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Investment Yogi… one stop personal financial portal

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Investment Yogi is a comprehensive personal finance portal that you should surely check out. It has different sections for personal financial planning – tax planning and online tax return filing, financial portfolio tracking, mutual funds etc besides lots of resources and articles on how to manage your financial position. Online trading is not offered as yet but it is planned soon. Founded by a team of NRIs who are shifting to India (Hyderabad), it also has a complete section on NRI financial planning – something that might give them a quick headstart.

Here’s a demo video

The startup is currently bootstrapped; they are closing an angel investment round soon and will seek VC finding in 4-6 months . The revenue model for the portal (not currently operational) will be three pronged a) premium budgeting, planning and wealth management related services (base model will be free & online any offline support will include fees), b) SAAS model c) Lead Gen model for some of the products where they will offer vertical search.

Investmnet Yogi has a very uncomplicated feel to it and it packs in lots of simple personal financial tools . Check out this lifetime financial planner; or these user forums.

And dont forget to check out these videos which seek to demystify scary financial jargon in a funny way. Here’s a sample –

Personal finance is a very competitive space. All the major banks have comprehensive offerings; portals like PersonalFn, MoneyControl, EquityMaster are well entrenched and there’s a clutch of online tax return filing services like TaxSmile, TaxShax, FilemyITReturn that have taken root. Investment Yogi in that sense has a tough job at hand.

HttpFuse… thematic bookmarking service that can be super useful

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Fuse is a new Web2.0 bookmarking utility that combines simplicity and utility in an elegant way. A fuse is a collection of bookmarks/links on a particular topic; unlike personal bookmarking services (like Delicious, StumbleUpon) it is built up by a community of people rather than an individual. The website called Httpfuse (thats a confusing name!) contains collection of such fuses on a wide variety of topics. It claims to have 2.6 million fuses and 4.6 million links as on date (if these are user generated, then it is a mind-boggling figure).

Build by a Hyderabad based company, Httpfuse is conceptualisd as a knowledge resource like Wikipedia but with a twist- people can discover quality links/bookmarks instead of writeups/articles . Check out this blogpost about how Fuse is different from search engines, Delcious, Digg, Mohalo, StumbleUpon etc.

The fuses are embeddable which makes the idea even more powerful… check out the one below about the iPhone.


I think this is a super idea- it is simple, clearly serves a purpose, and adds a new dimension hitherto not available. I do not recall seeing this functionality in any of the hundreds of social bookmarking sites that exist on the web. The company believes that their utility is useful in a variety of situations. A Fuse can be plugged into any community- a social networking community or a blogging community. It can be used in enterprise wikis and on company websites (in the product FAQs & help sections). This makes so much sense since you can create different sections within the fuse and bunch like urls together.

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