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Upgrade Stock
Online Consumer Credit Platform
About Upgrade Stock
Upgrade is a neobank that aims to offer credit to mainstream consumers through personal loans and cards, together with a rewards checking account and credit monitoring and education tools that help consumers better understand and manage their money. Upgrade Card claims to provide a credit card that brings the low cost and responsible credit of installment lending to millions of retail locations in the U.S., while Upgrade Account is a mobile banking product offered to mainstream consumers.
Founded in 2016, Upgrade is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a service center in Phoenix, Arizona, and a technology center in Montreal, Canada.
More information is available at: https://www.upgrade.com.
Investors
CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund
Fair, Tradeshift, Addepar, Figure, Fundbox, Upgrade, Circle, Taulia, wefox Group, H2O.ai
FirstMark Capital
Pinterest, Discord, Aura, Pendo, Upgrade, InVisionApp, DraftKings, Hyperscience, Shopify, Cockroach Labs
Invariantes Fund
Mouro Capital
Noah Holdings
Ribbit Capital
Robinhood, Nubank, Affirm, Coinbase, Gusto, Brex, Figure, Chainalysis, Funding Circle, Upgrade
Sands Capital Ventures
AppDynamics, BigBasket, DoorDash, UiPath, Scopely, DocuSign, StockX, MuleSoft, Funding Circle, Upgrade
Santander InnoVentures
Silicon Valley Bank
One97, FireEye, Fair, BetterUp, Welltok, Proteus Digital Health, Bolt Threads, project44, Plume Design, Remitly
Stableton Financial
Uncorrelated Ventures
Union Square Ventures
Coinbase, MongoDB, Stash, C2FO, Twilio, Funding Circle, Upgrade, Etsy, CloudFlare, Lending Club
Vander Capital Partners
Ventura Capital
Vy Capital
Winter Capital
Funding History
| September 2016 | $2.5M |
|---|---|
| October 2016 | $3.3M |
| November 2016 | $42.3M |
| November 2017 | $20.0M |
| August 2018 | $93.1M |
| August 2018 | $9.9M |
| June 2020 | $81.7M |
| July 2021 | $105M |
Management
Chief Executive Officer
Renaud Laplanche
Chief Finance Officer
Jeff Bogan
Chief Technology Officer
Visar Nimani
Press
CardRates - Mar, 26 2021
zpr - Jan, 14 2021
ow - Oct, 29 2020
PYMNTS - Jun, 17 2020
bankingdive - Apr, 9 2020
TechCrunch - Oct, 10 2019
PR Newswire - Feb, 21 2019
TechCrunch - Aug, 23 2018
Cision press wire - Apr, 10 2018
prnewswire - Nov, 29 2017
altfi - Jul, 11 2017
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