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Nvstrearns a spot in the Financial Venture Studio’s incoming cohort.
CREALOGIXintroduces new Chief Financial Officer Daniel Bader.
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Small business loan marketplace Lendio is entering into the cloud-based accounting software field with the launch of Sunrise. The new endeavor is the result of the Utah-based company’s just-announced purchase of online bookkeeping startup Billy. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Founded by Toke Kruse in 2012, Billy aimed to create “hassle-free” finance software for business owners who wanted to focus on their business, not accounting. After the acquisition, Lendio rebranded the Portland, Oregon-based company to Sunrise and pivoted it into a freemium bookkeeping software that offers accounting, cash flow management, and loan and credit information, as well as access to Lendio’s loan marketplace into a single platform.
“We are very excited to announce the acquisition of Billy and the re-brand to Sunrise. The Sunrise platform will bring together previously disparate sources of information for small business owners, such as accounting, loan and credit data,” said Brock Blake, CEO and founder of Lendio. “It’s our goal for Sunrise users to feel more confident in making financial decisions that help their businesses grow.”
The free version of Sunrise offers cash and accrual-based accounting, as well as an invoicing system, estimate creator, and a customer-facing credit card payment portal for billing. Businesses can also sync their financial accounts to categorize and track expenses and income, store receipts, and view profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and other reports such as accounts receivable, customer statements, and more.
A paid subscription, which ranges from $99/ month to $499/ month, enables business owners to automate accounting tasks by outsourcing bookkeeping duties to professionals who use a system to recognize revenue, take care of invoicing, and reconcile books on a monthly basis. The paid version also integrates with Stripe, PayPal, and Square.
Sunrise offers invoicing capabilities
Lendio is already working to improve upon Sunrise by building out capabilities such as enhanced loan integration. The company also plans to launch a Sunrise mobile app, add auto categorization, and offer tax software integration.
At FinovateSpring 2011, Lendio showcased its flagship loan marketplace. With an ecosystem of 75+ lenders, the company facilitates an average loan size of around 27,000. Since it was founded in 2011, Lendio has helped close $1.5 billion in financing (half a billion of which closed in the past six months alone) via 70,000 small business loans.
After launching franchising opportunities in 2017, the company announced it would find financing alternatives for small businesses whose loan applications are initially rejected. In a recent interview, when asked “What’s next?” Blake said, “At some point, maybe we’ll either go public or someone will come and give us an offer we can’t refuse. Then, we’ll kind of take a step back and say, ‘Okay, what next?'”
ID R&Dships new version of IDVoice that combines AI and voice technology to increase biometric matching speed and improve enrollment and authentication.
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Temenos to power digital transformation for Rwanda’s Bank of Kigali.
BuiltIn featuresHooYu in its look at how AI is changing the banking industry.
ACI Worldwideteams up with Egyptian Banks Company, which will leverage ACI’s UP Retail Payments solution.
Entrepreneur magazine names Lendio Franchising as a Top 100 Franchise for Less Than $50,000 in 2019 and as the Best Financial Services Franchise Brand for the second year in a row.
Yseoprecognized as a representative vendor in Gartner’s first Market Guide for Natural Language Generation Platforms.
Saga selectsFIS to deploy its Integrity SaaS solution.
iSignthislaunches third European office in Gzira, Malta.
In June Personal Capital surpasses $10 billion in assets under management, an increase of more than $2 billion since Q4 2018.
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Backbase is named a leader in the Forrester Wave for Digital Banking Engagement Platforms for the third year in a row.
InCommbecomes exclusive distributor of Amex prepaid cards in Canada.
TradeshiftlaunchesTradeshift Go 2.0, a payments product offering that increases visibility into employee spending.
Gustopartners with Accelo to sync time-off requests from Gusto to Accelo’s real-time scheduling and resource management module.
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iSignthis has now approved more than 150 reportable accounts.
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Coinbaseextends support for USD Coin (USDC) trading in 85 countries.
Finastrahires Mark Miller as new Chief Financial Officer.
Fenergoannounces API integration with global financial markets data provider Refinitiv.
Hastings Direct extends deal with Equifax by signing a multi-year deal.
SDC and Tinkpartner to give 120 Nordic banks access to account aggregation and payment initiation services.
Kony Quantumpowers Qualifacts’ new CareLogic mobile app.
WireBarley partners with Currencycloud to boost its operations in the U.S.
Lendionamed to Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance.
BlueVinetaps Herman Man as new Chief Product Officer.
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Lendio franchise opens in Erie to expand access to capital for local businesses
InComm’sAlder APIwins award from the Innovative Payments Association.
BioCatch’s behavioral biometrics-based digital identity solution now available on the ForgeRock Marketplace.
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Check Point partners with Google’s Cloud Identity to improve zero trust cloud access.
Coinbaseintroduces crypto Visa debit card for U.K. customers via partnership with Apto Payments.
Sberbankacquires majority stake in biometrics company Speech Technology Center.
Aite Group recognizesFeaturespace as “Best in Class” in its latest report on fraud and advanced machine learning platform vendors.
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