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17.04.2024 | Mastering finance essentials with Mercury’s VP of finance, Dan Kang, at TechCrunch Early Stage | TechCrunch Early Stage is gearing up for another insightful event on April 25, and one roundtable session promises to be particularly illuminating for early-stage founders. Titled “Finance Fundamentals Before Your First Finance Hire: A Foun... |
25.03.2023 | Как искусственный интеллект может помочь в области личных финансов и финансовой грамотности | Обучение личным финансам
V. ИИ в обучении финансовой грамотности
ИИ также может сыграть важную роль в обучении финансовой грамотности. Используя чат-боты и образовательные приложения на базе ИИ, люди могут узнать о важных финансовых концепц... |
10.08.2022 | CFPB Targets Hello Digital that Allegedly Used a Faulty Algorithm that Depleted Checking Accounts | Listen to this article
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced an enforcement action against Hello Digit (or just Digit), a neobank that claims to be the “first truly personalized and automat... |
17.11.2021 | The good times keep rolling for small, e-commerce business owners | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
If you’re a smaller, e-commerce shop owner looking to sell your business, now looks to be a prett... |
17.11.2021 | The good times keep rolling for small, e-commerce business owners | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
If you’re a smaller, e-commerce shop owner looking to sell your business, now looks to be a prett... |
03.11.2021 | Considering a ‘neobank’ or fintech? The lowdown on the fees, perks, and long-term prospects of challenger banks | Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning.
When it comes to your money, do you prefer your "Banking, evolved"? Or are you more in the camp of "Banking for humans"? W... |
30.09.2020 | Gusto is expanding from payroll into a full suite financial wellness platform | When we caught up with Gusto last year, the small business payroll startup had just raised $200 million and was launching a new office in New York City. Over the past few years though, Gusto has also been accruing new features outside of it... |
07.05.2020 | It's Time To Improve Banking Access For Americans | While coronavirus and COVID-19 have certainly made our lives inconvenient, having to deal with social distancing is the least most of us should worry about. The economic upheaval caused by this virus continues playing out in a horrific, slo... |
23.03.2020 | A List Of Fintech Firms Providing Free Technology During The Coronavirus Crisis | Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Laboratory Research & Quality Control on a high technology ... [+] equipment.Getty |
13.03.2020 | Coronavirus Will Be Even Worse For Low-Income People And Businesses, But Fintechs Can Help | As the world reacts to the novel coronavirus — now officially a pandemic according to the World Health Organization — many countries are beginning to suggest ways to help the citizens hurt by the virus. Quantitative easing to bolster the st... |
01.10.2019 | Daily funding roundup - September 30th, 2019 | PathogenDx raised $7.5M; Digit landed $27.5M; Kenna Security closed $48M
PathogenDx: PathogenDx is a pathogen testing technology for cannabis, hemp, agriculture and food safety industries. PathogenDx has raised $7.5 million in Series B fund... |
30.09.2019 | Digit Raises $27.5M Series C Funding Round | Digit, a San Francisco, CA-based financial health company, raised a $27.5m Series C funding round.
The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from existing investors Ribbit Capital, Google Ventures, Freestyle Ventures, as wel... |
19.07.2018 | Even raises $40M to transform the working class to the savings class | The working class of the United States doesn’t get many breaks these days. It’s not just a function of low pay and long hours, but also the incredible uncertainty of income and expenses that makes surviving week-to-week so challenging. One ... |
24.04.2018 | Digit launches automated credit card debt payment service | 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!
Personal finance bot Digit today launched a new a... |
24.04.2018 | Digit’s first move beyond saving money is a feature to pay down credit card debt | Digit, the developer of a wildly popular automatic savings mobile app, is moving beyond its core business with a new feature enabling users to pay down credit card debt from their Digit account.
Announced earlier today, the new Digit Pay se... |
07.04.2018 | Can SaaS principles transform political campaigns as we know them? | In life, they say you get what you pay for. That is no less true in politics, which is fueled by campaign donations and lobbying dollars that move policy on every important issue under the sun. The disclosed expenditures of the DC lobbying ... |
10.10.2017 | Four behavioral economics strategies for improving consumer financial health | Kristen Berman Contributor
Kristen Berman is a co-founder of Duke's Common Cents Lab with Professor Dan Ariely. Common Cents is generously supported by MetLife Foundation. Kristen was on the founding team of Google's behavioral economics te... |
05.10.2017 | Startups say this fintech ‘lab’ is giving them needed access to Wall Street and regulators | Banks want to know what around the corner is trying to put them out of business, so it’s no surprise that a spate of fintech-focused accelerator programs has sprung into existence in recent years. For example, Deutsche Bank just opened is f... |
29.08.2017 | Top startups shaping the future of chatbots | Many startups are creating bots to be our personal assistants
When most people think of chatbots, they likely think of the major platforms and big companies making waves in the space, such as Facebook Messenger, Slack, Line, Amazon and Goog... |
17.07.2017 | Beginning this week, automated savings app Digit will start charging users $3 a month | In April, automated savings startup Digit announced that in 100 days it would begin charging $2.99 a month to people using its service to set aside money for a rainy day or help pay their bills. Well, 100 days have almost passed, and it’s a... |
11.04.2017 | Digit will charge $2.99 per month to save you money | 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!
