FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 4

FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 4
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2014, FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek
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Three installments of our FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek series are already in the books. But we’ve still got plenty of companies to introduce you to in the weeks leading up to what promises to be our largest FinovateFall event to date. If you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, click here to save your spot today.

Before we get started, here are some links to our previous Sneak Peeks to help get you up-to-date.

And now, meet FamDoo, iQuantifi, mCASH, PayItSimple, Toopher, and WorkFusion.

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FamDoo develops life-ready kids one task at a time. The Modern Allowance is a proven loyalty-based system armed with current technology and strategic partnerships.

Features:
  • The Modern Allowance is an applied learning approach to financial literacy
  • New technology brings families together
  • Family currency rewards kids for a job well done
Why it’s great:
FamDoo is an exciting new tool for the family, raising the next generation of fiscal consumers now. Gain access through a strategic partnership with FamDoo.
Presenters:
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1) Mark Lacek, Co-Founder and CEO

Co-developed, enhanced one of the first loyalty programs for the airline industry: Northwest Airline’s WorldPerks, frequent flyer program. Designed and managed additional global loyalty programs.
2) Mystery Guest

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iQuantifi is a virtual financial advisor that provides comprehensive and personalized advice to users based on their goals and resources.

Features:
  • Helps you free up cash in your budget to fund your goals
  • Shows you multiple ways to accomplish your goals
Why it’s great: 
We provide a comprehensive financial plan with investment advice that instantly adapts to your life as it changes.
Presenters:
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1) Tom White, Founder and CEO

Tom has been a financial planner and investment advisor for over 17 years and in that time he has built and sold two investment advisory firms.
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2) Karen White, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer

Karen has been designing and building products for over 20 years with the majority of her experience spanning the financial and education fields.

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mCASH is a unique payment infrastructure that connects banks, merchants and consumers in a real-time payment and information sharing network.

Features:
  • Built on FSA-approved Google Cloud infrastructure
  • Reduces cost for merchants, increases revenue for financial institutions
  • Users can pay in any scenario using any electronic funding source
Why it’s great:

Pay anyone, anywhere with the funding source of your choice.
Presenters:
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1) Daniel R. Døderlein, Founder and CEO

Døderlein is a Norweigian serial entrepreneur with background from several IT and telecom startups. He is also a sought-after speaker in the field of payments.
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2) Anders Nicolai Bakke, COO

Nicolai Bakke is a computer science graduate, turned management consultant before ending up in the startup world, At mCASH, he focuses on strategy, biz-dev, fundraising, people management, and structure.

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PayItSimple‘s patented technology enables instant consumer financing without assuming any credit risk.

Features:

  • Merchants: increased conversation rates and ticket size; simple and secure to implement and use
  • Consumers: Seamless payments, improved cash flow, no credit application, no fees, and no interest
Why it’s great:
For the first time in the Unites States, merchants can offer their customers fully secured interest-free installments in their existing credit cards.
Presenters:

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1) Alon Feit, Co-Founder 

Feit has 25 years of experience in the credit card industry, both in Israel and Brazil.
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2) Stacy Fassberg, Vice President, Marketing

Fassberg is a marketing professional with over 25 years of experience with global technology start-ups, specializing in marketing strategy, communications, branding and product marketing.

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Toopher‘s multi-factor authentication platform uses the location awareness of a mobile device to automate logins/actions based on a user’s normal behaviors.

Features:

  • Highly usable: patented automation creates an invisible user experience
  • Highly secure: out-of-band auth mitigates endpoint attacks
  • Highly innovative: adds to convenience without sacrificing security
Why it’s great:

Toopher is the most usable and most secure multi-factor authentication solution available.
Presenters:

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1) Josh Alexander, CEO and Co-founder

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2) Evan Grim, Founder and CTO

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WorkFusion is a SaaS crowd computing platform that automates the sourcing, aggregation, and structuring of data by pairing machine learning with human intelligence.</div

Features:

  • Self-repairing automation pairs algorithms with human workers
  • 30 million on -demand workers for performing tasks and training algorithms
  • 50% reduction in cost
    of creating financial content
Why it’s great:
The financial industry is filled with high-volume, repetitive data work, and WorkFusion cuts the cost of it by 50% through machine learning automation.
Presenters:
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1) Max Yankelevich, CEO

Yankelevich founded WorkFusion to improve the productivity and efficiency of the data-driven enterprise by combining the power of cloud computing, crowdsourcing, and machine learning.
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2) Adam Devine, VP of Product Marketing

Devine has spent his career connecting the dots between steep business problems and great technology. The financial sector is his favorite problem, and WorkFusion is his favorite technology.

