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FinovateFall 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 1

By David Penn Posted on August 13, 2013
Categories: CommunityLend, Financial Guard, FinovateFall 2013, FlexScore, Interactions, Place2Give, Socure

On September 10 and 11, Finovate will return to New York for FinovateFall 2013.

70 companies will take the stage to present their latest technologies, including many that will be making their Finovate debut.

In the weeks leading up to our September event, we’ll help you get to know the innovators and entrepreneurs who will be demoing in New York. Today’s installment introduces our first set of fintech presenters: CR2, FinanceIt/CommunityLend, Financial Guard, FlexScore, Interactions Corporation, Place2Give, QuarterSpot and Socure.

Want to join us in New York in September? Get your ticket to FinovateFall 2013 here.

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CR2 is a leading multichannel banking software provider with a focus on innovation.

Features:

A never-seen-before customer experience at the ATM
Customized and interactive banking
Meaningful revenue driver for the bank

Why it’s great: ATM usability inspired by kiosk and mobile practices for both customers and non-customers.

Martin Dolan, CEO, CR2

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FinanceIt/CommunityLend allows businesses to offer consumer financing to their customers anywhere.

Features:

Photo ID scan for instant approval
iPad app
Consumer-facing loan application for pre-approvals

Why it’s great: FinanceIt will be live in the U.S. Q1 of 2014 and is actively looking for partnerships with merchants and lenders.

Michael Garrity, CEO, CommunityLend

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Financial Guard is an online investment manager reinventing the financial services industry by providing professional, unbiased, transparent, actionable investment advice to the individual investor.

Features:

Holistic investment portfolio optimization
Full transparency
Simple enough for a college intern. Complex enough for a Ph.D in Finance

Why it’s great: Investment Advice at the Right Price, Finally

Kevin Pohmer, President, Financial Guard

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FlexScore is the first-ever, financial scoring tool and is specifically made to make financial education fun for middle-class America.

Features:

First-ever overall financial scoring tool
Provides actionable steps to help user improve finances
Peer ranking tool so users can compare scores

Why it’s great: First-ever personal finance too for middle America instead of the uber rich.

Jason Gordo, CEO, FlexScore

Jason Gordo is listed in the Forbes Top 50 RIA’s in the country. He is also co-author of “FlexScore: Financial Advice for the Rest of Us.”

Jeff Burrow, President, FlexScore

Jeff Burrow is President of FlexScore and is co-author of the book, “FlexScore: Financial Advice for the Rest of Us.” He is a certified financial planner.

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Interactions Corporation is a virtual assistant for banking/financial services

Features:

Customers interact exactly was they would with a live agent
Significant improvements in Net Promoter Score
Significant operations savings

Why it’s great: Simply better customer experience

Phil Gray, Executive Vice-President of Business Development, Interactions Corporation

Phil Gray is a successful startup executive with extensive experience in speech and call center technologies.

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Place2Give helps advisors connect and manage their client’s charitable giving.

Features:

Matches donors to charities using unique algorithms
Shortens advisor research time
Manages donor’s pledges, disbursement and charity tax receipts

Why it’s great: The Toolbox helps reduce an advisor’s research time, justify fee value and aid client retention.

Gena Rotstein, Founder, CEO, Place2Give

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QuarterSpot is a new small business online lending platform using artificial intelligence to significantly lower cost of capital and eliminate need for personal collateral.

Features:

AI underwriting better assesses business risk in minutes
Lowers SMB cost of capital up to 85%
No personal collateral at risk for business loan

Why it’s great: Small businesses searching for capital no longer have to compromise. QuarterSpot makes it easy, fast, and affordable to secure a trusted loan.

Adam Cohen, Co-Founder, CEO, QuarterSpot

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Socure has developed a new form of online identity verification to reduce fraud using a series of proprietary machine learning algorithms to analyze social and identity data.

Features:

Authenticate a user to detect ID theft and account takeover fraud
Improve existing KYC/AML capabilities
De-risk each side of a social P2P payment

Why it’s great: Socure helps financial institutions use social data to reduce various types of online fraud.

Sunil Madhu, CEO, Co-Founder, Socure

Sunil Madhu is an entrepreneur and architect with 20+ years of experience developing and selling innovative enterprise software solutions.

