Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2005. It has pioneered a new funding model for early-stage startups by investing a modest amount of capital, typically around $150,000, in a large number of companies twice a year. Over a three-month program, Y Combinator collaborates closely with these startups to prepare them for investor pitches and enhance their business strategies. Each funding cycle concludes with Demo Day, where startups present to an exclusive audience of investors. Y Combinator focuses on various sectors, including business software, education, healthcare, and financial technology, among others. In addition to initial funding, it offers ongoing support through its extensive alumni network. Since its inception, Y Combinator has funded over 630 startups, contributing significantly to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Gustaf Alstromer

Group Partner

Matt Bogrand

Associate, YC Continuity Fund

Timothy Brady

Partner

Craig R. Cannon

Director of Marketing

Adora Cheung

Partner

Nic Dardenne

Principal

Aaron Epstein

Group Partner

Brad Flora

Group Partner

Jared Friedman

Managing Director, Software and Group Partner

Aaron Harris

Partner

Carolynn Levy

Partner

Bradford (Brad) Lightcap

Associate, YC Continuity

Kat Manalac

Managing Partner

Eric Migicovsky

Partner

Kirsty Nathoo

Partner

Verena Prescher

Director of Finance

Geoff Ralston

president

Ali Rowghani

Managing Partner

Arnav Sahu

Principal

Michael Seibel

Managing Director

Harj Taggar

Partner

Past deals in Personal Finance

PINA Indonesia

Seed Round in 2022
PINA Indonesia operates as a personal finance app.

Sribuu

Seed Round in 2022
Sribuu is an Indonesia-based personal financial application aimed at enhancing users' financial literacy and management skills. The app provides tools for recording and analyzing spending by automatically tracking transactions from major banks and e-wallet services. This functionality helps users monitor their income and expenses more effectively. By offering personalized recommendations based on individual financial habits, Sribuu empowers users to make informed financial decisions and develop better money management strategies.

SaveIN

Seed Round in 2022
SaveIN, as the name suggests, is a financial services platform made exclusively for Indians, with an aim to revolutionize their experience across banking and daily financial transactions. We aim to offer, the full suite of traditional banking products and experiences, but in a never seen before avatar, thereby making it fun, simple, secure, and unbelievably rewarding experience. All this and more at just the click of a button, in a 100% digital and paperless, mobile first ecosystem.

Koshex

Seed Round in 2022
Koshex, pioneer AI-first personal finance system, an intelligent insights-driven product that helps you understand your money movement in real-time. Koshex gives you wings to spend, save, and manage your money in a smart, affordable, and reliable way. It looks into the best financial interests of each customer in a way that embraces the unique individuality of their lives. Investing is just one part of your financial picture. So, we've introduced more ways to reach your goals and manage your money.

Finary

Series A in 2022
Finary is a digital wealth management platform based in Europe that enables individuals to track and manage their financial assets effectively. The platform caters to the mass affluent, offering tailored services for personal finance, real estate, cryptocurrencies, insurance, and various securities. Finary provides users with a comprehensive overview of their asset allocation, allowing them to monitor and analyze their investments. This functionality is designed to empower users to make informed decisions and optimize their financial strategies, ultimately enhancing their wealth management experience.

Soon

Pre Seed Round in 2022
The GratiFi platform delivers an all-in-one fintech solution that balances spend, save, and invest through monthly cash flow. GratiFi simplifies your financial life by pairing deposits with investments, spend with liquidation, and savings with realized gains. Make your spending money go further and invest smarter, just by using GratiFi’s free smart debit account.

Passiv

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Passiv turns your brokerage account into your own personalized robo-advisor. Construct a balanced portfolio using any tradable securities and keep them balanced according to your target. Passiv will let you know when new cash and dividends are available for allocation or when your portfolio drifts off target. When it's time to make trades, Passiv will batch all your trades so you can place them in seconds. Stop paying high wealth management fees and automate your investments with Passiv.

Compound

Series B in 2022
Compound Financial, Inc. specializes in wealth management services for startup employees, assisting them in understanding the implications of their stock options. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, the company offers tools that help clients forecast the potential value of their equity over time while also addressing optimization strategies related to taxes. Despite being a relatively new entrant in the market, Compound has quickly garnered a customer base of 200 startup employees, reflecting its growing relevance in the financial services sector.

