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 radar, and it shouldn’t be.
Beyond a clean interface for tracking your purchases, payments and trends in your spending habits (see screenshot, below), the company has been developing some impressive new features. One is a use of Google… Continue Reading
Personal finance site Buxfer uses Amazon to help friends settle debts
Buxfer, a site that helps you and your friends keep track of shared expenses, announced today that it is using Amazon’s new payment service to allow its users to settle debts with each other from within the site.
Buxfer competes with a number of other startups focused on helping people do a better job of managing their personal finances, such as Billmonk.
Buxfer stands out for taking a strongly group-oriented approach, quickly showing you how much you… Continue Reading
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 was led by Union Square Ventures, of New York, and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, of San Francisco, which provided the company with seed money. Its advantage over incumbent services such as Quicken is that it is online and… Continue Reading