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Finovate Alumni News– February 16, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 16, 2012
Categories: BillFloat, Dwolla, eToro, HelloWallet, Holvi, IDTheft 911, Kabbage, Kasasa, ReadyForZero, ValidSoft

InspirePay embeds Dwolla’s payment network.

Fast Co Design applauds ReadyForZero’s product and UI.

Phil D’Angio appointed as Senior VP of Global Sales for ValidSoft.

MAPFRE Puerto Rico selects Identity Theft 911 to provide ID theft protection & resolution services to policyholders.

HelloWallet implements new features.

Vision Research Lab highlights Holvi’s demo from FinovateEurope.

ForexPros interviews Yoni Assia, eToro CEO.

DepositAccounts.com looks at reward checking accounts from Kasasa.

Kabbage’s partnership with UPS provides more funding by using shipping data in underwriting.

BillFloat is loaning more than $1 million per month.

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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Finovate Alumni News– January 26, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 26, 2012
Categories: BillFloat, Dwolla, Geezeo, Kasasa, Personal Capital

Business Insider examines Personal Capital’s consumer-focused approach to wealth management.

Prairie Cast hosts Jordan Lampe from Dwolla and discusses the rumors about funding.

Kasasa changes the face of local banking in Alabama.

Geezeo signs more credit unions.

BillFloat adds Florida electric provider to list of billers.

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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Oregon-based Credit Union Launches BancVue’s Kasasa

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 18, 2012
Categories: Kasasa

St Helens Community Federal Credit Union announced yesterday that it is the first financial institution in Oregon to launch BancVue’s Kasasa.

CU Insight reports:

“St. Helens Community FCU is offering two Kasasa financial products, including Kasasa Cash® and Kasasa Tunes®. All Kasasa products are free, reward-based accounts, with no minimum balance to earn the rewards, no monthly service fees, free online banking and other convenience services, and worldwide ATM fee refunds.”

Kasasa Cash is a high-interest, free checking account for qualifying members and Kasasa Tunes is a free checking account that rewards qualifying members with downloads from iTunes or Amazon.

To learn more about BancVue’s Kasasa, watch its Finovate2009 demo and check out Netbanker’s blog post from last week.

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Finovate Alumni News– January 18, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 18, 2012
Categories: BancVue, BrightScope, Dwolla, InComm, Intuit, Kasasa, LearnVest, On Deck Capital, PayPal, Plastyc, Ready Receipts, SecondMarket, ThreatMetrix

Ready Receipts officially launches paperless receipt technology.

nFinanSe seeks to halt new debit card network by InComm, alleges price-fixing conspiracy.

VentureBeat discusses the IPO market with SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert.

On Deck partners with the National Association for Small Business.

SignatureLink to integrate ThreatMetrix’s Cybercrime Defender Platform with its technology

Intuit hires former Apple executive to lead Canada division.

Fox Business News interviews LearnVest founder and CEO, Alexa von Tobel.

The Next Web compares and contrasts PayPal and Dwolla with other payment methods.

Plastyc’s UPside cardholders can now load cash onto cards at 7-Eleven stores.

Oregon-based Credit Union launches BancVue’s Kasasa.

BrightScope partners with social media expert Arkovi.

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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Finovate Alumni Website Traffic in September

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 2, 2011
Categories: Adobe, Andera, Betterment, Bill.com, Billeo, BillFloat, Bills.com, Boku, BrightScope, Bundle, Cardlytics, CashEdge, CashStar, ChargeSmart, Check Point, CheckFree, Cortera, Credit Karma, Credit Sesame, Credit.com, DebtGoal, Discover, Doxo, Equifax, eRollover, eToro, Expensify, Experian, FeeFighters, findabetterbank.com, Fiserv, Google, HR Block, Infosys, Intuit, Jack Henry, Kabbage, Kapitall, Kasasa, Leadfusion, LearnVest, Lending Club, Lendio, MasterCard, Metavante, Mint.com, MoneyAisle, Motley Fool CAPS, MyBankTracker, Offermatic, Online Resources, Outright.com, Pageonce, PayPal, Prosper, Receivables Exchange, S1, Sears Credit Score, Seeking Alpha, Simple, Simple Tuition, smartcredit.com, SmartyPig, Standard Chartered Bank, Stocktwits, Striata, Sybase 365, TradeKing, TransUnion Interactive, Truaxis, TrustedID, TSYS, VISA, Wall Street Survivor, Weemba, Wesabe, Wikinvest, wipro, Yodlee, Zecco

Each month we survey the Web-traffic performance of Finovate alums using data from Web-analytics company Compete.