SaveIN

Pre Seed Round in 2022
SaveIN, as the name suggests, is a financial services platform made exclusively for Indians, with an aim to revolutionize their experience across banking and daily financial transactions. We aim to offer, the full suite of traditional banking products and experiences, but in a never seen before avatar, thereby making it fun, simple, secure, and unbelievably rewarding experience. All this and more at just the click of a button, in a 100% digital and paperless, mobile first ecosystem.

Homebase

Venture Round in 2021
Homebase operates a real estate lending platform that facilitates homeownership by offering customized financing options. The company's services include rent-to-own real estate financing, providing an alternative to traditional mortgages that often come with rigid terms and high interest rates. By enabling potential homeowners to purchase properties without the need for significant savings upfront, Homebase aims to simplify the process of buying and owning a home.

Atomic

Series A in 2021
Atomic is a personalized investment management service API that lets companies offer their end-users a disciplined way to invest with them.

LemFi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Lemonade Finance is a digital bank for the African diaspora. We provide our users with accounts in their country of residence and country of origin for personal and business banking needs.

LemFi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Lemonade Finance is a digital bank for the African diaspora. We provide our users with accounts in their country of residence and country of origin for personal and business banking needs.

SaveIN

Pre Seed Round in 2021
SaveIN, as the name suggests, is a financial services platform made exclusively for Indians, with an aim to revolutionize their experience across banking and daily financial transactions. We aim to offer, the full suite of traditional banking products and experiences, but in a never seen before avatar, thereby making it fun, simple, secure, and unbelievably rewarding experience. All this and more at just the click of a button, in a 100% digital and paperless, mobile first ecosystem.

Koshex

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Koshex, pioneer AI-first personal finance system, an intelligent insights-driven product that helps you understand your money movement in real-time. Koshex gives you wings to spend, save, and manage your money in a smart, affordable, and reliable way. It looks into the best financial interests of each customer in a way that embraces the unique individuality of their lives. Investing is just one part of your financial picture. So, we've introduced more ways to reach your goals and manage your money.

Financial Choice

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Financial Choice allows consumers to invest their checking account funds for market returns while retaining instant cash access. Financial Choice provides instant access to cash, automated investing, tax efficiency, and portfolio rebalancing.

Chipax

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Chipax is a Chilean fintech company that provides a web platform designed to simplify accounting for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The platform leverages an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to facilitate efficient business management. It offers real-time data collection from banks and tax authorities, enabling automated reporting on key financial aspects such as cash flow, income statements, and outstanding debts. Chipax enhances daily operations by providing essential tools for bank reconciliation, cash flow forecasting, and debt collection, making it easier for SMBs to maintain financial order and make informed decisions.

Maroo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wedding is one of the major events in a person's life. Rarely that one is ready to compromise when deciding on the engagement ring, venue, photographer, catering, etc. Which makes weddings expensive and running over the initial budget. Broom provides you with flexibility around financing your dream wedding - from 3 to 24 months installments at no cost. You just enjoy the simple discovery of your favourite wedding providers, familiar process of booking your day in their calendar and streamlined checkout. Want to put down a credit card to collect your miles over installments period? No problem, we've got your back on this. No small fonts. No hidden fees. No budget cap. No cost for you. Find more on: www.broom.co

Finantier

Seed Round in 2021
Finantier operates an open finance platform that delivers essential infrastructure and data products for businesses in Southeast Asia. Founded in 2020 and based in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia, the company enables institutions to access and enrich datasets from various financial sources, including banks and financial companies. Its platform facilitates services such as account integration, income and identity verification, and recurring payment management. By utilizing application programming interfaces (APIs), Finantier allows businesses to build advanced financial services that integrate consumer data from personal bank accounts, card details, loans, and mortgages. The company aims to position itself as a central player in the region's digital economy.

HonestRobin

Pre Seed Round in 2021
HonestRobin provides financial education and access to no-interest cash advance and FDIC insured & high-interest saving accounts. Through our gamified tools and weekly rewards(upto $10 Million), We encourage users to save and invest.

