| Date | Title | Description |
| 26.10.2010 | OhLife’s Daily E-Mails Motivate a New Wave of Online Diarists | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
This is the ninth in a series of profiles of companies funded this summer by Paul Graham’s Y Combinator startup incubator in Mountain View, CA.
Dear Diary,
This will be the la... |
| 07.01.2010 | How The Web is Transforming Personal Finance | Not too long ago, personal finance tools like Quicken and Microsoft Money used to be bound to the desktop. Exchanging information with your banks used to be a hassle. Keeping track of credit card purchases was often a question of waiting fo... |
| 21.11.2008 | Springpad Wants to Be Your Online Home for the Holidays, And After | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
If you’re like me, you go through life with the vague hope that someday, technology will help you become a more efficient person. How often I’ve driven to the grocery store or... |
| 14.10.2008 | Track your plummeting investments on Mint.com | Updated
Personal finance site Mint.com is making its investment management tools available to all of its users after months of invite-only testing.
Now may seem like an odd time to add these features — yesterday’s market rally aside, this i... |
| 09.10.2008 | Who Really Uses Mint.com (And Other Banking 2.0) Services Anyway? | Given the U.S. economic crisis, people are looking for new and better ways to get a handle on their personal finances. We recently profiled 10 money management web applications that promise to do everything from analyzing your spending beha... |
| 06.10.2008 | Mint.com users feeling the hurt, pinching pennies | Personal finance site Mint.com has gathered data showing that its users spent an average of $300 less per month in August than in January this year — a 6 percent drop suggesting that the site’s 500,000 users are adjusting to the economic do... |
| 17.09.2008 | Banking 2.0: Money Management Moves to The Cloud | There was a time when managing finances from your computer meant you had to use desktop software. Today, that’s no longer the case. There are now a number of applications that let you do your banking in the cloud, a trend we’ve dubbed “bank... |
| 08.09.2008 | DEMOfall 08: Rudder offers an effortless personal finance snapshot | I used to be a Quicken devotee. But years ago, I tired of typing in data about my daily purchases. And even with automatic updates of credit card purchases, it merely offers a rear-view mirror of my finances. Rudder addresses this problem w... |
| 08.09.2008 | DEMOfall08: Green Sherpa wants to manage your personal finances on the Web | New companies offering web-based personal finance management tools are popping up like Eggo Waffles in the 80s, ever since early start-ups like Mint emerged last year and won accolades.
There was Wesabe. We’ve also seen Geezeo, Buxfer and e... |
| 24.08.2008 | Online Accounting: State of the Market | Accounting software for small business and personal use is increasingly moving from the desktop to online. However, compared to other office software, this transition to online has been relatively slow. Partly that’s due to user reticence: ... |
| 18.08.2008 | The New Mint.com Launches: Site Redesigned, But Still No Data Upload | When Mint.com launched, they were taking a big risk – would people trust a web app to manage their finances online? Web 2.0 apps don’t necessarily have a reputation as offering hardened security. However, Mint’s efforts to prove they were s... |
| 04.06.2008 | Yodlee takes large financing — could spell trouble for Mint | Yodlee, an online finance web platform that directly serves banks and other financial institutions, has raised a large round of $35 million, led by banking giant Bank of America.
Although Yodlee has been something of a dark horse while popu... |
| 24.04.2008 | RightScale gets boost from Benchmark, to offer cloud services | Updated
RightScale, the latest company to emerge offering “cloud” computing services, has raised $4.5 million in a first round of funding from Silicon Valley venture capital firm Benchmark Capital.
The Santa Barbara, Calif., company helps b... |
| 24.04.2008 | Finance site Geezeo raises $1.2M from TheStreet.com | Geezeo, a site that helps you manage credit cards, loans, checking and savings accounts and more, has raised $1.2 million from investment site TheStreet.com. The deal gives TheStreet.com a 13 percent stake and an option to purchase the Fram... |
| 05.03.2008 | Personal finance site Mint raises another round, facing crowded, emerging market | Mint, a web site that lets you see your financial activity from across your bank accounts (our coverage), has raised $12.1 million from Benchmark Capital and existing investors.
There are a host of competitors with solid offerings of their ... |
| 14.01.2008 | Spendview draws $2M for personal finance tool | Yet another company, a Houston, Texas team called Spendview, has received funding for a personal finance site aimed at helping people keep track of their spending and better plan their own financial habits.
Among its many existing competito... |
| 04.01.2008 | Buxfer is giving Mint, other personal finance sites, a run for their money | A number of well-executed personal finance management web startups have been in the spotlight in recent months, including Mint — which won the Techcrunch 40 startup competition — Wesabe and Geezeo. Buxfer, however, has been flying under the... |
| 17.12.2007 | Wesabe Gets Some Link Love | Our portfolio company Wesabe was the first company to market in the web-based personal finance sector, which has gotten quite hot lately with the launch of competitors Mint and Geezeo.
Wesabe’s taken a bit of a backseat on the visibility fr... |
| 05.10.2007 | Roundup: Geezeo, online ads booming, FaceTunes?, Docstoc invites | Here’s a Friday afternoon roundup of the latest action:
1) Geezeo connects you to personal and financial online services
2) Online advertising worth almost $10 billion in the first half of ’07
3) Rumor: Facebook has iTunes competitor in the... |
| 27.09.2007 | A Directory of Facebook Apps from Boston-Area Web Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In May, Facebook opened up its site so that outside software developers could build applications that Facebook users can add to their profiles. Since then, more than 4,600 app... |
| 22.09.2007 | Covestor | A big theme at TechCrunch 40 was social/web financial services. Mint and Cake launched there and Mint came away with the top prize.
To many, it seemed that these two companies were the first movers in their respective market spaces. But tha... |
| 19.09.2007 | Who Owns Your Financial Data? | That’s the question we should all be asking. Now that Mint has finally launched and joined Wesabe, Geezeo, Buxfer and a few others in the personal financial web service space, it’s time to discuss what it means to take your personal financi... |
