized offers to multiple contacts, and Kiind’s technology allows you to defer when you pay for rewards and gifts, thereby saving you money.
Knox Payments allows people to make ACH payments using only their online banking login information, providing the cheapest, safest, and easiest way to accept digital payments.
MASSPAY is m-payments for every(f)one. If you know how to dial, you know how to pay. It’s simple and convenient. You don’t even need a smartphone with a data plan – you can use it with an NFC QR code. MASSPAY is the first solution dedicated to emerging and developed markets with minimum investment.
Morpheus Aiolos is a company based in Spain that has developed financial software since 2012. We have two featured products: an API to extract bank transactions and a clone of Mint, which uses the API.
In a deal valued at $8.3 billion, SAP has announced that it is acquiring Seattle-area fintech innovator – and FinDEVr presenter – Concur Technologies.
There are still “i’s” to be dotted and “t’s” to be crossed: the acquisition is subject to both approval from shareholders and regulators. But assuming all goes well on those fronts, the deal is expected to close by the end of 2014 or, at the latest, in the first quarter of 2015.
After a busy two days at FinovateFall packed with people, some of the most innovative new technology we’ve seen, and some rather entertaining demos, the audience has spoken.
AnchorID for its new way to log into websites and apps. One universal username logs you in with unique security.
blooom for its simple tool built to fix the millions of mis-invested 401(k) allocations for individual clients.
CrowdFlower for its leading data enrichment platform to help data scientists, analysts, and engineers collect, clean, and label data to make it useful.
Loyal3 for its use of social technologies to democratize the markets, making investing in IPOs and stocks easy and affordable for everyone.
MX/MoneyDesktop for its WideNet Technology to help FIs expand their market reach, and its Helios cross-platform digital banking app.
NICE Systems for its real-time authentication that strengthens and streamlines the authentication process in real-time, while customers converse with an agent.
Toopher for its multi-factor authentication platform that uses the location awareness of your smartphone to automate authentication for logins and critical actions.
Notes on methodology: