SeedInvest Helps Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors Find Small Business Futures to Fund

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, SeedInvest

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Want a piece of the action as high-quality start-ups and small businesses seek funding? SeedInvest is up next with a demonstration of their new crowdfunding platform.

“SeedInvest is demonstrating its state-of-the-art, equity-based, crowdfunding platform and a number of groundbreaking features including:
Due Diligence Dashboard
  • Virtual Diligence Session
  • Permission-based Dataroom
  • Diligence Board
Simple Invest
  • Instant Identity Check
  • Legal Docs Execution
  • Streamlined Funds Transfer
Virtual Boardroom
  • Virtual Board Meetings
  • Easy Reporting
  • Quick Signatures”
Product Launched: February 2013
HQ Location: New York, New York
Company Founded: January 2012
Twitter: @seedinvest_co
Presenting Ryan Feit (CEO & Co-Founder) and James Han (Co-Founder)

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Arxan Helps Defend Financial Institutions’ Mobile Apps Against Fraud, Malware, and Unauthorized Access

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Arxan Technologies, FinovateSpring 2013

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This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.
Then, Arxan Technology demonstrated how its Mobile App Integrity Protection products defend financial institutions’ mobile apps:

“Arxan’s Mobile Application Integrity Protection products deliver critical defense and shielding at the application layer with static and active self-defend and tamper-proof attributes. By deploying Arxan protected apps, financial institutions can launch advanced and feature-rich mobile financial services with confidence. 

Our state-of-the-art ‘Guards’ are small units of object code that “lockdown” applications with multiple and performance sensitive protection against attacks such as: malware, fraud, data breach repackaging, unauthorized access, IP theft, removal of security or critical business logic; all of which would have significant consequences for financial institutions.” 

Product Launch: January 2012
HQ: Bethesda, MD
Founded: January 2001
Metrics: Arxan has raised $30M to date; HQ is in the U. S. with global offices in EMEA and APAC 
Website: arxan.com
Twitter: @arxan
Presenting Kevin Morgan (CTO & VP Engineering)

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PayNearMe Launches White-Label Offering

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, PayNearMe
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Second up this afternoon, PayNearMe launched a white-label offering of its cash-payment service for the underbanked:

“Powered by PayNearMe is a white-label treasure services product that any financial institution can offer to their merchants to enable them to accept cash payments from consumers at thousands of 7-Eleven and ACE Cash Express stores nationwide.”

Product Launch: May 2013
HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
Founded: May 2009
Website: paynearme.com
Twitter: @paynearme
Presenting Danny Shader (CEO & Founder) and John Minor (VP Product Management)

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Curaxian Analytics Helps Merchants and Processors Manage the Economics of Risk

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Curaxian, FinovateSpring 2013

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Leading off our first session after the noon break is Curaxian, presenting their fraud risk management solution.
“Curaxian Analytics is a software service that helps merchants or processors quickly identify fraud attacks and build better rules that find the optimal balance between stopping fraud, protecting good orders, and minimizing manual review volume. It also helps merchants and processors reduce authorization declines and control interchange costs.”
Product Launched: March 2012
HQ Location: San Francisco, California
Company Founded: January 2012
Metrics: 70 merchants; $110 billion in risk managed; 34 countries
Website: curaxian.com
Presenting Mitch Muroff (CEO) and Jane Cloninger (Associate)

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Placecast Presents the ShopAlerts Wallet for Location-Based Offers Keyed to Mobile Payments

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, Placecast

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Finishing up the second session of Day Two of FinovateSpring is Placecast, developers of location-based marketing and loyalty programs for mobile operators and payment companies.
“The ShopAlerts Wallet combines Placecast’s expertise in location-based marketing with the latest innovations in mobile commerce. Built in HTML5, the Wallet works on all smartphone platforms and offers customers a first-ever turnkey solution for launching personalized, location-based mobile offers tied to mobile payments. There’s no app to build for marketers, and no app for consumers to download. Unlike other mobile wallet offerings, Placecast offers the Wallet as a white-label solution specifically built for credit card companies, mobile operators, and retailers.”
Product Launched: 2012
HQ Location: San Francisco, California
Company Founded: 2005
Website: placecast.net
Twitter: @placecast
Presenting Alistair Goodman (CEO) and Raymond Schachle (Business Leader, Visa)

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Refundo Launches Mobile App

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, Refundo

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Next up this afternoon, Refundo launched its mobile app:

“Refundo’s Mobile App creates an opportunity to transition millions of underbanked and unbanked households into the financial mainstream by enabling them to open an FDIC-insured bank account using just a smartphone. 

The Mobile App features account balance, debit MasterCard, transaction history, and a network of tens of thousands of ATMs and deposit locations across the U.S., and more. From the beginning, the Mobile App was designed to deliver the best user experience, security, and convenience in mobile banking.”