Join us next Tuesday for another set of six fintech innovators that will be demoing their technologies at FinovateFall in September.

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Lending Club Files for $500 Million Initial Public Offering

Lending Club Files for $500 Million Initial Public Offering
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Lending Club

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No beating around the bush about this one: we are thrilled to share the news that Lending Club has filed for an initial public offering. The alternative, peer-to-peer lender seeks to raise at least $500 million.

See Lending Club’s S-1 filing at the SEC for yourself here. Forbes reports that Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, and Goldman Sachs will serve as lead underwriters.

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The company has been understandably mum as it enters what is known in the business as its post-filing “quiet period.” But in its filing, Lending Club noted a trio of advantages over traditional lenders:
  • An innovative marketplace model that efficiently connects the supply and demand of capital
  • Online operations that substantially reduce the need for physical infrastructure and improve convenience
  • Automation that increases efficiency, reduces manual processes and improves borrower and investor experience
Additionally, the S-1 cited a few choice metrics about the company’s first half of 2014, including:
  • Net income: $86.9 million
  • Adjusted EBITDA (excluding some non cash charges): $5.9 million
  • Profit/(Loss): ($16.5 million)
  • Loans originated: $1.8 billion
In seeking to raise $500 million, Lending Club could become one of the “biggest ever stock market debuts” according to the New York Times DealBook. Lending Club has financed more than $5 billion in loans and paid investors more than $490 million in interest since inception. DealBook notes that the Lending Club prospectus does leave a few questions unanswered such as the price range for Lending Club shares, and the exchange on which the shares will trade.
For its part, Forbes’ coverage of the announcement includes excerpts from a spring interview with Laplanche in which the CEO explains both how Lending Club works and how he ensures that the “best loans” are not cherry-picked by savvy investors. “There are no best loans,” Laplanche said. “If we do our job well – and I believe we do, there is no loan that is better than others.”
You can check out our 2012 interview with Laplanche here.
Lending Club is the fourth Finovate alum to file for an IPO. Q2 went public in March. Cachet Financial Solutions and Yodlee made their IPO filings in early and late July, respectively. As one of the oldest Finovate alums, Lending Club participated in both our inaugural Finovate event in 2007 and again at FinovateStartup 2009. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and was founded in 2007.

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Alumni News– August 28, 2014

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Avoka, BehavioSec, BillGuard, blooom, Lending Club, Monitise, Narrative Science, PayPal, Pixeliris, Spreedly, Taulia, Yseop
  • Finovate-F-Logo.jpgPymnts features PayPal’s OneTouch mobile payments app.
  • American Banker considers how banks are looking closely at how BillGuard uses geolocation to prevent fraud.
  • Taulia launches SupplierPay.org to help corporations support the White House’s SupplierPay initiative.
  • IBM and Monitise expand partnership to combine IBM’s sales and specialist resources with Monitise’s Mobile Money services.
  • Pymnts.com feature on lending shares observations on consumer credit from Lending Club.
  • Forbes column on natural language processing features Narrative Science and Yseop.
  • Wired.co.uk profiles BehavioSec in its Stockholm category of “Europe’s hottest startups” in 2014. See BehavioSec at FinDEVr this fall.
  • CopSonic joins the FIDO Alliance.
  • Markets Media features interview with Avoka CEO Phil Copeland.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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FinDEVr Preview: TD Ameritrade Institutional

FinDEVr Preview: TD Ameritrade Institutional
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinDEVr San Francisco 2014, TD Ameritrade
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A lot of people are getting excited about the upcoming FinDEVr conference in San Francisco this September 30 through October 1. There are some big names presenting, including TD Ameritrade Institutional.

Along with a keynote presentation, TD Ameritrade will host six hands-on workshops. Here’s a preview of what it aims to show off to developers.

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TD Ameritrade Institutional is a leading provider of comprehensive brokerage and custody services to more than 4,500 fee-based, independent Registered Investment Advisors and their clients. 

