“Lighter Capital has developed the first small business lending platform to integrate CRM data and predict a borrower’s future performance. In addition to automatic integration of accounting and banking data, which provides “rearview mirror” information, Lighter Capital is the first company to seamlessly integrate CRM data to forecast the future performance of small businesses, providing lenders a “windshield” perspective on borrowers.By crunching key sales, opportunity and customer data, Lighter Capital’s technology improves underwriting and borrower monitoring, predicting financial instability months before it shows up in financial statements.”
Lighter Capital
FinovateFall 2013 Sneak Peek: Part 6
This is our final Sneak Peek of the companies who will debut their new technology on stage in New York on September 10 & 11 at FinovateFall.
You can learn more about our upcoming event here.
In case you missed them, here are the previous posts in our Sneak Peek series:
Want to be a part of the audience? Get your tickets to FinovateFall 2013 here. They’re selling fast, so get yours before it’s too late.
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Features:
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- Inheritable Cloud Application Architectures
Why it’s great: Apprenda is a software layer that enables any organization to transform their existing infrastructure into a self-service cloud application platform.
Sinclair Schuller, CEO & Co-Founder at Apprenda

- Recommendation Engine: encourages user participation
- Real-time Social Graph: helps innovators to view their networks
- Digital Personas

- Predict a borrower’s future performance using CRM data
- Monitor for loan defaults using banking, accounting & CRM data
- Lower lending costs
- Engage and retain mobile first consumers
- Speed up account opening process here, there, almost anywhere
- Reduce inaccurate data entry
- Future Timeline
- Transfer Money
- Adnumbrs

