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| 28.04.2020 | Eleven Personal Financial Apps to Keep Your Budget in Check | From paychecks to automatic online transfers, finances have come a long way. What hasn’t changed much is budget planning. Making a budget plan can be an unnerving task that can sometimes gets out of hand. Taking advantage of the latest tech... |
| 15.03.2020 | Simple Introduces Tax Refund Feature | Simple, a U.S. fintech and subsidiary of BBVA USA, has launched a tax refund feature that helps customers build savings by designating a portion or all of their anticipated tax refunds to their Simple saving accounts. Simple reported that t... |
| 02.03.2020 | Simple Appoints Tesla’s Moin Moinuddin As New Head of Engineering | Simple, a U.S. fintech and subsidiary of BBVA USA, announced on Monday it has appointed Moin Moinuddin as its new Head of Engineering. According to Simple, Moinuddin will lead all of Engineering, which includes product engineering and infra... |
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| 23.05.2019 | Online bank Simple makes things harder by removing bill pay | With a growing number of challenger banks taking on the U.S. market, one of the original startup banks, Simple — now owned by BBVA — has taken the unusual step of removing a core banking feature: bill pay. The company claimed the feature wa... |
| 14.02.2019 | Fintech Tools And Gift Ideas For Valentine’s Day | Valentine’s Day is looming and like many of us, you are probably panicking about what to get your better half.
But you are tired of the usual, boring flowers and chocolate gifts, and would like to do something special this year (for a chang... |
| 09.01.2019 | European mobile banking startup N26 raises $300 million for belated U.S. launch | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile banking startup N26 has raised a whopping $300 million in a series D round of funding led by Insight Venture Partners, with part... |
| 09.01.2019 | European mobile banking startup N26 raises $300 million for belated U.S. launch | Mobile banking startup N26 has raised a whopping $300 million in a series D round of funding led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC and a handful of existing investors.
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| 25.06.2018 | Double up with Starling’s joint account | Anne Boden, Starling
Starling Bank now offers a joint account option, claiming to be the first bank in the UK with a fully mobile-only application process.
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| 23.10.2017 | Peter Thiel-backed mobile bank N26 is expanding to the U.S. in 2018 | N26, a mobile-first bank available in Europe, has announced plans to launch in the U.S. next year, representing the first non-EU market for the company.
Founded out of Berlin in 2013 originally as Number26, N26 offers online-only bank accou... |
| 23.10.2017 | Peter Thiel-backed mobile bank N26 is expanding to the U.S. in 2018 | 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!
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| 13.10.2017 | Meet Michelle Broderick, Cozy's new board director | Adventurer at heart, Broderick shares about her work, her relaxation, and the balance - in both.
Michelle Broderick joined Cozy, the online property management service for landlords and renters, last week as independent board director to se... |
| 27.09.2017 | Chime raises $18 million for mobile banking without the fees | It’s a bank account and debit card built for the digital age.
Chime is raising $18 million in Series B financing for its mobile-first approach to banking. Cathay Innovation led the round with participation from Northwestern Mutual Future Ve... |
| 13.09.2017 | Fintech Solutions for Digital Nomads | Digital nomads are ever more numerous. They have special needs, notably in terms of financial services.
Thankfully, fintech startups are coming up with clever solutions that are not just only cheaper than those provided by traditional banki... |
| 26.06.2017 | Peter Thiel-backed mobile banking startup N26 expands into insurance | European mobile-first bank N26 has announced that it is expanding into insurance in its latest move to reinvent banking.
Founded out of Germany in 2013, N26 offers bank accounts similar to those offered by BankMobile or Simple in the U.S., ... |
| 26.06.2017 | Peter Thiel-backed mobile banking startup N26 expands into insurance | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
European mobile-first bank N26 has announced that it is expanding into insurance in its latest move to reinvent banking.
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| 14.04.2017 | Simple is closing some customer bank accounts, and users are mad as hell | Simple, the online banking service that promised to be a better alternative to big banks like Chase or Citibank, is falling short of some users’ expectations. This time, it comes as a result of the sudden and surprising notice customers rec... |
| 28.02.2017 | Simple’s new kind of shared bank account targets unmarried partners, roommates & more | Online banking service Simple today is launching a new type of banking product aimed at a younger generation of customers who want to be able to collaborate on finances with others, but aren’t in the market for traditional joint checking ac... |
| 29.09.2016 | Simple rolls out shared bank accounts that work for anyone, including roommates | Online banking service Simple is today rolling out a new product: shared accounts. However, unlike joint checking accounts typically shared by spouses, Simple’s shared accounts work differently. They allow customers to maintain their own ac... |
| 21.07.2016 | Peter Thiel-backed banking startup Number26 rebrands as N26 and becomes an official bank | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed mobile banking startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has finally received... |
| 21.07.2016 | Peter Thiel-backed banking startup Number26 rebrands as N26 and becomes an official bank | Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed mobile banking startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has finally received its banking license, giving the company full regulatory approval to operate across the European Union un... |
| 21.06.2016 | Peter Thiel-backed banking startup Number26 raises $40 million to grow into new markets | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed mobile banking startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has raised $40 milli... |
| 21.06.2016 | Peter Thiel-backed banking startup Number26 raises $40 million to grow into new markets | Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed mobile banking startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Horizons Ventures. Battery Ventures, Robert Gentz, David Schneider, and Rub... |
| 16.06.2016 | How Fintech can power small business in Nigeria | I’ll be the first to admit that there’s been lots of good vibes in Nigeria’s Fintech space lately. Take payments for example – it’s like Christmas has come early! We’ve seen PayStack demonstrating that recurring payments is indeed not rocke... |
| 28.05.2016 | A bot walks into a bank … | It’s hard to believe that only eight years ago, Steve Jobs stood on stage and announced Apple’s App Store — providing unparalleled distribution for apps to anyone who owned an iPhone. With respect to personal banking, this game-changing eve... |
| 28.05.2016 | A bot walks into a bank … | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s hard to believe that only eight years ago, Steve Jobs stood on stage and announced Apple’s App Store — providing unparalleled dist... |
| 04.04.2016 | Fintech: Startups Bring Retail Banking to Mobile | As highlighted in our recent post about insurance management startups, customers often are not satisfied with level of services currently provided by high street players. Bad customer experiences, hidden fees and high costs are the main fac... |
| 09.03.2016 | Transforming how retail banking works | Choon Yan Contributor
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| 08.03.2016 | Interested in Fintech in Nigeria? Then you should read this | This article was written by Ade Olabode, and was first published on his Medium page.
If there’s one area that a lot of people agree has the potential to impact a lot of Nigerians; it’s Fintech. While there’s no universally accepted definiti... |
| 25.02.2016 | The bank that fintech built: Number26 and TransferWise team up to re-invent banking | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Two European fintech startups are teaming up to give a glimpse of what the bank of tomorrow could look like.
Number26, a Peter Thiel-ba... |
| 27.01.2016 | Forbes 50 Fintech. Часть 3. Банки и сервисы | 1. Банк Simple (осн. в 2009 году, куплен испанским банком BBVA в 2014-м за $117 млн) — это мобильный банк. Основной продукт состоит из мобильного приложения и карты Visa. Банк не взимает комиссий с клиентов. В сущности, Simple — это вообще ... |
| 28.12.2015 | The book that sparked a cleanup craze | Cleaning consultant Marie Kondo’s best-selling book “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” (Ten Speed Press, $16.99) offers strategies for fulfilling your New Year’s resolution to keep thing... |
| 02.12.2015 | Number26, the Peter Thiel-backed mobile banking startup, expands across E.U. into 6 new markets | Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed German startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has announced a major European expansion today, as it launches in six new markets.
