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Sarah Morgenstern

Sarah is inspired by purpose-driven entrepreneurs tackling meaningful financial health challenges for US families. She is a Venture Partner on the US investment team at Flourish, where she sources, executes, and manages investments that improve financial health and create economic opportunity for American households. Previously, Sarah was a principal for...

Tina believes access to appropriate and affordable financial products is a basic human right, which is not accessed by everyone due to systemic challenges. An associate based in Washington, D.C, Tina hopes to change that through a combination of private sector investments and supporting frontier ecosystem building and regulatory change....

Kabir is part of the founding team at Flourish. He has close to 20 years of experience in the financial sector spanning both emerging markets and the US. He leads global ecosystem efforts and makes investments in the US and emerging markets. He is passionate about supporting early-stage entrepreneurs who...

Emmalyn is a co-founder and managing partner of Flourish Ventures, an early-stage global venture capital firm that invests in mission-driven entrepreneurs and industry influencers working towards a fair financial system. Emmalyn leads the firm’s US investment team. Her current portfolio of disruptive fintech companies includes Brigit, Chime, Clerkie, Cushion.ai, EarnUp,...

[Business Insider] Meet 26 rising-star fintech VCs excited about what's next in the sector

Sarah Morgenstern, a principal at Flourish Ventures. How did you get into fintech investing? I moved to China for a couple of years and saw that exposure to financial inclusion in that context, seeing the power of financial services and the role and the contribution it can make in both...

Revolving debt’s challenge to financial health and one way to help consumers pay it off [Brookings]

Jennifer Tescher and Corey Stone Credit cards offer consumers convenience as both a payment vehicle and a source of short-term credit. Revolving credit permits consumers to enjoy immediate purchase of goods and services (in the absence of funds or in lieu of tapping savings), to make large ticket purchases without having to...

[Flourish Focus] A One-on-One with Kim Nguyen, VP of People, Alloy

Need help building a culture within a high-growth fintech startup? Listen in on the conversation with Alloy’s VP of People, Kim Nguyen, as she talks about how to build an authentic culture, attract top talent, and support employees in today’s hybrid work environment. Alloy, with its identity-decisioning platform that helps banks and...

[Cushion] Bill Pay Solution Cushion Closes $12 Million Series A To Grow Talent Roster

Originally posted on Cushion Cushion, a leader in bank and credit card fee negotiation, announced today that it has raised $12 million in Series A funding. The funding will enable Cushion to hire talent across product, engineering, data analytics, and marketing as it readies its bill pay solution for a...

[Hummingbird] Fighting Financial Discrimination with Thoughtful Product Design

Originally posted on Hummingbird By Joe Robinson, Hummingbird CEO Here’s a simple truth. There is no way to understand the financial industry without also understanding our country’s long and difficult struggle against financial discrimination. Discrimination and economic disenfranchisement go hand in hand, and some of the worst forms of racism...

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[ZD Net] Bill pay fintech Cushion gets $12M Series A financing to become one-stop bill payment shop

Originally posted on ZD Net By Marc Wojno Paying a bill can be an exercise in bending time: It may take just seconds to make a payment, but the added and unpleasant task of deducting your earned income, tracking and verifying payment, can feel like an eternity, especially when faced...

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[TechCrunch] Syndicate raises ‘informal' round from over 50 partners to bring DAOs to the masses

Originally posted on TechCrunch By Anita Ramaswamy Web3 startup Syndicate‘s goal is to demystify the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization). Its “Web3 Investment Clubs” product, which TechCrunch covered in January, lets users spin up an investment group with their peers by pooling their capital together and voting on how to allocate the funds....

Syndicate

50+ Customers, Partners, and DAOs Invest in Syndicate

Originally posted on Syndicate.io Today, we’re proud to announce that 50+ customers, partners, and DAOs have strategically invested $6M into Syndicate, bringing our total to over $28M raised from more than 300 values-aligned investors, operators, companies, partners, customers, and DAOs since our founding just a year ago. This is as...