Petal is a credit card company that is built to help people financially succeed. It aims to make credit honest, simple, and accessible. The company uses machine learning to analyze a customer’s full digital financial record—not just their credit score. Petal has pioneered cash flow underwriting, as an alternative to credit scores, to make credit more accessible, and offers a simple, modern digital experience that encourages members to build credit, avoid debt, and spend responsibly. Petal is based in New York, New York, and Richmond, Virginia. The Petal credit card is issued by WebBank, Member FDIC.
Finli is the payment management system for service businesses. We help them get paid timely, easily and affordably. We are ideal for small business owners, freelancers, independent workers, professional coaches/trainers, home services providers and more.
Column Tax is a technology company that provides a platform for mobile banks and fintech companies, allowing them to integrate advanced tax features for their customers. Through its application programming interface (API), Column Tax enables these financial institutions to facilitate tax-related services, such as direct deposits of tax refunds and secure tax payments from their accounts. This integration aims to enhance the user experience by offering personalized and efficient income tax solutions, thereby simplifying tax management for end-users.
Atomic FI is a technology company that builds products that drive consumer engagement in financial services. It plans on launching a series of products, the first of which will be a balance transfer product for Credit Cards, HELOC's, and potentially auto loans. Each of its products will be designed to have an incredible user experience, and solve a pain point for financial institutions and fintechs alike. Atomic FI's platform allows users to connect their payroll account using their payroll credentials eliminating frauds and manual processes through multi-step verification, enabling employees and businesses to conduct secure banking transactions efficiently. Today the process is extremely manual and error-prone and provides a poor user experience. They solve that by increasing the speed of the payoff by 4-5x, and providing a user experience that far exceeds anything currently in the market.
Addition Wealth is a holistic financial wellness platform that empowers employees to make smart, informed financial decisions. By taking a tech-forward approach that combines digital tools, online events, expert content, and access to financial professionals, Addition is making personalized financial expertise inclusive and accessible for all employees. Addition partners with forward-thinking employers to help employees make the most of their money.
ATM.com operates as an embedded finance platform that focuses on making micro-investing accessible to a broader audience. The platform facilitates the opening of investment accounts through its unique functionality, which includes features like Robo-Bumpers™ provided by Ant Money Advisors, LLC. By participating in rewards programs, users can generate micro-income that aids in saving and investing in the stock market. This approach empowers individuals to build their investments incrementally, promoting financial growth and literacy in a user-friendly manner.
Column Tax is a technology company that provides a platform for mobile banks and fintech companies, allowing them to integrate advanced tax features for their customers. Through its application programming interface (API), Column Tax enables these financial institutions to facilitate tax-related services, such as direct deposits of tax refunds and secure tax payments from their accounts. This integration aims to enhance the user experience by offering personalized and efficient income tax solutions, thereby simplifying tax management for end-users.
Atomic FI is a technology company that builds products that drive consumer engagement in financial services. It plans on launching a series of products, the first of which will be a balance transfer product for Credit Cards, HELOC's, and potentially auto loans. Each of its products will be designed to have an incredible user experience, and solve a pain point for financial institutions and fintechs alike. Atomic FI's platform allows users to connect their payroll account using their payroll credentials eliminating frauds and manual processes through multi-step verification, enabling employees and businesses to conduct secure banking transactions efficiently. Today the process is extremely manual and error-prone and provides a poor user experience. They solve that by increasing the speed of the payoff by 4-5x, and providing a user experience that far exceeds anything currently in the market.
One is a financial mobile app headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers a range of services including banking, fintech solutions, online payments, cash transactions, and digital wallet capabilities. Launched in 2019, the app is designed to enhance users' financial well-being by maximizing their earnings and increasing their spending power. It enables users to optimize their finances, achieve their financial goals more quickly, and easily share money with family and friends. One aims to address financial gaps and help users grow their money efficiently.
Kikoff is a personal finance platform with a mission to turn credit builders into great borrowers. Its web and mobile app lets customers build credit, save, and check their credit scores and reports with speed, convenience, and affordability in mind.
Spinwheel is a financial software platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in Oakland, California, aimed at helping Americans reduce their debt efficiently. The company offers an API infrastructure that integrates debt management solutions into popular applications, allowing users to connect, pay, and manage their debts directly within those platforms. Spinwheel's software is particularly focused on student debt, featuring functionalities such as loan payment processing, interest rate comparisons, account linking, and tools for simplifying the loan payment experience. By embedding these financial capabilities in everyday apps, Spinwheel enables users to make debt payments seamlessly while pursuing their shopping activities.