Johnny Ayers, Director of Business Development, Co-Founder, Socure

Johnny Ayers is a management consultant turned entrepreneur. He leads Socure’s business development and operation efforts.

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For more information on attending FinovateFall 2013, see our FAQ. To register, visit out FinovateFall 2013 page here.

Finovate Alumni News– August 6, 2013

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on August 6, 2013
Categories: Allied Payment Network, ERN, Expensify, GoBank, Interactions, Kabbage, MasterCard, Moven, On Deck Capital, Simple, SocietyOne, TransferWise, Wealthfront

ERN raises another $1 million, acquires two UK companies.

Expensify announces additional approval modes.

TMC selects Interactions’ Virtual Assistant applications for a 2013 Speech Technology Excellence Award.

The Financial Brand looks at NeoBanks: Moven, Simple, GoBank.

Reuters article features Wealthfront as a platform of choice for how millenials manage money.

SocietyOne celebrates first birthday.

MasterCard partners with United Bank for Africa to provide Nigeria’s first personalized debit card.

BrightFunds announces that it is now an official contributor to Triple Pundit.

The Economist talks with TransferWise co-founder Taavet Hinrikus about technological innovation in Estonia.

Kabbage and On Deck Capital both featured in Fit Small Business column on raising money for an existing business.

Allied Payment Network partners with Access Softek to provide Picture Pay mobile bill pay technology.

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.

Meet the Innovators of FinovateFall 2013

By David Penn Posted on August 1, 2013
Categories: Akimbo Financial, authenticID, Backbase, BehavioSec, BillFloat, Biometric Signature ID, BizEquity, Capital Access Network, Cardlytics, CommunityLend, CoverHound, CR2, DoubleBeam, Financial Guard, Finect, Fiserv, FlexScore, Float Money, GMC Software Technology, Guide Financial, Ignite Sales, Innovation Agency, Instabank, Interactions, Jumio, Kofax, LearnVest, Level, Lighter Capital, Lumesis, Luminous, Manilla, MasterCard, mBank, MiiCard, Mitek, MoneyDesktop, Motif Investing, Narrative Science, Numbrs, P2P Cash, PayWith, Pendo Systems, Phony Invoices, Place2Give, QuarterSpot, RevolutionCredit, SaaS Markets, Saved Plus, Simple Verity, Socure, SpearFysh, Spreedlly, StockSmart, StrategyCorps, Tinkoff Credit Systems, TipRanks, Toopher, Unleash, VerifyValid, Versafe, WordSentry, Yodlee, Yseop, Zenmonics, Zighra, Zooz

FinovateFall 2013 is right around the corner. That means it’s time to start getting to know the entrepreneurs and innovators that will be presenting their technologies on stage in New York City in September.

Remember, the early bird deadline is this Friday, August 2nd. So to reserve your spot and register now.

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Akimbo Financial offers a social bank account alternative that makes sharing money easier than ever.

authenticID‘s identity tools pictureID and catfishID, are the most accurate, time-saving solutions for the forms of ID we already carry.

Backbase‘s Launchpad, the Commercial Banking Edition, making CFO’s work easier.

BehavioSec uses behavioral analytics to transparently tackle web and mobile security.

BillFloat revolutionizes credit delivery to consumers and businesses.

Biometric Signature ID has a patented software-only biometric for secure ID online verification.

BizEquity is the first and leading cloud-based business valuation engine, an innovative solution to small business lead generation.

Capital Access Network is the largest and most experienced small business finance specialist.

Cardlytics uses consumer purchase data to drive a patented advertising platform. Ads are so relevant–they’re expected.

CoverHound is a comparison insurance adviser, helping people discover, buy, and manage insurance online.

CR2 is the innovative provider of self-service banking solutions including ATM, Internet, and mobile banking.

DoubleBeam‘s SDK powers mPayments inside other mobile apps, helping signup customers quickly and save a ton on the cost of payments.

FinanceIt offers businesses the ability to provide consumer financing to their customers at the POS.

Financial Guard helps you protect your investments, providing online investment advice at the right price, finally.

Finect is the leading online network for the financial services industry.

Fiserv is a leading global technology provider serving the financial services industry, driving innovation in payments.

FlexScore “gamifies” financial planning, gives a “score” of your financial fitness, and provides education, advice, peer comparisons.

Float Money offers interest-free credit to members of its shopping club and financial health partners.

