Finovate 2008 Conference Demo Lineup Announced (NetBanker)

After looking at more than 100 companies, we've selected 24 finalists to present at our second annual Finovate Conference Oct. 14 in New York City (registration here). Three will emerge as Finovate Best of Show companies joining last year's winners: Mint,Mortgage Marvel from Mortgagebot, and Prosper (note 1).

In a single action-packed day, we'll see several financial startups launch, a few major product overhauls revealed, and a pile of new features shown to the public for the first time. It could be the single biggest "news day" in the history of online finance. Besides the amazing presenter lineup, the audience will contain many well-known industry analysts, press, banking and technology execs. Here are the subject that will be covered:

Person-to-person lending
Lead generation in financial services
Personal financial management and online banking
Mobile banking and payments
Payments/billing
Investing and retirement planning online
Security technologies
Social media and Web 2.0

Finovate 2008 Lineup (alphabetic order, note 2)
Below are all 24 companies. ~~the 21~~ ~~we can name today, although two have not yet lifted the curtain on their product offering. The others, including two stealth startups, are keeping their identities hidden until closer to show time.~~

In all, seven of the companies presented at our sold-out Finovate 2007, three are graduates from Finovate Startup last April, and 14 are new to Finovate. But all 24 will be demo'ing substantial new products and/or features.

BillShrink <billshrink.com>
Boulevard R <boulevardR.com>
CheckFree <checkfree.com>
Check Point Software<checkpoint.com>
Credit Karma <creditkarma.com>
Digital Insight (Intuit) <digitalinsight.com>
FiLife (Dow Jones/IAC) <filife.com>
mFoundry <mfoundry.com>
Mint <mint.com>
MoneyAisle (NeoSaej) <moneyaisle.com>
mShift <mshift.com>
Inner8 <inner8.com>
Lending Club <lendingclub.com>
Pertuity Direct <pertuitydirect.com>
Quicken Online (Intuit) <quicken.com>
SmartHippo <smarthippo.com>
Sybase 365 <sybase.com/365>
Vidoop <vidoop.com>
Wesabe <wesabe.com>
WeSeed <weseed.com>
Yodlee <yodlee.com>

Companies announced Sep. 16 and Sep. 23, 2008:

Galaxy (Fiserv) <galaxyplus.com>
Rate Surfer (My Best Interest) <ratesurfer.com>
Thrive <justthrive.com>

About Finovate 2008

Date: Oct. 14, 2008
Place: New York, NY (Crowne Plaza Times Square)
Cost: $995 through Sep. 30
Agenda: 12 demos in the morning (7 minutes each, NO POWERPOINT),
12 in the afternoon; each session followed by two hours of networking to meet with presenters for one-on-one discussions
Producer: Online Financial Innovations, publisher of Online Banking Report and Netbanker
Website: finovate.com
For videos of the sold-out Finovate 2007, click here

Press: Members of the media should contact Jim Bruene, jim@netbanker.com to secure a press pass.

Note:
1. Winners are selected by audience vote.
2. The list does not include two stealth startups and one company that will be named later

Comments (2)

Christophe Langlois:

Bonjour Jim and Eric!

Congrats for another excellent line up. And I look forward to finding out more about the three other presenting companies.

For those new to Finovate...
In less than a year, I believe that the "Finovate days" became the most valuable events in online finance: the quality of the speakers is superb, the services demoed are extremely innovative, and it is a unique opportunity to network with entrepreneurs, bankers, vendors, bloggers, and the press.

The icing on the cake: the event lasts only one day. I guaranty you will find every single minute valuable.

Posted by Christophe Langlois | August 22, 2008 4:00 AM

Posted on August 22, 2008 04:00

Bank Around:

The conference looks like it'll be interesting. There are a few names I don't recognize, so it'll be nice to see what they announce/release.

Posted by Bank Around | August 23, 2008 5:43 AM

Posted on August 23, 2008 05:43