Transforming the lives of America’s underbanked and unbanked through fair and responsible loans. Loans up to $4,000 in California, Texas, Arizona, and Illinois.
Location: United States, California, San Francisco
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $168.7M
Founded date: 2014
Investors 3
| Date | Name | Website |
| 24.07.2020 | Accelerato... | accelerato... |
| - | LEAP Globa... | leapglobal... |
| - | FirstMark ... | firstmarkc... |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 30.10.2019 | - | $130M | - |
| 24.07.2019 | - | $28.7M | - |
| 25.06.2019 | - | $10M | - |
Mentions in press and media 7
| Date | Title | Description |
| 10.12.2019 | Fintech startup Aura reaches a major milestone with disbursement of 500,000th affordable loan to hard-working Americans | We wrote about Aura back in October when the fintech startup secured $130 million credit facility to provide affordable loans to hard-working Americans. Today, Aura announced it has reached a new milestone with disbursement of 500,000th loa... |
| 30.10.2019 | Fintech startup Aura secures $130 million credit facility to provide affordable loans to hard-working Americans | We’ve covered Aura many times on site. The San Francisco, CA-based startup is one of the few tech companies giving helping hands to millions of America’s hard-working families in need of affordable loans. Today,most people lack access to sa... |
| 24.07.2019 | Fintech startup Aura closes $28.7 million financing from Angel Island Capital to provide affordable loans to hard-working | Millions of working families in America lack access to safe and affordable loans and are vulnerable to predatory lenders. Aura is a San Francisco, California-based financial technology startup on a mission to reverse this trend by providing... |
| 24.07.2019 | Aura Closes $28.7M Expansion Loan from Angel Island Capital | Aura, a San Francisco, CA-based mission-driven financial technology company that offers affordable loans to hard-working families, closed $28.7m in residual debt financing from Angel Island Capital. The company intends to use the funds to s... |
| 25.06.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, June 25, 2019 | Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. China’s biggest startups are leaving Oracle and IBM for Made in China technology. Most technology companies in the Western world have the ambition... |
| 25.06.2019 | Fintech startup Aura secures $10 million investment led by Prudential Financial to provide affordable loans to more people | Aura, a fintech startup that provides affordable, credit-building loans to America’s working families, has raised a $10 million investment funding to scale and provide more loans to more borrowers. The latest round was led by Prudential Fin... |
| 25.06.2019 | Aura Receives $10M Investment from Prudential Financial | Aura, a San Francisco, CA-based mission-driven financial technology company that offers affordable loans to hard-working families, received a $10m investment from Prudential Financial (NYSE: Pru). The company intends to use the funds to sca... |