Fifteenth
Seed Round in 2025
Fifteenth is a technology company that specializes in tax planning and filing services for individuals with complex financial portfolios, particularly those in the tech industry. The company's AI-powered platform integrates with major systems like Workday, offering tailored tax strategies, expert consultation, and optimization solutions for various income sources such as private and public equity, rental incomes, and angel investments.
Fizz offers a debit card and accompanying mobile app targeted at U.S. college students to build credit while managing finances. The platform provides credit-building tools, reward tracking, and cash-back on purchases to help students establish a credit profile, gain financial independence, and pursue financial stability.
Kudos Technology
Series A in 2024
Kudos Technology offers an AI-powered smart wallet service designed to enhance consumer rewards and benefits during purchases. The service efficiently tracks credit card rewards and analyzes data from multiple cards across numerous online merchants. When consumers are ready to check out, the smart assistant identifies the optimal card to use, maximizing the rewards and benefits associated with each transaction. This technology empowers customers to easily manage their payment options, ensuring they select the most advantageous card for every purchase.
Maza is a mobile application offering digital banking services and financial products. It provides users with access to savings accounts, NFC-enabled prepaid cards for online or offline purchases, bill payments, and money transfers, aiming to deliver a seamless and cost-effective banking experience.
Method Financial
Series A in 2023
Method Financial delivers a financial connectivity API for consumer liability data and payments. The platform connects consumer credit and liability accounts, enabling real-time data access, end-to-end refinance experiences, and secure, one-click checkout. It supports lenders, fintechs, and financial institutions in building personalized lending and financial management solutions, powered by real-time credit data, persistent connections, and integrated payment rails, allowing users to securely link and retrieve information on all their liabilities.
Kudos Technology
Seed Round in 2022
Kudos Technology offers an AI-powered smart wallet service designed to enhance consumer rewards and benefits during purchases. The service efficiently tracks credit card rewards and analyzes data from multiple cards across numerous online merchants. When consumers are ready to check out, the smart assistant identifies the optimal card to use, maximizing the rewards and benefits associated with each transaction. This technology empowers customers to easily manage their payment options, ensuring they select the most advantageous card for every purchase.
Starlight
Seed Round in 2022
Starlight provides an integrated platform for businesses to manage digital assets and operate in the crypto economy. The solution supports setting up wallets, purchasing crypto, onboarding team members, and tracking expenses through a single security tool, giving organizations control over wallets and funds while simplifying governance and financial management.
Domain Money
Venture Round in 2022
Domain Money offers an integrated platform for investing in stocks and cryptocurrencies, earning interest on assets, securing loans against them, and spending with a crypto rewards credit card.
Clara
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Clara is a Latin American fintech company specializing in corporate spending management. It offers locally-issued corporate cards, bill pay services, financing solutions, and a software platform designed to streamline expense reporting and provide real-time insights into spending.
Affirm is a financial technology company that offers consumer installment loans at the point of sale through its Buy with Affirm platform. Shoppers can select Affirm at checkout and pay for purchases in fixed monthly installments with real-time decisioning and upfront, transparent terms, avoiding hidden fees. The company provides a digital and mobile‑first platform that includes a point‑of‑sale payment solution for merchants and a consumer app, and it partners with thousands of merchants across categories such as home, travel, electronics, apparel, and beauty. Revenue comes from merchant networks and related services, including virtual card networks, with the majority of business generated in the United States, and ongoing activity in Canada and other regions. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco with an additional office in Chicago, Affirm aims to offer an accessible alternative to traditional credit that improves budgeting and financial clarity for consumers.
Chapter
Seed Round in 2020
Chapter operates a Medicare navigation platform that provides advisory services to help seniors select health coverage. The service presents comprehensive plan comparisons, enrollment assistance, and ongoing support, tailoring recommendations to individual needs, cost considerations, and coverage preferences. The platform is designed to align incentives between Medicare advisors and consumers by delivering independent guidance that is not influenced by economic relationships. Through digital tools and personalized guidance, Chapter enables older adults to navigate Medicare options efficiently, supporting informed decision-making and long-term healthcare security.