Founded out of Berlin in early 2013, Number26 offe... |
| 02.12.2015 | Number26, the Peter Thiel-backed mobile banking startup, expands across E.U. into 6 new markets | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Number26, a Peter Thiel-backed German startup that’s setting out to create the bank account of the future, has announced a major Europe... |
| 27.11.2015 | Крис Скиннер: «Если Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple захотят заниматься традиционным банкингом — это их убьет» | О лидерах и проблемах мирового банкинга
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| 11.09.2015 | Online Bank Simple Ditches All Fees | When the online banking service Simple got started, one of its promises to customers was that it would eliminate many of the excessive fees that traditional banks charge while also offering an improved and mobile-optimized banking experienc... |
| 02.09.2015 | Mondo: дерзкая инновация для Великобритании, обычный банковский сервис для России | Очаровывая регуляторов
Жарким июльским вечером Том Бломфилд (Tom Blomfield) вышел из здания Банка Англии в центре Лондонского Сити и тут же снял пиджак. Двадцатидевятилетний генеральный директор Mondo — цифрового банка для смартфонов, выход... |
| 25.06.2015 | New independent UK bank Atom will only be accessible via mobile app | reader comments 4 with 4 posters participating
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| 29.05.2015 | The Unbundling Of Finance | Scott Walchek Contributor
Scott Walchek is the founder and CEO of Trov
In a world where everything is being unbundled, allowing consumers to pick and choose from things like television shows and college courses, financial services are becom... |
| 10.05.2015 | An Apple Watch In Middle America | Okay, it’s technically not “middle” America, geographically speaking, but it is a small chunk of suburbia on the outskirts of an even smaller urban center. A place where people don’t rush right out and buy the latest new gadget simply becau... |
| 16.03.2015 | Bankjoy Is Building A Modern-Day Mobile Banking App For Use By Credit Unions And Smaller Banks | Thanks to startups like Simple, which was acquired by financial services organization BBVA last year, banking customers got a look at what a modern-day web and mobile banking experience looks like, with features like goal-setting tools, aut... |
| 16.03.2015 | Bankjoy (YC W15) Is Building A Modern-Day Mobile Banking App For Use By Credit Unions And Smaller Banks | Bankjoy is launching out of the Winter 2015 batch of Y Combinator:
“Thanks to startups like Simple, which was acquired by financial services organization BBVA last year, banking customers got a look at what a modern-day web and mobile bank... |
| 19.08.2014 | After A Series Of Maintenance Glitches, Bank Simple Rolls Out An Improved, Rebuilt Mobile App | After a particularly painful period of “scheduled maintenance” saw customers at online bank Simple losing access to their funds for a full day when things didn’t go exactly as planned, Simple has this morning rolled out a completely rebuilt... |
| 19.06.2014 | Online Banking Service Simple Just Made Bank Transfers Faster | Simple, the online banking service acquired by BBVA earlier this year, had an overall goal of addressing the various pain points found at traditional banks, like minimum balance requirements, fees, overdraft charges, and more. Today, the co... |
| 25.02.2014 | Simple: Brooklyn-born banking startup exits for $117M after Portland move | Name a bank’s website you’re impressed by? Odds are, you aren’t impressed by any. That’s why, in 2009, Joshua Reich cofounded the company now known as Simple in 2009 (formerly, “BankSimple”), here in Brooklyn.
The team created a more reliab... |
| 25.02.2014 | Banking start-up acquired for $US117 million: What’s next for the Aussie co-founder | Simple, a US-based online retail bank start-up co-founded by Australian-born Joshua Reich, has been sold to large Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) for $US117 million ($A130m).
Simple will operate as a separate business un... |
| 23.02.2014 | BBVA Acquires Simple | Banking giant BBVA acquired Simple, a Portland, Oregon, US-based provider of a platform for consmers to spend smart via budgeting and savings tools.
BBVA will complete the purchase through US-based BBVA Compass Bancshares, Inc., which will ... |
| 20.02.2014 | Online bank Simple acquired by Spain’s BBVA for $117M — will focus on international growth | 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!
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| 20.02.2014 | Online banking startup Simple acquired for $117 million | Simple, an online banking startup based in Portland, has agreed to be acquired by banking giant BBVA, based in Madrid, Spain, in a deal valued at $117 million, the companies announced this morning.
It’s a big exit for the Rose City’s tech c... |
| 20.02.2014 | Banking Startup Simple Acquired For $117M, Will Continue To Operate Separately | Banking startup Simple has been acquired, the company announced today. The acquiring company, BBVA, is a 150-year old financial services corporation that operates in a number of markets, and a leading player in the Spanish market, as well a... |
| 20.02.2014 | Online bank Simple acquired by Spain’s BBVA for $117M — will focus on international growth | Nobody expected this Spanish banking acquisition.