Out of 268 alumni, 80 had more than 10,000 unique U.S. visitors in September 2011 and are included in the tables below. Of those, 33 (41%) had more visitors in September than August. Year-over-year, 42 (52%) had traffic increases.

Private Companies

Seeking Alpha and Cortera had the highest traffic in September with 2.1 and 2.0 million unique visitors, respectively. Cortera also had the highest increase in number of unique year-over-year visits with over 1.5 more visits in 2011 than in 2010.
Kabbage had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, up 280x.
Weemba saw the highest monthly growth percentage with more than 7.5 times the number of unique visitors in September compared to August.
SmartCredit.com had the highest increase in number of unique year-over-year visitors, growing by 126,000.

Source: Compete.com retrieved the week of October 26, 2011

1) The previous month recorded was August 2011

2) Sears Credit Score is powered by CreditKarma.com

3) Truaxis was formerly BillShrink

4) Kasasa is powered by BancVue

Public companies

CheckFree had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, with over 7 times the number of visitors this year than last year.
Intuit had a notable increase in number of unique, year-over-year visitors, increasing by 300,000 visits.
Check Point had the highest month-over-month percent growth, with 41% more visitors in September than in August.

Source: Compete.com retrieved the week of October 26, 2011

1) The previous month recorded was July 2011.

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Notes:

1. We reviewed 268 Finovate alumni. Only those with at least 10,000 unique visitors in July are listed.

3. NM = not measurable

4. t= tie

5. Compete estimates online visitors based on the activity of a panel of more than 2 million U.S. Internet users. It is only an estimate of traffic and may undercount at-work usage.

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Finovate Alumni Website Traffic in August

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 20, 2011
Categories: Adobe, Andera, Betterment, Bill.com, Billeo, BillFloat, Bills.com, BillShrink, Boku, BrightScope, Budgettracker, Bundle, Cardlytics, CashEdge, CashStar, ChargeSmart, Check Point, CheckFree, Cortera, Credit Karma, Credit Sesame, Credit.com, DebtGoal, Discover, Equifax, eRollover, eToro, Experian, findabetterbank.com, Fiserv, Geezeo, Google, HR Block, Infosys, Intuit, Jack Henry, Kabbage, Kapitall, Kasasa, Leadfusion, LearnVest, Lending Club, Lendio, MasterCard, Metavante, Mint.com, MoneyAisle, Motley Fool CAPS, MyBankTracker, Offermatic, Online Resources, Outright.com, Pageonce, PayPal, Prosper, S1, Sears Credit Score, Seeking Alpha, Simple Tuition, smartcredit.com, SmartyPig, Standard Chartered Bank, Stocktwits, Striata, Sybase 365, TradeKing, TransUnion Interactive, Truaxis, TrustedID, VISA, Wall Street Survivor, Wesabe, Wikinvest, wipro, Yodlee, Zecco

Each month we survey the Web-traffic performance of Finovate alums using data from Web-analytics company Compete.

Out of 268 alumni, 75 had more than 10,000 unique U.S. visitors in August 2011 and are included in the tables below. Of those, 41 (55%) had more visitors in August than July. Year-over-year, 45 (60%) had traffic increases.

Private Companies

Seeking Alpha — the most-trafficked in August with 2.5 million unique visitors — also had the highest increase in number of unique month-over-month visits with 300,000 more visits in August than in July.
Budgettracker.com saw the highest monthly growth percentage with more than 6.5 times the number of unique visitors in August compared to July.
Betterment had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, up 88x.
Cortera had the highest number of unique year-over-year visitors, growing by 1.5 million.

Source: Compete.com retrieved week of October 3, 2011

1) The previous month recorded was July 2011

2) Truaxis was formerly BillShrink

3) Sears Credit Score is powered by CreditKarma.com

4) Kasasa is powered by BancVue

5) Checkingfinder.com is powered by BancVue

Public Companies

Fiserv had the highest month-over-month percent growth, with 50% more visitors.
CheckFree had the highest percentage growth year-over-year, with over 5 times the number of visitors.
S1 also had a high percentage growth year-over-year, doubling its visitors.