Its advanced technology platform, coupled with personal support from dedicated service teams, allows investment advisors to grow their businesses more efficiently and effectively, while optimizing time spent with clients. 

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TD Ameritrade Institutional provides a robust offering of products, programs, and services designed to help advisors build their businesses and help their clients reach their financial goals.

At FinDEVr, TD Ameritrade Institutional will give a keynote presentation on how financial advisors can leverage the power of community by collaborating with other, third party advisors.

Keynote:
The Power of Together = Better
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Presenter:
Chris Valleley, Director, Technology Solutions 
Omaha-based Chris Valleley, director of Technology Solutions, is the motivating force behind the delivery of TD Ameritrade Institutional’s Veo® Open Access platform–a progressive and flexible financial advisor technology solution designed to help address each advisory firm’s unique needs, and integrates with the most leading financial services software applications.
Through his leadership, technology insight and operational expertise, Chris has strengthened the culture of collaboration and innovation within the advisor technology space. Since 1999, Chris successful led the Veo® Next Generation website launch, and held management roles in technology, operations and business analysis, and product management.

On the second day of the conference, TD Ameritrade Institutional will lead six workshops detailing how developers can take advantage of its platforms:

Workshop Session #1
Check Out What’s Under the Hood of TD Ameritrade’s Open Access Platform

Taher Saif, Senior Software Development Consultant, TD Ameritrade Institutional

WorkshopSession #2
Test Drive the Deep Integrations Between Salesforce CRM and TD Ameritrade’s Custodial Platform

Craig Uhlenkott, Product Manager, Technology Product Management, TD Ameritrade Institutional

WorkshopSession #3
Get a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Redtail CRM and TD Ameritrade Custodial Platform Integration

Brian McLaughlin, CEO, Redtail Technologies

WorkshopSession #4
Innovations in Wealth Management Technology to Attract Next Generation Clients

Brad Matthews, CEO and Founder, Trizic, Inc.

WorkshopSession #5 (Scheduled to be held twice)
Capturing Market Opportunities With Wearable Technology

Chris Kurecka, Process Innovation Consultant, TD Ameritrade

If you missed last week’s feature on Yodlee, you can check it out here.

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PayPal’s Braintree’s v.zero SDK Available to International Customers

PayPal’s Braintree’s v.zero SDK Available to International Customers
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Braintree, PayPal

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PayPal’s Braintree announced this afternoon that it has started rolling out its v.zero software development kit (SDK) for international customers. It plans to begin with its core markets, including:

    • Australia
    • Canada
    • France
    • Germany
    • Sweden
    • UK

The remaining tens of thousands of customers spread across 40+ countries will have access to the SDK in the future.

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The v.zero SDK, which can be integrated in around 15 minutes, will bring the international customers three key features:

    1. Ability to accept PayPal payments without additional integration
    2. Simplicity for future developments to help them keep up with the latest innovation
    3. An easy-to-integrate, customizable UI

Current international customers include The Exchange Group in Australia and CINQ-S in France.

Braintree demonstrated at FinovateSpring 2013 before it was acquired by PayPal in September of that year. PayPal last demonstrated at FinovateEurope 2012.

If you’re interested in seeing more of Braintree’s SDK, check out its presentations and workshop sessions at FinDEVr this September 30 through October 1.

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Doxo Launches Email Import Function on iOS

Doxo Launches Email Import Function on iOS
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Doxo

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Ever wish there was a better way to archive emails from multiple accounts so you could organize them all in one place on your mobile device?

Doxo, the cloud storage company that makes it easy to store and organize sensitive documents, photos, and pay bills, announced today the launch of its Email Import function for iPhone. 

With Email Import users can automatically import, organize, and archive emails from their personal email accounts hosted with:

    • Gmail
    • Yahoo!
    • iCloud
    • Outlook
    • Hotmail
    • Comcast Xfinity
    • …and others 
To get started, users select Email Import from the menu:
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Then select + to add their accounts:
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When finished, they can automatically import, archive and organize their personal emails from their mobile device for free.

doxo debuted its Control Panel at FinovateSpring 2011. You can check out the demo video here.