Simple, the online bank devoted to offering a more humane alternative to traditional banking, announced today that it’s being acquired by Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), Spain’s seco... |
| 22.01.2014 | How T-Mobile’s New Mobile Banking Service Compares With Simple And Amex Serve | T-Mobile today announced its intentions to get into the business of providing banking services to its wireless customers, and any others who want an alternative to traditional banking accounts. The new platform will compete with, and also p... |
| 13.11.2013 | Japanese Personal Finance App Moneytree Raises $1.6M To Expand Into The U.S. | Moneytree, a personal finance iOS app, has received $1.6 million in seed funding led by DG Incubation (Digital Garage’s investment branch), with participation from private investors, including senior executives from PayPal, MasterCard and M... |
| 25.10.2013 | When Startups Run Your Life | If you’re reading this, you are likely a startup enthusiast. You probably believe startups are the future and you put your money where your mouth is. I can tell by how you support innovative technologies on KickStarter or how you are a dieh... |
| 10.10.2013 | Simple's MoneyDrop promises instant money transfers, emphasis on the instant | How many times can the David vs. Goliath story be played out? Consumer banking company Simple hopes at least once more, and loaded into its sling is MoneyDrop, an instant money transfer feature.
Announced yesterday, MoneyDrop uses Bluetooth... |
| 10.10.2013 | Simple's MoneyDrop promises instant money transfers, emphasis on the instant | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
How many times can the David vs. Goliath story be played out? Consumer banking company Simple hopes at least once more, and loaded into... |
| 09.10.2013 | Simple’s MoneyDrop Will Soon Let Users Transfer Funds Using Bluetooth | Things seem to have been moving rather smoothly for the folks at online banking startup Simple. They’ve spent the last year fleshing out their mobile apps with some much-needed features and added some 25,000 customers to their ranks since J... |
| 02.10.2013 | Russian Mobile-First Banking Startup, RocketBank, Nabs $2M From Runa Capital | Another startup seeking to shake up the banking market with a convenient, mobile-first approach has bagged $2 million in seed funding from Runa Capital. Russia’s RocketBank launched its service in July 2012 and has since accrued “a few thou... |
| 20.08.2013 | Good design is functional: Gerianne Bertocci of Intuitive Company | Gerianne Bertocci sees design problems everywhere.
The usability expert at Manayunk web design firm Intuitive Company notices them on Netflix (she likes the breadth of information the platform offers but thinks that sometime it’s hard to fi... |
| 27.07.2013 | Meet Taco: A productivity app that helps developers stay in the zone | As Troy Davis continued to build out his hosted log management business PaperTrail, he began to go a little crazy. With so many jobs to accomplish and so little time, important tasks were sometimes left to the wayside and days were not bein... |
| 16.07.2013 | Bosco Tan – Business Development at Pocketbook | Bosco Tan and Alvin Singh are the cofounders of Pocketbook – a Sydney based startup that’s building an application which makes managing your money ridiculously simple. They do this by aggregating a user’s bank accounts, credit cards, loans,... |
| 15.07.2013 | One year after launch, online bank Simple sees $1B in annualized transactions | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
For Simple, an online bank trying to overthrow the tyranny of traditional banks, its biggest milestone couldn’t have been timed any bet... |
| 15.07.2013 | One year after launch, online bank Simple sees $1B in annualized transactions | For Simple, an online bank trying to overthrow the tyranny of traditional banks, its biggest milestone couldn’t have been timed any better.
Today the company is celebrating the first anniversary of its official launch, and it’s also announc... |
| 15.07.2013 | After one year, Simple finds success changing how people spend, save and store money | The Simple team has grown to 72 employees and is now based in Portland, Ore.
