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New Online Personal Finance Manager Thrive Rounds Out Finovate NYC Conference Lineup

By Jim Bruene on September 23, 2008 4:43 PM

image With three weeks remaining before Finovate NYC, the final company in the demo lineup is stepping out of stealth mode and announcing its participation in our second annual new-products conference. See the full list here.

image Thrive will be launching its entry in the online personal finance marketplace, JustThrive.com, at Finovate on Oct. 14. The company hopes to differentiate itself with more advanced financial planning tools while still remaining free. Founder and CEO is Avi Karnani; Marc Matsumoto is CMO.  

Currently, the service is in closed beta testing but Thrive recently updated its homepage with a timely message playing off last week's financial debacle(screenshot below). 

We had a chance to meet with its NYC-based founders earlier this year and were impressed how they'd studied the current players and were aiming to leapfrog the competition. However, there's been significant innovation in the space this year, and they enter a crowded field (more on that tomorrow).

At this point, I can't say anything more specific about its plans, but after it becomes publicly available we'll be back with a full analysis. 

Thrive homepage for its new JustThrive service 23 Sep 2008

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