Finance is littered with the graves of startups that have tried to do social. Remember, Kaching, Cake Financial, Robinhood.io? Everyone has failed. But this has not deterred a new crop of fintech entr
Over the last few months I've detected a disturbance in the Startup Force. While startups from Europe have often looked to the US as a natural market to scale up in, they've traditionally looked at th
A few years ago, we saw a wave of startups (such as Cake Financial and Covestor) that tried to reinvent the way people made financial decisions, usually by adding social features or more data and anal
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When you follow someone on social investing site Covestor, you get to see all of their real trades. But now, for some su
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Sometimes a startup rolls out a new feature, and it just hits the sweet spot of what consumers are craving. It looks li
<a href="http://www.investimonials.com"><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/investimonials-215x96.gif" width="215" height="96" /></a>If you've ever tried searching the web for fi
<a href="http://www.kaching.com"><img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/kachinglogo.png" width="177" height="61" /></a><a href="http://www.kaChing.com">kaChing</a>, a new financia
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The end game for many social investing sites is to create their own investment management pr
We have now opened voting in The Europas, the tech innovation awards honouring the best tech companies and startups across the web and mobile scene from across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. On J
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Every social investing site wants to turn the insights of its trading members into financial products that people can
News prediction site Hubdub has secured £810,000 ($1.2m) in Series A funding led by Pentech Ventures and Scottish Co-Investment Fund, along with a group of angel investors including Rikki Tahta, foun
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Covestor, a social investing site where people share the performance of their real stock portfolios, came out of private beta this morning. Now anyone can join, and it is welcoming voyeurs who only wa
There are no secrets online anymore. People share everything, even the performance of their personal stock portfolios. Social investing site Covestor raised $6.5 million in a series A financing based
Two A key European VC is backing a site which allows you to play the markets with your brokerage account. US-based Covestor has raised $6.5 million dollars in Series A funding, led by Union Square Ven
Twitter has closed their third round of financing, says Om Malik. He pegs it at a $15 million raise at around an $80 million valuation, but doesn’t know the investor. We (and others I’m su
Many of us think we know what’s going to happen to the stock market. Few of us actually do. MarketGuru enables the more talented investors to reap the benefits of their predictive capacities and
Silicon Valley-based startup Mint, which provides a service that lets users manage their checking, savings and credit card accounts online, will launch a new product on May 6 that lets users track vir
Of all the apps on Facebook, here is one that might actually make you money—depending on how smart your friends are. Cake Financial, a social finance site that lets you track and share the performan
Financial and stock research sites like Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, Marketwatch, or CNNMoney have done a lot to democratize investment research by bringing reams of financial data for any publicly
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