FutureAdvisor manages your investments for better returns, making quality financial advice available to everyone.

GMC Software Technology is a leading software developer of solutions that transform the customer experience.

Guide Financial is like a healthcheck for your finances – automatically scanning your accounts for ways you can earn or save more, and providing simple, easy fixes.

Ignite Sales is the leader in retail banking, customer acquisition, and retention technology.

Innovation Agency, where you can execute on your innovation mandate and unlock the wealth of ideas in your ecosystems.

Instabank – Beautiful money.

Interactions provides natural language Virtual Assistant application services for the automation customer care processes.

Jumio is a next generation credentials management company offering payments and ID scanning and validation products for mobile and web transactions.

Kofax is a leading provider of smart process applications that simplify the business critical First Mile of information-intensive customer interactions.

LearnVest empowers people everywhere to take control of their money and live their richest lives.

Level Money is a financial GPS, designed to replace budgeting.

Lighter Capital provides growth capital to technology companies in a highly-automated basis – Capital-as-a-Service.

Lumesis provides software for the fixed income municipal market. Compliance and credit-focused.

Luminous is a boutique innovation company that has become synonymous with innovative banking around the world.

Manilla is the leading free and secure service to simplify and organize daily financial life.

MasterCard is a technology company in the global payments industry, operating the world’s fastest payments processing network.

mBank is the biggest, pure-play online bank and the third largest retail bank in Poland.

miiCard is the first digital identity verification service to prove ‘you are who you say you are’ entirely online.

Mitek is positioned as the leading innovator in mobile imaging software.

MoneyDesktop empowers financial institutions to provide online/mobile banking experiences to promote personal financial intelligence.

Motif Investing is a thematic, customizable, low-cost and crowdsourceable ETF-like product that is disrupting investing economics.

Narrative Science enables companies to uncover the insight hidden in their data and create new content at a scale and frequency never before possible.

Numbrs – One App – Every Bank.

P2P Cash is the mobile wallet with switch technology that allows us to aggregate all other mWallets and mobile financial services.

PayWith is powered by MasterCard. Funded by Merchants. Loved by Consumers.

PhonyInvoices provides invoice fraud detection and prevention. We check a company’s vendor lists and transactions for suspicious activity.

Place2Give provides valuable and trustworthy information to make the most impactful social capital investment decisions.

QuarterSpot lending platform delivers the lowest cost and most favorable term small business loans.

RevolutionCredit is a revolutionary solution that transforms the credit decisioning process for both creditors and consumers.

SaaS Markets is the enterprise app store company for financial organizations looking to leverage cloud-based applications for their employees or customers.

SavedPlus is an automatic savings program that helps customers save money with every purchase.

Simple Verity provides business credit reports on any SMB in America.

Socure offers a social identity verification solution to combat the growing risk of online identity fraud for financial institutions.

SpearFysh leverages mobile, speech analytics, big data, and SaaS technology to improve sales processes and drive growth.

Spreedly provides vault cards in the cloud and work with more than 50 payment gateways.

StockSmart apps and platform offer insight and information on the world’s best companies and people.

StrategyCorps delivers local/mobile/social consumer checking solutions so appealing and relevant, your customers will gladly pay for them.

Tinkoff Credit Systems is Russia’s leading provider of online financial services.

TipRanks is a cloud-based service that measures the performance of anyone giving investment advice.

Toopher eliminates online fraud using your phone’s location. Simple, secure, your phone stays in your pocket.

Unleash is the cloud CFO that helps small businesses make better decisions faster.

VerifyValid and Deluxe are giving checks their first major upgrade in more than 200 years.

Versafe protects all users from all malware, threat types. On all devices, all transparently.

WordSentry software analyzes messages during composition, identifying non-compliant components, for correction before sending.

Yodlee is the platform for financial innovation, powering the world’s largest collection of transactional data.

Yseop creates a new age where financial services delivered to customers are driven by AI and human collaboration.

Zenmonics is a global technology services and mobile product provider to the financial services market.

Zighra empowers banks and financial institutions to leverage implicit mobile user authentication and accelerate payments.

Zooz provides complete payment essentials at your fingertips: a robust set of tools that will improve the payment process.

Plus more stealth companies to be announced in the weeks to come.

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To find out more about the upcoming FinovateFall 2013 event in New York, September 10 and 11, visit our FinovateFall information page here.