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| Jan 20, 2022 | Climate Tech Investing in Emerging Markets (Part One) | This post is written in collaboration with CrossBoundary, an investment firm unlocking capital for sustainable growth in underserved global markets.
I recently joined the USV team and as many investors and founders, I have been a long-time... |
| Oct 26, 2017 | The USV Portfolio Network: Now 70 Companies Strong | At Union Square Ventures, we spend a lot of time thinking about networks. Financial networks, social networks, data networks, and yes, even decentralized networks. But the most “meta” version of this is the network we’ve spent the past seve... |
| Aug 29, 2010 | Taste Neighbors (continued) | A few summers ago, I penned a post called Taste Neighbors in which I described a web service that would do for food/restaurants what last.fm has done for music. From that post:
This problem has largely been solved in music. Because its rela... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Personal finance startup Wesabe prepares to shut down | It looks like this is the end for Wesabe, a personal finance startup backed by O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures and Union Square Ventures.
According to a note from chief executive Marc Hedlund posted today on the Wesabe site (and spotted by Tec... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Online Finance Startup Wesabe Heads To The Deadpool | Wesabe, an online personal finance site that looked to help users better keep track of their spending trends, is shutting down. The startup’s homepage now consists of a letter to Wesabe users instructing them to download their account infor... |
| Apr 12, 2010 | We Are Hiring | It’s Spring in New York. The pear trees and magnolias are in full bloom and everyone on the street is smiling, reminded again of irrepressible rhythm of the seasons.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that another rhythm that shapes our... |
| Jan 13, 2010 | The Evolving Online Finance Ecosystem | Last week we analyzed how the Web is transforming personal finance. Today we’ll take a broader look at the world of online finance, from personal to small business tools. To get an understanding of the online finance space, we spoke to the ... |
| Jan 9, 2010 | Weekly Wrapup: Google Nexus One, CES Coverage, Online Finance, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we report on a new “superphone” launched by Google, take a look at how the Web is transforming personal finance, give you 5 reasons why RSS Read... |
| Jan 7, 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... |
| Sep 29, 2009 | BillShrink’s new recommendation engine tells you where to stash your savings | BillShrink, a startup that advises its users on how to reduce their monthly bill payments, today launched a new savings tool that recommends the best savings and CD accounts for conserving cash. Calling itself a decision engine, the Menlo P... |
| Sep 29, 2009 | BillShrink’s new recommendation engine tells you where to stash your savings | 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!
BillShrink, a startup that advises its users on h... |
| Aug 25, 2009 | Financial planning site Green Sherpa launches, tries to nip at Mint's heels | Green Sherpa, a personal finance site, launched its paid service publicly today to help consumers manage their cash flow and spending habits.
Like competitor Mint, the Santa Barbara-based company syncs data from different bank accounts to g... |
| Jul 18, 2009 | Start Saving: PocketSmith Is A Crystal Ball For Your Bank Accounts | Saving money is tough work, even when you’re working towards something you really want, like a new car or a vacation. First, there’s the business of actually finding someone to write you a paycheck each month, and then you have to look at t... |
| Apr 30, 2009 | Quicken Online strikes back at upstarts with iPhone app | There’s been a lot of buzz around personal finance websites like Mint and Wesabe, but finance software maker Intuit has joined the online fray too– and no, not just by sending threatening letters to Mint. It launched its Quicken Online serv... |
| Apr 27, 2009 | Wesabe Meets Mint In The iPhone Finance App Arena | When it comes to startups in the online personal finance sphere, most people think of Mint. But another player in the space, Wesabe, has been holding its own as well, seeing some nice growth in the past year. Which one you use is probably a... |
| Mar 20, 2009 | Roundup: Xbox defects rise, Windows Live Messenger comes to websites, and more | Here’s the latest action:
Joystiq reports rising Xbox 360 defects — Errors with the E74 code have been rising since the New Xbox Experience update on Xbox Live, according to a survey.
Windows Live Messenger adds chat to websites — In the wo... |
| Mar 16, 2009 | Personal finance site Mint hits 1M users | Updated
Mint, a site that allows users to track their bank, credit card, and investment accounts through a single free service, just announced that it signed up its 1 millionth user on Sunday.
