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Alumni News -- Week of January 9, 2011

By Jessica Ward on January 17, 2011 9:58 AM

To see Finovate alumni company news in real-time, follow our feed on Twitter here.

Backbase is holding an engagement banking seminar on January 27. -- Attendance is free, but pre-registration is required. http://bit.ly/finovate114111

Blippy has been nominated for a Crunchie award. -- The awards, given in a number of startup categories, are a joint effort by three tech blogs: TechCrunch. VentureBeat and GigaOM. http://tcrn.ch/finovate113114

FeeFighters (formerly TransFS) has raised an additional $1.6 million in funding. -- FeeFighters helps businesses comparison shop for credit card processing services. http://tcrn.ch/finovate113112

Fifth Third Bank will offer Popmoney from CashEdge. -- Popmoney, an e-mail based money transfer system, will be available to Fifth Third customers in mid-2011. http://bit.ly/finovate110113

Firstmark Credit Union selects Geezeo for PFM platform. -- The credit union, with 90,000 members with $700 million in assets, will use Geezeo's white label platform . http://bit.ly/finovate1101

iBearSoft releases Money 5.0 mobile app. -- The new release includes several speedups and new features. http://bit.ly/finovate1112

Jwalla offers free trials of the Better Online Banking (BOB) platform for credit unions. -- The trial platform can be launched within two days of the request and allows prospective clients to see all of the available features. http://bit.ly/finovate113113

Kabbage raises an additional $6.5 million to support its loan business targeted to eBay and other online sellers. -- This round was led by BlueRun Ventures and UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund. http://tcrn.ch/finovate113111

Kashoo users get a 30% discount on electronic tax filing with eSmart Tax. http://bit.ly/finovate114112

PerkStreet and Lending Club offer cash prizes for creatively shredding credit cards. http://bit.ly/finovate111113 or shredyourcreditcard.com

Plastyc and eBillMe launch a new banking system for self-employed users. -- The platform allows users to receive clients' electronic payments directly. http://bit.ly/finovate112112

SafetyPay signs deal with Brazil's Banrisul. -- This will allow Banrisul Bank's three million customers to make purchases in their own currency by way of SafetyPay's service. http://bit.ly/finovate111111

SmartyPig launches its first iPhone app. -- Users can add to their savings, manage goals and even contribute to another user's goal. The app also includes a location-based tool to find participating merchants. An Android app is planned for February. http://bit.ly/finovate110112

Tyfone receives a fourth patent for mobile e-wallet technology. -- This newest patent, is entitled, "Asymmetric cryptography with user authentication." http://bit.ly/finovate112111

The Mii card, powered by Yodlee, becomes a digital passport for online authentication. -- See the Mii card in Action at FinovateEurope. http://www.miicard.com/

Alumni News - Week of June 13, 2010

By Jessica Ward on June 18, 2010 10:51 PM

Here are the news headlines we posted this week on Twitter (follow our feed here)

Bill.com raises $8.5 million in series C financing. Bill.com has now raised $25 million to date. http://bit.ly/finovate6182

Billeo releases update. Version 2.5.0.2 is now available. Several performance improvements included in this Billeo release. Current users will get an auto-update. http://bit.ly/finovate6133

Check Point acquires Liquid Machines. Check Point has aquired the privately held data security firm Liquid Machines for an undisclosed amount. http://bit.ly/finovate6131

Fiserv's ZashPay service garners commitment from 100+ financial institution. More than 100 financial institutions have committed to the peer-to-peer payment service platform from ZashPay. http://bit.ly/finovate6163

iBearSoft planning new app. The simplified "Bills for iPad" is in beta as a simpler version of the iBearMoney app. http://bit.ly/finovate6132

USA Today highlights Kapitall in the classroom. Fifth-graders helped to beta-test the Kapitall stock trading simulator. http://bit.ly/finovate6161

Kasasa enters the Pacific Nortwest. Kasasa is now working with Woodstone Credit Union. http://bit.ly/finovate6141

Lending Club hosting an investor strategy Webcast June 24, for investors. The Lending Club webcast will be held at 3 PM PST, and will cover strategy, as well as the FolioFn tool, for secondary market trading. http://bit.ly/finovate6194

Bloomberg TV recognizes Receivables Exchange. See how real-time receivable trading works. http://bit.ly/finovate6162

The Receivables Exchange has been nominated for the American Business Award in two categories. The Receivables Exchange was nominated for "Executive of the Year" and "Business Innovation of the Year" for the award, also called the "Stevie Award." http://bit.ly/finovate6192

ThreatMetrix signs reseller agreement with Reiki Corporation, tackles fraud in Japan. Japan is the second-largest Internet population in Asia, behind China. http://bit.ly/finovate6191

WorkLight hosting webinar on multi-channel application development. The WorkLight webinar will be held on June 29. http://bit.ly/finovate6183

Zopa creates "share on Facebook" images. Zopa users can earn commissions for friends referred via Facebook. http://bit.ly/finovate6184

Alumni News -- Week of June 1, 2010

By Jessica Ward on June 7, 2010 3:40 PM

Here are the news headlines we posted this week on Twitter (follow our feed here).

