| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.04.2024 | Meet YC’s newest Visiting Group Partners | I am excited to announce we have three new Visiting Group Partners joining us for the S24 YC batch: Andrew Miklas, Ooshma Garg, and Jon Xu.
Visiting Group Partners help advise founders during the batch by sharing their own experiences and l... |
| 25.12.2019 | Практическое применение ИИ в бизнесе: мнения экспертов | Интересуетесь искусственным интеллектом? Мы разобрали практически 20-летний опыт работы с ИИ, а также поговорили с директорами компаний-гигантов о будущем технологии. Читайте интервью с Саркисом Григоряном (Neurocomm), Андреем Черногоровым ... |
| 19.06.2018 | Investment advisory software developer SigFig raises $50 million | SigFig, the developer of an automated wealth management toolkit, has raised $50 million in a new round of funding.
The company said the new money would be used to continue its research and development.
The new funding was led by General Atl... |
| 24.08.2016 | With Betterment, Uber offers drivers a retirement | The future self-driving car company continues to offer benefits and perks to its human drivers
Editor's Note: Our 6th Annual Vator Splash LA conference is coming up on October 13 at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica. Speakers include Mark Cub... |
| 10.04.2016 | Fintech, the Surge of Robo-Advisors | Supported by the technology, a new form of wealth management advice has emerged in the latest years. By leveraging client information and algorithms, robo-advisors create and manage automated portfolio allocation and make investment recomme... |
| 17.11.2015 | The Top 3 Fastest-Rising FinTech Portfolio Management Startups | The biggest venture capital firms have invested in some of today's most talked-about startups, and now we are seeing tech entrepreneurs making huge headways into the wildly exciting and growing financial tech arena. FinTech companies, as th... |
| 29.08.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 8/29/15 | BlackRock bought FutureAdvisor; AOL purchased Ashe Avenue; Zipcar acquired Local Motion
Global investment management company BlackRock entered into an agreement to purchase FutureAdvisor, an automated investment advisory platform for “mass-... |
| 26.08.2015 | BlackRock, The World's Largest Asset Management Firm, Acquires FutureAdvisor (YC S10) | FutureAdvisor, the automated wealth management and financial advisory platform, announced today that it has been acquired by global asset management firm BlackRock. FutureAdvisor, which was co-founded by CEO Bo Lu and CTO Jon Xu, launched o... |
| 26.08.2015 | BlackRock, The World’s Largest Asset Management Firm, Acquires FutureAdvisor (YC S10) | FutureAdvisor, the automated wealth management and financial advisory platform, announced today that it has been acquired by global asset management firm BlackRock. FutureAdvisor, which was co-founded by CEO Bo Lu and CTO Jon Xu, launched o... |
| 26.08.2015 | BlackRock acquires digital financial advisor FutureAdvisor | FutureAdvisor will retain its own brand and offices as part of BlackRock Solutions
People have been telling me to invest for years now. Sadly, with the amount of money I have to pay for student loans, that's been harder to do than it probab... |
| 26.08.2015 | BlackRock Acquires Sequoia-Backed FutureAdvisor | BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is acquiring FutureAdvisor, a five-year-old, San Francisco-based online financial advisory firm that aims to help people manage their investment accounts. According to the Financial Times, Futur... |
| 05.08.2015 | FutureAdvisor’s FutureGift Removes The Awkwardness Of Giving Kids Cash For College | Gifting a child money for future education expenses is nothing new. However, giving cash is almost always awkward, plus the giver misses out on the chance to show off a physical gift.
Just launched by wealth management startup FutureAdvisor... |
| 24.06.2015 | YC Alum FutureAdvisor Is Now Managing $600 Million In Assets | FutureAdvisor (YC S10) recently announced that users and assets under management (AUM) have grown 10x over the past 12 months, with AUM now totaling more than $603 million dollars.
The company, which recently raised a $15.5 million Series B... |
| 11.02.2015 | Rumors Of Robo Advisors’ Deaths Are Greatly Exaggerated | Bo Lu Contributor
Editor’s note: Bo Lu is the founder of FutureAdvisor.
Shane Leonard recently wrote a doomsday post on this site about robo advisors, whose rapid growth has made the behemoths of finance take notice.
