Overview
Location
United States, California, Los Angeles
Total raised
$92M
Funding Rounds 2
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| Jul 21, 2011 | Funding round | $19M |
Mentions in press and media 10
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| Jul 14, 2015 | ZestFinance launches Basix online loans for people with ‘near-prime’ credit history | Startup ZestFinance today announced Basix, a new program for giving loans online to people with what it calls “near-prime” credit history — those who are ineligible for a loan from a bank by just a little bit. People anywhere in the U.S. wi... |
| Jul 19, 2014 | How Smart Lending Dumbed Down | Julia Kukiewicz Contributor Editor’s note: Julia Kukiewicz edits UK-based Choose.net, a price comparison service that provides guides, product reviews and comparison tables for consumers. Between 2008 and 2010, Wonga was doing something min... |
| Apr 26, 2012 | ZestCash Debuts New Big Data Underwriting Models To Determine Consumer Credit Risk | ZestCash, a company founded by former Google CIO and VP of engineering Douglas Merrill to legitimize the payday loan industry, is announcing a new patent pending credit decisioning model to better analyze credit risk. ZestCash also introduc... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Trouble getting a loan from your bank? ZestCash gets $73M to help the underdogs | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! For most people, getting a loan requires a clean ... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Former Google CIO Raises $73 Million To Reform Payday Loans With Data-Driven Startup ZestCash | ZestCash, a company founded by former Google CIO and VP of engineering Douglas Merrill to legitimize the payday loan industry, has raised $73 million round of funding. The company raised $23 million in an equity round led by Matrix Partners... |
| Jul 21, 2011 | ZestCash Gets $19M For Lending Startup | Hollywood-based ZestCash, a startup offering up short-term, consumer loans online, has scored $19M in funding today, including $11M in a Series A equity round plus $8M in venture debt. The equity came from Lightspeed Venture Partners and GR... |
| Feb 14, 2011 | Can You Really Build A Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley? | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He started his first company in 1999 and was headquartered in London, leaving in 2005 and selling to a publicly traded French service... |
| Oct 12, 2010 | Former Google CIO Douglas Merrill Wants To Reform Payday Loans With ZestCash | With more than 60 million Americans considered “underbanked,” meaning they have no access to credit or conventional banks, there have been a plethora of companies that have emerged to help better serve this community through technology. Gre... |
| Oct 12, 2010 | Ex-Googler Douglas Merrill takes on payday lenders with ZestCash | Douglas Merrill helped launch Google into the online-payments business with Google Checkout. Now he’s looking to help people afford to shop online — or anywhere, for that matter — with a new short-term lending startup called ZestCash, whose... |
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FAQ about Zest Cash
How much funding has Zest Cash raised?
Zest Cash has raised $92M in total across 2 funding rounds.
What funding rounds has Zest Cash raised?
Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of Zest Cash, among them a funding round of $19M on Jul 21, 2011.
What has the press written about Zest Cash?
Parsers VC has collected 10 articles mentioning Zest Cash, among them “ZestFinance launches Basix online loans for people with ‘near-prime’ credit history” (Jul 14, 2015) and “How Smart Lending Dumbed Down” (Jul 19, 2014).
Is Zest Cash still active?
Yes, Zest Cash is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 14, 2015.