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Mint.com
Mint, also known as Intuit Mint and formerly known as Mint.com, was a personal financial management website and mobile app for the US and Canada produced by Intuit, Inc. (which also produces TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Credit Karma). Mint's primary service allowed users to track bank, credit card, investment, and loan balances and transactions through a single user interface, as well as create budgets and set financial goals. History Founding and fundraising Mint.com was originally created by Aaron Patzer and provided account aggregation through a deal with Yodlee. In February 2008, revenue was generated through lead generation, earned via earning referral fees from recommendations of highly personalized, targeted financial products to its users. Mint raised over $31 million in venture capital funding from DAG Ventures, Shasta Ventures, and First Round Capital, as well as from angel investors including Ram Shriram, an early investor in Google. The latest round of $14 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Patzer
Aaron Patzer (born November 20, 1980) is an Internet entrepreneur. He is the founder of Mint.com, a financial management tool which was acquired by Intuit in 2009. He was later founder and CEO of Fountain.com, which was sold to Porch.com in 2015. He later founded Vital, a health app, becoming CEO. Early life and education Born in 1980 in Madison, Wisconsin, Patzer graduated from Central High School in Evansville, Indiana. He completed his undergraduate studies in 2002 with a BSEE from Duke University. His bachelor's degrees were in computer science, electrical engineering and computer engineering. In 2004, he completed an MSEE from Princeton University in electrical engineering. Career Patzer began his career in the Internet boom years of 1998–2000, working for Getawebsite.com and Miadora.com (an online jewelry store). Before founding Mint, he was a technical lead and architect for the San Jose division of Nascentric. Previous to that, he worked for IBM and founded PWeb and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quicken
Quicken is a personal finance management application originally developed and offered by Intuit, Inc. Intuit sold Quicken to H.I.G. Capital in 2016, and H.I.G. sold Quicken to Aquiline Capital Partners in 2021. Quicken runs on Windows and Mac systems, though the data is incompatible between the two versions. Earlier versions ran on MS-DOS and the Apple II. Versions of Quicken range from "starter" editions to more advanced offerings. Since 1998, each version has tended to have the release year in the product name (e.g., Quicken Basic 2008); before then, versions were numbered (e.g., Quicken 8 for DOS). Quicken is available for purchase and use only in Canada and the United States, and only in English. Product description The Quicken name typically refers to the core product offering of personal financial management software. The software includes financial planning activities that, historically, people may have done on paper – recording banking transactions, planning a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shasta Ventures
Shasta Ventures is an early-stage venture capital investment firm located in Silicon Valley that invests in enterprise and technology consumer startups. It is located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. Funds Shasta's second fund of US$250 million included Nest Labs, which almost all by itself repaid the entire fund when it was sold to Google for $3.2 billion. Shasta's third fund of $265 million was announced in September 2011. The fourth fund, of $300 million, was announced in June 2014. Investment philosophy Shasta was originally focused on companies in the consumer technology space, with then managing director Tod Francis calling Mint.com a "classic Shasta" investment in September 2011. In September 2013, Rob Coneybeer of Shasta, the new managing director, said that he was betting big on hardware startups, citing Moore's Law-style continued performance improvements making opportunities for new hardware possible. Companies Mint.com Shasta Ventures was an early investor in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intuit
Intuit Inc. is an American multinational business software company that specializes in financial software. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and the CEO is Sasan Goodarzi. Intuit's products include the tax preparation application TurboTax, the small business accounting program QuickBooks, the credit monitoring and personal accounting service Credit Karma, and email marketing platform Mailchimp. more than 95% of its revenues and earnings come from its activities within the United States. Listed on Nasdaq, the company is a component of the Nasdaq-100, S&P 100, and S&P 500 stock market indices. Intuit offered a free online service called TurboTax Free File as well as a similarly named service called TurboTax Free Edition which is not free for most users. In 2019, investigations by ProPublica found that Intuit deliberately steered taxpayers from the free TurboTax Free File to the paid TurboTax Free Edition using tactics including search engine deli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Personal Financial Management
Personal financial management refers to "ways" or "methods" of managing ones own personal finances. It is also known by its acronym, PFM, which refers to the type of software used for personal finance apps. Simply put, PFM refers to software that helps users manage their money. PFM often lets users categorize transactions and add accounts from multiple institutions into a single view. PFM also typically includes data visualizations such as spending trends, budgets and net worth. History PFM started in 1983 with the founding of Intuit. Scott Cook and Tom Proulx, the company’s founders, witnessed the rise of the personal computer and saw an opportunity to develop personal financial software. Their flagship product, Quicken, became a standard for many households and was eventually followed by QuickBooks, which helped small businesses manage their finances. Around the same time, a similar competing product introduced by MECA Software, conceived by MECA President Gerald Rubin, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DAG Ventures