Finary

Seed Round in 2021
Finary is a digital wealth management platform based in Europe that enables individuals to track and manage their financial assets effectively. The platform caters to the mass affluent, offering tailored services for personal finance, real estate, cryptocurrencies, insurance, and various securities. Finary provides users with a comprehensive overview of their asset allocation, allowing them to monitor and analyze their investments. This functionality is designed to empower users to make informed decisions and optimize their financial strategies, ultimately enhancing their wealth management experience.

Finary

Seed Round in 2021
Finary is a digital wealth management platform based in Europe that enables individuals to track and manage their financial assets effectively. The platform caters to the mass affluent, offering tailored services for personal finance, real estate, cryptocurrencies, insurance, and various securities. Finary provides users with a comprehensive overview of their asset allocation, allowing them to monitor and analyze their investments. This functionality is designed to empower users to make informed decisions and optimize their financial strategies, ultimately enhancing their wealth management experience.

Jerry

Series A in 2021
Jerry is an AI financial service startup that negotiates loans and insurances for american families. The company constantly looks for savings on your fixed costs (subscriptions like insurance, loans, etc) and does all the work to negotiate better rates and paperwork to switch and save money automatically. Like all best things in life, Jerry is completely free for members!

Homebase

Seed Round in 2021
Homebase operates a real estate lending platform that facilitates homeownership by offering customized financing options. The company's services include rent-to-own real estate financing, providing an alternative to traditional mortgages that often come with rigid terms and high interest rates. By enabling potential homeowners to purchase properties without the need for significant savings upfront, Homebase aims to simplify the process of buying and owning a home.

NextPay

Pre Seed Round in 2021
NextPay is an alternative to bank accounts for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Its platform enables companies to collect customer payments via digital invoices, manage their cash, and pay their employees, suppliers, or bills in batches to any bank or e-wallet.

CashBook

Seed Round in 2021
CashBook is an online application designed to help small businesses track their income and expenses more efficiently. Founded in 2020 by Vivek Kumar and Ashutosh Pathak, the platform offers a digital solution for businesses that still rely on traditional pen-and-paper methods for record-keeping. It enables users to add entries, categorize records, and monitor their overall financial balance in real time. Additionally, CashBook features a shared network that allows multiple users to access and input data simultaneously, streamlining the bookkeeping process. This innovative approach simplifies financial management for small businesses, making it easier for them to maintain accurate and up-to-date financial records.

Purpose

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Purpose is a financial services provider that focuses on aligning users' financial decisions with their personal values. Through its digital banking platform, it offers a range of financial tools and resources aimed at promoting responsible banking and helping individuals grow their personal wealth. Additionally, Purpose assists businesses in securing the necessary capital and partnerships to connect with audiences that share similar ethical values. By encouraging users to support ethical businesses and brands, Purpose aims to foster a sustainable economy where financial choices reflect individual and collective values.

NowPay

Seed Round in 2021
NowPay, Inc. is a fintech company based in Cairo, Egypt, founded in 2018. It operates an online platform designed to enhance the financial wellness of corporate employees. The platform offers personal finance management services, allowing users to track savings, spending, budgeting, and borrowing. Additionally, NowPay provides a mobile application that offers detailed insights into employees' salaries, balances, and eligible loan amounts. The company partners with employers to facilitate advance salary payments, enabling employees to access their earnings at any time during the month without incurring liabilities, and to repay these advances over multiple months.

Finantier

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Finantier operates an open finance platform that delivers essential infrastructure and data products for businesses in Southeast Asia. Founded in 2020 and based in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia, the company enables institutions to access and enrich datasets from various financial sources, including banks and financial companies. Its platform facilitates services such as account integration, income and identity verification, and recurring payment management. By utilizing application programming interfaces (APIs), Finantier allows businesses to build advanced financial services that integrate consumer data from personal bank accounts, card details, loans, and mortgages. The company aims to position itself as a central player in the region's digital economy.

