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Finovate Alumni News– January 16, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 16, 2012
Categories: CashStar, ChargeSmart, Dwolla, FeeFighters, LearnVest, Lending Club, PayPal, Prosper, SmartyPig, Transparency Labs

SmartMoney (Feb 2012) article, “Attack of the 6.5-point Typeface” cites research from Transparency Labs.

Rescuecom asks if Dwolla can become the new PayPal.

CNN Money names SmartyPig “Best Savings Alternative”.

Missouri News channel KY3 recommends using Prosper and Lending Club as a creative way to fund your business.

Bangor Daily News profiles CashStar.

NY Times blog talks about LearnVest as a financial planner for the middle class.

AARP lists ChargeSmart as a future way to pay bills using unwanted gift cards.

FeeFighters hosts webinar about ecommerce on January 16.

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Finovate Alumni News– January 13, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 13, 2012
Categories: Billeo, cbanc Network, eToro, FiPath, LearnVest, MyCyberTwin, ReadyForZero

Billeo announces Active eWallet API Tool.

AOL’s Daily Finance lists LearnVest and ReadyForZero as resources to take control of your finances.

Entrepreneur test drives MyCyberTwin’s customer service bot.

FiPath unveils its Express Rollover Center.

cbanc Network’s FI user base grew seven-fold in 2011.

FX Empire crowns @eToro with Best Social Trading Platform Award.

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Finovate Alumni News– January 10, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 10, 2012
Categories: eWise, LearnVest, MiiCard, Outright.com, Plastyc, ThreatMetrix

Wired Magazine UK describes how miiCard is working to help prove online identities.

Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch looks at how LearnVest seeks to shake up financial planning.

Plastyc publishes a fee and feature comparison between its UPside Visa prepaid card and Suze Orman’s The Approved Card.

eWise’s Secure Vault Payments adds Nebraska Online Child Support website to vendor list.

ThreatMetrix acquires TrustDefender, expands Cybercrime Defender Platform.

Outright releases a widget to help those filing a 1099-K escape possible IRS audits.

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Finovate Alumni News– January 5, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 5, 2012
Categories: BillGuard, Check Point, Credit Karma, FreeMonee, LearnVest, Linkable Networks, Micronotes, PayPal, ProfitStars, ReadyForZero, T8 Webware

American Banker describes how T8 Webware, Micronotes, and FreeMonee predicts what customers will buy.

Seattle’s King 5 News highlights Linkable Networks’ digital coupons.

TechCrunch reports Credit Karma enrolls 100,000 users for its credit monitoring service in one day.

Business Insider recommends using BillGuard to prevent credit and debit card fraud.

BetaBeat looks at what LearnVest is doing with its $19 million round of funding.

ReadyForZero introduces its New Year’s challenge.

TechCrunch reports John Donahue, Ebay CEO will serve as PayPal’s interim president since PayPal President Scott Thompson left for Yahoo.

ProfitStars reaches milestone of providing image & data conversions for 1,000 FIs over the past 5 years.

Check Point Software Technologies works with Amazon Web Services secure the cloud.

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Finovate Alumni News– January 2, 2012

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on January 2, 2012
Categories: Bill.com, Boku, BrightScope, CashStar, LearnVest, Lighter Capital, Rebirth Financial, SecondMarket, Weemba

Maine Public Broadcasting Network profiles CashStar.

Sky News features BOKU.

Ryan Alfred, BrightScope CEO, & Alexa VonTobel, LearnVest CEO, also make Forbes list of “30 under 30”.

Bank Technology News describes how Bill.com uses capital infusion to build a cash flow dashboard for businesses.

SecondMarket’s homepage gets a makeover.

The CBS Early Show features Weemba, Lighter Capital, and Rebirth Financial.

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LearnVest Updates My Money Center

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 23, 2011
Categories: LearnVest

Yesterday, PFM LearnVest announced some updates to My Money Center, its free online budgeting service.

Here’s an overview of what’s new:

Categorize cash transactions: You can now categorize the $50 you withdrew from the ATM as a budgetary item.

Manually add an account: Is your Credit Union not syncing with LearnVest? No worries. Now you can manually include that money for a full picture of your finances.

Track your income: Now there’s a folder in your financial inbox for your paychecks and other sources of income.

To learn more about LearnVest, watch its FinovateFall 2011 demo.

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Finovate Alumni News– November 22, 2011

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on November 22, 2011
Categories: Alkami Technology, Check Point, Equifax, Geezeo, HelloWallet, LearnVest, Prosper, Simple, Xero

Richard Branson follows in the footsteps of Simple by avoiding the word ‘bank’ when naming his newly acquired FI.

Alkami wins VC backing for online banking technology.

Check Point Software Technologies acquires risk management company.

HelloWallet’s iPhone app helps make budgeting advice more relevant.

Equifax partners with data quality and management company Ixsight.

Xero makes receiving overpayments and prepayments easier.

Credit Union Times reports Geezeo adds four credit union clients for its PFM.

Venture Studio interviews Alexa Von Tobel, LearnVest CEO, about how she started her business.

The Social Lending Network looks at Prosper’s top P2P lenders.

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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 News– October 31, 2011

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 31, 2011
Categories: ClairMail, DoughMain, Dwolla, Intuit, LearnVest, Mint.com, Pageonce, Prosper, ReadyForZero, Simple, T8 Webware

Prosper.com creates account enhancements for investors.

Bank Technology News looks at Pageonce’s decision to add a bill pay service.

PSFK gives a sneak peek of BankSimple’s mobile app.

CNN Tech discusses the differences between Intuit’s Quicken and Mint.com.

Clairmail announces a record increase in cumulative mobile banking transactions.

ReadyForZero now supports auto loans, mortgages, and student loans.

The Des Moines Register looks at how Dwolla & T8 Webware contribute to Des Moines’s startup culture.

Benzinga looks at DoughMain’s family finance tool.

CU Times examines the usage of Mint.com’s iPad app.

The Republic examines LearnVest’s budgeting and advice platform.

Mint.com explores its history as an infographic and includes being a two-time Finovate Best of Show Winner.

Intuit receives two prestigious awards for social customer support, engagement.

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Finovate Alumni News– October 28, 2011

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 28, 2011
Categories: BillShrink, LearnVest, Simple, Truaxis

Bank Technology News reports BankSimple benefits from fee discontent.

Jason Calacanis interviews BillShrink (Truaxis) CEO during “This Week in Startups.”

LearnVest CEO Alexa Von Tobel provides advice in Forbes on how to save $1k by 2012.

SafetyPay partners with Brazil’s sixth-largest bank,
HSBC Bank Brazil.

CashStar raises $12 million in series C financing.

Mint.com’s iPad app now available, includes transaction feed.

Under the Radar blog interviews Expensify CEO David Barrett.

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