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Grid wants your tax refund to arrive on payday
A tax refund is a curious prize: you get your own money back, late. Grid turns that waiting game into a business, pairing paycheck adjustments with small cash advances.
Tilt Wants Your Paycheck to Tell a Better Credit Story
The former Empower Finance is turning bank-account activity into access to cash and credit. Its bet: a thin credit file can hide a perfectly capable borrower.
The Company Loaning Cannabis the Money Banks Won't Touch
Cannabis is legal in most of the country and still can't get a bank loan. FundCanna built a lending machine inside that gap - and now the institutions that stayed away are quietly following it in.
Albert
Albert is a Los Angeles-based personal finance app that bundles budgeting, banking, automated savings, investing, cash advances and human-plus-AI financial guidance into a single subscription. Founded in 2015 by Yinon Ravid and Andrzej Baraniak, it pairs software automation with real people - its 'Genius' experts - to help everyday Americans manage money, and has grown to serve tens of millions of users while raising roughly $177M, including a $100M Series C.
Clearco
Clearco is a Toronto-based fintech that gives ecommerce and direct-to-consumer brands fast, non-dilutive growth capital - founders raise money without giving up equity or signing personal guarantees. Using AI to read revenue, marketing spend and sales data, Clearco offers cash advances, invoice funding and rolling capacity repaid as a share of revenue. Founded in 2015 as Clearbanc by Michele Romanow and Andrew D'Souza, the company has deployed more than $3 billion to over 10,000 brands and, after a 2023 recapitalization, relaunched a rebuilt funding platform under CEO Andrew Curtis.