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Personal Capital brings its financial smarts to iPad, makes sense of your...
Financial advice startup Personal Capital is finally making its way to the iPad after emerging from stealth last August. And good news for startup workers: the company has added a new feature that...
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New York startup Profitably loses all but one employee, CEO Adam Neary...
Profitably, a startup trying to bring deep financial analytics to small and medium businesses, was founded two years ago, in March of 2010. Exactly one year ago this week we reported that the company...
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The hidden art of stock trading and souffle making
I’m not sure what it’s like to have “extra” money. Even if I did have cash left over to invest after rent, bills, and my travel-wine-and-shopping allotment, I wouldn’t know how. Should I ever manage...
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Nutmeg makes managing investment portfolios as easy as pie
Nutmeg will not only enhance your pumpkin pie, it will also enhance your wealth. A British startup called Nutmeg launched its online investment manager today. It takes the place of professional...
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Prosper.com to live long and prosper with $20M from Sequoia
In Act 1, Scene 3 of Hamlet, Polonius counsels “neither a borrower nor a lender be.” However, for people looking to do either, Prosper.com’s peer-to-peer lending marketplace is an online place to do...
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Spanish banking group ventures into venture capital with $100M fund
In 1857, the U.K. and France waged the Second Opium War, the U.S. Supreme Court tried the Dred Scott case, and the world’s first global economic crisis began. Amid the panic, financial services group...
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Wall Street says ‘meh’ to Tim Cook’s fireside chat as Apple stock falls...
Updated 8:11 PM PST Apple may be bold and ambitious. Apple may have $137 billion in the bank. Apple may have generated record revenues and record profits last quarter. And Apple may be banking $50...
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Edtech startup lifts heavy weight of loans off student shoulders
President Barack Obama only paid off his student loans about nine years ago. If StudentLoanHero was around back then, he may have been able to pay them off sooner. StudentLoanHero is a startup that...
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Wealthfront takes on old-school finance with $20M from top tier VCs
Wealthfront has come into some wealth of its own. This online investment manager announced today that it raised $20 million from top tier investors. Mike Volpi of Index Ventures led the round, joined...
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These growth myths are killing your business
GUEST: This is a guest post by Keary Crawford and Wayne Simmons, the authors of “Growth Thinking” “If it’s not growing, it’s going to die.” Michael Eisner, Former CEO, Walt Disney Company The...
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Dwolla raises $16.5M from Andreessen Horowitz to revolutionize banking
Online payment network Dwolla has pulled in$16.5 million in a third funding round led by elite venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Dwolla’s software allows anyone or anything connected to the...
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Lending Club shuffles around shareholders to make room for Google
Google has taken a minority stake worth in Lending Club. The deal was part of a $125 million secondary transaction where existing investors sold portions of their shares to new investor Google and...
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Dealstruck takes on banks with its ‘Lending Club for small businesses’
The finance industry is under attack from startups. Dealstruck initiated the latest front of this battle today with its online alternative to business loans from banks. Its marketplace connects small...
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Bloomberg enters world of venture capital with $75M fund
Bloomberg is launching a new $75 million venture capital fund to support early-stage companies. The fund will be called Bloomberg Beta and will invest in startups that are “producing insights from...
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Dataminr raises $30M for lightning-quick response to Twitter ‘hotspots’
Dataminr wants to break news faster than the speed of light. Or at least faster than news outlets. Dataminr has closed $30 million for its real-time analytics service that helps enterprise clients keep...
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Cloud upstart Host Analytics is a ‘cloud piranha’ taking big bites out of...
This means war. In the $5 billion enterprise performance management market, upstart Host Analytics is tripling revenue, winning clients like Tesla, Pandora Radio, Groupon, Crocs, and Marketo … and...
View ArticleBraintree now processing $10B in payments with deeper expansion into Europe
Braintree is now processing $10 billion in annual payments and continuing to expand its footprint in Europe. Braintree is a payments startup that powers online and mobile credit card transactions for...
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BackOps raises $7M to grow workforce of moms making business better
BackOps is assembling an army of moms dedicated to supporting small businesses. BackOps provides cloud-based accounting, HR, and finance services on a subscription basis. Its approach combines software...
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SoFi now offers loan relief to students of Stanford, Yale, and about 100...
Social Finance (SoFi) is a startup with a simple solution to the student debt crisis. The company taps college alumni as a funding source for students loans. The strategy seems to be working. Today,...
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EquaMetrics raises $4.5M seed round for DIY trading algorithms
EquaMetrics has closed $4.5 million in funding for its platform that helps investors with no programming experience create their own trading algorithms. The flagship product, RIZM, lets traders design...
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