Personal finance site Mint eyes U.K., Canada for international expansion
Mint.com, the personal finance site that has racked up 1.4 million users in the U.S., might expand up north and across the pond early next year, according to its founder and CEO Aaron Patzer.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based startup tracks personal checking accounts, credit card spending and retirement portfolios to help users manage their finances. It recently raised $14 million in a third round of financing and launched features this week advising employees on how to… Continue Reading
Mint.com rakes in $14 Million in third round of funding
Personal finance site Mint.com raked in another $14 million in funding, bringing its total to $31 million. The round was led by DAG Ventures, with new financing from Founders Fund and a top-up from existing investors Benchmark Capital, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Sherpalo.
Although the valuation wasn’t released, “it is a decidedly up-round” and it was “pre-emptive,” meaning Mint.com didn’t raise the funding because it was running out of cash. The company now has… Continue Reading
Roundup: Microsoft’s team-up with Verizon, Wolfram/Alpha’s demo, and more
Here’s the latest action:
Are Microsoft and Verizon teaming up on an iPhone rival? — That partnership may be the real source of rumors about negotiations between Verizon and Apple, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Stephen Wolfram demos Wolfram/Alpha search engine — Larry Dignan of ZDNet says the “computational knowledge engine” (a search engine that understands your questions and computes the correct answer, rather than just digging up relevant web pages based on keywords) probably isn’t a Google… Continue Reading
Personal finance site Mint hits 1M users
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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 Mountain View, Calif. company’s rapid growth since launching in a crowded field of finance sites at the TechCrunch40 conference in September 2007. It looks like Mint has become a hit through its intense focus on… Continue Reading
Mint shows recession’s impact on individual spending
Personal finance site Mint says its average user has cut expenses by $400 a month starting last summer, with a further $200 drop in November and only a slight subsequent rise due to holiday spending. The average user has also seen their savings drop and their debt rise — but due to loans not credit cards. Given that the site has 900,000 total users — many of whom are presumably relatively well-off early adopter types… Continue Reading
MG’s ten favorite iPhone apps of 2008
Now before I write anything else, let me just say that these are my ten favorite iPhone applications of 2008 and not necessarily what I think are the ten best iPhone apps — because really, there are so many diverse apps, how can one judge which are the best of them?
Also, this list includes no iPhone games because that category has become so robust that I’m going to make another list just for that. [Update: Here’s the list… Continue Reading
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 expensr all show up to take a shot at leadership in this area, but so far none seem to even come close. A new rival appearing at DEMOfall 08 is Rudder.
Tomorrow, at DEMO, another player, this one called… Continue Reading
Roundup: Cloud computing stays free, big wind in SoCal, open source business and more
Dell doesn’t get cloud computing — A bid by computer maker Dell to trademark the term “cloud computing”, a broad term generally used to describe services and software that live on the Internet, has been preliminarily rejected by the US Patent Office.
SoCal Edison signs for 900MW of wind — Following close on the heels of PG&E’s announcement of an enormous 800 megawatt solar power plant, Southern California Edison, which serves the other half of the state, has… Continue Reading
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 are plenty of investment-focused services out there, but Mint looks to be the first of the general personal finance sites to move beyond basic bank accounts and expenses into investment tracking.
The San Francisco startup says it will be compatible with… Continue Reading
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 company stand out.
After all, it’s a crowded and growing field, as we noted in our coverage. Kagle confirms that there were “a fair amount” of VCs that were “very interested” in investing in… Continue Reading
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 own, including Wesabe, Geezeo, Cashview and Buxfer. Mint claims it is five times larger than any of them.
Meanwhile, old-school competitors like Intuit have their own online personal finance management sites up in running — check out the… Continue Reading
Mint, online money manager, raises $4.7M
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Mint, the San Francisco company that helps you manage money online, said it has raised $4.7 million in a first round of funding led by Shasta Ventures.
Investors include First Round Capital and Ram Shriram, early investor in Google.
We’ve written several times about this company since it launched last month, and received widespread praise. The company says it has since signed up 50,000 users.
Mint also added Donna Wells, formerly vice president of corporate marketing and acting… Continue Reading
Mint wins Techcrunch. Latest start-ups: mEgo, Wixi, Xtr3D, Flowplay
This just in: The winner of the Techcrunch40 event is Mint, the personal finance company (see our coverage here).
Meanwhile, below is the last batch of Techcrunch companies, from Tuesday’s afternoon session. After hitting VentureBeat readers with 40 start-ups over the past two days, we’re going to try our best fast on Web 2.0 for at least a day. Frankly, this latest batch wasn’t that impressive. Here’s the ranking: WooMe, Zivity, mEgo, Wixi, Xtr3D, Metaplace, Flowplay,… Continue Reading
Mint: The easiest way to manage your personal finances
[Update: Mint has won the TechCrunch 40 conference's competition, which goes to the most impressive presenting company from among the 40 participants. Mint will receive a $50,000 cash award and other services and awards from corporate sponsors.]
Mint, a long-awaited online tool for managing your personal finances, has launched today.
For those who have used Quicken or other traditional personal accounting software to manage your checking, savings and credit card accounts, Mint will be a relief.
Once 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