SeedFi, Inc. is an online platform that provides personal loan services specifically designed for lower-income consumers living paycheck to paycheck. Founded in early 2019 and based in San Francisco with an additional office in New York, the company aims to improve financial health by offering lower-cost access to capital and facilitating credit building. SeedFi's products cater to the needs of vulnerable individuals, enabling them to achieve financial stability through better access to financial services. By focusing on the challenges faced by these consumers, SeedFi seeks to empower them with the tools necessary for saving and improving their creditworthiness, ultimately helping them secure a more stable financial future.
Yotta Technologies Inc., founded in 2019 and based in New York, offers a financial platform designed to encourage individuals to save money while providing an opportunity to win prizes through weekly draws. The platform operates by pooling interest from users' savings and distributing it in the form of lottery-style prizes, which can reach up to $10 million. By leveraging behavioral psychology, Yotta aims to instill better savings habits among its users, transforming the traditional savings experience into an engaging and potentially rewarding endeavor.
Jiko is an innovative bank headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York City and Reykjavik. It operates a unique financial platform that focuses on U.S. Treasury bills, providing users with a combination of yield, safety, and scalability. By integrating a nationally chartered bank with a registered broker-dealer, Jiko allows customers to hold cash in the form of Treasury bills, ensuring secure custody. The platform also serves as a financial portal, enabling users to invest in Treasury bills while managing their finances digitally. This approach aims to empower individuals to control their money more effectively and achieve financial success in today’s fast-paced economy.
Finli is the payment management system for service businesses. We help them get paid timely, easily and affordably. We are ideal for small business owners, freelancers, independent workers, professional coaches/trainers, home services providers and more.
Pando has developed a financial platform aimed at individuals in high-volatility careers, such as professional athletes, entrepreneurs, and MBA graduates. The platform enables users to connect with others who have similar expected earnings, allowing them to pool a fraction of their future income. This innovative approach not only helps mitigate financial risks associated with unpredictable income but also allows participants to benefit from potential upside. By providing these tools, Pando empowers its clients to better manage their financial futures and protect their earnings.
One is a financial mobile app headquartered in San Francisco, California, that offers a range of services including banking, fintech solutions, online payments, cash transactions, and digital wallet capabilities. Launched in 2019, the app is designed to enhance users' financial well-being by maximizing their earnings and increasing their spending power. It enables users to optimize their finances, achieve their financial goals more quickly, and easily share money with family and friends. One aims to address financial gaps and help users grow their money efficiently.
Kikoff is a personal finance platform with a mission to turn credit builders into great borrowers. Its web and mobile app lets customers build credit, save, and check their credit scores and reports with speed, convenience, and affordability in mind.
Kikoff is a personal finance platform with a mission to turn credit builders into great borrowers. Its web and mobile app lets customers build credit, save, and check their credit scores and reports with speed, convenience, and affordability in mind.
Atomic FI is a technology company that builds products that drive consumer engagement in financial services. It plans on launching a series of products, the first of which will be a balance transfer product for Credit Cards, HELOC's, and potentially auto loans. Each of its products will be designed to have an incredible user experience, and solve a pain point for financial institutions and fintechs alike. Atomic FI's platform allows users to connect their payroll account using their payroll credentials eliminating frauds and manual processes through multi-step verification, enabling employees and businesses to conduct secure banking transactions efficiently. Today the process is extremely manual and error-prone and provides a poor user experience. They solve that by increasing the speed of the payoff by 4-5x, and providing a user experience that far exceeds anything currently in the market.
Synapse is a banking platform that allows companies to offer financial products to their customers at a lower cost than traditional banks. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a range of services, including payment, deposit, lending, and investment products, all delivered through application programming interfaces (APIs). This enables fintech companies to create and launch their own financial innovations using Synapse's banking infrastructure. By facilitating collaboration among fintech firms, Synapse supports the development of advanced financial technologies, making it easier for clients to enter the market with their banking products.
PayJoy's mission is to deliver access to credit to the next billion people in emerging markets worldwide. Our unique mobile security technology gives customers the ability to afford their first smartphone on credit, using the phone itself as collateral, and then provides further access to credit to help weather life's unexpected financial surprises and climb the ladder of economic well-being. Founded in 2015, today PayJoy has reached over 10 million of customers in emerging markets around the globe, including Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and South Africa, and is solidly profitable and growing.
SeedFi, Inc. is an online platform that provides personal loan services specifically designed for lower-income consumers living paycheck to paycheck. Founded in early 2019 and based in San Francisco with an additional office in New York, the company aims to improve financial health by offering lower-cost access to capital and facilitating credit building. SeedFi's products cater to the needs of vulnerable individuals, enabling them to achieve financial stability through better access to financial services. By focusing on the challenges faced by these consumers, SeedFi seeks to empower them with the tools necessary for saving and improving their creditworthiness, ultimately helping them secure a more stable financial future.
