Marcus Richards
Hoddle is a mobile app which allows you to securely manage your banking products and financial services in one place. A financial control centre and marketplace
We’ve made it our mission to:
Educate customers to make better money management choices.
Enable customers to find, compare and obtain financial products and services.
Provide customers with access to more ethical and transparent banking.
Tell us about yourself?
I have 15 years of experience in mobile application and web development and have developed apps for iOS, Android and macOS.I developed the hit app Cartoon Quiz. Cartoon Quiz reached 2nd place in the iOS App Store, receiving over 60,000 downloads a day.
I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and have worked and consulted with various startups including a CRM platform. I have wide expertise in technology, start-ups and banking.
If you could go back in time a year or two, what piece of advice would you give yourself?
Start as soon as possible, and you need to fail to succeed.
What problem does your business solve?
There is no one way to securely manage all your banking products in one place. The Hoddle app makes it simpler than ever to manage all your payments and accounts. A mobile app which allows you to connect and manage your banking products and financial services in one place. Hoddle connects customers to banks and fintechs, providing them with more products and services, without changing their existing service provider. A financial control centre and marketplace. Most competitors require you to change your banking providers, whereas we overlay existing banks and fintechs.
What is the inspiration behind your business?
There is no one way to securely manage all your banking products in one place. The Hoddle app makes it simpler than ever to manage all your payments and accounts. A mobile app which allows you to connect and manage your banking products and financial services in one place. Hoddle connects customers to banks and fintechs, providing them with more products and services, without changing their existing service provider. A financial control centre and marketplace. Most competitors require you to change your banking providers, whereas we overlay existing banks and fintechs.
What is your magic sauce?
Our app connects customers to banks and fintechs, providing them with more products and services, without changing their existing service provider. We do not aim to replace banks or fintechs.
What is the plan for the next 5 years? What do you want to achieve?
At Hoddle we want to be a global fintech. Connecting people, banks, fintechs, financial services, banking products and subscription services. A one stop shop for our users to compare, obtain and utilise financial services. The Google of finance.
What is the biggest challenge you’ve faced so far?
Developing a product in a regulated market. We’ve not been able to test and launch as rapidly as typically expected for a start-up. We’ve made strategic hires building a founding team with the necessary skillset required to gain industry permissions, launch and operate.
How do people get involved/buy into your vision?
Our users are able to download our app directly from the iOS App Store, we’re gaining traction and building online presence through our website and social media We have approximately 1,000 users and 5,000 followers across our social channels.
