Spendview draws $2M for personal finance tool
Yet another company, a Houston, Texas team called Spendview, has received funding for a personal finance site aimed at helping people keep track of their spending and better plan their own financial habits.
Among its many existing competitors are Buxfer (coverage here), Expensr, Geezeo, Mint (coverage here), Wesabe and several others.
Each company has its own approach. Spendview’s appears to concentrate on giving users insight into their own spending habits through plenty of visualization tools like graphs.
The $2 million funding was the company’s first, provided by Meakem Becker Venture Capital. PEHub first reported the funding.
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