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EquityZen was founded in 2013 as a platform to exchange private company shares. Its online marketplace conducts secondary transactions where users buy and sell existing shares of private companies with at least $100 million in enterprise value. EquityZen’s roots stem from when CEO Atish Davda left his job at a hedge fund to pursue a Read more…
It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a ninja to provide free payment processing and programmatic remarketing to SMEs looking to save money and sell more. Payment.Ninja, a startup out of San Francisco, demonstrated its payment-processing technology at FinovateSpring 2016 in May. The solution can be added to an existing e-commerce Read more…
On Finovate.com Finovate Debuts: Payment Ninja Provides Free Payment Processing, Programmatic Remarketing for SMEs. Alpha Payments Cloud Selected for Wells Fargo Spring Startup Accelerator. Scalable Capital Begins Onboarding U.K. Clients Ahead of July Launch. Check out this week’s FinDEVr APIntelligence. DriveWealth Brings Robo-Advisory to China in New Partnership with CreditEase. Buzz Points Lands $1.8 Million Read more…
Computer technology giant IBM launched in 1911 as Computer-Tabulating-Recording-Company (CTR) and was renamed International Business Machines (IBM) in 1924. At FinovateSpring 2016, the company’s presenter Rob Stanich, global wealth management offering manager, began the demo saying, “We come to you from a tech startup based in New York… it’s called IBM; maybe you’ve heard of us.” He jokingly adds, “It Read more…
On Finovate.com “San Francisco Times Recognizes Credit Karma as Best Fintech Company” Around the web Markit partners with BitSight Technologies to enhance its Know Your Third Party (KY3P) platform. Coinbase launches Buy widget to create a better Bitcoin buying experience. PYMNTS features Klarna. Wipro open sources its big data solution, Big Data Ready Enterprise (BDRE). Read more…
On Finovate.com “Robo-advisor Blooom Reaches $300 Million in Assets” “Finovate Alums Earn Top Honors at 2016 Benzinga Fintech Awards” “Finovate Debuts: Fintonic’s Mobile Banking Offers Products that Matter” “NYMBUS Acquires R. C. Olmstead to Enhance Core Data Processing” “Dashlane Unveils Redesigned App for iPhone and iPad” On FinDEVr.com “Praesidio Rebrands as DefenseStorm” Around the web Read more…
PYMNTS.com published an interesting, metric-based post on the tech scene in Israel. The post emphasized that while the country has a well deserved reputation as a “cybersecurity hotspot,” it is also true that “Israel’s tech ambitions and prowess extend much further.” The salient statistic for me: 430—the number of fintech startups headquartered in Israel—is highly impressive, considering Read more…
On Finovate.com “Trustly Goes Live with P2P Payments at Avanza Bank” “TWINO’s First Year: 2,500 Investors Fund $24.6 Million in Loans” “Ormsby Street Partners with Deutsche Bank to Launch CreditHQ in Germany” On FinDEVr.com “Speed of Lightning, Roar of Thunder: Blockchain Unveils Off-Chain Bitcoin Payments Network” Around the web Version 6.0 of PayPal app discontinues Read more…
On Finovate.com “TransferWise Lands $26 Million, Crossing into Unicorn Territory” “Check out this week’s FinDEVr APIntelligence” “Dashlane’s $22.5 Million in New Funding Comes with a Strategic Partner” “Mitek and Avoka Team Up to Provide New Mobile Onboarding Solution” “A Double-Edged Sword: Prosper Increases Rates to Attract Lenders” Around the web Lendio partners with GoDaddy marketplace Read more…
Identity verification provider Trulioo has expanded the geographic coverage of its online electronic identity-verification service GlobalGateway to support Brazil, Russia, India, and China. This group of countries, known as BRIC, houses 41% of the global population and supports an emerging middle class of 1.2 billion people. In these markets, business-to-consumer ecommerce is estimated to grow faster than in Read more…
On Finovate.com “Trulioo’s GlobalGateway Available in BRIC Countries” “Kabbage Reaches $2 Billion in Loans in 5 Years” “Coinbase to Support Ether; Rebrands Exchange Service as GDAX” “MaxMyInterest Launches Client Invitation Feature” “Finovate Debuts: Personetics Helps Banks Provide Personalized Guidance to Customers” Around the web OnDeck adds to credit offerings available to Canadian small businesses. Thomson Reuters Read more…
FinovateSpring 2016 wrapped up last week and we’ve been busy covering the Best of Show winners, Twitter highlights, and press coverage, as well as following up with the amazing new contacts we met. If you weren’t there in person, see what you missed by watching any of the 71 demo videos and check out photos from the event on Flickr (plus Read more…