Source: Compete.com retrieved the week of October 3, 2011

1) The previous month recorded was July 2011.

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Notes:

1. We reviewed 268 Finovate alumni. Only those with at least 10,000 unique visitors in July are listed.

3. NM = Not measurable

4. t= Tie

5. Compete estimates online visitors based on the activity of a panel of more than 2 million U.S. Internet users. It is only an estimate of traffic and may undercount at-work usage.

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Finovate Alumni Website Traffic in July

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on August 29, 2011
Categories: Adobe, Andera, BancVue, Betterment, Bill.com, Billeo, BillFloat, Bills.com, BillShrink, Blippy, Boku, BrightScope, Bundle, Cardlytics, CashEdge, ChargeSmart, Check Point, Cortera, Credit Karma, Credit Sesame, Credit.com, DebtGoal, Discover, eRollover, eToro, Expensify, Experian, FIS, Fiserv, Infosys, Intuit, Jack Henry, Kapitall, Kasasa, Leadfusion, Lending Club, Lendio, Metavante, Mint.com, MoneyAisle, MyBankTracker, Online Resources, Outright.com, PayPal, Prosper, S1, Seeking Alpha, Simple Tuition, smartcredit.com, SmartyPig, Standard Chartered Bank, Sybase 365, TransUnion Interactive, TrustedID, Wesabe, Wikinvest, wipro, Yodlee, Zecco

Each month we survey the Web-traffic performance of Finovate alums using data from Web-analytics company Compete.

Out of 255 alumni, 59 (23%) had more than 10,000 unique U.S. visitors in July 2011 (see tables below). Of those, 19 (32%) had more visitors than in the previous month and 25 (42%) were flat. Year-over-year, 26 (44%) had an increase, 10 (17%) were flat, and 23 (39%) were down.

Private Companies

Notable successes:

Seeking Alpha had the most traffic in July with more than 2 million unique visitors.
eToro saw the highest monthly growth percentage with 3 times the number of unique visitors in July compared to June.
Bundle had the highest increase in number of unique month-over-month visits, with 450,000 more visitors in July than in June.
eRollover had the highest percent year-over-year traffic increase, with 260,000 more visitors from last July.

Source: Compete.com retrieved week of August 15, 2011

1. The previous month recorded was May 2011

2. Sears Credit Score is powered by CreditKarma.com

3. Kasasa is powered by BancVue

Public Companies

Notable successes:

PayPal had the highest number of U.S. visitors in July, with more than 30 million visitors.
Jack Henry & Associates saw the highest monthly growth with twice as many visitors in July than June.
Wipro Technologies had the highest year-over-year growth, with 3 times as many visitors this year compared to last year.
FIS Global and Online Resources also doubled their traffic compared to last year.

Source: Compete.com retrieved the week of August 15, 2011

1. The previous month recorded was May 2011.

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Notes:

1. We reviewed 255 Finovate alumni. Only those with at least 10,000 unique visitors in July are listed.

3. NM = Not measurable

4. Compete estimates online visitors based on the activity of a panel of more than 2 million U.S. Internet users. It is only an estimate of traffic and may undercount at-work usage.

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Alumni News — Week of April 4, 2011

By finovate Posted on April 13, 2011
Categories: Cardlytics, eWise, Fiserv, Kasasa, Mint.com, SmartyPig, Stocktwits

To see our Alumni companies’ updates in real time, follow us on Twitter.

eWise officially relocates from Australia to Denver, Colorado. http://bit.ly/finovate44114

Fiserv and Cardlytics partner for merchant-funded in-statement rewards. http://bit.ly/finovate45112. See last month’s Online Banking Report for more info.

Southwest Louisiana Credit Union joins Kasasa with fun and games on April Fools’ Day. SLCU has served the Lake Charles, LA, region since 1952. http://bit.ly/finovate45111

Mint introduces mobile advice for iPhone. The feature will come to the Android app this summer. http://bit.ly/finovate44111

SmartyPig launched a free mobile app for Android. http://bit.ly/Finovate44112

Follow the markets through the StockTwits blog network. Users can follow more than 40 profiles in StockTwits network. http://bit.ly/finovate45113

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Alumni News — Week of January 17, 2011

By finovate Posted on January 23, 2011
Categories: Acculynk, AlphaClone, Backbase, Bill.com, iPay Technologies, Kasasa, Kony Solutions, mFoundry, Mint.com, Silver Tail Systems, SmartyPig, The Receivables Exchange

To see Finovate alumni company news in real-time, follow our feed on Twitter here.

