| By Jim Bruene on October 15, 2008 11:44 PM | Comments (2) |
As conference host, I haven't quite recovered from the whirlwind of activity yesterday. I'll post a final conference wrapup tomorrow, but I wanted to get in a quick update with the Finovate 2008 Best of Show winners.
We had planned to award it to the top three, but there were four companies in a virtual tie at the top (note 1), so we named four winners this year.
In alphabetic order, the winners:
CheckFree which demonstrated its new online banking platform packed with new features 
Credit Karma which showed several new features including a tool allowing "what-if" calculations with your credit file 
Mint which announced its move out of beta and demo'd several new investment management functions 
Neosaej which showed its unique MoneyAisle real-time, reverse-deposit auction service
Congratulations to these four companies and to everyone else who made the day so interesting.
About the voting
All attendees not affiliated with the presenters rated each demo on a scale of one to six. The ballots were turned in at the end of the final demo session. Approximately 70% of eligible voters turned in complete ballots.
Note:
The companies didn't finish with the same average scores, but rounding to the nearest tenth created a four-way tie.
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It was a great show all around! Thanks for all your effort!
So sorry we missed the show. Our Fall Forum conflicted so we could not make it. But we whole heartedly agree with the Credit Karma Best of Show Award. Congratulations Ken!
We look forward to Finovate Startup in 2009.