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| Sep 2, 2025 | New Campaign from Propel Spotlights 1-800 Number Still Used by Millions to Manage Their SNAP Benefits | "Goodbye 1-800. Hello Propel." Brand Campaign for Propel
Propel's first national TV campaign spotlights the gap between modern digital technology and outdated systems BROOKLYN, NY, UNITED STATES, September 2, 2025 /EINPresswire.co... |
| Oct 3, 2023 | The ‘Found Money’ Innovators: How Startups Are Unlocking Cash For Financial Resilience | Business and financial conceptgetty |
| Apr 13, 2022 | Inflation is hurting women at the grocery store. Some are eating less in order to feed their families. | This story was originally published by The 19th.
The price sticker startled Tammy Ferrell. She looked at the variety pack of FritoLay chips again and again. Her forehead wrinkled. Surely, she must have misunderstood—the chips used to be $12... |
| Jul 27, 2021 | A One-Stop-Shop To Manage Government Benefits, Other Income, Side-By-Side | Seven years ago, Jimmy Chen founded fintech startup Propel with an app aimed at Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients. Specifically, it helped them check their balances from their smartphone, as well as browse deals at... |
| Dec 30, 2020 | 6 Trends In Social Enterprise And Impact Investing In 2020 | Barry Givens of Cox Enterprises Social Impact Accelerator powered by TechstarsCox Enterprises |
| May 7, 2020 | It's Time To Improve Banking Access For Americans | While coronavirus and COVID-19 have certainly made our lives inconvenient, having to deal with social distancing is the least most of us should worry about. The economic upheaval caused by this virus continues playing out in a horrific, slo... |
| Apr 17, 2019 | Kids on 45th just raised millions in seed funding to sell lightly used kids clothes — sight unseen | A seemingly endless number of startups has attracted funding in recent years to make life easier for people with money to spend. They’re sold nice clothes, chic shoes, cool office space, on-demand car services, on-demand laundry services, o... |
| Apr 4, 2019 | A fintech VC explains how to go from big idea to big money (VB Live) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
What’s the difference between fintech startups that fail and the ones that disrupt entire industries? Find out first-hand from VCs and ... |
| Apr 4, 2019 | A fintech VC explains how to go from big idea to big money (VB Live) | What’s the difference between fintech startups that fail and the ones that disrupt entire industries? Find out first-hand from VCs and successful founders in this VB Live event, and get your own questions answered, too. It’s everything you ... |
| Mar 6, 2019 | Omidyar Network spins out its fintech investment arm as Flourish, with up to $300 million | After twelve years spent investing in impact-oriented financial services startups around the globe, the Omidyar Network, which serves as the family investment office for eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, is spinning off its financial inclusion i... |
| Feb 11, 2019 | Стартап дня: приложение для учёта расходов на продукты питания Propel | Показывает баланс на карте, публикует купоны на скидки.
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| Jan 31, 2019 | Kleiner Perkins gets back to early-stage with its $600M 18th fund | “KP used to be a small team doing hands-on company building. We’re moving away from being this institution with multiple products and really just focusing on early-stage venture capital,” Kleiner Perkins partner Ilya Fushman tells me. Indee... |
| Dec 18, 2018 | Brooklyn-Based Fresh EBT App Maker Propel Raises $12.8 Million | Propel, the company behind the Fresh EBT app, has raised $12.8 million in Series A funding. This round of funding was led by Nyca Partners. Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, and Omidyar Network also participated in this round. And the c... |
| Dec 14, 2018 | Term Sheet — Friday, December 14 | THE RISE OF THE FAMILY OFFICE
While no one was looking, family offices have transformed into financial titans.
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Family offices control $4 trillion of assets, which is more than h... |
| Dec 14, 2018 | Daily funding roundup - December 14th, 2018 | NuID raised $2.5M; Aiera raised $3.5M; Block Renovations raised $4.5M; Propel raised $12.8M
NuID: NuID is a blockchain cyber security and digital identity startup. NuID has raised $2.5 million in seed funding at a $20 million pre-money valu... |
| Dec 14, 2018 | Propel raises $12.8M for its free app to manage government benefits | Propel, maker of the Fresh EBT app for managing food stamps and other benefits, announced today that it has raised $12.8 million in Series A funding.
Fresh EBT (the EBT stands for the Electronics Transfer Benefit card, which is how food sta... |
| Apr 27, 2018 | Why the tech industry should care about the farm bill being drafted right now | For some food stamp recipients, 2018 could shape up to be a particularly aggravating year, including for one of the only startups trying to find ways to innovate on the ways that food stamps are delivered and managed.
It’s not something tha... |
| Mar 9, 2018 | 5 finalists announced for Make It in Brooklyn pitch competition | Who will be the next big startup out of Brooklyn? On the night of Wednesday, March 21, the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership will host its own Shark Tank–style pitch competition featuring five Brooklyn startups.
Each quarter the Downtown Brookl... |
| Jan 22, 2018 | These 20 startups are the rising stars of Brooklyn: realLIST 2018 | Without fail, one of the first questions people ask about new startup is: “Are they for real?”