Finmark

Seed Round in 2020
Finmark Financial Group specializes in developing financial planning and modeling software tailored for startups. Founded in 2020 and based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company offers a platform that simplifies the management of financial metrics, enabling businesses to efficiently handle their runway, hiring, and cash flow. By transforming complex financial concepts into an easy-to-use interface, Finmark allows companies to update, inspect, and share their financial data seamlessly. The software serves a wide range of businesses, from pre-revenue to pre-IPO, helping teams align on financial goals, enhance collaboration, and optimize resources.

Letter

Seed Round in 2020
Letter is a beautifully designed banking and financial platform made exclusively for high net-worth individuals. We make it easy to give customized debit cards to family members and staff, automatically donate to charity, and get access to exclusive investment and lending opportunities through our marketplace.

Atomic

Seed Round in 2020
Atomic is a personalized investment management service API that lets companies offer their end-users a disciplined way to invest with them.

Charityvest

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Vennfi is a financial technology company for tax-exempt payments.

Maytana

Seed Round in 2020
Maytana is a financial management platform that consolidates multiple business bank accounts into a single interface, allowing users to gain a comprehensive view of their finances. The platform streamlines the management of bank accounts, payments, transactions, and cash flow, facilitating tasks such as automated cash flow monitoring and international payments. It also supports the management of treasury data and hedging contracts. By providing a command center for financial oversight, Maytana enables users to programmatically make payments, manage administrative tasks, and run queries, ultimately simplifying the financial operations for businesses with diverse banking relationships.

Clara

Seed Round in 2020
We started Clara to help individuals and families finance their lives in a more efficient, transparent, and empowered way. We started with one of life’s most important financial decisions -- a home. We are building technology to reduce the time and cost it takes to originate a mortgage and creating a more personalized, clear experience for our customers.

Fazz

Series B in 2020
Fazz Financial is a digital financial services group.

Point Card

Series A in 2020
Point Card offers rewards, including additional cash-back on go-to subscriptions like Netflix, Spotify, HBO Max, Hulu, and more. It features an advanced chipset for secure payments, a high-tensile synthetic polymer construction, and comes in your choice of four editions. It was launched in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Easyplan

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Easyplan Technology Solutions Private Limited provides a digital savings application that enables middle-income Indians to save money. It allows users to set a goal and get reminders, save from their phone, change or skip payments, and withdraw money. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Spenny

Seed Round in 2020
Spenny offers an easy and fast way to save and invest money. It uses encryption and partner with insured custodians to ensure the assets are held safely. Every time a user makes any digital transaction, it rounds off the amount to the nearest 10 INR and invests it for them into a diversified portfolio, automatically.

wealth42

Grant in 2020
Wealth42 is a robo-advisor mobile application that offers goal-based financial planning tailored to individual user objectives. The platform aims to simplify personal finance management by enabling users to set financial goals and providing personalized investment plans informed by market analysis. Through its gamified approach to investment objectives, Wealth42 encourages effective saving habits, supporting users in their journey toward wealth creation. The application addresses a broad spectrum of financial needs, including loans, investments, savings, taxes, and insurance, ultimately delivering a comprehensive and personalized banking and investing experience.

GradJoy

Pre Seed Round in 2019
GradJoy manages your student loans — helping you save money and be debt-free faster.

Compound

Seed Round in 2019
Compound Financial, Inc. specializes in wealth management services for startup employees, assisting them in understanding the implications of their stock options. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, the company offers tools that help clients forecast the potential value of their equity over time while also addressing optimization strategies related to taxes. Despite being a relatively new entrant in the market, Compound has quickly garnered a customer base of 200 startup employees, reflecting its growing relevance in the financial services sector.

Tranqui

Seed Round in 2019
Tranqui was born from the idea that financial planning should be accessible to all , without being forced to buy a product, regardless of the interest of financial institutions, without the technicalities or prices of the financial industry.

Pulse Active Savings

Seed Round in 2019
Pulse is a unique way for low income families in the developing world to create commitment savings for core household needs. By saving with Pulse, customers can prevent money from being lost or misspent, and dedicate it to the things that matter - right in the palm of their hand.