Vemo Education is a mission-driven educational technology company focused on expanding educational access for all Americans. We partner directly with colleges, universities, and other educational providers to design, implement, and sustain income share agreement (ISA) programs to help increase educational opportunity and reduce financial barriers to economic mobility.
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Synapse is a banking platform that allows companies to offer financial products to their customers at a lower cost than traditional banks. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a range of services, including payment, deposit, lending, and investment products, all delivered through application programming interfaces (APIs). This enables fintech companies to create and launch their own financial innovations using Synapse's banking infrastructure. By facilitating collaboration among fintech firms, Synapse supports the development of advanced financial technologies, making it easier for clients to enter the market with their banking products.
LoanSnap is a mortgage company that provides people with a clear view of their finances and shows them where they may be losing money every month. It currently serves the residents of California, Florida, Illinois, Colorado, and Tennessee. Allan Carroll and Karl Jacob founded Loansnap in 2017. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Blueprint Income is creating the future pension – a simple, pre-determined income stream backed by insurance companies. The concept (known in the industry as an income annuity) has been around for a long time. Now, Blueprint Income is making it easy for anyone, regardless of employer, age, or wealth, to head into retirement with guaranteed, lifelong income.
Jiko is an innovative bank headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York City and Reykjavik. It operates a unique financial platform that focuses on U.S. Treasury bills, providing users with a combination of yield, safety, and scalability. By integrating a nationally chartered bank with a registered broker-dealer, Jiko allows customers to hold cash in the form of Treasury bills, ensuring secure custody. The platform also serves as a financial portal, enabling users to invest in Treasury bills while managing their finances digitally. This approach aims to empower individuals to control their money more effectively and achieve financial success in today’s fast-paced economy.
Trim is a financial health company that empowers customers across the United States to improve their financial lives. Trim's mission is to make Americans financially healthy at scale. Our customers benefit from automated savings, decreased bills and bank fees negotiated by Trim, canceled subscriptions, and spending analysis and recommendations. We've saved our users more than $60M and we’re continuing to grow and add features to improve financial health. Our team has previous experience at organizations like Cisco, Eventbrite, Goldman Sachs, Google, LearnVest, Patreon, Rackspace, and Stripe. Trim is backed by venture investors including Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), OCA Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Version One Ventures, and Core Innovation Capital. Come work with us to create the future of personal finance.
PayJoy's mission is to deliver access to credit to the next billion people in emerging markets worldwide. Our unique mobile security technology gives customers the ability to afford their first smartphone on credit, using the phone itself as collateral, and then provides further access to credit to help weather life's unexpected financial surprises and climb the ladder of economic well-being. Founded in 2015, today PayJoy has reached over 10 million of customers in emerging markets around the globe, including Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and South Africa, and is solidly profitable and growing.
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Fundera, Inc. is an online marketplace based in New York that assists small business owners in comparing diverse small business loan options. Founded in 2013, the platform features a wide range of financial products, including SBA loans, term loans, equipment financing, business lines of credit, invoice financing, short-term loans, merchant cash advances, and personal loans for business purposes. Fundera aims to empower entrepreneurs by providing expert insights and tailored financial options, allowing them to make informed decisions based on their specific needs and eligibility. By leveraging proprietary technology and financial expertise, Fundera connects business owners with lenders, credit card issuers, and banks to help them secure funding at competitive rates. As of October 2020, Fundera operates as a subsidiary of NerdWallet, Inc.
Vouch brings friend-powered finance to the lending industry. It helps borrowers get personal loans at better terms than other lending institutions or marketplaces typically offer. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
NerdWallet helps people find the right credit cards and mortgage rates, refinance their student loans. NerdWallet provides consumers with personalized, unbiased advice so they can make smart money moves. From finding the best credit card to buying a house to investing their next dollar, and more, NerdWallet is there to help consumers make financial decisions with confidence. Consumers have free access to our expert content, tools, and tailored advice that help them stay on top of their finances, and save them time and money, giving them the freedom to do more.
Oportun, Inc., founded in 2005 and based in San Carlos, California, is a financial services company that specializes in providing personal loans to individuals who may lack a credit score or have limited credit history. The company aims to empower its 1.9 million members by offering a digital banking platform that includes intelligent borrowing, savings, budgeting, and spending tools. Since its inception, Oportun has disbursed over $15.5 billion in responsible credit, effectively saving its members more than $2.3 billion in interest and fees. The company also offers a range of products, including unsecured and secured personal loans, auto loans, and various transaction services, all designed to help members achieve their financial goals and improve their financial well-being.