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| 08.05.2024 | Former Tesla Exec Leads New Climate Fintech: Interview With Tim Newell, CEO Of Aspiration | Share
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In this Interview with TechBullion, fintech and sustainability industry veteran Tim Newell, gives us an insight into the growing demand for climate-friendly financial services and how climate finance company As... |
| 31.03.2023 | Benjamin Lee of Ixora Ventures Says Startup Workers Need to Avoid Entitlement to Survive in New Financial Landscape | In the wake of widespread tech layoffs and bank failures, Benjamin Lee of Ixora believes that startups need to go ‘back to basics' in order to survive.
A reckoning is underway in the tech and financial industries as massive layoffs continue... |
| 09.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Chromologics raises $7.5m, Next Gen Foods dabbles in alt-dairy, Amazon shutters Go stores | This week in foodtech, natural food color company Chromologics raised seed funding and Singapore’s Next Gen Foods acquired an alt-dairy startup. Agtech funding was all about ecosystem restoration projects, while down in Australia, a cultiva... |
| 13.05.2022 | 4 Ways Companies Can Build Their ESG And Invest In Our Planet All Year Round | Co-founder of Cloud Paper, a company leading the drive toward the end of deforestation by providing tree-free paper alternatives. |
| 13.01.2022 | US fintech Current introduces high-yield savings where customers earn a 4.00% APY | As competition amid digital banks heats up, U.S. fintech Current is rolling out a new product designed to make its banking service more appealing. The company announced this morning it’s launching a new high-yield offering called “Interest”... |
| 12.01.2022 | Eco-Conscious Neo-Bank Aspiration Acquires Startup to Help Track Companies’ Carbon Footprints | L.A. fintech firm Aspiration, which offers an eco-friendly digital spin on consumer banking, has purchased Carbon Insights, a Denver-based startup that uses APIs to help financial institutions track carbon footprints.
The acquisition is Mar... |
| 16.12.2021 | InterPrivate III Financial Partners : Aspiration Secures $315 Million of Incremental Equity from Oaktree and Affiliates of Steve Ballmer in Advance of Closing Business Combination - Form 8-K | Aspiration Secures $315 Million of Incremental Equity from Oaktree and Affiliates of Steve
Ballmer in Advance of Closing Business Combination
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| 15.12.2021 | Aspiration Secures $315 Million of Incremental Equity from Oaktree and Affiliates of Steve Ballmer in Advance of Closing Business Combination | Aspiration (“Aspiration” or the “Company”), a global leader in Sustainability as a Service solutions for consumers and companies, and InterPrivate III Financial Partners Inc. (NYSE: IPVF) (“InterPrivate III”), a publicly-traded special purp... |
| 15.12.2021 | Leonardo DiCaprio-backed fintech Aspiration raises $315 mln ahead of closing SPAC deal | Dec 15 (Reuters) - Fintech startup Aspiration Partners Inc, backed by actors Robert Downey Jr and Leonardo DiCaprio, said on Wednesday it had raised $315 million from funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management and affiliates of former Micr... |
| 26.11.2021 | Jefa raises $2 million to offer digital accounts for women in LATAM | Fintech startup Jefa has raised a $2 million seed round to build a fintech startup offering digital accounts with a product specifically designed for women living in Latin America and the Caribbean. The company has managed to attract 115,00... |
| 04.11.2021 | Aspiration Launches Inaugural Climate Action Grants Program, Awarding $100,000 to Ten Grassroots Organizations Championing the Environment | Aspiration, the global leader in “Sustainability as a Service” products for consumers and companies, today announced the winners of the first-ever Aspiration Climate Action Grants program, distributing $100,000 to 10 global and domestic gra... |
| 15.10.2021 | Aspiration’s credit card launch is a critical step toward its profit aspirations | The news: Socially conscious US neobank Aspiration has debuted its first credit card offering, dubbed the “Aspiration Zero Credit Card,” CNBC reports.
More on this: Aspiration positions itself as the anti-bank and targets customers with equ... |
| 27.09.2021 | LA Clippers’ Partnership With Aspiration Will Create A Healthier, More Sustainable Community | On Monday, the Clippers announced a new partnership with Aspiration, a California-based online bank ... [+] determined to invest its resources in creating a healthier environment.LA Clippers |
| 20.08.2021 | Sustainability-focused fintech Aspiration announces public listing | US-based fintech Aspiration is going public via a SPAC with InterPrivate III Financial Partners Inc that will seek to raise over $400 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, per Business Wire.
What does it do? The green fintech straddles the s... |
| 19.08.2021 | Aspiration plans to go public via SPAC, all while reducing carbon footprints | Green fintech Aspiration, known for its sustainability practices in the payments space, announced a SPAC merger with InterPrivate III Financial Partners Inc on Wednesday that would vault the company to public status by year’s end.