So we at Technical.ly made a list to help answer the big question, called the realLIST. It’s an annual ranking of the top 10 young startups in Br... |
| Oct 18, 2017 | SafeTraces Raises $6.5m Series A for Traceability Tech Led By Omidyar | San Francisco-based traceability technology SafeTraces has raised $6.5 million in a Series A round led by impact investor Omidyar Network. Agrifood tech investors S2G Ventures and Maumee Ventures, along with UL Ventures, City Light Capital,... |
| Oct 10, 2017 | Four behavioral economics strategies for improving consumer financial health | Kristen Berman Contributor
Kristen Berman is a co-founder of Duke's Common Cents Lab with Professor Dan Ariely. Common Cents is generously supported by MetLife Foundation. Kristen was on the founding team of Google's behavioral economics te... |
| Oct 5, 2017 | Startups say this fintech ‘lab’ is giving them needed access to Wall Street and regulators | Banks want to know what around the corner is trying to put them out of business, so it’s no surprise that a spate of fintech-focused accelerator programs has sprung into existence in recent years. For example, Deutsche Bank just opened is f... |
| Jul 25, 2017 | A strong quarter of startup fundraising in Brooklyn, with $43 million raised | Five companies each raised more than $5 million in Brooklyn in the second quarter of 2017, which saw 17 companies raise more than $43 million in total.
Leading companies were goTenna, with $7.5 million, Voodoo Manufacturing, with $6.7 milli... |
| May 11, 2017 | Agtech Funding Sheet: Startups Raise Nearly $130m in 2 Weeks | Soylent, the meal replacement drink, has raised $50 million in Series B funding in a round led by GV (Google Ventures) and joined by another new investor, family office Tao Capital Partners. Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Lerer ... |
| Apr 27, 2017 | Term Sheet — Thursday, April 27 | PETER PAN NEVER HAD TO GROW UP
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They’re so exuberant, one VC even declared on CNBC that this year “could be one... |
| Apr 27, 2017 | Propel raises $4M to make the social safety net more tech savvy and user friendly | Some big names are making an investment in food stamps — specifically in Propel, a startup that helps food stamp recipients manage their benefits.
Propel is announcing that it has raised $4 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ... |
| Apr 27, 2017 | Propel Raises $4M in Seed Funding | Propel, a Brooklyn, NY-based developer of software to help food stamp recipients manage their benefits, raises $4M in seed funding.
Backers included Andreessen Horowitz, Omidyar Network, Kevin Durant’s The Durant Company, Max Levchin’s SciF... |
| Apr 25, 2017 | A call to action for tech | Eric Liu Contributor
Eric Liu is a co-founder and U.S. Executive Director at Bayes Impact.
Tech is uniting against President Trump.
Indeed, a host of companies have come out in opposition to the new administration. From 127 tech firms teami... |
| Jan 17, 2017 | On the Market: Here’s who’s hiring in Brooklyn tech | On the Market is a brand-new column where we highlight noteworthy job openings and the people who are lookin’. Got a submission? Email us and tell us why it belongs in the roundup.
Common is hiring a Director of Procurement.
The quickly-gro... |
| Jan 13, 2017 | Propel wins $100,000 grant from Future Cities Accelerator to tackle poverty | Propel has been on a roll lately.
Last month, the social impact startup, which is based in Cobble Hill and makes apps for SNAP (aka “food stamps”) enrollees, won the Make it in BK pitch competition. And just recently, it was named Civic Sta... |
| Dec 5, 2016 | EBT startup Propel wins Make It in BK pitch competition | Thursday night in a velvet-curtained, macabre-chic bar, startup Propel won the winter Make It in BK pitch competition.
“Really hard, really tough we think they’re all great, we’d like to give money to all of them but it was a unanimous deci... |
| Oct 22, 2015 | Martin O’Malley, the ‘startup candidate,’ meets area startups | Startups are a good metaphor for Martin O’Malley’s presidential campaign. Or at least, that’s the metaphor the team was going with as the candidate hosted a civic tech pitch event at the Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center on Wednesday... |
| Jan 16, 2015 | Civic-minded startups from FastFWD’s 2nd accelerator class pitch for city pilots | “For too long, social entrepreneurs haven’t had these guides,” First Round Capital partner Josh Kopelman said Thursday to FastFWD’s second graduating class.
The social enterprise accelerator is a collaborative effort among the City of Phila... |
| Sep 18, 2014 | Meet 9 companies in the 2nd FastFWD social enterprise accelerator class | The City of Philadelphia, GoodCompany Group and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative announced the second class of its social enterprise accelerator, FastFWD, today. Each company is focused on improving public safety.
The second class kicks... |
| Banking the Unbanked: The Promise of FinTech | In a time where two billion people worldwide are living outside the financial system, we are entering a golden age for empowering the underbanked. Traditional banking is being expanded to reach every corner of the globe, and the FinTech ind... |
