visible market fintech demo 07182012
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Existing Interfaces Investors and finance professionals
interpret Big Data every day, but use old paradigms to understand markets.
Real-Time 3D, Cloud infrastructure Wireless Distribution
Static interface
Rethinking Screens Visible Market creates beautiful data visualizations that reinvent financial information delivery.
StockTouch Traction
Launched June 2011
Apple: Best Finance App of 2011 for iPad
App Magazine: Best Business App of 2011
Unique Users 25k+/mo
Installations 75k devices
80% monthly retention
Session Length – 3min
40% of users have it on more than one device
95% upgrade rate
Substantial FinTech Mobile Opportunity 500m+ users will access mobile financial services by 2015
Casual mobile gaming doubled the number of US video gamers from 56 million to 135 million since 2008
Mobile search overtook desktop search in late 2011
Six Forces Changing Financial Info
Technology Smartphones, tablets,
touch interface, HTML5, cloud computing, OpenGL,
WebGL
Economic Volatility Eurozone crisis, economic
instability, global recession
New Distribution App stores (iOS, Android,
Windows 8, others), mobile, wireless
New Info Blogs, Twitter, sentiment, new products, new analytics, visualization
Transparency Increasing demand for financial information to be more transparent
Data Overload APIs, BATS, downward price pressure
Technology: Speed + Game Engine
SPEED
+ Cloud
+ In-Memory Database
+ Proprietary Compression
= Low Latency (30 ms)
GAME ENGINE
+ OpenGL framework
= Fluid Understanding of Data
RESULT
Highly responsive, tactile, new
interaction paradigm
Upcoming Release: Visual Watch Lists
Team Bios Jennifer Johnson, Founder & CEO B.S., Economics, Wharton, 1988; MBA, Columbia, 1992 Internet entrepreneur, finance professional, and angel investor. Early Twitter investor. Investment banker specializing in equity and fixed income corporate structured derivatives, UBS and Merrill Lynch. Equity options market maker and arbitrage trader, PHLX. Launched and sold first online dating property, now LavaLife.
Marek Fludzinski, Lead Product and Organizational Development Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, Princeton University, 1982; B.S. Columbia 1977 CEO, Skymion Systems. Founder/CEO Thales Fund Management, quantitative hedge fund that peaked with over $2.5bn in assets. Founder and CEO of Miletus Trading, an algorithmic broker/dealer sold to Liquidnet IN 2007. 20 years experience in quantitative investing and risk management including DE Shaw, Swiss Bank, Hull Trading.
John Morris, Mobile Software Development Software developer and mobile game programmer. Co-founder Blue Lava Wireless games, sold to JAMDAT $168m, acquired by Electronic Arts for $680m. Mobile games, touch based interfaces, 3D, 20 years experience, high speed graphics processing and data transmission.
Chris Degiere, Server Software Development Experienced Internet and financial industry software engineer and team leader specializing in end-to-end software development and performance engineering for mobile and web applications. Web technologies, open source Java frameworks, relational and NoSQL databases, Amazon Web Services, agile methodologies, development operations.
Team Bios
Matthew Hanna, Project Management, Software Development M.S., Computer Science, CA Inst of Tech, 2000; B.S., Computer Engineering, U. of Wash., 1997 Principal, Skymion Systems. Expertise in developing and implementing mathematical and statistical models in a wide variety of applications. Experienced software developer in multiple languages on varied platforms. DALi, Microsoft, Active Voice.
Dmitry Domrachev, Software Development M.Sc. and B.S., Applied Mathematics, St. Petersburg State University, 1989 CTO, Skymion Systems. Expert in building of low-latency data processing and trading systems (multiprocessing and multithreading, non-blocking algorithms), complex hardware and software systems utilizing real-time data feeds (Reuters, Comstock, Bloomberg, ITCH, etc.), customized proprietary databases and compression techniques.
Andrew Raybould, Software Development M.S., Computer Science, Polytechnic University, 1996; B.S., Physics, University of London,1978 Senior Developer, Skymion Systems. Expertise in the design and development of high-performance, multithreaded software and the execution of short-cycle (rapid prototyping) and long-cycle (formal) development approaches. Extensive programming experience in C/C++, Python, Perl, Javascript and SQL, with Motif and GTK+ on Unix/Linux and Windows platforms.
Institutional Visible Market Beautiful Apps for Visualizing Data
Custom Visualizations and Live Mobile Market Maps for Clients and Employees
Competition
OpenFin
Institutional Use Cases
Asset Management
Client Portfolios
Research Delivery
Mobile Dashboards
Visual Info Lookup
Game-quality user experiences
Vertical navigation of statistical data
Structured data visualization
Visual Dashboards and Stats Lookup