The news is just the latest sign of the Mountai... |
| Jan 19, 2009 | 7 Online Things To Do To Help Obama Restore America | On Tuesday, January 20th, 2009, America and the whole world will gather to watch Barack Obama be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. Many have called Mr. Obama the Internet Presidentbecause of the unprecedente... |
| Jan 14, 2009 | Wesabe wants to help users cut back spending | The news is full of stories about consumers cutting back on spending — but if you’re anything like me, you’re rehashing your budget in the most disorganized and piecemeal way possible. Wesabe, a website that lets you manage and seek advice ... |
| Nov 15, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup: MySpace Profiles, IBM Blue Spruce, Windows Live, And More… | It’s time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. On the trends side, we analyzed the significance of MySpace’s new profiles, looked at how Google is tracking flu trends, explored a partnership between an online ... |
| Nov 11, 2008 | Would You Manage Your Money Through The Newspaper? | Wesabe and the UK Telegraph Think You Might
Online money management service Wesabe and the UK newspaper giant The Telegraph have entered a partnership to offer co-branded tools on the Telegraph website. It’s a daring move, we can’t help but... |
| Nov 9, 2008 | Zuckerberg's "Second Law" And My Vision For Social Media | Nick Carr takes offense to Mark Zuckerberg’s "second law of social media" which Saul Hansell describes as:
“I would expect that next year, people will share twice as much
information as they share this year, and next year, they wi... |
| Oct 14, 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... |
| Oct 9, 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... |
| Oct 6, 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... |
| Sep 29, 2008 | Why The Flow Of Innovation Has Reversed | I had a beer recently with Dave McClure of 500 Hats. As is always the case when I get together with Dave, we had a long, rambling and enjoyable conversation about how the Web is changing the way businesses get built.
At some point, I said ... |
| Sep 22, 2008 | Power to the People | We encourage our portfolio companies to make sure they take time out from the operational demands of their business to think about the bigger strategic picture. We do the same for USV and a couple of weeks ago took a day off to discuss how ... |
| Sep 17, 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... |
| Sep 8, 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... |
| Sep 8, 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... |
| Aug 24, 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: ... |
| Aug 18, 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... |
| Jun 4, 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... |
| May 23, 2008 | Losing Jason | Jason Knight stepped down from his role as the CEO of Wesabe yesterday in order to devote his full attention to a medical situation in his family. Chairman and co-founder Marc Hedlund, who previously served as the company’s chief product of... |
| 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 30, 2008 | Personal finance site Mint adds investment tracking | Updated with comments from chief executive Aaron Patzer
Mint, a free site that allows you to manage checking, savings and credit card accounts through an easy-to-use interface, will soon allow users to manage their investments, too.
There a... |
| 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... |
| Apr 24, 2008 | Wesabe's Merchant Pages | Our portfolio company Wesabe announced two new features this week; server side uploader and merchant pages. The server side uploader is great because it makes pulling your financial information to wesabe a breeze. But the merchant pages get... |
| Apr 24, 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... |
| Apr 24, 2008 | Wesabe Steps Out | Over a year ago when we first started thinking about personal financial management tools on the web, I had this OMG moment when I realized that a web based personal financial management service was going to be way more disruptive than just ... |
| Mar 6, 2008 | Investor talks making money from Mint | Following yesterday’s announcement that free personal finance site Mint has raised $12.1 million — and rumors that a number of venture firms were trying to get in on the deal — I talked to Mint investor Bob Kagle about what makes the compan... |
| Mar 5, 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 ... |
| Feb 11, 2008 | We’re Hiring | ** Update: this position has since been filled. **
We are looking to hire a new analyst here at Union Square Ventures.