Product Launch: May 2013
HQ: Elizabeth, NJ
Founded: June 2011
Website: refundo.com
Twitter: @refundo
Presenting Roger Chinchilla (CEO)

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IntelliResponse Unveils its Virtual Concierge for Websites, Mobile Apps, and Social Media

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, IntelliResponse

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IntelliResponse is up next with their Enterprise Virtual Agent solution for the enterprise.
“The IntelliResponse Virtual Agent solution delivers a single, accurate, and approved answer to self-service questions posed across a wide array of customer interaction channels, including corporate websites, voice and text-enabled mobile applications, social media platforms, and agent desktops.
With the addition of voice recognition technology, the IntelliResponse Virtual Agent solution enables mobile users to simply ask their questions in a natural conversational style and receive one right answer wherever they are.
With IntelliResponse’s voice of the customer analysis tool, banks and other financial service institutions can intelligently organize the millions of customer questions in theme clouds to be able to quickly identify trends, ideas for campaigns, and more.”
Product Launched: April 2013
HQ Location: Toronto Ontario, Canada
Company Founded: 2000
Metrics: Under 100 employees; 155 enterprise customers; more than 365 live customer-facing deployments
Twitter: @IntelliResponse
Presenting David Lloyd (CEO)

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Credit Sesame Launches Goals Feature and Visual Mortgage Comparison Tool

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Credit Sesame, FinovateSpring 2013
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Then, Credit Sesame launched its goals feature and new mortgage comparison tool:
“In the market for a new home? Get a complete analysis of your financial profile to understand what you can afford from discovery to decision. Easily find properties in your area that match both your requirements and your budget. Receive offers from multiple lending institutions and easily compare them to determine the right one for you. Make sure you’ll get the best mortgage rates by monitoring your credit for free on the go.
It’s the one mobile app that provides the information, analysis, advice and offers you need for every important financing decision.”
Product Launch: May 2013
HQ: Mountain View, CA
Founded: January 2010
Metrics: Number of accounts: 2M+; Loans under system management: $60B+; Total annualized savings identified for users: $600M+; Number of employees: 32; Money raised: $19.35M 
Twitter: @creditsesame
Presenting George McMullen (Director, Mobile Products)

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The Reprogrammable GoNow Card Transforms into Any Credit, Debit, or Stored Value Card

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, GoNow
This is a part of our live coverage of FinovateSpring 2013.

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Then, GoNow demonstrated how its reprogrammable card can free consumers from overstuffed wallets:

“The GoNow eWallet Platform includes the GoNow eWallet Card, a reprogrammable electronic device that looks like a standard payment card. The GoNow Card becomes any credit, debit or stored-value card in a consumer’s eWallet “on the fly.” It receives commands from an eWallet and can be tapped or swiped at all existing POS terminals and ATMs without any change to the existing payment infrastructure. 

The GoNow Card, which communicates in close proximity with a smartphone, is the ideal eWallet companion card. GoNow also has a secure element in the card that may be used in lieu of, or in addition to, a secure element in the phone.”

Product Launch: November 2013
HQ: Bala Cynwyd, PA
Founded: 2009
Metrics: Two customers integrated GoNow eWallet Card with their eWallet and on track for commercial launch.
Website: gonowcard.com
Twitter: @gonowcard
Presenting Joe O’Neill (VP Business Development) and Ron Fridman (CTO)

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Intuit Unveils Mint MyBusiness Solution, Merging Traditional Banking with Financial Management

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, Intuit

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Intuit is up next presenting a new feature for Mint.com called Mint MyBusiness.
“As the economy continues to recover, consumers and the nation’s more than 21 million personal businesses are looking for tools that will make it easy for them to manage their complete financial picture, including getting ready for tax time. Intuit will demo a new Mint.com feature called Mint MyBusiness, designed specifically to help consumers who are also small business owners to manage their finances – personal and business – all in one place. Additionally, the company will demo the integration of Mint within the digital banking experience of financial institutions, blurring the lines of traditional banking tasks and financial management.”
Product Launched: 2013
HQ Location: Mountain View, California
Company Founded: 1983
Metrics: More than $4 billion in annual revenue; 8,000 employees
Twitter: @Intuit_FS
Presenting Gregory Wright (VP Product for Financial Management, Intuit Financial Services)

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TipRanks Brings Accountability to the World of Financial Analysis with their Browser-Based Tool

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateSpring 2013, TipRanks

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TipRanks is up now, introducing their “Financial Accountability Engine” to help investors and traders decide which financial analysts are worth paying attention to and which ones are not.
“TipRanks is the first online co-browser that aggregates, scrutinizes, and ranks digitally published stock recommendations. TipRanks’ Financial Accountability Engine transparently provides the individual investor unbiased information about the reliability, accuracy, and track record of those who provide sell-side advice. TipRanks’ free cloud-based technology provides unprecedented measurement and clarity to the worldwide financial advice domain. It lets the investor decide who to trust.”
Product Launched: April 2013
HQ Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
Company Founded: June 2012
Metrics: $680,000 raised; 8 employees; 2,000 alpha users; 200 unique Web visits daily
Website: tipranks.com
Twitter: @TipRanks
Presenting Uri Gruenbaum (CEO & Co-Founder) and Gilad Gat (CTO & Co-Founder)

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Balance Financial’s New Digital Workspace Helps Advisors Collaborate with their Clients and Colleagues

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Balance, FinovateSpring 2013

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Second up, Balance Financial took the stage with its new digital workspace:

“Wealth management and private banking represent a great opportunity for financial institutions looking to increase revenue. Competition for affluent clients is heavy and most FIs lack sufficient client facing technology to deliver exceptional client experiences that help attract, engage and retain affluent clients while also helping to scale service delivery.
Our new digital workspace application is a simple and effective way to create a custom workspace for collaborating with clients & colleagues. With Balance, service professionals can create a simple client facing workspace in minutes for sharing files, financial data and managing projects while improving the efficiency and effectiveness of their service offerings.”
Product Launch: March 2013
HQ: Bellevue, WA
Founded: May 2004
Metrics: Our team of 14 employees has raised $2.3M to date and our platform serves 1,200 registered financial firms across the US. 
Twitter: @mybalance
Presenting Devin Miller (CEO) and Andrew Buhrmann (Director, Customer Success)

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