October 14th, 2008 — , FINOVATE, Lending Club, Pertuity Direct, loanio from tom @ Prosper Lending Review
Two dozen companies including Lending Club and Loanio presented at FINOVATE 2008 in New York City today. Netbanker reported on the various presentations throughout the day.Of course, the big news is Lending Club re-opened to lenders today. They also …
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May 1st, 2008 — , FINOVATE from Lazy Man @ Lazy Man and Money
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 [...]
April 30th, 2008 — , FINOVATE from Lazy Man @ Lazy Man and Money
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 [...]
April 29th, 2008 — , FINOVATE from Lazy Man @ Lazy Man and Money
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 [...]
April 29th, 2008 — , FINOVATE from Lazy Man @ Lazy Man and Money
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 [...]
April 29th, 2008 — , FINOVATE from Lazy Man @ Lazy Man and Money
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 [...]
April 25th, 2008 — , Ask the Readers, FINOVATE, SmartHippo, Vestopia, events from Lazy Man @ Lazy Man and Money
This Tuesday, I’m heading to Finovate Start-up hosted by Jim Bruene of NetBanker fame. There are a ton of companies presenting there. Some of the highlights that I’m looking forward to are Buxfer, Loanio (are they ever going to launch), Mint, Prosper, SmartyPig, Wesabe, Zecco, Zopa. I’m disappointed that Geezeo isn’t going to be there. Lending Club bowed out, which is reasonable considering their quiet period.
I’d like to single out Vestopia and SmartHippo (not to be confused with SmartyPig or my upcoming start-up SmarterBoar). These companies have contacted me for one-on-one interviews. I’ve been [...]
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March 20th, 2008 — , FINOVATE, FinovateStartup, Lending Club, Prosper, loanio from tom @ Prosper Lending Review
FinovateStartup will showcase about 40 financial startups to hundreds of press, bloggers, analysts, venture capitalists, industry leaders and banking executives in San Fransisco on April 29th. Prosper, Lending Club and Loanio will each demo their platf…
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October 6th, 2007 — Conferences, FINOVATE, Financial Education, Lending Club, Services, audience, bloggers, conference, demonstration, generation, mobile from Patrick Gannon @ Better Rates. Together.
Lending Club was privileged to present this week at Finovate, a one-day conference focused on innovative companies that are creating the next generation of financial services. Kudos to Jim Bruene and NetBanker for a meeting that let each company demonstrate its offering to an overflow audience of press, bloggers, bankers, techies, and beyond.
At a [...]
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October 5th, 2007 — FINOVATE, Lending Club, Prosper from Matt @ Prosper Lending Review
Prosper announced some new upcoming features at the Finovate conference this week. Included in the changes are a more transparent risk estimator when placing a bid. Currently Prosper shows Experian default rates to estimate the risk. Now they have e…
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August 16th, 2007 — FINOVATE, Lending Club, Prosper, netbanker from tom @ Prosper Lending Review
Online Financial Innovations, which publishes Netbanker, has announced FINOVATE 2007 where twenty of the most innovative companies in the financial, banking and lending industries will gather in New York to offer a glimpse of the future of online and m…
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