Now that robo advisors ... |
| 10.02.2015 | Top 10 Y Combinator Companies by Funding Stage | Mattermark just released a new report with Y Combinator‘s top startups to graduate from its program. Since it was founded in 2005, Y Combinator has put hundreds of startups through its program. The program offers entrepreneurs access to an ... |
| 19.10.2014 | Andrei Cherny’s ‘Aspiration’ Brings The Investment Tools Of The 1% To The Other 99% | At 39 years old, Andrei Cherny has advised presidents, consulted with Fortune 100 companies, worked as a state prosecutor, served as a Naval reserve officer, founded a think tank and policy journal, and written a couple of books. Now he’s a... |
| 24.09.2014 | Learn-to-code boot camps open doors for talented graduates | Coding boot camps, which generally focus on Ruby on Rails and front-end coding languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, say they have job placement rates north of 90 percent. These intensive programs are generally selective and expensive. ... |
| 27.08.2014 | 23 Entrepreneurs Share Their Favorite Form of Caffeine | Coffee is an entrepreneurial cliché at this point.
“He would sit as his computer late into the night, fueled by coffee and Red Bull and passion.”
“They were heads down for 72 hours before the release, drinking endless cups of coffee from th... |
| 14.07.2014 | Upside Raises $1.1M To Help Investment Advisers Compete Against Wealthfront, Betterment And Co. | In the world of personal finance, robo-advisers like Betterment, Wealthfront and FutureAdvisor are all the rage now. They invest your money in low-fee index funds for you and reshuffle your portfolio as necessary. That’s a problem for the 1... |
| 30.05.2014 | Here’s the 650-word explanation on why this Seattle entrepreneur moved his startup to San Francisco | Jon Xu and Bo Lu of FutureAdvisor
A few days ago, I stumbled upon the news that Sequoia-backed FutureAdvisor raised $15.5 million in fresh funding. It looked to be a straightforward venture capital story.
And then something caught my eye: T... |
| 21.05.2014 | FutureAdvisor Raises $15.5M in Series B Funding | FutureAdvisor, a San Francisco, CA-based digital investment manager, raised $15.5m in Series B funding.
The round was led by Canvas Venture Fund with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital.
The company intends to use the fund... |
| 21.05.2014 | Wealth Management Startup FutureAdvisor Raises $15.5 Million | Looking to bring top-flight wealth management services to the middle class, FutureAdvisor has raised $15.5 million in fresh capital.
The round was led by new investor Canvas with participation from the company’s previous investors including... |
| 21.05.2014 | FutureAdvisor powers up with $15.5M for smart investing | Investment advisory comes to the masses with FutureAdvisor
One of the lessons we all learned from the recession: when you have money, you have to save that shit. Don’t go out and buy a damn boat! Boats don’t appreciate in value! What's wron... |
| 02.01.2014 | Happy New Year from Y Combinator | We’ve collected advice from the founders of a few YC companies that can help you with some common New Year’s resolutions. > Land a new job
HackerRank: A community of programmers who solve interesting problems for fun, prizes and jobs.
... |
| 02.01.2014 | Happy New Year from Y Combinator
> Land a new job
> Learn to code
> Take a trip
> Be smarter with money
> Make a positive impact in the world | We’ve collected advice from the founders of a few YC companies that can help you with some common New Year’s resolutions. > Land a new job
HackerRank: A community of programmers who solve interesting problems for fun, prizes and jobs.
... |
| 03.10.2013 | The retirement crisis is coming: Jemstep can help you save for the future | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ah life as a senior citizen — the leisurely days ... |
| 14.09.2013 | Future Advisor (YC S10) at Finnovate: Automatically manage your assets and portfolio for $19/mo | Even with the simplicity and low-cost characteristics of the increasingly-popular market of index funds, investing remains a complex task that requires more attention than the average investor can provide. Chores such as re-balancing and ma... |
| 27.08.2013 | FeeX Raises $3 Million To Help You Avoid Paying Hidden Retirement Fees | FeeX, which helps users save on hidden retirement fees, has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Blumberg Capital. Co-founded by Uri Levine from Google-acquired Waze, the startup aims to raise awareness of excessive fees through its c... |
| 12.04.2013 | The future of tax season in America — Will filing taxes get easier? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Mitchell Fox is a Co-Founder of GoodApril.
Why is... |
| 12.04.2013 | The future of tax season in America — Will filing taxes get easier? | Mitchell Fox is a Co-Founder of GoodApril.
Why is it that each spring, so many of us cringe, cross our fingers, and start filing our taxes without knowing what we’re in for?
