Archive for the ‘Finovate’ Category
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Finovate Demos - Part 4
In case you missed parts one, two, and three, I’m sharing my notes after seeing 40 start-up financial companies present their companies. Today, I’m rounding up the last of the four companies.
BlingNation - You’d think this name would have something to do about pushing luxury branding, but that’s not the case. It’s yet another mobile payment. It looked like they weren’t a consumer product, but instead plan to sell their product for private branding.
Zopa - Won the Best of Show, which I think shocked many. This is not a P2P company in the US like the […] -
Finovate Demos - Part 3
Here’s another round of my notes from yesterday’s Finovate demos. Since each company only got 5 minutes to show their stuff, my notes are short as well. I got to meet many of the companies afterward to get more detail.
Expensr - I thought this might steal Best of Show. It’s a personal finance management tool like Mint, but with a strong focus on widgets. The idea is that you can customize everything to your liking, which is one of the things that came up a month ago at a blogger meet-up they sponsored. They also […] -
Finovate Demos - Part 2
Buxfer - Demo had numerous technical difficulties… website was down. Maybe we’ll see their demo later in the day.
Guardian Analytics - FraudMAP product watches for suspicious activity banking activity. Banks can use this tool to monitor login times, login IPs and other information and get alerted to possible fraud.
Jwaala - Thus far it is the star of the show in my opinion. MoneyTracker is a personal finance management system, much like Mint, Geezeo, Expensr, or Wesabe. Widgets are similar to iGoogle o NetVibes. Has a great natural language search so you ask questions like, “Show me […] -
Finovate Demos - Part 1
Here are some updates from the first batch of demos at Finovate.
Authentium - Safe Central makes keystroke loggers or screenshot grabbers “blind.” Runs on top of Firefox. Prevents man in the middle and phishing.
Credit Karma - Free credit score tracking using their proprietary scoring system. Cons are that you need to give up your social security number. This seems to not be a problem, because 86% of people who try to join complete the registration. Credit pulls are “soft pulls” - a very good thing. Credit Karma gives you percentile vs. general population. Makes […] -
Live Blogging from Finovate Startup
Today, I’m gong to attempt to live blog from Finovate Start-up. I’ve got my pink Asus Eee in tow.
Here are some things to expect:Many Typos - I haven’t gotten used to this keyboard yet.
Short Notes - Each company has just five minutes to demo its product. Since I grew up on MTV this shouldn’t be a problem – as long as there are hair bands, pyrotechnics, and Tawny dancing on the hood of a car.
Me Fallen Asleep - I had to get up at 5:30 this morning for 7:00AM registration. It seems that they’ve stressed […]