DAG Ventures is an American venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. DAG Ventures works with startups in providing early stage and growth stage funding. Since its founding in 2004, by Tom Goodrich and John Cadeddu, the firm has backed nearly 180 ventures, including Ambarella Inc., Armo Biosciences, Eventbrite, Fireeye, Glassdoor, Grubhub, Nextdoor, Wealthfront, Wix.com, Yelp, and Zettle. Funds DAG Ventures was created out of Duff Ackerman & Goodrich, a private investment firm formed in 1991. In June 2011, DAG Ventures announced their fifth fund. In 2019, founding members of DAG Ventures launched a new venture fund, the Corner Ventures DAG Fund. Investments DAG Ventures has invested in almost 250 startups, since its inception in 2004. Notable ones are including, References External links *{{official website, www.dagventures.com Venture capital firms of the United States Financial services companies established in 2004 Companies based in Palo Alto, Califo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NerdWallet
NerdWallet is an American personal finance company, founded in 2009 by Tim Chen and Jacob Gibson. It has a website and app that earns money by promoting financial products to its users. History NerdWallet was founded in August 2009 by Tim Chen and Jacob Gibson, with an initial capital investment of $800. Its first product was a web application that provided comparative information about credit cards. Subsequently, it generated large quantities of content to help boost its search engine results. Website traffic grew quickly in 2010 and, by March 2014, the website had up to 30 million users. The following year, it raised $64 million in its first round of funding, at an estimated valuation of $500 million. In 2016, the company acquired the retirement planning firm AboutLife, and was valued at $520 million. In August 2020, the company expanded its footprint into the UK by acquiring Know Your Money, a Norwich-based startup that provides a similar range of comparison and informat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AwardWallet
AwardWallet is frequent flyer miles and points tracking site. It is considered to be the first in the genre, founded in 2004, and tracked more than 400 sites as of 2011. AwardWallet is based out of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. As of 2021, it has 700,000 users, despite some airlines blocking access to the app citing privacy concerns. In 2012, AwardWallet was involved in a series of disputes with several airlines companies which denied access to AwardWallet's tracking software on their websites. History AwardWallet was established in 2004 by Alexi Vereschaga and Todd Mera, two former employees and software engineers from the Aelita Software Corporation. The company began with reward programs by tracking transactions of frequent flyer users and later expanded its services by adding a variety of customer loyalty programs. AwardWallet added a companion mobile application for iOS and Android devices circa 2010/2011. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (stylized as JPMorganChase) is an American multinational financial services, finance corporation headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. It is List of largest banks in the United States, the largest bank in the United States, and the world's List of largest banks#By market capitalization, largest bank by market capitalization as of 2024. As the largest of the Big Four (banking)#United States, Big Four banks in America, the firm is considered Systemically important financial institution, systemically important by the Financial Stability Board. Its size and scale have often led to enhanced regulatory oversight as well as the maintenance of an internal "Fortress Balance Sheet". The firm is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan and is set return to its former location at the new under-construction JPMorgan Chase Building at 270 Park Avenue (2021–present), 270 Park Avenue in November 2025. JPMorgan Chase was created in 2000 by the mergers and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fast Company
''Fast Company'' is an American business magazine published monthly in print and online, focusing on technology, business, and design. It releases six print issues annually. History ''Fast Company'' was founded in November 1995 by Alan Webber and Bill Taylor, both former '' Harvard Business Review'' editors, and publisher Mortimer Zuckerman. Early competitors included '' Red Herring'', '' Business 2.0'' and '' The Industry Standard''. In 1997, ''Fast Company'' created an online social network called the "Company of Friends," which led to the formation of numerous meeting groups. At its peak, the Company of Friends comprised over 40,000 members across 120 cities, though membership declined to 8,000 by 2003. In 2000, Zuckerman sold ''Fast Company'' to Gruner + Jahr, majority-owned by media giant Bertelsmann, for $550 million. The sale coincided with the dot-com bubble burst, resulting in substantial losses and a drop in circulation. Webber and Taylor departed in 2002, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mashable
Mashable is a Online newspaper, news website, digital media platform and entertainment company founded by Pete Cashmore in 2005. History Mashable was founded by Pete Cashmore while living in Aberdeen, Scotland, in July 2004. Early iterations of the site were a simple WordPress blog, with Cashmore as sole author. Fame came relatively quickly, with ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine noting Mashable as one of the 25 best blogs of 2009. it had over 6,000,000 Twitter followers and over 3,200,000 fans on Facebook. In June 2016, it acquired YouTube channel CineFix from Whalerock Industries. In December 2017, Ziff Davis bought Mashable for $50 million, a price described by ''Recode'' as a "fire sale" price. Mashable had not been meeting its advertising targets, accumulating $4.2 million in losses in the quarter ending September 2017. After the sale, Mashable laid off 50 staff, but preserved top management. Under Ziff Davis, Mashable has grown and expanded to many countries in multiple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TechCrunch
TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high tech, high-tech and Startup company, startup companies. It was founded in June 2005 by Archimedes Ventures, led by partners Michael Arrington and Keith Teare. In 2010, AOL acquired the company for approximately $25 million. Following the 2015 Verizon Communications#Acquisition of AOL and Yahoo, acquisition of AOL and Yahoo! by Verizon, the site was owned by Verizon Media from 2015 through 2021. In 2021, Verizon sold its media assets, including AOL, Yahoo!, and TechCrunch, to the private equity firm Apollo Global Management. Apollo integrated them into a new entity called Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present), Yahoo! Inc. In addition to its news reporting, TechCrunch is also known for its annual Disrupt conference, a technology event hosted in several cities across the United States, Europe, and China. History TechCrunch was founded in June 2005 by Archimedes Ventures, led by partners Michael Arrington a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