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Alumni News– August 27, 2014

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: BehavioSec, Bill.com, Bolstr, CashStar, EyeVerify, FutureAdvisor, IntelliResponse, Locaid, Monitise, Ripple, Wallaby Financial, Wealthfront, Xero
  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgMonitise announces digital commerce and resourcing alliance with IBM.
  • ThinkAdvisor takes a look at the deal between the San Francisco 49ers football team and Wealthfront.
  • The Globe and Mail profiles David Lloyd and IntelliResponse as part of its Innovators at Work contest.
  • Fortune magazine column discusses Ripple and the “Internet of value exchange.”
  • ValueWalk: FutureAdvisor can be used as a free tool to rate your own investment decisions or a low-cost asset management service.
  • Chicago Tribune’s Blue Sky Innovation visits Bolstr for video interview.
  • Bill.com CEO and co-founder Rene Lacerte writes about the “new sharing economy” for Inc.com.
  • CashStar announces spot in Inc 500|5000 for a second year in a row.
  • EyeVerify opens new offices to accommodate recent growth.
  • Locaid partners with Danal to leverage location services in fight against financial fraud.
  • Wallaby Financial named finalist in Samsung Gear App Challenge 2014.
  • ZDNet: Xero continues march into U.S., launches partner marketplace.
  • The Independent looks at how BehavioSec uses behavioral biometrics.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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Ayondo Lands Additional $4 Million from Luminor Capital

Ayondo Lands Additional $4 Million from Luminor Capital
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: ayondo, Funding

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In a week when Moven and Braintreehave both announced international expansion efforts, Germany-based ayondo announced funding that helps deepen its international roots.

Ayondo, which specializes in a social trading technology that enables users to follow and copy the moves of top traders, brought in $4 million ($5 million Singapore Dollars) from Singapore-based Luminor Capital.

Prior to this newest round, ayondo has held four rounds of funding, all of undisclosed amounts.

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This new installment comes just a month after ayondo opened its Singapore offices, and six months after Luminor became a stakeholder in the company.

Ayondo demonstrated at FinovateEurope 2013.

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FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 3

FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek: Part 3
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Algomi, Digital Mailer, FinovateFall 2014, FinovateFall 2014 Sneak Peek, FlexScore, HedgeCoVest, Linqto, Malauzai

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Last week we took a look at 12 companies that will present at FinovateFall this September 23 and 24 in New York:

Today, we’re covering six more companies who will hint at what their 7-minute demo will reveal on stage. If you’re interested in seeing the full live demo, get your FinovateFall ticket here.

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Features:
    • Aimed at financial markets trading
    • Finds trade opportunities on hard-to-trade items through its smart network
    • Connects the right organizations around trades 
    • Does not disclose sensitive franchise data
Why it’s great:

It’s a B2B inter-firm trading social network in high-value, professional financial markets
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Presenters:

1) Stu Taylor, CEO
Named as one of the 40 most influential individuals in Fintech 2014 by the Wall Street Journal eFinancial News. Previously a managing director in trading at UBS.


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2) Usman Khan, CTO

Before co-founding Algomi, Khan was managing director at CapXD, a company he founded that sells technology solutions to investment banks.




Flexscorelogo.jpgFlexScore is the industry’s first personal financial health score that uses a patented algorithm and gamification to analyze your entire financial life and suggests ways to improve.

Features:
    • Sets up automated financial advice beyond budgeting and investing
    • Integrates with your financial institution’s products and solutions
    • Offers a digital engagement platform for customers and advisors
Why it’s great:
FlexScore simplifies financial planning for everyone and offers institutions a digital engagement platform that drives customer loyalty and profits higher.

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Presenters:

1) Jason Gordo, CEO
Jason worked as a financial advisor for thirteen years and co-founded an advisory firm that was recognized by Forbes as a top-fifty emerging RIA.
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2) Jeff Burrow, President and COO

Jeff spent fourteen years as a financial advisor, working with foundations, retirement plan participants, and high-net-worth individuals. He co-founded an advisory firm with Jason Gordo.


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HedgeCo Networks’ HedgeCoVest is the first investment platform to allow investors and advisors to mirror actual hedge fund portfolios into their individual brokerage accounts in real time.