- Consumer-centric checkout for multiple platforms
- Global payment solution with cross-border capabilities
- Partnership with First Data
Finovate Alumni News– August 2, 2013
Netbanker looks at LendUp and BillGuard as 2 innovators creating services to protect the elderly from spam.
- Kofax acquires data integration software provider Kapow Technologies.
- Startup Owl features Lighter Capital and On Deck. Check out Lighter Capital at FinovateFall in NYC.
- Bill.com’s two-factor authentication brings security to SMBs.
- Thoma Bravo completes billion-dollar acquisition of Intuit Financial Services, re-launched as Digital Insight.
- Net Element International integrates its Aptito POS payments platform with TSYS.
Meet the Innovators of FinovateFall 2013
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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Narrative Science enables companies to uncover the insight hidden in their data and create new content at a scale and frequency never before possible.
Finovate Alumni News– July 12, 2013
Meniga raises $6.5 million (€5 million) to further develop PFM and online banking.
- ERN Global raises $1.6 million in seed funding.
- Lighter Capital extends revenue-based financing to Canadian small businesses. Come see Lighter Capital’s demo at FinovateFall.
- Bank Innovation reports on the GoBank rollout.
- Finect president Jennifer Openshaw sourced in USA Today column on SEC’s decision to end the ban on hedge fund advertising.
- Tinkoff Credit Systems chooses DataSpace for data center facilities and services support. Meet Tinkoff Credit Systems at FinovateFall in New York.
- Temenos launches SocialComply to help banks go social.
Finovate Alumni News– May 24, 2013
MainStreet features “stock tip truth-o-meter” and FinovateSpring 2013 Best of Show winner TipRanks.
- GMC Software Technology enters partnership with PostConnect to deploy Inspire technology.
- AppScout takes a look at Flint’s mobile app for iPad and iPhone.
- Yandex.Money integrates with Еuropean payment provider Skrill.
- Banking Business Review reports: Handpoint introduces Chip and PIN MPOS systems.
- Newfination visits the Personal Capital offices, interviews Head Of Advisory Services, Kyle Ryan.
- American Banker mentions how Lendio and Lighter Capital are changing the face of small business lending.
- Internet Retailer reports: ThreatMetrix helps EMerchantPay reduce its clients’ chargeback rates.
- Klarna named “most innovative company” at annual Media Momentum Awards arranged by GP Bullhound.
Finovate Alumni News– May 23, 2013
- CMS Wire reports: Linkable Networks: Improving the Customer’s Path to Purchase.
- Lighter Capital appoints Jeff Seely to board of directors.
- Pymnts.com reports: BillGuard Acts As Antivirus For The Disease Of Fraud.
- Expensify to begin new pricing structure.
- Global Finance magazine names Taulia the best worldwide invoice discount management solution.
- Expensify will soon be made available to over 250,000 Citrix enterprise customers.
- BillFloat extends SmartPay pilot program with Radio Shack partnership.
- Newfination interviews Mitch Fox, co-founder of GoodApril.
- Wired’s Beyond the Beyond column features OpenCoin in a report from the Bitcoin 2013 business convention.
- ProfitStar’s iPay Solutions named among best places to work in Kentucky.
- Stock Pick Previews takes a look at TradeKing.
- Billhighway adds the Friends of Birmingham Historical Museum & Park as new client.
- TransferWise wins a spot on Mashable’s list of “20 Hot London Startups You Need to Watch.”
- Yodlee and Check (formerly Pageonce) are among the companies highlighted in American Banker column on reimagining PFM for mobile.
Finovate Alumni News– April 22, 2013
Boulder Valley Credit Union introduces Tyfone Mobile Banking Financial Services.
- Nerdwallet reviews Personal Capital.
- Center for Financial Inclusion blog features Entreprenurial Finance Lab’s technology.
- Payments News reports Blackhawk Network completes IPO.
- Nerd Wallet reviews eToro.
- Community Credit Union releases MoneyDesktop 4.0 to its members.
- YFS Magazine interviews Lighter Capital.
- eToro helps new users to connect with people on OpenBook by unlocking their feed.
- Newfination hosts Carl-Henrik Somp, Trustly COO, to discuss the startup’s service.
Finovate Alumni News– April 1, 2013
Expensify makes Reconciliation and Central Administration features available for American Express corporate cardholders.
- Micronotes providing series of marketing campaigns for USAlliance FCU to help cross-selling efforts.
- Palo Alto Software announces launch of EntrepreWorld, a virtual environment to test business plans in a virtual world of avatars. Come see Palo Alto demo its latest technology at FinovateSpring.
- Consumers CU chooses Andera’s oFlows platform for online account opening and lending.
- Lighter Capital appoints Molly Gregg Otter as Vice President.
- Bloomberg looks at how Jemstep, SigFig, and FutureAdvisor help manage your portfolio online. See Jemstep’s new tech at FinovateSpring.
- Forbes takes a close up look at London’s FinTech Innovation Lab, including participants BehavioSec, Kiboo, and Open Bank Project.
- Huff Post blog considers Lighter Capital’s Revenue Loans as alternative to VC funding.
- GCN looks at Dwolla’s use in government.
- Huff Post blog considers automated report-writing software company, Narrative Science. See its new tech at FinovateSpring.
- MyBankTracker reviews Tuition.io.
- Y C Universe profiles Trust Egg. See them demo at FinovateSpring in May.
- MicroStrategy signs technology alliance agreement with MapR.
- Berry Review takes a look at Pageonce Money and Bills on Blackberry 10.
- Times of India highlights Klarna’s growth in Europe.
- Incentive Mag previews the launch of CashStar’s table gifting solution.
- Eye Verify announces results from biometric standard, performance and assurance lab survey. Join them in San Francisco for FinovateSpring.
- IntelliResponse selected by KMWorld as one of “100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management” for 2013. Come see them in action at FinovateSpring in May.
- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially ‘opened the doors‘ to On Deck Capital’s new NYC HQ.
- Global Payments and edo Interactive launch pilot for card-linked offers network.
- Boston Business Journal interviews Leaf CEO Aron Schwarzkopf. See Leaf’s demo at FinovateSpring in San Francisco.
Finovate Alumni News– February 27, 2013
appPicker reviews Pageonce – Money & Bills app.
- BrightScope announces top finance, insurance companies with the best 401(k) plans.
- Device Fidelity announces Incipio partnership, new line of NFC enabled cases for iPhone.
- Bolstr interviewed on FOX32 Chicago.
- NerdWallet interviews Bolstr co-founders, Larry Baker and Charlie Tribbett.
- The Monitise-powered mobile wallet from Blackberry, BBM Money, launches pilot in Indonesia.
- Cortera Pulse wins Gold Stevie Award for new version of business intelligence solution.
- Lighter Capital appoints Molly Greg as VP.
- SaveUp’s CEO & Co-founder Priya Haji awarded a Social Innovation Leadership Award by the World CSR Congress.
- US News Money looks at LearnVest, FutureAdvisor, and Personal Capital.
- Forbes speaks with Actiance CEO to learn how Socialite helps companies overcome challenges using social media.
- Prepaid Resources adds FraudGuard security services to their BenefitsDirect Direct Deposit management solution.
- MasterCard wins Mobile Money Innovation award at the GSMA World Congress in Barcelona, along with partners Etisalat and Oberthur Technologies.
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.
Six Finovate Alumni Among American Banker’s Top 10 Tech
More than half of the companies recently highlighted in American Banker‘s “Top 10 Tech Companies to Watch” are Finovate Alumni.
- Andera – FinovateFall 2011
- Banno – FinovateFall 2012
- BillFloat – FinovateSpring 2011
- BillGuard – FinovateSpring 2012
- Lighter Capital – FinovateFall 2011
- Mortgage Harmony – FinovateFall 2012
Finovate Alumni News– December 3, 2012
- American Banker lists Andera, Banno, BillFloat, BillGuard, Mortgage Harmony, and Lighter Capital as top 10 tech companies to watch in 2013.
- ZDNet reports UBank gears up for mobile banking site with beta program.
- Frost & Sullivan recognizes Virtual Piggy with the 2012 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Entrepreneurial Company of the Year.
- ProfitStars adds new protections against malware.
- Sybase 365 and Globe Telecom partner to launch LTE roaming service with China Mobile.