- Cake Financial
Infobox_Company
company_
company_name = Cake Financial
company_type = Private
foundation =2006
key_people = Steven Carpenter, Founder and CEO
Sven Junkergård, Vice President Engineering
industry =Investing ,Software
location =San Francisco, California
products =Rich Internet application
revenue = N/A
num_employees = 20+
homepage = [http://www.cakefinancial.com cakefinancial.com]Cake Financial is a free web-based financial services
social network for individual investors allowing members to share their real stock portfolios and performance with other members. The site was introduced publicly at the September 2007TechCrunch40 Conference by Founder and CEO, Steven Carpenter. The company also has a Cake Investment Club application onFacebook [Schonfeld, Erick. (2-25-08) Cake Financial Now Lets You Track Your Friends’ Stock Portfolios on Facebook. TechCrunch. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/25/cake-financial-now-lets-you-track-your-friends-stock-portfolios-on-facebook/. Retrieved 2-26-08.] . Cake has generated media coverage from a number of financial news outlets such asForbes [Barret, Victoria Murphy. (12-10-07) Piece of Cake. Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/finance/forbes/2007/1210/056.html. Retrieved 1-6-08.] , Kiplinger [Smith, Anne Kates. (12-07) Network Your Way to Winning Stocks. Kiplinger.com. http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2007/12/network.html. Retrieved 1-5-08.] ,BusinessWeek [Bogoslaw, David. (11-13-07) Investing: The Net Wisdom of Peers. BusinessWeek. http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/nov2007/pi20071112_053010.htm. Retrieved 1-5-08.] and Barron’s [(10-8-07) A Mixer for Online Investors. Barron's. http://online.barrons.com/article/SB119162676227550742.html?mod=article-outset-box. Retrieved 1-6-08.] . Cake is backed by Alsop Louie Partners [ [http://www.alsop-louie.com/ Alsop Louie Partners ] ] , as well as from angel investors [Dignan, Larry & Dan Farber. (9-17-07) Cake Financial leverages wisdom of the crowd for investing. ZDNet.com. http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6288. Retrieved 1-4-08.] . The company is located inSan Francisco, California .References
External links
* [https://www.cakefinancial.com/app/pubHello.do Cake Financial Homepage]
* [http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=5715724573 Cake Investment Club app | Facebook]
* [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cake-Financial/6962402487 Cake Financial | Facebook]
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