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Propel, Inc

Propel's mission is to enable Americans with low income to improve their financial health. Propel’s free app, Providers (formerly Fresh EBT), is used by over five million Americans across the country each month. Propel is a for-profit company, originally founded through a fellowship at Blue Ridge Labs @Robin Hood Foundation. Propel’s investors include nonprofits, mission-oriented investors, and top-tier venture capitalists: Financial Health Network, Andreessen Horowitz, Nyca Partners, Flourish Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, and more. Propel is based in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Founding Year
2014
Headquarters
Brooklyn
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United States
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Total Funding Amount
$68.25M
Funds that Investested

Flourish Ventures

Flourish Ventures is an evergreen fund investing in companies that responsibly harness the power of technology to build a fair and customer-centric financial sector.
Pre-Seed
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SciFi VC

Max and Nellie Levchin’s venture fund that partners with exceptional founders solving hard problems that require intense curiosity, intellectual depth, and often, science.
Pre-Seed
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Restive Ventures

Invests in early stage fintech companies in the US
Pre-Seed
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Series A
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Mischief

Early stage venture fund.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
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Salesforce Ventures

For the most enterprising founders.
Pre-Seed
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Kleiner Perkins

Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
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Serena Ventures

Founded by the tennis legend Serena Williams as an investment vehicle to empower historically overlooked people and markets.
Pre-Seed
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Omidyar Network

Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.
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Investors that Investested

Alex Rampell

General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Alex focuses on investing in financial services. Prior to joining the firm, Alex co-founded multiple companies including Affirm ($AFRM), which he co-founded with Max Levchin, FraudEliminator (acquired by McAfee in 2006), Point, TrialPay (acquired by Visa in 2015), TXN (acquired by Envestnest in 2019), and Yub (acquired by Coupons.com in 2013). Holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Harvard University.
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Hans Morris

Managing Partner, Nyca Partners
Managing partner of Nyca Partners, a fintech VC in New York and San Francisco founded in 2014, which has invested in approximately 90 companies and is currently investing from its fourth fund.
Pre-Seed
Seed
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Alexa von Tobel

Founder and Managing Partner, Inspired Capital Partners
Alexa founded Inspired Capital in 2019 with the aim of helping Seed and Series A consumer and enterprise tech businesses become category-defining companies. Alexa has seen success with investments in B2B fintech Rho Technologies, social calendar platform Saturn and customer-focused AI startup Forethought. She draws on over a decade of experience as the founder and CEO of LearnVest, a learning platform that helped bring personal finance to the masses on its way to raising over $75 million in venture capital before being acquired by Northwestern Mutual in one of the biggest fintech acquisitions of the 2010s. Beyond her role at Inspired, Alexa is a New York Times-bestselling author, writes as a columnist for Inc. and hosts both ‘The Founders Project with Alexa von Tobel’ and 'Inspired in 15.' She has been recognized on the cover of Forbes, Fortune's 40 Under 40, Forbes 30 Under 30, Inc. Magazine's 30 Under 30, and is a Henry Crown Fellow.
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Serena Williams

CEO, Serena Ventures
Serena Williams is an American professional tennis player who is currently ranked No. 1 in women's singles tennis. Williams is also the reigning French Open, US Open, WTA Tour Championships and Olympic ladies singles champion. In 2008, Williams helped to fund the construction of the Serena Williams Secondary School in Matooni, Kenya. She received a Celebrity Role Model Award from Avon Foundation in 2003 for work in breast cancer. Williams has also been involved in a number of clinics at schools and community centers, particularly those which have programs focusing on at-risk youth; she has also won the "Young Heroes Award" from Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater L.A. and Inland (2003) and the "Family Circle and Prudential Financial Player Who Makes a Difference Award" (2004).
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