Session 6: Finance & Statistics
Video
Presenting Companies
Personalria
PERSONALRIA (PR) is an innovative platform that replaces mutual funds as the primary investment vehicle available to retail investors. There are two key participants in the platform: REGISTERED INVESTMENT ADVISORS (RIAs), and retail investors (investors with an average, or below average, amount of investible assets). RIAs are investment professionals that usually cater to the high-net-worth market segment. Our technological capabilities will enable the creation of virtual funds managed by registered investment advisors (RIAs). That is, each real-money portfolio managed directly by one of our RIAs can be set to continuously trigger, on a proportionate basis, an identical portfolio in our clients’ brokerage accounts. The web-app suite will enable the creation of investment vehicles wrapped in layers of the much needed transparency and interactivity features. RIAs will now profitably engage with the retail investor market segment, and retail investors will have access to a much improved level of investment talent. |
Emerginvest
Emerginvest is the most comprehensive global finance portal on the web – providing data, analysis, and tools to help individual investors discover new investments from more than 150 stock exchanges around the world. Emerginvest guides you through the process of finding the top markets, sectors, and companies anywhere from China to Brazil to Botswana. Then Emerginvest connects you with all the brokerages, mutual funds, ETFs, and ADRs that will let you invest there. Emerginvest delivers you targeted, on-the-ground commentary and our own macroeconomic analysis of Emerging Markets, as well as tools to help you understand your portfolio's global diversification. Emerginvest also enables bloggers or analysts to embed our unique international stock data and charts anywhere on the web. The world is full of strong investment opportunities in undiscovered markets; Emerginvest brings them all to you. |
ExchangeP
How much is Facebook REALLY worth? Want to buy or short shares of venture funded companies before they go public? Want to express your opinion about the next big thing? Now you can. exchangeP is a fantasy stock market for betting on the future success (or failure) of private companies. Registration is free and monthly cash prizes are awarded to the top traders. exchangeP uses the wisdom of crowds to provide real-time consensus valuations of the hottest, most debated, private companies. How much is that company really worth? Let the market decide. |
Me-trics
As technology becomes increasingly pervasive in our daily lives, a growing number of seemingly mundane activities include a digital component. Our financial transactions are recorded and accessible through our bank or a growing number of independent financial management sites. Much of our health and fitness data, from our morning run to heart rate, blood pressure, and glucose levels can be easily tracked with a combination of hardware and web interfaces. Even work activity can be tracked based on software usage, or time and productivity tracking applications. Me-trics seeks to aggregate that personal data, allowing users to monitor and learn from their own behavior. We help users find connections and patterns in their activities, identify unnoticed trends, and find products that have helped others reach their goals. Me-trics challenges its users to be honest with themselves, and improve their lives in the process. |
iCharts
iCharts makes interactive charting simple. www.icharts.net is the portal where everyone can search and share charts. Integrated into the portal is iCharts Studio which allows anyone to create high quality, interactive charts (iCharts) within minutes for private use or for publishing. Every iChart comes with a host of interactive features such as audio comments, data value pop-ups, zoom in/out and show/hide data series. iCharts can be embedded into any web-site where they can be updated by simply uploading new data to icharts.net. As a path breaking feature, iCharts can be embedded offline into PDF documents while retaining their full interactivity. iCharts contain rich tags making them highly searchable through existing search engines in an unprecedented way. iCharts is for publishing houses and market researchers, for academia, scientists, for business professionals and for every individual working with charts. iCharts is built on a combination of Adobe Flex and search-engine friendly JSP/HTML. |
Expert Panelists
 Henry Blodget |  Roelof Botha |  Mark Cuban |  Kevin Rose |