Savings service Digit announced today that it is ... |
11.04.2017 | Digit will charge $2.99 per month to save you money | Savings service Digit announced today that it is ending its free service, and in the next 100 days will begin to charge customers $2.99 monthly subscription fee. Using an algorithm that tracks your spending habits, Digit withdraws money ove... |
29.03.2017 | So what exactly is a bot? | Kemal El Moujahid Contributor
Kemal El Moujahid is currently a lead product manager for the Messenger team at Facebook, working on AI-powered services such as M and driving the product management of the Messenger platform. Kemal was previou... |
28.02.2017 | Digit’s new feature helps put away money to pay your rent and phone bills | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Financial service startup Digit can help you pay your bills by automatically extracting money from your checking account and diverting ... |
28.02.2017 | Digit now helps users automatically save for monthly bills | Automated savings startup Digit has long helped users squirrel away money for a rainy day. But today the company is rolling out a new feature that will make it easier to help its users save and pay their monthly bills.
Digit works by scanni... |
31.12.2016 | Keep your New Year’s resolutions with help from these bots | 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!
It’s easy to get sort of jaded about New Year’s r... |
31.12.2016 | Keep your New Year’s resolutions with help from these bots | It’s easy to get sort of jaded about New Year’s resolutions, but we all believe that with some hard work, we can become a better person, and a new year tends to bring that out in people.
Just about everyone wants to get rid of bad habits, i... |
23.12.2016 | Why the real potential for chatbots is in the enterprise | 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!
When VCs get excited about or interested in a new... |
14.10.2016 | Free Savings Tool Digit May Start Charging Users for Some Services | You’ve probably heard of Digit, the free mobile tool that analyzes your spending habits and stows away small amounts of cash to a savings account.
Founded in 2013, it’s been able to remain free because it keeps its users’ earned interest as... |
03.10.2016 | 3 reasons Forrester is totally wrong about banking chatbots | 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!
When I saw the summary of the recently released F... |
27.09.2016 | Key takeaways from the Betaworks botcamp | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Betaworks, a White Star Capital partner, recently hosted its Botcamp day. Betaworks CEO John Borthwick, my fellow Kellogg alumnus Matt ... |
27.09.2016 | Key takeaways from the Betaworks botcamp | Betaworks, a White Star Capital partner, recently hosted its Botcamp day. Betaworks CEO John Borthwick, my fellow Kellogg alumnus Matt Hartman, and the rest of the team put on an excellent day with great speakers and demos by eight promisin... |
14.09.2016 | How the Digit bot helped people save $230 million | The bot Digit has saved $230 million for its users in the past 18 months, founder and CEO Ethan Bloch told an audience of more than 200 at a “Leaders of Chatbots” discussion at LinkedIn Tuesday. The event was put together by Leade.rs, which... |
14.09.2016 | How the Digit bot helped people save $230 million | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The bot Digit has saved $230 million for its users in the past 18 months, founder and CEO Ethan Bloch told an audience of more than 200... |
08.09.2016 | Digit, a simple app to help you save, launches Android app | Whether you’re working out of a dorm room or running a billion-dollar company, a little pivot can go a long way. At their worst, pivots can derail a company’s success, but at their best, they demonstrate a company is still attuned to its us... |
29.06.2016 | SF, New York, Austin, Chicago, Toronto, and Melbourne: VB’s Botathon is coming to your town! | 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!
The innovations coming out of the bot and messagi... |
29.06.2016 | SF, New York, Austin, Chicago, Toronto, and Melbourne: VB’s Botathon is coming to your town! | The innovations coming out of the bot and messaging space are starting to explode.
How about a bot that turns your text into video? Or celebrity bots that can convincingly assume the personality of said famous person? Or a chatbot as your n... |
03.06.2016 | Fintech Startup Digit Closes $22.5M Series B Funding | Digit, a San francisco, CA-based fintech startup closed a $22.5M Series B round of funding.
The round was led by Ribbit Capital with participation from General Catalyst and other existing backers.
The company, which has raised $36m to date,... |
02.06.2016 | Digit adds $22.5 million Series B to its savings account | Fast moving fintech startup Digit closed a $22.5 million Series B today just a year after closing an $11.3 million Series A.
Ribbit Capital led the round with support from all prior investors including General Catalyst. This new round bring... |
23.04.2016 | What’s next for personal financial services? | Erin Shipley Contributor
Erin Shipley is an early-stage investor at Karlin Ventures where she focuses on enterprise software, commerce tools and frontier technologies.
