We are excited to announce the selection of our newest Sprout, myJibe!

MyJibe is web-based personal finance software built for individuals as well as financial planners, financial advisors, banks and credit unions.

Founders Mike Langellier and Brandon Dewitt have substantial backgrounds in financial services and software from their experience at Experian (formerly Baker Hill), where they managed client relationships and software development.

“Millions of people subscribe to envelope-style budgeting, but the software is lacking. Because there’s no good existing software, financial planners and advisors have an incredibly hard time running their businesses, as much of their clients’ financial documentation is in word documents, paper forms, and excel spreadsheets. As an advisor why can’t I pick up the phone and call my client so we can view their financial plan together in real time? Why can’t I be alerted now if my client goes off track from his savings goals rather than finding out 6 months down the road? We’re solving these problems with myJibe.” – Mike Langellier

“For many, managing finances effectively means–or should mean–not only software like myJibe; it should also involve sound financial advice. As a result, we are looking for the best financial professionals and inviting them to partner with us in this mission. That way we can confidently refer users when they need help and together we can create a win-win-win scenario for everyone involved.” -Brandon Dewitt

Mike and Brandon are on a mission. They have launched SaveIndiana.us to bring together financial professionals and Hoosiers looking for better personal finance software and credible financial advice. If you know a good financial planner, financial advisor, bank or credit union, or are interested in the mission, go to SaveIndiana.us and follow @SaveIndiana on Twitter.

While you’re at it, follow @myJibe and head over to myJibe.com to sign up for e-mail updates about the myJibe “secret sauce” as the product nears launch.

If you’d like to be the next Sprout, please be sure to apply by August 8th.
Click here to apply!

We’re pleased to announce that SproutBox is joining Startup Weekend as a national sponsor. Startup Weekend is a set of two-day events for software developers and entrepreneurs in cities around the world, and SproutBox will be its first national venture capital sponsor.  This partnership will provide additional support to create successful, sustainable startups and to close a crucial gap in the funding ecosystem for early stage software companies.

Clint Nelson, Director of Startup Weekend said, “The major benefits are taking teams further and supporting more teams than we can do ourselves. It’s a meeting of the minds and a gathering of passionate people that are willing to work together. For us, SproutBox clearly wants to be part of that ecosystem and that’s awesome.”

We’re going to be speaking at many of the Startup Weekend events, and one Startup Weekend team per quarter will be guaranteed a spot to present for the SproutBox selection committee for consideration as a SproutBox portfolio company, or “sprout.”

Also, all Startup Weekend teams will receive a fully-featured, six month CheddarGetter recurring billing account free of charge.  Additionally, participants will receive six months of Squad Edit, the premier web-based, real-time, collaborative code editor to help them through their development processes.

We’re really excited about this partnership- it’s going to mean great things for the software community.

We’ve been eagerly awaiting the arrival of a CheddarGetter open-source C# wrapper for the benefit of all of our .Net pals out there. Thanks to John at Confer, we can all relax. Seriously, my shoulders just left my earlobes.

John wrote a post that clearly illustrates usage of his offering to the reoccurring billing community. The code is clear and well commented throughout. The implementation is very clean and straightforward. We’re quite happy to list it as a member of our wrapper page.

Confer offers a very slick collaboration app hosted in the cloud. Intra-office social networking, customer & contact tracking, activity tracking and file management are all provided via a very well put together interface.