It’s hard to believe that Simple became available to customers only one year ago. The online-only banking startup, which started in New York and made the move to P... |
| 10.07.2013 | Braintree partners with online bank Simple to expand reach of one-touch payments | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Braintree is making another move in the battle to create a digital wallet people actually use. The digital payments company today annou... |
| 10.07.2013 | Braintree partners with online bank Simple to expand reach of one-touch payments | Braintree is making another move in the battle to create a digital wallet people actually use. The digital payments company today announced a partnership with online bank Simple to roll out its one-touch payment product to all Simple custom... |
| 10.07.2013 | Braintree Expands Venmo Touch, Partners With Online Banking Startup Simple For One-Touch Mobile Payments | Braintree, the Chicago-based payments gateway that’s now processing over $10 billion in payments annually, including those for startups like Uber, Fab, Hailo, Airbnb, Rovio and others, is today expanding on last summer’s acquisition of paym... |
| 13.06.2013 | Online Banking Startup Simple Finally Makes It Easier To Move Money Into Your Account | Simple has made some serious strides since it opened up to the public last year, but there’s one thing the service has just never been that great at: transferring money from one bank account to another. According to a post on the official S... |
| 30.05.2013 | Slick video shows why Portland is an awesome city for tech startups | When we sat down with Elemental CEO Sam Blackman earlier this month, the GeekWire Startup CEO of the Year wasn’t shy about his thoughts on Portland being the hottest startup spot in the country.
“In my opinion, if you are a software enginee... |
| 03.04.2013 | Smarter Marketing: How Minority Report Got It All Wrong | When I talk to marketing executives about the Smart Body, Smart World paradigm — how sensor-laden devices like wearables give us access to new domains of information and what we can do with that information — they always bring up the movie ... |
| 01.04.2013 | April Fools 2013: The Ultimate Round-Up | Happy April First, errybody! Yes, that’s right, we’ve reached that special, inimitable time of year. April Fools Day 2013. At TechCrunch, we have a long history of taking April Fools seriously. Deadly, deadly seriously. So, we’ve taken it u... |
| 03.03.2013 | Why Simple Is Better Than Your Bank, Both Online And On Mobile Devices | Most banks are notoriously bad at online, and especially mobile, experiences. Some don’t have mobile apps at all, and those that do exist typically aren’t that good. That’s why the folks at Portland, Ore.-based startup Simple think they can... |
| 15.01.2013 | Online Banking Service Simple Now Has An Android App, Designed From The Ground Up | Since launch, online banking provider Simple has sought to provide an alternative to traditional banking services. It’s done that with built-in data visualization and a beautiful and intuitive mobile app for iPhone. Now it’s expanding to An... |
| 28.11.2012 | Simple Fleshes Out Its Online Banking Service With Mobile Check Depositing | From the outset, online banking startup Simple has been focused on supplanting the brick-and-mortar banks in its users’ lives, but they haven’t always been equipped to handle every little transaction that comes up. Case in point — what happ... |
| 22.11.2012 | Holvi Plans To Disrupt Traditional Bank Accounts With Simple But Powerful Services | One of the most interesting startups to appear at the Slush conference in Helsinki this week was Holvi. Not a million miles away from Bank Simple, seed-funded Holvi plans to attack traditional bank accounts with a super simple service which... |
| 15.11.2012 | Simple, The Startup That Replaces Your Bank, Experiences First Outage [Updated: Simple’s Response] | Simple (formerly BankSimple), a startup that promises to replace your bank, today reminds early adopters why it can be problematic to put all your funds in one basket, so to speak. Over the past hour, bank account holders at Simple, a servi... |
| 14.11.2012 | Andrew Coates: Founder of MoneyTribe and Cloudsuper | In our second interview this week, we’re chatting to Andrew Coates, founder of Moneytribe and CloudSuper. Andrew started in media sales at Nine Network, MBA’d up then worked at Accenture’s Strategy practice until the first Dot com boom. In ... |
| 08.09.2012 | Portland Digital eXperience: A few of my favorite things | Dude, seriously, you are beautiful. … You’re so sexy when you smile.