Even.com is focused on enhancing financial resilience for employees, addressing the challenges faced by over half of Americans living paycheck to paycheck. The company develops a mobile budgeting application that automatically budgets upcoming bills, allowing users to manage their spending habits effectively. By partnering with employers, Even provides its services as a benefit, which not only supports employees in making ends meet, paying down debt, and saving money but also helps employers improve employee retention. The business operates transparently, ensuring that it profits only when its customers do. Even.com is based in Oakland, California, and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Grove is a personal trainer for the client's moneyThe company assesses where you are today and create a plan to make the client confident about their money. Through proprietary software combined with a team of Certified Financial Planners, Grove is able to offer personalized advice at a fraction of the price of traditional financial advisors.
ThriveCash
Seed Round in 2017
Thrive is a technology company focused on creating innovative financial products tailored for students and young professionals, emphasizing their future potential rather than their past financial histories. Founded by individuals who faced financial challenges while pursuing their education in the United States, Thrive aims to address the needs of students who lack credit or substantial financial support. The company's flagship application allows students to access funds based on their job offers, enabling them to cover essential expenses such as security deposits, moving costs, and credit card payments while still in school. By investing in human potential, Thrive seeks to empower the next generation to thrive financially as they transition into their professional lives.
Grove is a personal trainer for the client's moneyThe company assesses where you are today and create a plan to make the client confident about their money. Through proprietary software combined with a team of Certified Financial Planners, Grove is able to offer personalized advice at a fraction of the price of traditional financial advisors.
Founded in 2015, Dave is a fintech company based in Los Angeles, California. It operates a mobile application that provides users with banking services, including overdraft protection, early access to paychecks, and credit building tools. The app aims to improve financial wellness by offering transparent, fee-free banking and has grown to serve over 12 million members since its inception.
Founded in 2015, Dave is a fintech company based in Los Angeles, California. It operates a mobile application that provides users with banking services, including overdraft protection, early access to paychecks, and credit building tools. The app aims to improve financial wellness by offering transparent, fee-free banking and has grown to serve over 12 million members since its inception.
LendUp is an online lending service focused on improving financial health for individuals who are often excluded from traditional banking due to poor credit or unstable incomes. Founded by Sasha Orloff and Jake Rosenberg, the company offers a range of credit products, including loans and credit cards, designed specifically for the emerging middle class. LendUp integrates educational resources into its offerings, providing borrowers with the tools needed to enhance their financial literacy and build credit over time. By leveraging in-house technology, LendUp aims to deliver affordable and accessible financial solutions, allowing clients to break free from cycles of debt and achieve better financial outcomes.
Clarity Money
Series A in 2016
Clarity Money, Inc. is a financial technology company based in New York, founded in 2016. The company has developed an artificial intelligence-powered application that assists individuals in managing their personal finances. The Clarity Money app offers users tools to analyze their spending, lower bills, cancel unnecessary subscriptions, transfer funds, and establish savings accounts. It also provides insights into credit scores and promotes greater transparency in financial management. By leveraging advanced data science and AI, Clarity Money aims to empower consumers to make informed financial decisions and optimize their financial well-being. In April 2018, Clarity Money became a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Bank USA.
Human Interest
Seed Round in 2016
Human Interest is a retirement savings provider focused on small and medium-sized businesses, offering a 401(k) platform that simplifies administration and compliance through end-to-end technology. The platform automatically creates employee accounts, syncs payroll deductions, and provides personalized investment guidance, enabling SMBs to offer affordable, easy-to-manage retirement plans; the company has served thousands of businesses across the United States and was founded in 2015 in San Francisco by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee.
LendUp is an online lending service focused on improving financial health for individuals who are often excluded from traditional banking due to poor credit or unstable incomes. Founded by Sasha Orloff and Jake Rosenberg, the company offers a range of credit products, including loans and credit cards, designed specifically for the emerging middle class. LendUp integrates educational resources into its offerings, providing borrowers with the tools needed to enhance their financial literacy and build credit over time. By leveraging in-house technology, LendUp aims to deliver affordable and accessible financial solutions, allowing clients to break free from cycles of debt and achieve better financial outcomes.
Human Interest
Seed Round in 2015
Human Interest is a retirement savings provider focused on small and medium-sized businesses, offering a 401(k) platform that simplifies administration and compliance through end-to-end technology. The platform automatically creates employee accounts, syncs payroll deductions, and provides personalized investment guidance, enabling SMBs to offer affordable, easy-to-manage retirement plans; the company has served thousands of businesses across the United States and was founded in 2015 in San Francisco by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee.