Point Card

Seed Round in 2019
Point Card offers rewards, including additional cash-back on go-to subscriptions like Netflix, Spotify, HBO Max, Hulu, and more. It features an advanced chipset for secure payments, a high-tensile synthetic polymer construction, and comes in your choice of four editions. It was launched in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Interprime

Seed Round in 2019
They help you earn the best rate of return on the idle cash currently sitting in your bank account. The securities we buy are always held in your name, and you earn the global U.S Treasury market rate.

SmartPath

Series A in 2019
SmartPath, LLC is dedicated to enhancing financial wellness for individuals and families through a comprehensive range of educational programs and tools. Founded in 2010 and based in Dunwoody, Georgia, the company offers webinars, live seminars, and recorded lessons that cover a wide array of personal finance topics. These include financial strategy, wealth building, budgeting, saving, and investing, as well as specific areas like homeownership, student loans, credit management, and retirement planning. SmartPath aims to provide accessible, objective, and trustworthy financial advice, particularly in light of economic disparities and challenges faced by many individuals. By combining empathetic coaching with targeted education and user-friendly digital tools, SmartPath seeks to empower people to achieve financial stability and success.

Catch

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Catch is a Boston-based company that designs a personal benefits platform aimed at freelancers, contractors, and workers without employer-sponsored benefits. Established in 2016, Catch provides a range of financial solutions, including tax withholding, retirement savings plans, health insurance, and student loan refinancing. The platform allows users to conduct benefit checkups, link bank accounts, and create personalized financial plans, helping individuals build a comprehensive safety net for their financial stability and security. By leveraging data-driven insights, Catch enables users to take control of their financial needs and manage their wealth effectively in an evolving work landscape.

Fazz

Series A in 2018
Fazz Financial is a digital financial services group.

Fintual

Seed Round in 2018
Fintual is a digital investment platform that caters to young professionals looking to make informed investment decisions. The company offers financial advisory services that leverage artificial intelligence to assess clients' risk profiles. Based on this analysis, Fintual provides personalized investment recommendations, helping users to navigate the complexities of investing. The platform aims to empower clients with fundamental financial knowledge, enabling them to manage and grow their investments online effectively.

Cowrywise

Seed Round in 2018
CowryWise operates an personal finance platform that automates user's savings and investments. Its online platform automates savings from user's bank account into CowryWise account, daily, weekly, or monthly. These savings start earning interests from risk-free investments (T-bills and Government bonds) on a daily basis. The company serves Nigerians in all states. The company is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Delphia

Seed Round in 2018
Delphia Inc., founded in 1993 and based in Toronto, Canada, specializes in creating artificial intelligence-driven surveys designed to assist individuals in making informed decisions regarding careers, education, finances, and health. The company has developed an innovative investment platform that allows users to convert their personal data into investment capital. By sharing personal insights and opinions, individuals can leverage their data to enhance their investment potential, marking a significant shift in how wealth can be built without requiring initial financial resources. Delphia emphasizes the secure use of shared information, ensuring that it is solely utilized to optimize investment returns for its users.

SimpleMoney

Seed Round in 2018
SimpleMoney is a fully automatic mutual fund and equities portfolio tracker for users investing in the financial markets. SimpleMoney uses artificial intelligence to scan email inboxes for investment-related emails from authorized senders, consolidating all your investments in one place. All it takes is five clicks to login to your SimpleMoney account for the first time, and within minutes, you will be able to see all your transactional history, how much you have made on each of your investments, and how your funds are performing relative to the market. With this powerful data in hand, you can review and rebalance your portfolio to make sure that you're on track to meet your financial goals.

Betterfin

Seed Round in 2017
Betterfin, Inc. develops financial management tool for business owners to access financial products, capital markets data, and manage financial information. It offers spending patterns tracking, business monitoring, data security, loan and automated cashflow information, and automated reports. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

bxblue

Seed Round in 2017
bxblue is a marketplace for personal loans in Brazil explicitly targeting pensioners and Government workers because they can they take loans secured by their guaranteed income. Because of that banks can deduct the payment directly from the paycheck, leading to an apr 10x lower than credit cards. Payroll secured loans are the most affordable personal loan in Brazil, and they represent 60% of the personal loans in the country. It is a 40bn dollar/year marke, completely offline. We are taking this entire market online.

