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MoCaFi moved the money. Keeping the business alive was harder.
MoCaFi made public aid spendable for people banking often overlooked. Its rise, and its March 2026 liquidation, show how much financial inclusion depends on the machinery behind the money.
George Fatheree
George Fatheree is the founder and CEO of Oro, a Los Angeles public benefit corporation that brings housing support into the workplace as an employee benefit. A former Big Law real estate partner at Sidley Austin, Munger Tolles & Olson and Skadden, he is best known for engineering the historic return of Bruce's Beach to the Bruce family in 2022, the first time in U.S. history that land seized through racially motivated eminent domain was returned to a Black family. He now applies the same financial and legal machinery to closing the wealth gap at scale, raising $3 million in early 2026 to launch Oro's housing wellness platform.
Tanya Van Court
Tanya Van Court is the founder and CEO of Goalsetter, a New York-based fintech that teaches American families to save, spend, invest, and build wealth through debit cards with parental controls and culturally fluent, gamified financial-literacy quizzes. A Stanford-trained industrial engineer who ran digital products at ESPN, Nickelodeon, and Discovery Education, she launched Goalsetter in 2016 after her nine-year-old daughter asked for an investment account for her birthday. The company has raised tens of millions of dollars and drawn investors including Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, and Robert F. Smith, while pursuing Van Court's stated mission of closing the racial wealth gap.