FinovateSpring 2011 Video Archives >> Dwolla


Website: www.dwolla.com
Blog:
dwolla.org/blog
HQ Location:
Des Moines, IA
Company Founded: June 2008
Product Being Demoed: The FiSync Social Dashboard
Product Launched: May 17, 2011
Metrics: $1.3 million in Series A, approaching 20k users, over $1 million in monthly transactions. Currently, Dwolla is working on implementations at financial institutions that represent hundreds of thousands of new clients nationwide




Presenter Profile How they describe themselves: Dwolla is the first and only online, mobile, and social peer-to-peer payment platform. The new cashed-based Dwolla network, which allows users to circumvent costly traditional credit card networks, leverages social communities (Facebook and Twitter) and location-based cell phone payments to disrupt the current payment industry. Dwolla also offers a tiered banking services product, called FiSync, which provides financial institutions customized synchronization of users accounts with Dwolla’s technology. When fully integrated, members of partnering institutions have seamless and instantaneous access to their account’s funds to pay for goods and services via their cell phone in real-world environments, just like cash. Dwolla transactions only cost 25 cents, regardless of how high the amount is.

How they describe their product/innovation: Dwolla will be discussing FiSync, a new banking product for financial institutions that empowers account holders with Dwolla technologies, one of which will remove ACH wait times and allow for instant cash-based mobile payments. It’ll also be unveiling its revolutionary new data aggregator, the FiSync Dashboard. The new technology will yield unimaginable insight into consumer behavior never before available to financial institutions.

Key Executives: Ben Milne, Shane Neuerburg

Key Board Members: Ben Milne (CEO & Co-Founder), Nick Evans, Jeff Russell (CFO)

Key Investors: The Members Group, The Veridian Group

Key Advisory Board Members: Suku Radia (CEO, Bankers Trust), Matt Harris (Managing Partner, Village Ventures), Christian Renuad (Principal, StartupCityDSM)

Key Partnerships: The Members Group - Represents Dwolla's FiSync product to financial institutions. The Members Group has 20 years of debit, credit, and ACH processing experience serving over 2 million clients nationally

Customers: Merchants, Consumers, Developers, Financial Institutions

Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Sales: Charise Flynn, COO, charise@dwolla.org, 515-280-1000
Press: Jordan Lampe, Communications Director, jordan@dwolla.org, 515-250-4616

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