Acculynk brings PaySecure PIN security to mobile devices. – The mobile PIN payment system should be available to consumers in first quarter 2011. http://bit.ly/finovate119113

AlphaClone is mentioned on Wall Street Journal front page article, “Pack Mentality Grips Hedge Funds.” – The story ran Jan 15, 2011 and details the similar strategies in hedge fund management. http://bit.ly/finovate118113

Backbase opens a New York City office to house field operations staff and help to serve East Coast financial institutions. http://bit.ly/finovate117112

Bill.com partners with Track1099 for easy, paperless IRS-1099 filing. – Users can report independent contractor payments in two easy steps direct from their bill.com page. http://bit.ly/finovate118112

iPay Technologies launches Biz 2.0 Crossover to help small businesses convert to business online bill payment. – The system identifies businesses using consumer online bill pay and targest them for upgrade to the business version. http://bit.ly/finovate119111

Kasasa adds Neighborhood Credit Union to the fold. – NCU is the largest credit union in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area. http://bit.ly/finovate117114

Kony solutions raises $19.1 million for mobile application platform. – Kony creates mobile applications for numerous industries including banking and investments. http://tcrn.ch/finovate119115

Frost and Sullivan names mFoundry “Entrepreneurial Company of the Year” in the mobile banking category. http://bit.ly/finovate121114

Mint and TurboTax team up to make taxes easier. – Mint allows for tagging of deductible transactions and free e-filing via Turbo Tax. http://bit.ly/finovate121111

SilverTail Systems is hosting a Webinar on Jan 27 covering the differences between ecommerce and online financial Fraud. — http://bit.ly/finovate117111

SmartyPig’s cash rewards card wins Paybefore award twice. – Congratulations to Smartypig for winning in two categories, “best general purpose reloadable program” and “best consumer value in prepaid.” http://bit.ly/finovate12112

Joseph Leone, former vice chairman and CFO of CIT Group, joins the board of advisors at The Receivables Exchange. – Leone is a nationally recognized expert in commercial lending. http://bit.ly/finovate118111

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Alumni News — Week of December 29, 2010

By finovate Posted on January 3, 2011
Categories: Bill.com, Expensify, Kapitall, Kasasa, Lending Club, Mint.com, Second Market

To see updates on Finovate alumni companies follow our live feed on Twitter.

Bill.com now offers receivable tracking. — The new module, still in Beta, allows users to invoice, and track receivables and even receive payments electronically. http://bit.ly/finovate12282

Check out the new branding at Bancvue’s Kasasa. — The company has implemented a new, edgier corporate identity, to better blend with the slam-poetry marketing campaign. http://bit.ly/finovate12283

Expensify unveiled a new reporting system. http://tcrn.ch/finovate12292

Kapitall launches new tools for 2011. — New features include dynamic lists of what’s hot, the most popular trades, and watch lists in every sector. http://bit.ly/finovate12302

Mint.com goes to school with a new, free financial curriculum for middle schools. — The program, a partnership with Scholastic, will be expanded to 30,000 schools in early 2011. http://tcrn.ch/finovate12281

See Lending Club‘s list of top 100 financial micro-bloggers. http://bit.ly/finovate12284

Congratulations Lending Club on reaching $200 million in funded loans. http://bit.ly/finovate12301

TechCrunch explains why the SEC need not tighten regulation of SecondMarket and other secondary market trading sites. http://tcrn.ch/finovate12303

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Alumni News — Weeks of December 13 and 20, 2010

By finovate Posted on December 30, 2010
Categories: Backbase, Blaze Mobile, BrightScope, Capital Access Network, CashEdge, Expensify, FIS, Geezeo, GoalMine, Kapitall, Kasasa, Lending Club, mFoundry, Mint.com, Mozo, SmartyPig, Victrio

To see Finovate news updates in real-time, follow our feed on Twitter.