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Why the recent hype about insurance tech ... |
09.04.2016 | The delayed revolution in digital financial services | Paul M. Schwartz Contributor
Paul Schwartz is Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law at U.C. Berkeley School of Law and a special advisor at Paul Hastings.
Technology has transformed how we work, communicate and travel. In contrast, modern di... |
09.03.2016 | Finding financial health in the gig economy | Rob Levy Contributor
Rob Levy is the managing director at the Center for Financial Services Innovation.
So, you’re cruising down the highway with your latest fare, making money whenever you choose to turn on your engine. But that 1099 econo... |
11.02.2016 | Digit helps you automatically save part of your tax return | It’s tax season in the United States, and financial service startup Digit has launched a feature designed to automate savings from tax refunds. Working with the Duke University nonprofit CommonCents Lab, the company leverages behavioral eco... |
22.01.2016 | 50 лучших финтехстартапов по версии Forbes. Часть 2 | Часть 2. Инвестиционные услуги и сбережения
1. Betterment (основан в 2008-м, инвестировано $95 млн) — автоматический сервис персональных инвестиций. Клиенту нужно только выбрать цель. В зависимости от целей клиенту рекомендуется структура и... |
11.11.2015 | No UI Is The New UI | Tony Aube Contributor
Tony Aube is the lead designer at Osmo.
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Our self-flying car future
The unintended ways self-driving cars will change our lives
A few months ago, I shared with my friends how I think apps ... |
16.08.2015 | The Burgeoning Invisible App Market | Omar Bohsali Contributor
Omar Bohsali an engineer/designer building Sudo and who is very curious about the invisible app market.
Today’s “invisible app” market could be classified as a passing trend, but it might also be the beginning of a ... |
13.08.2015 | Digit unveils a new automated reward program aimed at encouraging you to save cash | It can be tough saving money, but automated savings tool Digit wants to offer an incentive to encourage this behavior. The company today announced the creation of Digit Plus, a program that will reward you with cash for savings held for at ... |
04.08.2015 | 7 Personal Finance Apps to Manage your Money | If you’re looking for a convenient and sophisticated way to manage your money, you should know there is an app for that. In fact, there are several apps that will help you with your finances, depending on your goals and the specific financi... |
08.05.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 5/8/15 | Twistlock, DJI, Cybereason, NatureBox, Twilio, AltSchool, Zenefits, Cursive Labs, Robinhood, Banjo
Seed stage
Twistlock, an enterprise security suite for virtual containers, raised $2.5 million in funding from YL Ventures.
Wag!, which provi... |
05.05.2015 | Automated Savings Startup Digit Raises $11.3M From General Catalyst | It’s only been a few short months since automated savings startup Digit opened to the public, but it’s already garnered serious interest from consumers who want more money in their bank accounts, as well as investors who think the service c... |
05.05.2015 | Digit Raises $11.3M in Series A Funding | Digit, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of an automated savings tool for consumers, raised $11.3m in Series A funding round.
The round was led by General Catalyst Partners with participation from existing investors Baseline Ventures and G... |
19.02.2015 | Automated Savings Startup Digit Opens Up To All | Digit, the startup that automatically saves cash for users, has been operating in a kind of invite-only beta over the last nine months or so. Thanks to a banking partnership with Wells Fargo, the service is now ready to open up to the publi... |
19.12.2014 | Funding roundup - week ending 12/19/14 | Serviz, SurveyMonkey, Clever, Quikkly, First Opinion, Boxbee, Geenio, Adyen, Redfin, Mixpanel, Dots
Seed stage
Quikkly, which creates personalized action tags, received $1 million in seed funding in a round led by Initial Capital, along wit... |
17.12.2014 | Приложение Digit, помогающее копить деньги Статьи редакции | Каждый день редакция ЦП выбирает один свежий зарубежный стартап, вызвавший резонанс в профессиональном сообществе, и рассказывает о нём читателям. Сегодня в «Идеях для бизнеса» — приложение для управления расходами Digit, переводящее деньги... |
17.12.2014 | Digit Raises $2.5M in Seed Funding | Digit, a San Francisco, CA-based service that automates people’s savings, raised $2.5m in seed funding.
Backers included Freestyle Capital, Upside Partnership, Google Ventures, Operative Capital, Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian, Aaron Harris, Ric... |
16.12.2014 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | 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!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
16.12.2014 | Digit grabs $2.5M to save you money without you noticing | 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!
Saving money is so hard that banks have even crea... |
16.12.2014 | With $2.5M In Seed Funding, Digit Saves Money For You So You Don’t Have To Think About It | Over the years we’ve seen the emergence of a number of personal finance apps, most of which have been designed to help users create budgets, better understand their finances, and make positive decisions with their money.
Those apps were gre... |
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There are seemingly endless apps to help improve your life, b... |
- | 4 painless personal finance apps for people who hate thinking about money | If you've tried every budgeting app and abandoned it, one of these services could work for you. Sarah Mason/Getty Images
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Some people love budgeting apps. But others find them overly involved and want hands-off help.
Digit can hel... |