
Aura Stock
Lending as a Service
About Aura Stock
Aura is a technology-powered, Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides small, affordable loans to working families in America. Our mission is to build financially healthy low-income communities, by providing empowering financial services to America’s 66-million underbanked and unbanked. Aura has pioneered a cloud-based lending technology that enables trusted local businesses to submit credit applications for centralized review and approval by its proprietary scoring algorithms.
Investors
Angel Island Capital
Colchis Capital Management
Coppel Capital
FirstMark Capital
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Funding History
February 2014 | $40.0M |
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July 2014 | $17.2M |
December 2014 | $45.0M |
July 2015 | $10.0M |
November 2016 | $25.5M |
November 2017 | $50.0M |
December 2018 | $210M |
June 2019 | $10.0M |
July 2019 | $28.7M |
Management
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
James Gutierrez
Chief Technology Officer
Randal Wong
Chief Financial Officer
Jeff Hilton
Press
americanbanker - Feb, 12 2019
businesswire - Feb, 7 2019
PR Newswire (press release) - May, 2 2018
PR Newswire (press release) - Feb, 26 2018
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