Personal Capital is in the vanguard of a new wave of startups seeking to disrupt the $10T wealth management industry. Others in this space include Betterment, FutureAdvisor, Jemstep, LearnVest, SigFig and Wealthfront. Each is leveraging technology …
Category: FinTech
In FinTech, Startups, Venture CapitalTags Boston, Consumer United, Kensho, peerTransfer, SwipelyPublish Date
These are the FinTech startups in the greater Boston area that announced new funding in the first six months of 2014: Consumer United – $14MM Kensho – $10MM peerTransfer – $6.2MM Swipely – $20MM Did I …
Boston-based mobile payment start-up Loop was founded in 2013 by Will Graylin and George Wallner, two very smart guys who figured out how to emulate a mag-stripe credit card swipe with your phone. A user pays …
I was excited to read that Eastern Bank hired the team behind PerkStreet and created Eastern Labs, with the objective of leveraging the bank’s resources and data to build new financial service technologies, and of digitizing …
Jeff Bussgang is General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage VC firm with offices in Boston and New York. Jeff is currently a board member at FinTech startups Plastiq and SimpleTuition, as well as at …
I’ve just returned from the Finovate spring session in northern California. What did I see? Quite a few single occupant automobiles in the HOV lane on Highway 101. Finovate, for the uninitiated, is a grueling two-day …
In FinTech, Startups, Venture CapitalTags Boston, Commonwealth Capital, Edison Ventures, exits, startupsPublish Date
On April 1, 2014, two startups from the greater Boston FinTech cluster were acquired. Both were venture-backed, and both were founded over a dozen years ago. Andera was the larger of the two deals. Founded by …
Here are 17 new – or, more accurately, new to me – greater-Boston FinTech or financial services startups. The truly new company is Liberty Teller, founded in 2013. I’ve also come across two startups in stealth …
In Alternative Lending, Banking, FinTechTags Funding Circle, Lending Club, On Deck Capital, P2P Lending, Prosper, startupsPublish Date
Funding Circle is a crowdlending platform that lets individuals and institutions loan money to small businesses. Founded in the UK in 2010, the firm has about 70,000 registered lenders who have lent more than £223,000,000. Last …
There is no shortage of incubators and accelerators in the Boston area. We have: Betaspring Bolt DogpatchLabs Mass Challenge TechStars Boston All, save hardware accelerator Bolt, have helped FinTech or financial services startups get to the …