New York based startup incentivizing people to save money with prize drawings raised $3.3m in Seed funding from a group of investors including FundersClub, Slow Ventures, TwentyTwo VC, Chapter One, CapitalX and Y Combinator.
“At first, when you talk to people about this, they think it sounds like a gambling concept, but you can’t lose money,” Moelis told Crunchbase News. “It’s offered more like a sweepstakes, which is totally legal. When you save money in your bank account, it is linked to the sweepstakes and you have a chance to win prizes.”