finance service . for the web analytics tool see mint software . for other uses see mint . mint.com type subsidiary industry personal finance software founded 2006 founder aaron patzer headquarters mountain view california united states area served united states canada products rich internet application mobile application revenue n a number of employees 35 before acquired by intuit in 2009 1 parent intuit website mint.com mint.com is a free web based personal financial management service for canada and the us 2 created by aaron patzer . mint originally provided account aggregation through a deal with yodlee but has since moved to using intuit for connecting to accounts . 3 mint s primary service allows users to track bank credit card investment and loan balances and transactions through a single user interface as well as create budgets and set financial goals . 4 in 2009 mint was acquired by intuit the makers of quicken and turbotax . 5 as of 2010 mint.com claims to connect with more than 16 000 canadian and us financial institutions and to support more than 17 million individual financial accounts . 6 as of november 2013 update mint.com claimed to have more than 10 million users . 7 contents 1 investment and finances 1.1 sale 2 controversial practices 2.1 security 3 see also 4 references 5 further reading 6 external links investment and finances edit mint raised over 31m in venture capital funding from dag ventures shasta ventures and first round capital 8 9 as well as from angel investors including ram shriram an early investor in google . 10 the latest round of 14m was closed on august 4 2009 11 and reported by ceo aaron patzer as preemptive . 12 techcrunch later pegged the valuation of mint at 140m . 13 in february 2008 revenue was generated through lead generation earned via earning referral fees from recommendations of highly personalized targeted financial products to its users . 14 sale edit on september 13 2009 techcrunch reported intuit would acquire mint for 170 million . 15 an official announcement was made the following day . on november 2 2009 intuit announced their acquisition of mint.com was complete . the former ceo of mint.com aaron patzer was named vice president and general manager of intuit s personal finance group responsible for mint.com and all quicken online desktop and mobile offerings . 5 patzer further added the features of the online product mint.com would be incorporated into the quicken desktop product and vice versa as two collaborative aspects of the intuit personal finance team . 16 controversial practices edit security edit mint asks users to provide both the user names and the passwords to their bank accounts credit cards and other financial accounts which mint then stores in their databases in a decryptable format . this has raised concerns that if the mint databases are ever hacked both user names and passwords would become available to rogue third parties . some banks support a separate access code for read only access to financial information which reduces the risk to some degree . 17 18 see also edit personal financial management wikinvest references edit everything you wanted to know about startup building but were afraid to ask . techcrunch . october 7 2009 . retrieved 2009 10 14 . can mint be used outside of the u.s. . ellis blake december 2 2010 . yodlee no longer powers mint.com s data aggregation tools . cnn . mint.com now tracks cash and pending transactions . retrieved 2010 04 19 . a b intuit completes acquisition of mint.com . intuit . november 2 2009 . martha shaughnessy 19 april 2010 . using intuit s technology doubles bank access completes users experience . mint.com press release . archived from the original on 28 september 2015 . retrieved 28 september 2015 . what is mint your financial life all in one place . mint.com . retrieved february 24 2013 . mint has more than 10 million users who know their information is always secure . vivek may 23 2007 . mymint.com acquires mint.com ; raises 5 million . startup squad . cutler kim mai august 12 2009 . mint.com rakes in 14 million in third round of funding . venturebeat . marshall matt october 16 2007 . mint online money manager raises 4.7 m . venture beat . sec form d . sec.gov . retrieved 27 february 2015 . kincaid jason august 12 2009 . full details on mint s 14 million series c round . tech crunch . arrington michael september 2 2009 . mint is worth a mint 140 million valuation . tech crunch . how mint s smartsave savings engine works . mint.com . october 11 2007 . retrieved 2008 02 24 . mint does make a small referral fee from advertisers on some offers . that s what keeps mint free . arrington michael september 13 2009 . intuit to acquire former techcrunch50 winner mint for 170 million . tech crunch . intuit completes acquisition of mint.com . the quicken blog . november 2 2009 . ing direct launches read only access codes for financial aggregation . 2011 05 26 . retrieved 2013 09 28 . could mint.com be more secure and if so how . it security stack exchange . retrieved 2013 09 28 . further reading edit revealed mint.com could soon fire back at simple with a debit card of its own . techcrunch . aol . retrieved 27 february 2015 . mint.com a finance site raises 14 million . nytimes.com . retrieved 27 february 2015 . for mint.com more money in the bank . nytimes.com . retrieved 27 february 2015 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mint.com & oldid 721529584 categories account aggregation providerscompanies based in mountain view californiacompanies established in 2006personal finance websitesintuit softwarehidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from november 2013all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 22 may 2016 at 13 14 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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