Winner of TechCrunch40 conference is finally announced. It is Mint, which lets you manage your personal finances. As per TechCrunch, it not only manages your finances, but also helps you save money by searching for better deals on bank acounts, credit cards etc. online. It supposedly uses very strong encryption to safeguard your data.

In their own words

Mint allows you to view all of your banking and credit card transactions side-by-side, making identifying all of your transactions much easier and faster than ever before.

How does this help you? We make it easy for you to track down erroneous charges or bank fees, and keep a closer eye on your money.

Mint even lets you label your transactions so you know what bills you need to split with your friends or roommates, know which ones need to be reimbursed for your company, and more.

As per TechCrunch

“Mint is a personal finance application that lets users track and monitor their financials in one place without the need of routine maintenance or accounting knowledge. Their application tracks bank, credit union and credit card transactions and alerts users to upcoming bills, low balances or unusual spending. Mint’s patent-pending technology automatically categorizes transactions, so users know with precision where they are spending money, what their bank and credit balances are, and how much interest they have earned.

Scoble’s blog readers are really sharp, he says

What’s interesting is that two days ago I asked who would win and within minutes one commenter here said he thought Mint would. More proof that my readers know more than I do?

So Mint’s win was kind of expected. But Dave Winer reports that

Fred Wilson writes to say Mint is not a new idea, that Wesabe, a company he has invested in, has been offering a similar product for over a year. He also sent a pointer to their Security and Privacy FAQ, a very inspiring document.

Mint will be a company to watch for in the consumer productivity space. I expect Mint’s competition to show-up in coming weeks, as this is untapped space or we will discover other players in this space in next weeks Demo conference.

Based on what I have seen so far, Mint should be acquired by one of the personal finance companies very soon, that is if Google doesn’t acquire it first and enters this new personal finance space as well.

Techcrunch40 conference: All TC40 presenting companies and “what they do” is summarized here in one single page. Effort is made to keep it brief and simple, representing facts in layman’s language minus the marketing fluff and all other heavy mambo jambo. Shouldn’t take you more than 5 minutes to finish the page.

After reading short company reviews here, if you want to know more about a company, you can click on the profile link, which will take you to startup’s profile page at Crunch Base. Also included are the links to the live coverage at Techcrunch in detail towards the end of this post. Enjoy!

List of startups presenting at Techcrunch 40 conference -at a glance:

App2You lets you create do-it-yourself database driven web-based applications using a simple browser based interface. (profile)

8020 Publishing lets online communities actively participate in creating print magazines, crowd sourcing the print magazine creation process, and providing the logistics and editorial oversight. (blog, profile)

Cake Financial (blog, profile)

CastTV is a video search engine which help users finding and cataloging videos from the web. (blog, profile)

Ceedo lets you take your Windows desktop environment with you on mobile devices. Just connect mobile device to a Windows-PC and start working. (blog, profile)

Clickable (blog, profile)

Cognitive Code provides SILVIA, a complete system for the development and deployment of intelligent application that allows humans to interact with computers in completely natural and intuitive ways - uses artificial intelligence. (blog, profile)

Crowd Spirit is all about Electronic Product Crowd sourcing - Define, design, invest, finalize, test, recommend electronic products and share product revenue. (blog, profile)

Cubic Telecom Cubic Telecom is a mobile startup focused on reducing roaming and call charges for overseas calls. (blog, profile)

DocStoc DocStoc is YouTube for documents. Upload, share and rate your documents with the world. (blog, profile)

eXtreme Reality (blog, profile)

Faroo is a Peer-to-Peer distributed search engine with a distributed index providing more democratic user centric ranking while sharing advertising revenue with users. (blog, profile)

Flock is a web browser which makes discovery and sharing of rich media (video, photos, blogs etc) easier while enhancing social networking experience. (blog, profile)

FlowPlay (blog, profile)

GotStatus (blog, profile)

Kerpoof (blog, profile)

LoudTalks is a push to talk free downloadable application, which allows you to talk to your friends or colleagues instantly with a single touch of a button. (blog, profile)

mEgo (blog, profile)

MetaPlace (blog, profile)

Mint (blog, profile)

MusicShake lets your create music without previous knowledge of music or expertise. You can create ringtones and personalized music. (blog, profile)

Orgoo (blog, profile)

Ponoko helps you convert your designs into real products, helps sell these products online or deliver directly to the customers. (blog, profile)

PowerSet (blog, profile)

PubMatic (blog, profile)

Spottt (blog, profile)

Story Blender lets your create video mashups from video clips, images and audio and share with your friends. (blog, profile)

Teach the People Lets you create communities for fun, education & innovation and share knowledge. Allows uploading of audio, video, docs and provides broadcasts, chat discussion boards etc. (blog, profile)

Tripit Tripit is a do-it-yourself online trip planner which lets your share your trip itineraries etc with friends. (blog, profile)

TruTap lets you IM from mobile phone, share pics etc across different Instant Mesaging (IM) networks. Requires app download to your phone. (blog, profile)

Viewdle allows monetization of videos by indexing and making embedded meta data searchable. Its facial-recognition technology enables better cataloging and more relevant search results. (blog, profile)

Wixi is a media sharing desktop which lets you store and share all your video, music and photos in one place. (blog, profile)

WooMe (blog, profile)

Xobni (blog, profile)

Yap lets you use your ordinary mobile phone to access applications by just talking into your phone, by providing voice-to-text translation services. You talk, they type. (blog, profile)

Zivity (blog, profile)

ZocDoc (blog, profile)

Techcrunch 40 Day 1 presentations:

TechCrunch 40 Session 1: Search & Discovery

TechCrunch 40 Session 2: Mobile & Communications

TechCrunch 40 Session 3: Community & Collaboration

TechCrunch 40 Session 4: Crowd Sourcing

Techcrunch40 Day 2 presentations:

TechCrunch40 Session 5: Productivity & Web Apps

TechCrunch40 Session 6: Revenue Models & Analytics

TechCrunch40 Session 7: Rich Media & Mash Ups

TechCrunch40 Session 8: Entertainment for All Ages

Note that some links will become functional on Sept 18 once the demos. Please leave a comment if you find any mistakes or inaccuracies.

Techcrunch40 list leaked out before Techcrunch officially announced the list of presenting companies. Paul Boutin discovered the name of the companies on the banners they are hanging in the Palace Hotel where the conference is taking place (Sep 17-18). However list so far has only 39 lucky presenting companies listed

Here is list Paul posted. Most of links are already live.

Clickable
Flock
Ceedo
Cake Financial
DocStoc
CastTV
Cubic Telecom
CrowdSpirit
Cognitive Code
Mint
MusicShake
Ponoko
PowerSet
PubMatic
Teach the People
8020 Publishing
Faroo
GotStatus
FlowPlay
LoudTalks
Kerpoof
MetaPlace
mEgo
Orgoo
StoryBlender
Spottt
TruTap
Tripit
Viewdle
Zivity
Wixi
Xobni
ZocDoc
eXtreme Reality
WC
AppYou
WooMe
Yap

Mike had placed a strict embargo for all presenting startups, I guess to get exclusives. Did they really forgot about the banners or this is planned leak to generate additional buzz? If yes, then Mike’s plan is working.

Update 1: Valleywag is reporting that they are banned from attending Techcrunch40. Scoble says that the best news is flowing fast on Twitter, way faster than Techmeme. I disagree, I have been monitoring techmeme and it is updating regularly with very relevant content.

Update 2: Techcrunch finally posted the official list of Techrunch 40.