Features:

    • Real-time performance and portfolio-monitoring tools
    • Easy-to-use platform to analyze hedge fund’s portfolios
    • Allocate/liquidate intraday with the ability to lever portfolios up or down
Why it’s great:
HedgeCoVest provides an easy-to-use, secure platform for investors to mirror actual hedge fund portfolios in real-time with liquidity, transparency, and simple flat fees.
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Presenters:

1) Evan Rapoport, Founder & CEO
Rapoport is the CEO/Founder of HedgeCo Networks who has been featured as a hedge fund expert on CNBC, MSNBC, FOX and leading publications.
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2) Aaron Wormus, CTO

Wormus is the CTO of HedgeCoVest. Prior to HedgeCoVest, Mr. Wormus was the director of technical operations for HedgeCo websites & chief architect of the analytics suite, Hedge Fund Calculator.
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Linqto lets you talk to your neighborhood banker, anytime, anywhere. Linqto’s Personal Banker delivers video-based, face-to-face transaction processing and communication with remote customers from any device.

Features: 
    • Instant, easy video connection from any device, website, or kiosk
    • Do-it-for-me transactions add security to mobile banking
    • One-to-many video feature provides cross-sell and social opportunities
Why it’s great:

Consumer trust in banks is at record lows. Linqto’s Personal Banker delivers the essential face-to-face human connectivity and relationship-building benefits your remote customers are missing.
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Presenters:

1) Dune Thomas, Vice President of Mobile Banking Solutions
The innovation leader behind Personal Banker, Dune is also currently leading automation efforts for Linqto clients Digital Insight and NCR in the financial mobile-apps sector.
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2) Bill Sarris, CEO

A recognized expert in the field of streaming and collaborative technology, Bill has delivered major enterprise software applications for Microsoft, Intuit, Digital Insight, NCR, Google and Stanford.


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Malauzai is designed for an exceptional user experience with superior economic value. SmartwebApps deliver the next generation of mobile banking by leveraging the power of an app-like experience on any device.

Features:
    • An app-like experience on any device, even the desktop
    • Responsive design and consistency across channels
    • More efficient and faster implementation
Why it’s great:

Internet banking is dead as you know it.
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Presenters:

1) Robb Gaynor, Chief Product Officer and Founder
Gaynor heads up the product development and marketing for Malauzai, focused on ensuring the company has solutions at the cutting-edge of mobile innovation.
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2) Danny Piangerelli, Chief Technology Officer and Founder
Piangerelli leads the technology team and is responsible for all aspects of Malauzai’s technology infrastructure.
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Virtual StrongBox is an online safe deposit box. Customers store important information for record keeping and disaster recovery. Nothing’s more important than trust.

Features: 
    • Encryption-at-rest for stored documents
    • Easy-to-use interface
    • Enterprise file exchange
Why it’s great:
Secure storage solutions are a valuable addition to the customer experience. Help your customers protect their important personal information with My Virtual StrongBox.
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Presenter:

Ron Daly, President and CEO
Daly knows a thing or two about digital communication and bottom-line performance. He is President/CEO of Virtual StrongBox and a former CFO of a $1.5 billion financial institution.

We’ll feature 6 more companies this Thursday in Sneak Peek: Part 4 so stay tuned.

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Alumni News– August 26, 2014

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Azimo, Banno, BizEquity, FIS, Holvi, Jack Henry, MasterCard, Mortgagebot, SecureKey
  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgACI Worldwide ranks #36 in Apps Run the Cloud’s Top 500 application vendors.
  • Startups.co.uk interviews Michael Kent, CEO and founder of Azimo.
  • TechCrunch profiles Finland-based startup, Holvi.
  • American Banker looks at how banks can use BizEquity’s app that enables small businesses to estimate the value of their company.
  • Wade Arnold, founder of Banno which was sold to Jack Henry & Associates, is 1 of 5 finalists honored in annual Silicon Prairie Awards.
  • SecureKey and Trustonic partner to enable SecureKey’s briidge.net Connect services to work with Trustonic in select mobile devices. Check out SecureKey at FinDEVr this fall.
  • Bank Mutual selects D+H’s Mortgagebot solution for end-to-end mortgage lending.
  • India’s Bank of Maharashtra deploys FIS payment platform.
  • The new Citi Wallet supports digital payments via MasterPass from MasterCard. See the company present at FinDEVr in San Francisco this fall.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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Alumni News– August 25, 2014

