Strands

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Last activity: 29.06.2023

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Strands is a FinTech software company, part of the CRIF Group, which develops AI-driven solutions for banks and financial institutions to help increase customer engagement and generate new revenue through digital channels.

With the mission of improving the bank-client relationship, Strands draws on its more than 15 years’ experience in Big Data, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence, developing highly-personalized digital money management solutions that empower people to better manage their lives and their businesses, and to make smarter financial decisions.

Headquartered in Barcelona (Spain), Strands has a strong presence in Europe, North and Latin America, and Asia, and has collaborated on delivering more than 700 digital banking implementations worldwide.

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Location

United States, Florida, Miami

Employees

51-200

Founded date

2004

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Nov 17, 2021	Comviva and Strands Partner to Provide Personal Finance Management Solution to Banks, digital wallet and payment service providers	NEW DELHI, Nov. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Comviva, one of the global leaders in providing digital financial solutions today announced a strategic partnership with Strands to provide an integrated suite of intelligent digital banking, wallet ...
Oct 30, 2019	Ukheshe, Mindbridge named winners of SA Reserve Bank’s global fintech hackcelerator	The SA Reserve Bank (Sarb) has named SA’s uKheshe and Canada’s MindBridge Analytics the winners of its 2019 Global Fintech Hackcelerator @ Southern Africa competition. The global fintech hackcelerator, which is sponsored by KPMG Matchi, is ...
Oct 30, 2019	Ukheshe, Mindbridge named winners of SA Reserve Bank’s global fintech hackcelerator	The SA Reserve Bank (Sarb) has named SA’s uKheshe and Canada’s MindBridge Analytics the winners of its 2019 Global Fintech Hackcelerator @ Southern Africa competition. The global fintech hackcelerator, which is sponsored by KPMG Matchi, is...
Oct 7, 2019	Reserve Bank, KPMG Matchi name 12 finalists of fintech hackcelerator	The SA Reserve Bank (Sarb) and technology matchmaking platform KPMG Matchi have named the 12 finalists of the Global Fintech Hackcelerator @ Southern Africa. The hackathon and accelerator programme aims to create a platform for fintech firm...
Oct 7, 2019	Reserve Bank, KPMG Matchi name 12 finalists of fintech hackcelerator	The SA Reserve Bank (Sarb) and technology matchmaking platform KPMG Matchi have named the 12 finalists of the Global Fintech Hackcelerator @ Southern Africa. The hackathon and accelerator programme aims to create a platform for fintech fir...
Oct 31, 2017	SMEs see banks as utility providers not business partners - and banks agree	69% of SMEs regard their bank as a utility provider, and a staggering 83% of banks admit this is the case 84% of SMEs want financial planning and business growth advice delivered digitally, but only 17% of banks currently offer digital fina...
May 4, 2017	PFM pioneer Strands reaches 500 bank milestone	Fintech company is serving 100m customers of the world’s largest banks including Barclays, BBVA and Deutsche Bank Barcelona - 4th May 2017- Strands, a leading provider of personal financial management (PFM) and machine learning solutions fo...
Mar 8, 2017	Deep Learning in Finance Summit Comes to Singapore to Discuss Emerging Trends and Opportunities	Technologies such as big data analytics, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, and machine learning have revolutionized financial services over the past 20 years. Now, fintech is on the verge of a truly revolutionary moment with the int...
Feb 28, 2017	Why the CIO Will Drive Bank Success in 2017 and Beyond	The banking Chief Innovation Officer, or CIO, has seen their role change in a very short space of time. It may even be argued that the modern demands of the bank CIO are so different to what came before that it is a brand new role in all bu...
Mar 10, 2011	Chicisimo takes on street fashion in Germany and Poland	Chicisimo, the Spanish born social platform for fashion fanatics is planting its high heels into new markets, launching chicisimo.pl and chicisimo.de and now available in a total of 6 markets, including US, UK, France and Spain. Girls share...
Feb 16, 2010	The Incredible Story of Scott Kveton: Linux, Firefox, Bacon & iPhones	Geekdom may be a land of big personalities, but some peoples’ stories are better known than others. One story you might not know yet is the tale of Scott Kveton’s young, unusual, accelerated and admirable career. Not yet 40 years old, Scott...
Jun 26, 2009	They Did It! One Team Reports Success in the $1m Netflix Prize	In October 2006 online movie rental company Netflix announced a contest called The Netflix Prize; any team that could beat its in-house recommendation engine by 10% in predicting which movies people would like would win a $1 million prize. ...
May 4, 2009	BlackBerry Partners Fund announces 2009 BlackBerry Developers Challenge	The 2009 Wireless Enterprise Symposium for BlackBerry Users hasn’t even officially started yet, but news from the event has already started making its way out. The BlackBerry Partners Fund has just announced their second annual BlackBerry D...
Feb 7, 2009	Weekly Wrapup: Google Latitude, Facebook Sentiment Engine, The Goverati, And More…	In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we continue our series on recommendation technologies with a special RWW Live podcast and a review of Baynote; we analyze a new Google product cal...
Jan 4, 2009	10 Mobile Social Networks to Check Out	Earlier today we covered a mobile social network called Buzzd, which will be featured at the music festival Bonnaroo. In this post we outline 10 mobile social networks to keep your eyes on. It’s a developing field – and there are issues suc...