Upon clos... |
| 18.08.2021 | This Celebrity-Backed, Anti-Fossil Fuel Bank Is Going Public Via SPAC | Aspiration, a banking company that's endeared itself to celebrities like Leonardo Di Caprio with its sustainable banking model, plans to go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in a deal valued at about ... |
| 18.08.2021 | InterPrivate III Financial Partners : ASPIRATION, A LEADING SUSTAINABILITY SERVICES PLATFORM FOR PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES, TO BECOME PUBLICLY TRADED VIA MERGER WITH INTERPRIVATE III FINANCIAL PARTNERS IN... | ASPIRATION, A LEADING SUSTAINABILITY SERVICES PLATFORM FOR PEOPLE AND BUSINESSES, TO BECOME PUBLICLY TRADED VIA MERGER WITH INTERPRIVATE III FINANCIAL PARTNERS INC.
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| 09.06.2021 | Are Fossil Fuels Funding Your Retirement? Bank.Green Tells You If Your Money Is Backing Climate Change | 7 1
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Many banking customers don’t realise that where they choose to save or invest money could make a difference when it comes to the climate crisis. It’s the premise of the divestment movement, which pressures the finan... |
| 24.05.2021 | Aspiration Announces Increase of Companywide Minimum Wage to $25 Effective in 2021 | Aspiration, the world's leader in “Sustainability as a Service” products for consumers and companies, announced today that it was raising its companywide minimum wage to $25.
“At Aspiration, our tools and products help our customers spend a... |
| 24.03.2021 | LA’s socially conscious bank challenger, Aspiration, launches a carbon offset credit card | Aspiration, the financial services business for socially conscious consumers, is back with another environmentally friendly offering for its customers — this time, it’s a credit card.
The Los Angeles-based company, which has raised roughly ... |
| 09.03.2021 | Alex Pomeroy: Investing For Impact | Alex Pomeroy, AGO Partners co-founderCourtesy of Alex Pomeroy |
| 27.02.2021 | Save Money & The Planet? Climate & FinTech Startup Creed To Debut Budget Planning & Emissions Tracking App | 3 Mins Read
Have you ever thought about how you could make a positive impact with your money? London-based startup Creed is about to debut its new mobile app aiming to do just that, combining finance with climate impact management. Features... |
| 27.02.2021 | Save Money & The Planet? Climate & FinTech Startup Creed To Debut Budget Planning & Emissions Tracking App | 1
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Have you ever thought about how you could make a positive impact with your money? London-based startup Creed is about to debut its new mobile app aiming to do just that, combining finance with climate impact management... |
| 18.02.2021 | Climate Fintech Is Coming | Digital financial technologies are begining to set their sights on building a greener world.getty |
| 05.02.2021 | Climate First Bank Opens In Florida With ESG-Forward Principles & Community Values-Based Services | 2 1
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A new values-based financial institution, Climate First Bank (In Organisation), will soon be opening its doors in Florida this year. The bank will support the community through ESG-forward principles, offering custo... |
| 02.02.2021 | ‘Iron Man’ launches new venture fund for sustainable tech | Renowned actor, known for his role as Iron Man in the popular Marvel series, Robert Downey Junior has launched Footprint Coalition Ventures, a new venture capital fund focused on investing in sustainable tech startups.
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| 02.02.2021 | Robert Downey Jr. Launches Venture Fund To ‘Catalyse’ Sustainable Tech Investment | 93 1
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Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr. has formed a new venture fund focused on sustainable technology. Launched on AngelList, the new rolling fund FootPrint Coalition Ventures aims to “catalyse more capital” to multip... |
| 02.02.2021 | ‘Iron Man’ launches new venture fund for sustainable tech | Renowned actor, known for his role as Iron Man in the popular Marvel series, Robert Downey Junior has launched Footprint Coalition Ventures, a new venture capital fund focused on investing in sustainable tech startups.
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| 27.01.2021 | Robert Downey Jr. backing Seattle bamboo toilet paper maker Cloud Paper as part of new VC effort | (Cloud Paper Photo)
Iron Man is a softy for sustainable toilet paper.
Actor Robert Downey Jr. launched two venture funds on Wednesday focused on sustainable technology, and one of the companies he’s backing is Seattle-based startup Cloud Pa... |
| 14.12.2020 | Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro | Sanchali Pal first woke up to the world’s climate crisis after watching the 2008 documentary Food Inc.
The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro, the Sequoia-backe... |
| 19.10.2020 | How To Use Sustainable Investing To Increase Your Civic Power | Hand with tree growing from pile of coins, concept for business, innovation, growth and moneygetty |
| 01.09.2020 | Nobody Wants An Online Bank (And Other Wisdom From Investing $100 Billion In Fintech) | A euro currency symbol sits on a digital banking exhibition at the Huawei Technologies Co. stand at ... [+] the CeBIT 2018 tech fair in Hanover, Germany.© 2018 Bloomberg Finance LP |
| 21.05.2020 | Aspiration, the LA-based fintech focused on conscious consumerism, raises $135 million | When former Bill Clinton speechwriter and political wunderkind Andrei Cherny launched Aspiration four years ago, the upstart fintech startup was one of Los Angeles’ early entrants into a financial services market dominated by players from E... |
| 21.05.2020 |
Aspiration Draws $135M More In Funding
| Los Angeles-based Aspiration, which offers up financial services, no-fee checking accounts, and a debit card focused on socially conscious spending, has raised $135M in funding, the company said Thursday. The Series C funding came from Alph... |
| 24.07.2019 | Online checking accounts woo millennials with cash back, no fees, and interest on your money, but anyone can take advantage | Personal Finance Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options.