What’s worse, we rarely feel confident that we’ve achieved the bes... |
| 22.08.2012 | Sequoia sinks $5M in FutureAdvisor to transform how people manage money | FutureAdvisor co-founder Bo Lu
Sequoia Capital is investing $5 million in FutureAdvisor, a two-year-old Seattle startup that’s looking to transform the way people choose their investments and eliminate those pesky fees along the way. Total ... |
| 22.08.2012 | With $4 Billion In Assets Under Wraps, FutureAdvisor Raises Another $5 Million From Sequoia Capital | It’s been about two years since FutureAdvisor launched to advise people in managing their 401(k)s and other retirement accounts. In that time, it’s grown dramatically, and now analyzes $4 billion in retirement funds. With that in mind, the ... |
| 22.08.2012 | FutureAdvisor Collects $5M to Expand 401(k) Advice Software | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle personal finance startup FutureAdvisor, a summer 2010 graduate of the Y Combinator startup accelerator program, has landed a new round of venture financing to add empl... |
| 22.08.2012 | FutureAdvisor Raises $5M in Series A Funding from Sequoia Capital | FutureAdvisor, a Seattle, WA-based online investment advisor, has raised $5m in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital.
Founded in 2010 by Bo Lu, FutureAdvisor is a free Web service that provides everyday investors with personalized recommen... |
| 22.08.2012 | FutureAdvisor Raises $5M in Series A |
SEATTLE, WA, Online investment advisor for the everyday investor, today announced $5 million in Series A funding from Sequoia Capital.
>> Click here for more funding data on FutureAdvisor
>> To export FutureAdvisor funding d... |
| 11.08.2012 | Is Modern Portfolio Theory Dead? Come On. | Editor’s note: Paul Pfleiderer is the C.O.G. Miller Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and co-founder of Quantal International.
A few weeks ago, TechCrunch published a piece arguing software is be... |
| 17.06.2012 | Thankfully, Software Is Eating The Personal Investing World | Editor’s note: Nick Shalek is a Founding Partner of Sutter LLC. Previously, he worked at the Yale Investments Office, the firm responsible for managing the Yale Endowment.
Liquidity fever is in the air in Silicon Valley. I felt this viscera... |
| 11.06.2012 | WSJ says FutureAdvisor (YC S10) makes saving for your retirement approachable | How often do you tinker with your retirement savings? Many people think about this when starting a job or opening a 401(k), but sometimes not again until they are ready to retire. According to financial advisers, that’s too late.
This week... |
| 20.03.2012 | Sequoia Capital, angels invest in Seattle financial advice startup FutureAdvisor | FutureAdvisor co-founder Bo Lu
FutureAdvisor co-founder Bo Lu could have built his startup company in Silicon Valley, and he certainly felt the pressure to do just that after graduating from the prominent startup incubator Y Combinator in t... |
| 20.03.2012 | FutureAdvisor (YC S10) raises from Sequoia, Keith Rabois and Jeremy Stoppelman | Y Combinator startup FutureAdvisor has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sequoia Capital and angel investors Keith Rabois and Jeremy Stoppelman.
FutureAdvisor, which debuted in 2010, is an online financial advisor designed to he... |
| 20.03.2012 | FutureAdvisor Raises Funding From Sequoia To Bring Financial And Investment Advice To The Masses | Y Combinator startup FutureAdvisor has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sequoia Capital and angel investors Keith Rabois and Jeremy Stoppelman.
FutureAdvisor, which debuted in 2010, is an online financial advisor designed to hel... |
| 25.08.2010 | What you need to know - Wednesday 8/25/10 | Elevation sinking $100M into Pandora; Qualcomm Incubator launches; Motorola buys 280 North
It's the beginning of the working day, and you know what that means. Time to get your news fix so that you can begin the day with all of the facts.
E... |
| 24.08.2010 | Y Combinator's Biggest Demo Day Yet Draws Throng Of Investors | It’s that time of year again: dozens of Silicon Valley’s top investors have packed Y Combinator’s offices in Mountain View, CA for the eleventh Demo Day, where the latest batch of YC companies show off what they’ve built (and look to secure... |
| 24.08.2010 | Five new Y Combinator startups to watch | Incubator Y Combinator just held its latest Demo Day, where the current class of startups gave rapid-fire demonstrations to investors and journalists.
It’s tough to judge a company based on a short presentation, and that was especially true... |
| 03.08.2010 | Live Long And Prosper With YC-Funded FutureAdvisor | With 13 billion dollars in mutual fund fees generated each year, so much about the investment process is made needlessly complicated by companies who want to sell you funds. Y Combinator-backed FutureAdvisor, which launches tonight, wants t... |