The analyst position at Union Square Ventures is a two year rotational assignment and a pre-MBA role. We hope that afte... |
| Jan 14, 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... |
| Jan 4, 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... |
| Dec 17, 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... |
| Nov 14, 2007 | Billeo Secures $7 Million In Financing | Online bill pay service Billeo has announced a $7 million Series B round of funding. ATA Ventures led the financing, with additional contributions from all of Billeo’s existing investors including Altos Ventures, Claremont Creek and Pacific... |
| Oct 9, 2007 | Tim O’Reilly: Graphing Social Patterns Conference Keynote | I’m at the Graphing Social Patterns conference in San Jose again today. I’m covering the event for Read/WriteWeb and doing a few interviews for Read/WriteTalk. This morning, Tim O’Reilly gave the ‘developer keynote’ for the conference. The ... |
| Sep 22, 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... |
| Sep 19, 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... |
| Aug 14, 2007 | Taste Neighbors | Celebrity Sighting At Mary’s Fish Camp
Originally uploaded by A Good Pear.
I was walking home from work last night around 9pm needing to get something to eat and had a hankering for a fish taco and a beer. So I pulled up Yelp on my phone an... |
| Jul 25, 2007 | Wesabe's Two Big Moves | Shilling for our portfolio again, but I think this is interesting.
Wesabe has done two things in the past week that are worth paying attention to.
1 – they released a full API that effectively means your bank now as an API
2 – they released... |
| Jun 25, 2007 | Wesabe Raises $4 Million In Series A | A few days ago, Wesabe announced that they have raised $4 million in funding from Union Square Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech. Wesabe is a website that promotes users to track financial goals. |
| Jun 20, 2007 | Wesabe Is More Than A “Personal” Financial Service | Last fall when we started looking seriously at personal financial services, we realized something important about that kind of personal productivity application and the web. When you move word processing from the desktop to the web not much... |
| Jun 20, 2007 | Wesabe raises $4M for social expense management online | Wesabe, a Web site that lets people manage their finances, and network with network with others for advice, has raised $4 million in a first round of financing.
We first wrote about the Berkeley, Calif. company in November.
The financing wa... |
| May 21, 2007 | Delicious For Money | I’ve been using Quicken since April 7, 1988. I know that because Quicken sits open 24/7 on a windows desktop in my office and I just checked to see the date of the first transaction. I remember that time well. It was the spring of 1988 and ... |
| May 5, 2007 | The Gotham Gal Loves Wesabe | She explains why she thinks its a fantastic service.
I totally agree and plan on blogging my thoughts shortly.
If you want to check it out, go here. |
| Mar 1, 2007 | Roundup: Netvibes2Go, Ooma, Wesabe, Second Life voice, Google traffic, more | Here’s the latest action:
Netvibes offers Netvibes2go — Netvibes, the company that has gotten buzz with its cool personalized home page service, is offering a mobile version called Netvibes2Go. It lets you access all your info — contained i... |
| Feb 28, 2007 | O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures raises $51M fund for hackers | O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, a venture fund affiliated with O’Reilly Media, said it has officially finished raising its first $51 million fund for early stage investing.
It is a small venture firm focused on the Internet, akin in some ways ... |
| Feb 28, 2007 | Wesabe Gets Money From Tim O'Reilly's OATV | Berkeley, California based Wesabe will announce a $700,000 round of financing tomorrow from O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (as well as a couple of individual investors), and Tim O’Reilly will join the company’s board of directors. A good overv... |
| Nov 29, 2006 | Wesabe – clues for Money 2.0? | OK, OK, no more 2.0 ‘clichesuffixes’ :)
I’ve been eagerly awaiting the launch of Wesabe (not to be confused with the nuclear horseradish) for several weeks. Firstly, it’s an interesting concept and secondly, one of the co-founders is Marc H... |
| Nov 21, 2006 | Wesabe, a Web 2.0 service to keep your finances straight | Wesabe is a new Web site that lets you manage your financials. It’s like a Web-based Quicken, with Web 2.0 stuff thrown in — for example, the customary tagging and social networking.
You register, and then you’re prompted to upload you bank... |
| Nov 20, 2006 | SalaryScout: Simple, Social Salary Comparison | SalaryScout is a just launched salary comparison site that does many of the things that previously profiled site PayScale does but incorporates more of the social features typical of new developments on the web. It has a nice lightweight fe... |
| Jul 12, 2006 | Looking For The Right Person | We recently posted the news that our analyst Charlie O’Donnell is leaving us to join one of our portfolio companies. We are now actively looking for someone to fill his position.
We noticed while working with del.icio.us that their best hi... |
