Grow Credit Expands Banking Relationship with Wells Fargo to Support Its Financial Inclusion Capabilities
"The announcement comes on the heels of Grow recently announcing its Series A round led by USAA and launching its innovating API, enabling fintechs and financial institutions to extend a financial inclusion product to consumers."
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Grow Credit Partners with Leading Debit Card for Gamers Ugami
"Ugami leverages Grow API for user retention and card graduation."
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Grow Credit Partners with Dovly To Boost Credit Scores
"This partnership enables consumers to use Pay-with-Grow as a subscription payment method"
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Grow Credit Launches Credit Builder Widget for Website Publishers
"Grow helps websites monetize traffic and boost retention."
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Grow Credit Inc., Financial Inclusion Offers is a Game Changer
"As the United States struggles with high interest rates, the poor, underserved, disenfranchised, and uninformed are disproportionately affected, particularly those lacking credit access."
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Grow Credit Launches Credit-Building-as-a-Service API for Enterprise Partners
"Grow releases innovative Pay with Grow and Grow-to-Go Products."
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Grow Credit Inc., a Top 30 Fintech App, Secures $10m Funding with USAA as Lead Investor in Series A Round
"The funding comes at one of the most difficult times for fintech funding in decades."
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Grow Credit CEO Joe Bayen at the NYSE Closing Bell Ceremony
"The New York Stock Exchange celebrates Founders Day in Honor of Black History Month. To honor the occasion, 15 Black founders were invited to ring The Closing Bell®."
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The Fintech 50 2022
"Fintech flourished in 2021 as our financial lives continued to shift online, crypto prices soared and entrepreneurial talent and investment dollars flooded the zone. The result was a gusher of promising new businesses..."
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Grow Credit Featured as "Hot This Week" in Apple’s App Store
"Grow Credit helps consumers establish or build credit using a Mastercard designed to exclusively process subscription payments."
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Grow Credit Appoints Payments Industry Veteran Brian Hughes to Advisory Board
"Former Discover Chief Risk Officer and CFPB Advisory Board member joins Grow Credit as advisor."
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Have fintechs cracked the financial inclusion code?
"Financial technology companies, or fintechs, have been around for a long time. Many of the emerging players in the fintech space are now geared toward providing financial services directly to customers — and specifically low- and moderate-income customers."
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Grow Credit Announces Inclusive Credit Builder Plans for Students
"Students can establish or build their credit with more than 100 available subscriptions, including Netflix, Disney+ and Spotify."
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“Grow & Drive” Helps Consumers Build a Path to Car Ownership After Getting Declined for Auto Loans
"Grow Credit’s new "Grow & Drive" initiative provides consumers who are denied a car loan the opportunity to develop their credit score in conjunction with the automotive dealership."
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Grow Credit Launches Innovative Credit Builder Plans Starting at $1/month
"Plans help consumers build credit and save with 100+ popular subscriptions, including Netflix, Disney+, and Spotify."
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Commerce Ventures and MRV Banks Join Grow Credit Inc.
"Grow Credit, a financial inclusion platform, today announced that Commerce Ventures, will be
joining its seed funding round alongside lead investor Mucker Capital, and Minal Hasan, founder at K2 Global Ventures,
who joined as an angel investor in addition to taking an advisory position."
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1% of venture-backed startup founders are Black. Here’s how one entrepreneur beat those odds
"Just 1% of venture-funded startup founders are Black, according the Crunchbase startup database. This means Joe Bayen, who
runs a small company called Grow Credit, has beaten the odds."
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A Black Founder’s Guide To Raising A $2M Institutional Seed Round
"The road to successfully raise an institutional round is hazardous and extremely hard for any founder
and downright impossible as a minority, particularly as a black founder where, according to CrunchBase, only 1% are expected
to reach the milestone."
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Grow Credit, which builds credit scores by paying for online subscriptions, gets Mucker cash
"Grow Credit, the startup that launched last year to help customers build out their credit scores by providing a
credit line for online subscriptions like Spotify and Netflix, has added Mucker Labs as an investor and closed its seed round with
$2 million in total commitments."
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New Mastercard helps users build credit with online subscriptions
"The Grow Credit Mastercard requires no credit check, but its credit limits are tiny and you can’t use
it like a traditional card"
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Using Spotify and Netflix payments to build your credit score? Grow Credit has a service for that.
"Can subscriptions and everyday payments be used to help build or rebuild a credit score? The Los
Angeles-based Grow Credit thinks so."
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Grow Credit Announces Free Loan Service to Build Credit
"Grow Credit Announces Free Loan Service to Build Credit
By managing subscription payments, it aims to help 90 million Americans."
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