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Betterment, BillGuard, Dynamics, Financial Guard, FutureAdvisor, Geezeo, inStream Solutions, Jemstep, Kabbage, Lending Club, Motif Investing, Moven, On Deck Capital, Prosper, SigFig, Top Image Systems, Wealthfront
  • Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Thumbnail image for Finovate-F-Logo.jpgSan Antonio Federal Credit Union to integrate Geezeo PFM technology.
  • On Deck partners with Worldpay to provide access to financing for small and medium-sized merchants.
  • PaymentsSource features Dynamics ePlate among its list of “7 unusual emerging payments technologies.”
  • Top Image Systems announces patent for full page mobile image processing.
  • The New York Times profiles Financial Guard, Motif, Betterment, FutureAdvisor, Jemstep, SigFig and Wealthfront .
  • InStream Solutions launches comparison tool.
  • Moven expands internationally, signs deal with New Zealand-based Westpac.
  • HuffPo profiles Prosper, Lending Club, and Kabbage in column on the rise of online lending.
This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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Fintech Fundings: 16 Companies Raise $270 Million this Week

By Jim Bruene Posted on
Categories: Funding
Late summer has proven to be red-hot in the fintech sector. This week, 16 companies received new funds, with 15 equity investments totaling $67 million and one massive debt placement of $200 million to AvantCredit. Combined with the $102 million of equity raised in the first half of August, the sector has attracted $170 million so far this month (not counting the $200 million in debt).  
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New equity rounds this week:
Listed by size of deal (Aug 16 through Aug 22, 2014)

Discount real estate agency in UK
Latest round: $11.7 million
Total raised: $11.7 million
Tags: Real estate, rent, mortgage, UK
Source: Crunchbase
Digital bill presentment and payments
Latest round: $11 million
Total funding: $36.7 million
Tags: Electronic bill presentment, billpay, payments, North Carolina
Source: Crunchbase 

Continuity Control
Compliance as a service (CaaS)
Latest round: $10 million
Total funding: $12 million
Tags: Compliance, legal, regulations, Finovate alum, Connecticut
Source: Finovate
Provides fast access to the block chain for bitcoin developers 
Latest round: $9.5 million
Total funding: $13.7 million
Tags: Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, California
Source: Crunchbase
Helps identify and reduce hidden financial fees in investment accounts
Latest round: $6.5 million
Total funding: $9.5 million
Tags: Investing, fees, disclosures, 401(k), IRA, New York
Mobile biometric security
Latest round: $6 million
Total raised: $10.4 million
Tags: Security, biometrics, Wells Fargo accelerator, Finovate alum, Kansas
Source: Finovate
Mobile security
Latest round: $6 million
Total funding: $9.4 million
Tags: Security, Wells Fargo accelerator, Finovate alum, California
Source: Finovate 
Virtual agent technology
Latest round: $2.3 million
Total funding: $2.3 million
Tags: Customer service, mobile, BBVA (investor), SRI (spin-out), California
Source: Crunchbase
Crowdfunded real estate projects
Latest round: $1 million
Total funding: $1 million
Tags: P2P, investing, debt crowdfunding, rehab, mortgage, lending, North Carolina
Source: Crunchbase
Cryptocurrency distribution platform
Latest round: $800,000
Total funding: $800,000
Tags: Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, India
Source: Crunchbase 

Toopher (see them demo at FinovateFall 2014)
Two-factor authentication
Latest round: $791,000
Total funding: $2.8 million
Tags: Security, Finovate alum, Texas
Source: Crunchbase 
Platform for bitcoin/cryptocurrency intelligence & research
Latest round: $500,000
Total funding: $500,000
Tags: Cryptocurrency, payments, Amsterdam
Source: Crunchbase
Social lending for technical talent development
Latest round: $400,000
Total funding: $400,000
Tags: P2P, crowdfunding, student lending, California
Source: Crunchbase
Payments gateway in Bangkok
Latest round: $300,000
Total raised: $300,000
Tags: Payments, mobile, Thailand
Source: Crunchbase
Weeleo 
Crowdsourced cash currency exchange
Latest round: $20,000
Total funding: Unknown
Tags: Fx, P2P, currency, transfers, Paris
Source: Crunchbase
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Debt Funding:
AvantCredit
Near-prime lender
Latest debt funding: $200 million
Total debt raised: $425 million
Total equity raised: $104 million
Tags: Subprime, credit, lending, Chicago
Source: Crunchbase 

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