Backbase explores mobile banking in its fall webinar series. http://bit.ly/finovate1293

BlazeMobile creates smart payments sticker.http://bit.ly/finovate12133

BrightScope releases top 30 retirement plans. http://bit.ly/finovate12143

Capital Access special report on “Black Friday” and small business sales data. http://bit.ly/finovate1282

SunTrust has added the “Transfer Now” product suite from CashEdge including person-to-person and me-to-me transfers. http://bit.ly/finovate12165

ClairMail and Cardlytics partner to provide transaction marketing opportunities. http://bit.ly/finovate1281

Expensify is hiring for multiple positions. – The company is currently looking for Web developers and computer engineers at several levels. http://bit.ly/finovate1216

FIS launches innovative new mobile banking product. — Users can establish mobile account management with their debit card, no online banking signup needed. http://bit.ly/finovate1291

Geezeo selected by University Federal Credit Union as PFM provider. http://bit.ly/finovate12151

GoalMine hosting cash contest via Facebook to spread the word. http://bit.ly/finovate1292

Kapitall closes series A funding round. — The company did not release funding amounts or sources. http://bit.ly/finovate12163

Kasasa on “green” community banking. — See what a green bank looks like. http://bit.ly/finovate12132

Seventy percent of US Airlines have migrated to Kony Mobile-powered travel apps. http://bit.ly/finovate12142

Lending Club featured in San Fransisco Chronicle, Black Enterprise, and PBS. http://bit.ly/finovate12131

mFoundry deploys Washington Trust Bank’s mobile banking app. — This makes 260 customers so far using the mFoundry mobile applications. http://bit.ly/finovate12161

Congratulations to Mint founder, Aaron Patzer, winner of a TechFellow Award for General Management. http://tcrn.ch/finovate1296

M ozo powering new “Compare, Ditch and Switch” campaign. — The services allows Australians to shop around for better banking services. http://bit.ly/finovate1283

Just in time for the Holidays, PopMoney gift cards at www.giftcardmall.com.

SmartyPig launches cash rewards card with only a one-time activation fee of $4.95. http://bit.ly/finovate12134

Victrio receives $5 million investment for voice-printing technology. http://bit.ly/finovate12141

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Alumni News — Weeks of November 28 and December 5, 2010

By finovate Posted on December 13, 2010
Categories: Andera, Backbase, BancVue, Betterment, Capital Access Network, CashEdge, ClairMail, Expensify, FIS, GoalMine, Jemstep, Jwaala, Kasasa, Lending Club, Mint.com, Monitise, Mozo, PopMoney, SmartyPig, Tyfone, Wikinvest, Yodlee

PopMoney (from CashEdge) wins award for excellence in Web design from the Interactive Media Council. http://bit.ly/finovate11301

Speculation from MarketWatch: Could ClairMail be headed for an IPO? http://bit.ly/finovate11306

ClairMail and Cardlytics partner to provide transaction marketing opportunities. http://bit.ly/finovate1281

Expensify continues to grow its currency support base — Expensify is now supporting 159 currencies. http://bit.ly/finovate1232

Robert Scoble uses Expensify for expense reports. http://scoble.it/finovate11305

FIS launches innovative new mobile banking product. — Users can establish mobile account management with their debit card, no online banking signup needed. http://bit.ly/finovate1291

GoalMine hosting cash contest via Facebook to spread the word. http://bit.ly/finovate1292

This week’s Jem 5 at Jemstep explores diversified fixed income funds. http://bit.ly/finovate1294

Generations FCU goes live with Jwaala’s “Better Online Banking.” http://bit.ly/finovate1237

Just for fun: Kasasa releases banks’ playlists. See this week’s from Jeff Davis Bank. http://bit.ly/finovate1236

Lending Club enjoyed a flurry of news coverage. Read the summaries here: http://bit.ly/finovate1224

Lending Club mentioned in PBS nightly business report. http://to.pbs.org/finovate1297

Mint.com now available in Canada. http://tcrn.ch/finovate1234

Congratulations to Mint founder, Aaron Patzer; winner of a TechFellow Award for General Management. http://tcrn.ch/finovate1296

Monitise to bring mobile payments to Nigeria. http://bit.ly/finovate1231

Mozo powering new “Compare, Ditch and Switch” campaign to allow Australians to shop around for better banking services. http://bit.ly/finovate1283

Just in time for the Holidays, PopMoney gift cards at www.giftcardmall.com.

The new SmartyPig rewards MasterCard provides up to 10% cash back at select retailers. http://bit.ly/finovate11303

Tyfone receives additional patent for electronic wallet technology. http://bit.ly/finovate11304

Wikinvest is even more mobile with Blackberry and Android Apps. http://bit.ly/finovate1235

Y Combinator and Yodlee cooperate to provide financial data services to startups.

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