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Visible Market FinTech Demo 07182012
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3. Existing Interfaces Rethinking Screens
Investors and finance professionals Visible Market creates beautiful
interpret Big Data every day, but use old data visualizations that reinvent
paradigms to understand markets. financial information delivery.
Static interface Real-Time 3D, Cloud infrastructure
Wireless Distribution
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5. 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
6. 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
7. Six Forces Changing Financial Info
Technology New Info
Smartphones, tablets, Blogs, Twitter, sentiment, new
touch interface, HTML5, products, new analytics,
cloud computing, OpenGL, visualization
WebGL
Economic Volatility Transparency
Eurozone crisis, economic Increasing demand for
instability, global recession financial information to be
more transparent
New Distribution Data Overload
App stores (iOS, Android, APIs, BATS, downward price
Windows 8, others), mobile, pressure
wireless
8. 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
10. 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.
11. 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.
14. 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