Beam, formerly Edquity, provides flexible cloud-based technology that increases equitable and fast delivery of critical public benefits, emergency aid, and cash assistance to our most vulnerable populations. Our platform allows governments, nonprofits, colleges/universities, and philanthropic organizations to administer a wide range of financial assistance programs, from rental relief and public utility benefits to emergency cash assistance with software that simplifies applications, aids decisioning and processing, facilitates payments, and streamlines compliance, reporting, and case management into a single system. Beam, formerly Edquity, currently provides digital infrastructure for 53 governments, institutions, and nonprofits in more than 16 states. Since 2020, Beam, formerly Edquity, has administered over $180 million to 300,000 households. To learn more, visit https://www.bybeam.co/.
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2016
Investors 2
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| 18.10.2023 | Combatting The Climate Crisis By Redesigning The Social Safe... | David Helene is the founder and CEO of Beam. getty Nearly every day, another state is celebrat... | forbes.com... |
| 11.08.2023 | America’s Social Safety Net Is Broken—Here’s How We Fix It W... | David Helene is the founder and CEO of Beam. getty The formal end of the Covid-19 emergency ma... | forbes.com... |
| 18.11.2022 | Beam Raises $6.4M in Series A Funding | Beam, a New York-based provider of an end-to-end platform that streamlines equitable public benefit ... | finsmes.co... |
| 17.11.2022 | Beam raises $6.4M to help citizens access safety net funds | Beam, a startup that helps citizens access government financial aid, has raised $6.4 million in Seri... | techcrunch... |