Dec 30, 2008	2009 Web Predictions	It’s time for our annual predictions post, in which the ReadWriteWeb authors look forward to what 2009 might bring in the world of Web technology and new media. Looking back at our 2008 Web predictions, we got some of them right! “The big I...
Nov 24, 2008	Exchange rate for blog comments, interaction	This is a first attempt at creating a rate for interacting with blogs (Editor's note: Allen Stern and Center Networks are not affiliated with this post or the exchange rate tables, yet. The CN logo has been helpfully borrowed) In May, Mathe...
Nov 19, 2008	Qik And Strands Each Trim 10 Percent Of Staff	The cutbacks continue, even at seemingly healthy startups. Social recommendation engine Strands let exactly 10 percent, or 14 people go (7 in the U.S. and 7 in Spain), the company confirms. Strands has raised a total of $55 million, still e...
Nov 17, 2008	Plista Secures Draper Investment For Social Recommendation Engine	Social recommendation and personalization platform Plista, one of the companies in this year’s TechCrunch50 DemoPit, has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from Swiss Draper Investment Company, which took a minority stake in the Berli...
Oct 23, 2008	Twine's social bookmarking on steroids	Twine untangles beta Nova Spivack, creator and CEO of Twine, sees that networks based on its users' interests are at what he calls a "tipping point". In the last year, you've seen dramatic growth in this space, with the rise of Fr...
Oct 18, 2008	Weekly Wrapup: After Web 2.0, Newsfeeds, Recommendation Technologies, And More…	It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side this week, we had a great discussion about what’s next after web 2.0, celebrated the success of the newsfeed, looked at enterprise use of socia...
Oct 16, 2008	5 Early Recommendation Technologies That Could Shake Up Their Niches	International recommendation technology provider Strands has announced the five finalists in the Strands $100K Call for Recommender Start-Ups. From music to video to pharmaceutical drug development recommendations, these plucky startups fro...
Oct 14, 2008	The future of social media	It's mobile, unified and transparent This morning, I had the pleasure of taking part in a podcast with Wayne Sutton and Kipp Bodnarf for their Talk Social News program. During the conversation, we discussed how to find time to participate i...
Sep 6, 2008	Businesses Can’t Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0’s Impact Across Industries	If you were interviewing someone for a position with your company and they admitted that they didn’t know anything about the new trends and innovations taking place in their field, what would you think? Likely, what you would think is “next...
Aug 24, 2008	Four Ad-Free Ways that Mined Data Can Make Money	Machines can do wonderful things. Side by side with the rise of a new world of publishers, the computer scientists of the world are cranking it up as well – building new ways to create value from the sea of data being published by people. A...
Aug 1, 2008	Eight Ways to Get Users to Fill Out Their Profiles	“Hi, my name is MrCucumber69, I have a gray blob for a face and that’s all I care to share about myself – will you be my friend?” Silly as that sounds, this is the way users of many social web applications greet each other. It’s not very us...
Jul 22, 2008	Baynote, Strands, RichRelevance — will they survive the “recommendation engine” consolidation?	With all the “recommendation” technology companies out there fighting for business, you’d think this is a tough market to be in. By some counts, there are at least 50 to 100 active companies in this area. But some companies, including Stran...
Jul 18, 2008	These 10 companies will demo on MobileBeat stage	After some tough decision-making, we’ve settled on the ten companies to present to the full audience on stage at MobileBeat next Thursday, July 24. They’ve beat out far more than a hundred companies after several rounds of selection. They a...
Jun 30, 2008	Strands loses Expensr founders six months after buying their company	At the end of April, Strands, a San Francisco company best known for its music recommendation engine and its $55 million of venture capital, announced that it had acquired the money management service, Expensr, under undisclosed terms. With...
Jun 10, 2008	Strands Introduces Amazon-like Recommendation Engine	The recommendation engine Strands has released a new “Plug-and Play” product recommendation service that will allow online retailers to generate Amazon-like recommendations. eCommerce providers can implement the service through either the s...
May 30, 2008	Weekly Wrapup, 26-30 May 2008	Here are some of the highlights from the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we covered announcements by Google about Gears and App Engine, we looked at some compelling Yahoo! Pipes apps, we checked out Strands Lifes...
May 15, 2008	Strands Absorbs Another Personal Finance Company	Strands has made a second recruitment in its effort to develop a Mint competitor called moneyStrands that leverages the same recommendation engine behind its video and music products. Just over two weeks ago Strands acquired Expensr, and no...
Apr 28, 2008	Strands Acquires Expensr, Launches moneyStrands	In the first real sign that recommendation engine Strands (formally MyStrands) is branching out from mobile and music, the company has announced the acquisition of Expensr, an online personal finance application. Strands is also launching m...

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FAQ about Strands

When was Strands founded?

Strands was founded in 2004.

What has the press written about Strands?

Parsers VC has collected 34 articles mentioning Strands, among them “Comviva and Strands Partner to Provide Personal Finance Management Solution to Banks, digital wallet and payment service providers” (Nov 17, 2021) and “Ukheshe, Mindbridge named winners of SA Reserve Bank’s global fintech hackcelerator” (Oct 30, 2019).

Is Strands still active?

Yes, Strands is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 29, 2023.