I couldn't be more excited to announce in
@TechCrunch
that
@joinfizz
has raised $14.4M in Seed Funding, led by Ilya Fushman
@ilyaf
at
@kleinerperkins
.
Thank you
@bayareawriter
for breaking the news.
In year one, we went from 0 to >300 campuses, and helped tens of thousands of
Join
@joinfizz
as a full stack dev!
- Work with a top-tier, lean, and well resourced team writing more code than the average early fintech
- Work from our lively campus in SoHo, NYC
- Make a huge impact on young adults and help build an iconic brand
Refer the candidate we hire
18 months ago, my cofounders and I left
@Cornell
and
@Harvard
on a mission: To make credit building simple and accessible for all college students. 1/6➡️
Thrilled to announce our new funds - $825M KP 21 and $1.2B Select III to back early stage and high inflection companies. As always post and deck Deeply thankful to our founders, team, and investors.
We are on the precipice of incredible technology shifts
building for yourself as the consumer is an infinite product feedback glitch. that said, I only had dial up growing up, so maybe
@CarloWillem
and I are cuspers?
thank you
@zehranaqvi_
Thinking about making the 1st Friday of each month monthly gratitude day, to start, I want to highlight someone.
@SteffesCarter
is an incredible friend, and highly consequential helper and investor. He's also just a brilliant, stand-up guy who I'm lucky to know
@chrismanfrank
Undergoing years of k12 that i could’ve, should’ve, and was offered to skip was the first extended trauma I experienced and the single greatest waste of my limited time on earth to date.
No better feeling in the world than seeing your product get recommended organically (by multiple ppl!) when 18 year olds ask r/creditcards on Reddit for a beginner credit card
Fizz is growing, fast, and we're looking for a Growth Marketing Manager as we enter our biggest season to date. If you or someone you know is looking for a consumer growth role, my DMs are open (JD and app link here: )
We talked to students and found a common problem, 🤔regardless of background, they didn’t understand credit or its importance in life beyond college. 2/6➡️
Building a great team is challenging, which makes working with
@Alonzo300
on the daily quite a privilege. Check out this feature in the
@KenyonCollegian
!
This biz offers a student debit card that builds credit and earns cash back around campus.
Problem: Student graduate in a lot of debt
Size of market: $376 billion (22 million college students)
Revenue model: Interchange fees
2022 revenue: $7 million
Would you invest? Comment👇
🎉Big News: First Republic was yesterday, today,
@joinfizz
is becoming Second Republic Bank 🏦*. Visit to check out our exciting rebrand! What's New? 🎉 ➡️
Our team has toiled endlessly, and we're proud of creating the sort of credit-building experience we wish we'd had, one that’s unavailable anywhere else. 🎁5/6➡️
🚀 Now, for the first-time ever, it’s possible for college students to start building credit without jumping through endless hoops, or falling into debt traps. 3/6➡️
Carter's made countless, very high value intro's, and even offered fly out to
@joinfizz
campus launches. Sad to be missing you this weekend in Omaha
@SteffesCarter
. Tell
@WarrenBuffett
I said hello.
No one teaches us about personal finance in school, Fizz is making it so that lack of access to knowledge is never a barrier to financial opportunity. Congrats team on releasing our first YT video!
@paigefinnn
DET native here. Seconded on foundation bar and Kiesling, adding Takoi, Ochre, The Peterboro, and Warda Patisserie to this list. Oh and
@madcapcoffee
is the best coffee hands down.
The village: Great founder friends ✅, an incredible founding team ✅, wonderfully supportive investors ✅and Fizz users who write letters about how much they love the product ✅.
feature request for AP and accounting products:
Auto check invoices for compliance with master services agreements or SOWs, and automate reconciliation. Companies lose non-trivial sums to vendors with bad AR departments and checking this is very manual and time consuming.
Thousands of college students are now building their credit without debt using
@joinfizz
(yc s21). Excited to support the future leaders of America in making good financial decisions.
If you’re a student, join the Fizz movement and take control of your credit, the first step to financial independence. Download Fizz and start building credit history today. 6/6 🎓
Great week at Fizz, campus visit to
@Cornell
and the pre-launch excitement for our product is palpable and extremely encouraging. Plus, back in Boston getting to meet candidates in person. 10/10
Fizz is looking for a rockstar creative who lives and breathes content creation to be our Social Media Manager! Come join our growing Growth team. Apply here
Today we're publicly launching Fizz for Biz, to partner with even more universities, and make it so that no student ever has to start life without their finances in order. (2/2)
For the first time ever, college students can:
Build credit with a debit card 💳
Get approved with no credit check, security deposit, or cosigner
Sign up in ~5 minutes and enjoy rewards tailored for college life 🚀