ThreatMetrix partners with Offerpal Media to stop fraud -- The ThreatMetrix data will give Offerpal additional abilities to identify potentially fraudulent user transactions. http://bit.ly/cerWUY

Peter Pham to leave BillShrink -- Schwark Satyavolu will re-assume the CEO Position. Pham will be leaving BillShrink to join Trinity Ventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence. http://bit.ly/FINOVATE611

iBearSoft releases a video demo of the iBearMoney for iPad -- Money for iPad is a top-selling app in the paid personal finance category in the American iTunes app store. http://bit.ly/FINOVATE613

Lending Club hits $10 mil in monthly originations for first time -- Congratulations to Lending Club on their continued growth! http://bit.ly/Finovate621

mFoundry featured in NY Times -- (6/1/10 p.B1) Article on card-based loyalty programs moving to mobile. http://nyti.ms/cardloyalty

Zecco's CEO Michael Raneri has been named a winner of IDG's 2010 InfoWorld CTO 25 Award -- Zecco is an online brokerage which offers free stock trades and low-cost options trades. http://bit.ly/FINOVATE621

Alpha Clone investment account service has launched -- A clone is a portfolio of stocks based on the stock idea of one or more fund managers. http://bit.ly/aQcBgu

Bling Nation, mobile payments provider, hires Shan Mehta to lead strategic alliances -- Mehta will also be responsible for maintaining and expanding exiting relationships with service partners. http://bit.ly/Finovate631

MoneyStrands adds cash tracking to application -- Cash tracking is now available for MoneyStrands via Web and mobile app. http://bit.ly/finovate641

Alumni News -- Week of May 23, 2010

By Jessica Ward on May 29, 2010 7:18 AM

Here are the news headlines we posted this week on Twitter (follow our feed here).

Expensify releases version 2.0 of iPhone app for expense reports - The new Expensify app now allows users to add cash expenses and scan receipt images to work off

line. Users can now create an entire expense report from their mobile device. http://bit.ly/b1CAc0

AlphaClone adds new search, percent of portfolio - The AlphaClone percent of portfolio option allows viewers to look at a single stock and see which funds have the greatest exposure within a portfolio. http://bit.ly/dojmhz

Lee Barba and Bruce Shelly join the Kapitall team - Barba joins the Kapitall Board of Directors with experience in acquisitions. He was CEO of Investools. Shelly joins the team as Advisor to Kapitall with experience from the video gaming business. http://bit.ly/a4Augw

Amazon Payments Implements Yodlee Instant Account Verification - Amazon Payments now uses Yodlee's technology to verify user accounts to create faster, safer P2P transactions according to Yodlee. http://bit.ly/9UThEa

Intuit has selected Expensify as a promotion partner for expense

reporting -The Intuit Workplace App Center with Expensify, MyFax, and OfficeDrop. http://bit.ly/dwQiry

iBearMoney launches the Money 4.1 App - iBear Money's Money 4.1 works on Windows mobile phones, iPhone, iPod Touch and now iPad and allows users to synchronize data between multiple devices. http://bit.ly/atbUPw

BillShrink.com launched a new search for TV, cable, satellite services to search for the best value - Billshrink's new search allows users to compare television service pricing based on their preferred channels or programs and available service based on the user's address. http://tcrn.ch/cujEE8

Fiserv, Inc. study shows that 80% of internet-capable households use online banking while only 40% use online billpay - The Fiserv, Inc. study also shows that women now make up the majority of online bill pay users, a reversal from the 2002 study. http://bit.ly/dtVOFM

Fiserv, Inc. partners with Phone Factor, Inc. to provide phone-based user authentication - The Fiserv, Inc. partnership will allow financial institutions using the Fiserv systems to provide passive or active user authentication via customers' mobile phones. http://bit.ly/bz1tvo

Visa, Inc. and Monitise PLC announced a joint venture to provide mobile payment technology in India - India is the world's second-largest mobile market with nearly 600 mobile-subscriptions. The technology from Monitise will allow for bill-payment, transit ticketing and other services via mobile phone. http://bit.ly/bLFgmI

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