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