3/27/2025 3:34:56 PM Millions of student borrowers are at risk of credit-score falls By Sarah Wolter More than nine million student-loan borrowers are set to see their credit scores drop in the first half of this year, according to...
4/9/2024 3:55:17 PM Summer raises $9m in Series B funding By Kate Wang New York based student loan solution raised $9m in Series B funding led by Rebalance Capital and SemperVirens.
1/8/2024 9:54:52 PM CFPB says student loan servicers may be violating consumer protection laws By FinTech Collective The CFPB has been monitoring borrowers’ experience and recently published its findings: long wait times, application processing delays,...
9/14/2022 7:30:37 PM SavvyFi raises $4.9m in Series A funding By Zein Dayekh Nashville based college savings and student loan repayment startup raised $4.9m in Series A funding led by Aligned Partners.
3/10/2022 10:43:52 PM Chipper raises $6m in Seed funding By Samantha Wulfson Austin based app for student loan borrowers raised $6m in Seed funding led by Freestyle Capital.
2/3/2022 7:12:39 PM Mos raises $40m in Series B funding By Zein Dayekh San Francisco based challenger bank for students raised $40m in Series B funding led by Tiger Global.
5/29/2020 2:25:17 AM LeverEdge wants to get you and your friends a volume discount on student loans By Faisal Kawar Boston based student loans platform for volume discounts raised $2.5m in Seed funding led by NFX.
4/16/2020 9:14:39 PM College isn’t free yet, but Savi raises a $6m Series A to assist student loan borrowers By Faisal Kawar Washington, DC based student loan wellness platform raised $6m in Series A financing led by Nyca Partners.
9/27/2019 1:48:12 PM Summer wants to vanquish student loans By FinTech Collective New York based student loan advisory startup Summer has raised a $10m Series A led by QED.
5/31/2019 12:00:00 AM Pillar raises $5.5 million By Carlos Alonso Torras New York based student lending startup raised a $5.5m Series Seed led by Kleiner Perkins.
4/12/2019 10:24:30 PM College grads sell stakes in themselves to Wall Street By Sean Lippel According to Bloomberg, the growing field of Income Share Agreements is not without its drawbacks - how much that contract ultimately...
3/7/2019 7:16:28 AM FutureFuel.io announces $11.2m Series A By Sean Lippel Boston based provider of student debt employment benefit solutions has raised $11.2m in Series A funding led by Rethink Impact.
11/2/2018 8:56:31 PM Student-Loan Debt Is Crushing Millennials By Gareth Jones Education researcher Erin Dunlop Velez crunched data that was recently released by the Department of Education, and found that only half...
5/31/2018 3:08:43 AM Mike Meru Has $1 Million in Student Loans. How Did That Happen? By Gareth Jones The WSJ digs into how escalating tuition and easy credit have yielded a class of student-loan borrowers with spectacular debt they may...
3/21/2018 6:01:00 PM Student lender CommonBond raises $50M to invest In technology, blockchain By Sean Lippel New York based online student lender has raised $50m led by Fifth Third Bank, with participation from First Republic Bank and Columbia...
2/22/2018 12:16:48 PM One company will now handle close to half of all student-loan payments By Sean Lippel With the merger of two payment processors, ~40m Americans will make payments to a corporation they know almost nothing about. MarkeWatch...