Chime

Chime was created with the mission to make financial peace of mind a reality for millions of everyday people. We're one of the fastest-growing financial technology companies in the U.S., offering banking services that are helpful, easy, and free—because we want to profit with our members, not from them. Our model doesn’t rely on overdraft, monthly service, minimum balance, or other member fees—it just focuses on delivering member value. How does Chime work? We partner with regional banks to design member-first financial products. This creates a more competitive market with better, lower-cost options for everyday Americans who aren’t being served well by traditional banks. We offer access to bank accounts with fee-free overdraft, provide members the chance to receive early access to their paychecks, help them improve their credit, and more! We help drive innovation, inclusion, and access across the industry with one of the most experienced leadership teams in fintech guiding us along the way. We were recently valued at over $25.5B and we’ve raised over $1.7B in funding from leading investors including Sequoia Capital Global Equities, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Dragoneer, DST, Coatue, Iconiq, Menlo Ventures and others. Working at Chime means keeping our values in mind, putting our members first, and striving for long-term growth and success. To that end, we’re building an inclusive workplace where all perspectives and experiences are welcome on our team and creating an environment where every Chimer can thrive. If you’re passionate about applying technology to the challenge of making financial health a reality for everyone, Chime in–we want to hear from you! 💚 *Chime is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by, and debit card issued by, The Bancorp Bank or Stride Bank, N.A.; Members FDIC.
Founding Year
2012
Headquarters
San Francisco
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United States
Sector(s)
Fintech
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Total Funding Amount
$2,243.80M
Funds that Investested

IrishAngels

Led by investors including Gale Wilkinson, IrishAngels is an angel investing network affiliated with the University of Notre Dame that invests in B2B, consumer, and medical companies.
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Crosslink Capital

Bay Area-based early-stage lead investor in consumer and enterprise-focused founders across North America currently investing out of our ninth early-stage fund ($350M).
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Homebrew

Homebrew is a seed-stage fund that provides operational expertise for entrepreneurs building the bottom-up economy. They invest in mission-driven founders who embrace big – big ideas, big impact, big risk.
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Coatue

Privately owned hedge fund founded in 1999 investing across different sectors.
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Sequoia Capital

Helps the daring build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond.
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Amino Capital

Amino Capital focusing on data driven startups, and blockchain powered next generation protocols.
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Cathay Innovation

Cathay works with visionary and mission driven teams to help them grow and lead markets.

Cathay backs startups at the inflection point of growth, with revenues between $5M to $20M, that will benefit from guidance on refining the company, maximizing performance and creating long lasting value.

Cathay can lead or follow, and keep reserves for follow-on investments.

Cathay leverages the larger social evolutions at play, taking into account a startup’s contribution towards sustainability, analyzing the global competitive landscape, and integrating the insights of our Fortune 500 ecosystem.
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Menlo Ventures

46 year old VC firm with >$5bn AUM investing in innovation-driven companies.
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Tiger Global Management

Aims to generate world-class investment returns over the long term in a way that makes our partners and portfolio companies proud, as they build a unique, global investment platform.
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Omidyar Network

Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.
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Flourish Ventures

Flourish Ventures is an evergreen fund investing in companies that responsibly harness the power of technology to build a fair and customer-centric financial sector.
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VITALIZE Venture Capital

Early-stage VC fund investing in high potential B2B technology startups in future of work and future of learning.
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Pivot North Capital

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Aspect Ventures

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Investors that Investested

Lauren Kolodny

Founding Partner, Acrew Capital
Focuses on investments in what Acrew has coined “financial services rebuilt” and “work reimagined" Prior to Acrew she was a partner at Aspect Ventures, which she joined at its founding and where she helped to build out the team. Before becoming an investor, she worked in product marketing at Google, where she led a number of launches for GSuite, including Google Drive Began career building tech and finance partnerships for the Clinton Foundation in India Lauren received a BA in international relations from Brown University, an MSc from Stanford University, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Kris Fredrickson

Managing Partner, Coatue
Responsible for the firm’s growth investing business. Focuses primarily on consumer, fintech, and crypto.
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Emmalyn Shaw

Managing Partner, Flourish Ventures
Co-manages the fund and leads the US investment efforts. Her portfolio companies include Brigit, Chime, Clerkie, Cushion.ai, EarnUp, Jetty, Kin, Propel, SeedFi, Skipify, Steady and Unit. Prior to launching Flourish, Emmalyn was a partner at Omidyar Network where she co-managed the Financial Inclusion team. She joined Omidyar from Oak Investment Partners where she was a Venture Partner, deploying over $150 million of capital in companies such as Bleacher Report, Huffington Post, Thrillist, and Demand Media. Before Oak, Emmalyn led software and internet investments including Tellme Networks, Neoteris, and MySpace at VantagePoint Partners and the Barksdale Group. Prior to her work in venture, Emm worked as an investment banker in Morgan Stanley’s Technology group in the 90s. She began her career as a product manager for Fintech company, MSCI Barra, a leading portfolio analytics software company.
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Kirsten Green

Founder and Managing Partner, Forerunner Ventures
Launched San Francisco-based Forerunner Ventures in 2010, where she serves as Founder and Managing Partner. As a founder, Kirsten has led efforts to raise over $1B+ from leading institutional investors and invest in more than 100 companies.
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Andy Chen

General Partner, Coatue
Investor in Persona, Figma, Scale, Chime, Placement, and many others.
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Luca Schmid

General Partner, Coatue
Former Growth Investor at CapitalG.
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Aileen Lee

Founder and Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures
Proud pardner at Cowboy Ventures, Co-founder of All Raise and coiner of the business term "unicorn".  Joined Kleiner Perkins (KPCB) in 1999 and was the founding CEO of RMG Networks, a company backed by KPCB. Lee worked at Kleiner Perkins for 13 years and left in 2012.
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David Silverman

Partner, Crosslink Capital
focuses on venture investments in software, financial technology and digital media. brings more than 20 years of experience working with technology businesses as a venture capital investor and investment banker. Prior to joining Crosslink, David was a partner at 3i Ventures  served as a senior officer in the technology practices at both Robertson Stephens and Piper Jaffray.
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