Earnest (Series A)
Funding Details
- Awarder
- Inbox
- Date Award
- January 28, 2015
- Vertical
- Financial Services
- Funding URL
- View Funding Page
- Funding Amount:
- $17,000,000
Company Info
- Founding Year
- 2013
- Founders
- Louis Beryl
- Company Description
- Earnest offers one- and two-year merit-based loans of $1,000 to $20,000 to financially responsible graduating students and young professionals. Earnest is able to offer very low interest rates by using its cutting-edge underwriting technology that looks beyond the outdated credit scoring process and includes a person's future potential.
- Market
- Graduating students and young professionals
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Coinvestors
- Atlas Venture, Collaborative Fund, First Round Capital, Maveron