Fazz

Seed Round in 2017
Fazz Financial is a digital financial services group.

Jerry

Seed Round in 2017
Jerry is an AI financial service startup that negotiates loans and insurances for american families. The company constantly looks for savings on your fixed costs (subscriptions like insurance, loans, etc) and does all the work to negotiate better rates and paperwork to switch and save money automatically. Like all best things in life, Jerry is completely free for members!

Penny

Funding Round in 2017
Penny is a personal finance app that helps you track your income and spending. Penny accesses your statement history—with your permission—and uses that information to help you manage your finances. Whenever you open the app, she’ll chat with you about your finances: letting you know how you’re doing this month, forecasting where you’ll be next month, giving you a heads up about upcoming bills, or even helping you cancel services you don’t use. Penny makes finances less intimidating and stressful. Many apps have lots of useful features, but they’re often hard to use and time-consuming. Penny automatically organizes your finances, explains them simply and clearly, and tells you what you need to know, when you need to know it.

SmartPath

Seed Round in 2016
SmartPath, LLC is dedicated to enhancing financial wellness for individuals and families through a comprehensive range of educational programs and tools. Founded in 2010 and based in Dunwoody, Georgia, the company offers webinars, live seminars, and recorded lessons that cover a wide array of personal finance topics. These include financial strategy, wealth building, budgeting, saving, and investing, as well as specific areas like homeownership, student loans, credit management, and retirement planning. SmartPath aims to provide accessible, objective, and trustworthy financial advice, particularly in light of economic disparities and challenges faced by many individuals. By combining empathetic coaching with targeted education and user-friendly digital tools, SmartPath seeks to empower people to achieve financial stability and success.

Landed

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Landed, Inc. is a financial services company based in San Francisco that assists essential professionals, particularly in education and healthcare, in purchasing homes and achieving financial stability within their communities. Founded in 2015, Landed provides debt-free financing options, allowing homebuyers to receive funds in exchange for a share of their home's value upon refinancing or selling. The company collaborates with schools, employers, and affinity networks to establish and manage down payment support funds, facilitating access to homeownership for teachers, school staff, and other professionals. Additionally, Landed offers personalized support through a dedicated team, including partner agents and homebuying experts, to help clients navigate their home-buying options and provide education on the process.

LendEDU

Seed Round in 2016
LendEDU is an online marketplace that provides consumers with a platform to compare and learn about various personal finance products. Launched in November 2014 initially as a service for student loan refinancing, the company has since broadened its offerings to include student loans, personal loans, auto loans, mortgages, insurance products, and credit cards. Users can explore different financial options and rates without any obligation to commit to a lender, making it a valuable resource for individuals seeking to make informed financial decisions. LendEDU operates as a free service, ensuring accessibility for all users.

Human Interest

Seed Round in 2016
Human Interest offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans. Previously, only large companies offered employee retirement plans, leaving more than half of all working Americans without a path to a secure financial future. The company believes that a path to financial independence should be accessible to people in all lines of work.

Human Interest

Seed Round in 2015
Human Interest offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans. Previously, only large companies offered employee retirement plans, leaving more than half of all working Americans without a path to a secure financial future. The company believes that a path to financial independence should be accessible to people in all lines of work.

Owners Circle

Seed Round in 2014
OwnersCircle provides small business owners with the online tools and financial information that they need in order to navigate the complex world of business financing. The reality is that there is no easy way to search for small business financial products, which creates a headache for already time-strapped business owners. Recent reports show that owners spend an enormous amount of time (25 hrs on average) searching and applying for loan products, with many focusing on lenders that have high rejection rates and long, complex processes.

SmartAsset

Debt Financing in 2012
SmartAsset is a financial technology company that empowers people with automated personalized financial advice. Its proprietary technology, up-to-the-minute research and unique Automated Financial Modeling software simulate the impact of different decisions on people’s personal finances, enabling millions of people to make smart financial decisions. The company has created dozens of calculators and tools spanning the full range of personal finance options including home buying, retirement planning, life insurance, personal loans, student loans, credit cards, loan refinance, taxes, finding a financial advisor and investing. These tools live on SmartAsset’s website and are embedded in relevant content on financial publisher websites via the Captivate tool. The company furthers its mission of helping people make smart financial decisions by connecting them to financial advisors via the SmartAdvisor service. In addition to these tools, an in-house editorial team creates thousands of educational articles and data-driven studies.