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| 23.05.2019 | Online bank Simple makes things harder by removing bill pay | With a growing number of challenger banks taking on the U.S. market, one of the original startup banks, Simple — now owned by BBVA — has taken the unusual step of removing a core banking feature: bill pay. The company claimed the feature wa... |
| 20.02.2019 | A digital bank that's raised over $100 million will pay you to shop at do-good businesses like Apple and Nike | Aspiration
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Aspiration, an online bank founded on the idea that customers should pay what they think is fair, is rolling out a new banking service where consumers can gain additional... |
| 18.02.2019 | Финтехи, которых нет в России: вторая часть | Роман Бузько продолжает рассказывать про интересные иностранные финтехи, аналогов которых пока нет в России. В этот раз рассмотрим 14 проектов в трёх разных категориях.
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| 13.12.2017 |
Aspiration Gets $47M For Online Banking Efforts
| Los Angeles-based Aspiration, and online banking startup which calls itself "the financial firm with a conscience", said on Tuesday that it has raised $47M in a Series B funding round. The funding lase led by Social Impact Finance... |
| 12.12.2017 | Aspiration Grabs $47M Series B Funding |
LOS ANGELES, CA, Aspiration, the financial firm with a conscience, today announced it has raised a $47 million Series B funding round.
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| 12.12.2017 | Betting consumers are tired of bad bank behavior, Aspiration raises $47 million for its alternative | A who’s who of celebrities, investors and celebrity investors have come together to invest $47 million into Aspiration, the company launched by a former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton to challenge the traditional banking industry.
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| 12.12.2017 | Aspiration Raises Nearly $47M in Series B Funding | Aspiration, a Los Angeles, CA-based sustainable financial company, raised a $47m Series B funding.
The round, which brings Aspiration’s total funding to $67m, was led by Social Impact Finance, with participation from Allen and Company, Omid... |
| 26.04.2017 | Aspiration can now tell you the ‘social impact’ of your monthly spending | Looking for some insight into the societal cost of buying a cup of coffee, a double cheeseburger, or a pack of cigarettes? Well, financial services startup Aspiration now has an app for that.
The fascinating fintech company that was co-foun... |
| 13.01.2016 | Can Silicon Valley Save The American Dream? | I met Willie Carter back in December 2012. At the time, I was a speechwriter for President Obama and, as I prepared remarks for an upcoming trip to a manufacturing plant in Redford, Mich., I needed an ending.
The President often finishes hi... |
| 01.10.2015 | Aspiration, A “Merrill Lynch With A Conscience,” Gains Traction | As consumers, we can probably agree that bank profits are, well, gross. In the second quarter of this year alone, U.S. lenders wrung a record $43 billion from their customers.
It’s the kind of stat that a small but growing two-year-old, L.A... |
| 18.09.2015 | Aspiration Raises $15.5M in Series A Funding | Aspiration, a Los Angeles, CA-based online investment platform, raised $15.5m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Renren (NYSE: RENN) with participation from other investors GSV Capital, Capricorn Investment Group, IGSB Mission and Ma... |
| 17.09.2015 | Aspiration Receives $15.5M |
LOS ANGELES, CA, Aspiration, the next-generation financial services platform that combines making money and making a difference, announced today that it has closed $15.5 million in Series A funding.
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| 10.04.2015 | Aspiration’s Growth Shows The Appetite For More Financial Services | Defying its critics and building on the success of players like Wealthfront and Betterment, Aspiration, the new money management firm launched by Andrei Cherny, is off to a roaring start.
The company has 700 customers paying for its initial... |
| 19.10.2014 | Andrei Cherny’s ‘Aspiration’ Brings The Investment Tools Of The 1% To The Other 99% | At 39 years old, Andrei Cherny has advised presidents, consulted with Fortune 100 companies, worked as a state prosecutor, served as a Naval reserve officer, founded a think tank and policy journal, and written a couple of books. Now he’s a... |
| - | Leave your bank and go green with Aspiration | We put a big focus on pushing news with clean cars, but what about financial institutions that are investing in the fossil fuels that we try to avoid? With all of the convenience of standard banking, Aspiration is one way to ensure that you... |
| - | Aspiration’s credit card launch is a critical step toward its profit aspirations | The news: Socially conscious US neobank Aspiration has debuted its first credit card offering, dubbed the “Aspiration Zero Credit Card,” CNBC reports.
More on this: Aspiration positions itself as the anti-bank and targets customers with equ... |
