Wesabe

Last updated

Wesabe was a personal finance management website established in December 2005 [1] that analyzed a user's financial data to provide appropriate advice on how to save money. [2] The site went live in November 2006. [3]

The company behind the website announced on 20 June 2007 that it had secured a US$4 million investment round to continue funding the website. [4] Wesabe announced 30 June 2010 that it was shutting down service on 31 July 2010. [1] Existing users were able to download and export their data, [5] and use a forthcoming open source version of the site on their computer. [6] New entrants are competing for the PFM market by supplying personal finance tools through employer HR departments. [7]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">GnuCash</span> Personal and small-business financial-accounting software

GnuCash is an accounting program that implements a double-entry bookkeeping system. It was initially aimed at developing capabilities similar to Intuit, Inc.'s Quicken application, but also has features for small business accounting. Recent development has been focused on adapting to modern desktop support-library requirements.

Tucows Inc. is an American-Canadian publicly traded Internet services and telecommunications company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and incorporated in Pennsylvania, United States. The company is composed of three independent businesses: Tucows Domains, Ting Internet, and Wavelo.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Suze Orman</span> American financial advisor (born 1951)

Susan Lynn "Suze" Orman is an American financial advisor, author, and podcast host. In 1987, she founded the Suze Orman Financial Group. Her work as a financial advisor gained notability with The Suze Orman Show, which ran on CNBC from 2002 to 2015.

Ning is an online social media network platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks. Ning was co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini and launched in October 2005. By June 2011 there were over 90,000 social websites running on the Ning Platform.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yodlee</span> American personal finance software company

Yodlee is a web application software company that provides consumer-permissioned data aggregation – consolidating information from multiple accounts, e.g. credit cards, bank, investment etc., on one screen. Its business model also includes an analytics platform that enables insights for financial service providers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ChaCha (search engine)</span> Human-guided search engine

r

The online service imeem was a social media website where users interacted with each other by streaming, uploading and sharing music and music videos. It operated from 2003 until 2009 when it was shut down after being acquired by MySpace.

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..

Carbonite, Inc. is an American company that offers an online backup service, available to Windows and macOS users. In 2019 it was acquired by Canadian software company OpenText. It backs up documents, e-mails, music, photos, and settings. It is named after carbonite, the fictional substance used to freeze Han Solo in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back. Carbonite was the first such service to offer unlimited backup space for a fixed price. Previously, all online backup services were priced by the gigabyte; many other vendors have since changed to an unlimited model.

Flattr was a Swedish-based microdonation subscription service, where subscribers opted in to pay a monthly patronage to help fund their favourite websites and creators. It shut down in November 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thumbtack (website)</span> American online marketplace

Thumbtack is an American home services website. It is an online directory that allows users to search for, rate, and hire local service providers to work on a variety of personal projects, including home improvement, financial and legal services, computer / IT repair and event planning. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Venture Partners, Baillie Gifford, and Capital G, among others.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Path (social network)</span> Social network

Path was a social networking-enabled photo sharing and messaging service for mobile devices that was launched on 14 November 2010. The service allowed users to share up to a total of 50 contacts with their close friends and family. Based in San Francisco, California, the company was founded by Shawn Fanning and former Facebook executive Dave Morin.

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">LearnVest</span>

LearnVest was an American financial planning company founded by CEO Alexa von Tobel. It sells personal finance software.

SoFi Technologies, Inc. is an American online personal finance company and online bank. Based in San Francisco, SoFi provides financial products including student loan refinancing, mortgages, personal loans, credit card, investing, and banking through both mobile app and desktop interfaces.

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Enigma Technologies</span>

Enigma Technologies, Inc., is a data science company headquartered in New York City that specializes in providing data and intelligence about businesses. The company is mainly known for Enigma Public, a now defunct library of public data.

Revolut is a global neobank and financial technology company with headquarters in London, UK that offers banking services for retail customers and businesses. It was founded in 2015 by Nikolay Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko. It offers products including banking services, currency exchange, debit and credit cards, virtual cards, Apple Pay, interest-bearing "vaults", personal loans and BNPL, stock trading, crypto, commodities, human resources and other services.

AnyDesk is a remote desktop application distributed by AnyDesk Software GmbH. The proprietary software program provides platform-independent remote access to personal computers and other devices running the host application. It offers remote control, file transfer, and VPN functionality. AnyDesk is often used in technical support scams and other remote access scams.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">PayU</span> Fintech company that provides payment solutions to online merchants.

PayU is a Netherlands-based payment service provider to online merchants. The company was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Hoofddorp. It allows online businesses to accept and process payments through payment methods that can be integrated with web and mobile applications. As of 2018, the service is available in 17 countries. The firm is owned by the Naspers Group, which also owns a stake in one of its sister companies, Tencent.

References

  1. 1 2 "Online Finance Startup Wesabe Heads To The Deadpool". 30 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
  2. Needleman, Rafe (2006-11-22). "Wesabe: Easy financial tracking and tips". CNET News. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
  3. "Why Wesabe lost to Mint". Marc Hedlund's Blog. Retrieved 18 March 2012.
  4. Strange, Adario (2007-06-20). "Wesabe Secures $4 Million Investment Round". Wired. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
  5. Hedlund, Marc. "Wesabe is discontinuing its Accounts tab as of July 31st". Your Money. Your Community: The Wesabe blog. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
  6. Donovan, Brian. "Wesabe Open-Source" . Retrieved 2010-07-02.
  7. Overly, Steven (2011-05-16). "The Download: HelloWallet debuts its financial help software". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2011-06-13.