Priceonomics

Seed Round in 2012
Priceonomics Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2011, that specializes in providing price guides for a wide range of used products. Its services help individuals determine fair prices for buying and selling items, including appliances, electronics, vehicles, and various other categories. By researching past transactions from online platforms, Priceonomics generates price estimates that enable users to make informed decisions and avoid overpaying or selling items for less than their worth. The platform is designed to assist customers in navigating the complexities of the second-hand market, enhancing their confidence in transactions on sites like Craigslist and eBay. With plans to expand its offerings further, Priceonomics aims to cover an even broader array of products, ensuring that users have access to accurate pricing information for anything they wish to buy or sell.

Priceonomics

Seed Round in 2012
Priceonomics Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2011, that specializes in providing price guides for a wide range of used products. Its services help individuals determine fair prices for buying and selling items, including appliances, electronics, vehicles, and various other categories. By researching past transactions from online platforms, Priceonomics generates price estimates that enable users to make informed decisions and avoid overpaying or selling items for less than their worth. The platform is designed to assist customers in navigating the complexities of the second-hand market, enhancing their confidence in transactions on sites like Craigslist and eBay. With plans to expand its offerings further, Priceonomics aims to cover an even broader array of products, ensuring that users have access to accurate pricing information for anything they wish to buy or sell.

Priceonomics

Seed Round in 2011
Priceonomics Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2011, that specializes in providing price guides for a wide range of used products. Its services help individuals determine fair prices for buying and selling items, including appliances, electronics, vehicles, and various other categories. By researching past transactions from online platforms, Priceonomics generates price estimates that enable users to make informed decisions and avoid overpaying or selling items for less than their worth. The platform is designed to assist customers in navigating the complexities of the second-hand market, enhancing their confidence in transactions on sites like Craigslist and eBay. With plans to expand its offerings further, Priceonomics aims to cover an even broader array of products, ensuring that users have access to accurate pricing information for anything they wish to buy or sell.

Buxfer

Seed Round in 2007
Buxfer is the next-generation personal finance solution, taking money management to the web. Buxfer lets you monitor all your bank and credit card accounts at one single place. Transactions are automatically downloaded every night and categorized. Buxfer's spending reports let you dig into your past spending, drill down into different categories and analyze spending trends. To plan future spending, you can create budgets, bill reminders and forecast your monthly cashflow. Buxfer integrates with your mobile device, letting you check account balances or add cash expenses while you are on the go. Co-founder Ashwin Bharambe got the idea for Buxfer after becoming frustrated with the swarm of IOUs pasted up on his refrigerator while he was at Carnegie Mellon University working towards his PH.D. Without a great way to track what he owed and what others owed him, Ashwin wrote a program to solve his problems that would eventually become social money website, Buxfer. Buxfer allows its users to track their personal finances as well as regulate and organize loans and IOUs to friends. It lets you keep totals of what you owe and what is owed to you, as well as divide bills.As an added bonus, users can log on to Buxfer using their Google, Yahoo, [Facebook](http://crunchbase.com/organization/facebook), AIM or Open ID logins to eliminate the account creation hassle. Buxfer also displays your spending habits in the form of a pie chart with slices designated to categories like food, leisure, rent or whatever you want. It has auto tagging which places your bills in the correct category. Buxfer is something of a Quicken for a younger generation, especially after it launched its Facebook application. As of August 2007 Buxfer offers payment integration through Amazon payment's site. Competitors, [Wesabe](http://crunchbase.com/organization/wesabe) and [Billmonk](http://crunchbase.com/organization/billmonk) also have payment integration while [PayPal](http://crunchbase.com/organization/paypal) is the clear leader in online transactions and transactions made between friends. Buxfer is a Y Combinator company which has grown since its launch to include some impressive data visuals. As of November 2009, Buxfer had tracked $1.66 billion in over 10.33 million transactions.