Credit Karma
Funding Round in 2014
Founded in 2007, Credit Karma is a personal finance company dedicated to helping individuals make informed decisions about their money. With over 100 million members, it offers free credit scores and reports, personalized financial recommendations, and tools for managing various aspects of credit and financial health.
Standard Treasury
Series A in 2014
Standard Treasury is a financial technology company focused on simplifying the banking experience for businesses, particularly small enterprises and startups. By offering a financial application that utilizes standard application programming interfaces (APIs), the company facilitates smoother interactions between businesses and their banks. Their services include electronic checks, foreign exchange, rate quoting, and other essential banking functionalities, allowing businesses to manage financial transactions more efficiently. Standard Treasury aims to eliminate the complexities often associated with integrating banking services, which traditionally require cumbersome processes like sending large files with extensive specifications. Through its innovative approach, Standard Treasury seeks to streamline financial decision-making for its clients.
SmartAsset
Series A in 2014
SmartAsset is an online platform providing consumer-focused financial information and tools. It connects consumers with financial advisors via SmartAdvisor, reaching approximately 75 million people monthly through educational content and personalized calculators. The company aims to empower users to make informed decisions about personal finance, including home buying, retirement planning, and taxes.
ImpulseSave
Seed Round in 2012
ImpulseSave is a technology company that offers a web and mobile platform designed to help individuals save and invest money impulsively. By integrating a real savings account, the platform allows users to set specific financial goals and encourages them to save regularly through automated reminders via emails or notifications. ImpulseSave aims to empower consumers in an increasingly competitive market by utilizing human instincts related to impulsivity, turning them into positive financial behaviors rather than detrimental spending habits. By creating an engaging and user-friendly experience, ImpulseSave helps users achieve their savings objectives more effectively and rapidly.
LendUp is an online lending service focused on improving financial health for individuals who are often excluded from traditional banking due to poor credit or unstable incomes. Founded by Sasha Orloff and Jake Rosenberg, the company offers a range of credit products, including loans and credit cards, designed specifically for the emerging middle class. LendUp integrates educational resources into its offerings, providing borrowers with the tools needed to enhance their financial literacy and build credit over time. By leveraging in-house technology, LendUp aims to deliver affordable and accessible financial solutions, allowing clients to break free from cycles of debt and achieve better financial outcomes.
SmartAsset
Debt Financing in 2012
SmartAsset is an online platform providing consumer-focused financial information and tools. It connects consumers with financial advisors via SmartAdvisor, reaching approximately 75 million people monthly through educational content and personalized calculators. The company aims to empower users to make informed decisions about personal finance, including home buying, retirement planning, and taxes.
BillGuard
Series A in 2010
BillGuard, Inc. is a personal finance company that developed a mobile application designed to help users manage and secure their finances. The app, available on both iOS and Android platforms, allows users to track their spending, monitor credit for fraudulent activities, and access various identity theft protection services. Features include alerts for card and bank fraud, black market surveillance, credit monitoring, and data breach notifications. Additionally, it provides tools for transaction analysis and charge identification, leveraging crowdsourced data, user feedback, and proprietary algorithms to enhance user awareness. Founded in 2009 by Yaron Samid and Raphael Ouzan, BillGuard was initially known as CrowdSpot before rebranding in 2010. The company operated out of New York and Tel Aviv until its acquisition by Prosper Marketplace in October 2015.
Credit Karma
Series A in 2009
Founded in 2007, Credit Karma is a personal finance company dedicated to helping individuals make informed decisions about their money. With over 100 million members, it offers free credit scores and reports, personalized financial recommendations, and tools for managing various aspects of credit and financial health.
Expensify
Seed Round in 2009
Expensify provides a cloud-based expense management platform for businesses of all sizes. Its patented SmartScan technology automates receipt tracking and expense creation. Users can import expenses from credit cards and emails, submit reports via email, and reimburse online using QuickBooks or Direct Deposit.
KnowledgeFirst
Series B in 2000
KnowledgeFirst, an Internet education-related financial and transactional services marketplace for college and graduate students.
KnowledgeFirst
Series A in 2000
KnowledgeFirst, an Internet education-related financial and transactional services marketplace for college and graduate students.