These two phrases were emblazoned across the mirror of the women’s bathroom in a karaoke bar in Portland, and from my brief foray to the Rose City for the Portland Digital... |
| 30.08.2012 | Wallaby Raises $1.1 Million For Cloud-Based, Universal Credit Card | Wallaby Financial, a startup that’s building a cloud-based wallet that will optimize the rewards, points, airline miles, and other benefits consumers earn when charging purchases, has just closed a seed round of $1.1 million. The round was ... |
| 29.08.2012 | Simple Heads Into Mint.com Territory With Debut Of Spending Reports | The startup known as Simple (formerly BankSimple) has been busy rolling out new features since its public debut earlier this summer. Last week, the company unveiled “savings goals,” to help users more easily set money aside. Today, Simple a... |
| 29.08.2012 | “Screensucking” Is Sapping American Productivity And Innovation | You can thank Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Williams and others for turning America’s legendary productivity into wasteful social media “screensucking.” While social media may be engaging, it does not always help us accomplish what really needs to ... |
| 29.08.2012 | Revealed: Mint.com Could Soon Fire Back At Simple With A Debit Card Of Its Own | Earlier today, online banking startup Simple unveiled new reporting features that will allow users to see how much — and where — they’re spending money in their bank accounts. Those features seemed aimed squarely at Intuit-owned Mint.com, w... |
| 21.08.2012 | Online Banking Startup Simple Unveils Goals, To Help Users Save Up For Whatever | Simple was launched with a pretty brilliant idea: Make banking easy. Uh, simple, even. To date, the startup has been doing that by allowing users to keep track of where their money is going, with a no-fee banking system, an intuitive iPhone... |
| 25.07.2012 | Simple Is Now Available To The Public, Cofounder Alex Payne Moves On | There is nothing more broken than the payments/banking system, which makes me and everybody else root for payments (and more!) startup Simple (formerly BankSimple). We all hate our banks and, especially if you are in SF, we constantly hope ... |
| 26.06.2012 | Wallaby Combines All Your Credit Cards Into One, Makes Sure You Earn The Most Rewards | Wallaby, which is launching its beta today, reminds me a bit of banking startup Simple. Just like Simple automatically manages your finances for you and automatically shuffles your money between the most lucrative debit and savings accounts... |
| 06.06.2012 | Meet the 9 startup grads from the Portland Seed Fund | Portland, Oregon. Photo via Radworld
I don’t get as much time as I’d like to peruse the Portland startup scene. But there’s a heck of a lot of interesting stuff happening along the Willamette, and as you can well imagine I’m not talking abo... |
| 09.05.2012 | Simple Rolls Out iPhone App, But Still No Word On Public Launch | Simple (formerly known as BankSimple), the startup with $13.1 million in funding to build a better banking experience for customers, has today introduced its first mobile application, surprisingly ahead of its public launch. Operating in pr... |
| 04.05.2012 | Techlandia: Portland 100 Wants To Help Local Startups Grow To $100 Million | Portland, OR isn’t just a place where young people go to retire and hang out at urban wineries. The city also plays host to a fair number of prominent startups, including companies like Urban Airship, JanRain, Simple and Puppet Labs, as wel... |
| 18.03.2012 | The “Twitter Mafia” Poised to be Silicon Valley’s Next Great Network | Editor’s Note: TechCrunch columnist Semil Shah currently works at Votizen and is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter @semil
In middle school, my teacher assigned a book by Mario Puzo called “The Godfather.” Yes, it was pretty ... |
| 08.02.2012 | IA Ventures Doubles Down On Big Data With A New $105M Fund | Before big data was a hot investing theme, Roger Ehrenberg was one of the first seed investors to focus almost exclusively on startups using data as a competitive edge. His NYC-based fund, IA Ventures, has backed companies such as Billguard... |
| 29.01.2012 | Turning Two: FoundersCard Pulls Back The Curtain On Its Membership Community For Entrepreneurs | The top executives in today’s largest corporations not only travel in style, but they have access to an absurd array of perks while they travel, from awards and complimentary products to discounts on just about everything. On the IPO “road ... |
| 08.11.2011 | BankSimple Is Now Just ‘Simple’, And It’s Accepting Its First Users | BankSimple, the well-funded startup that’s setting out to build ‘a bank that doesn’t suck’, has some big news today: it’s now allowing its first users into the service. And to mark the occasion, it’s announcing another major change: the com... |
