Prudential Financial

To launch Vault's Student Loan Assistance which is an online resource that helps individuals to evaluate their student loan consolidation and repayment options, and enables employers to make repayment contributions towards it.

Helping employers provide personalized, high-touch, and holistic financial wellness tools to their entire workforce.

Financial Wellness Tools

Vault

Provides a platform for employers to provide resources such as tools and advice to manage employee debt (with an increased focus on student loan debt).

Gibraltar Ventures is a Toronto-based venture investment firm. Founded in 2013, we invest in private, early to mid- stage technology-based companies catering to consumers and small to medium-sized businesses — the B2C and B2SMB space. We do more than simply invest — our business purpose is to supply intellectual capital designed to accelerate a company’s speed-to-market. Specifically, we provide portfolio companies with: (1) sales & marketing expertise to execute “go-to-market” strategies; (2) access to senior corporate decision makers to open up new channels and speed decision-making; and (3) capital in the critical Series “A” and “B” rounds of funding to accelerate growth.

Gibraltar Ventures

Capital Factory is a venture capital firm and an accelerator that seeks to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies. It accelerates companies in the software, media, and technology sectors. With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas, and Houston, the firm meets entrepreneurs in Texas and introduces them to their first investors, employees, mentors, and customers.  In 2009, Sam Decker, Joshua Baer, and Bryan Menell co-founded Capital Factory in Austin, Texas.

Capital Factory

Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups. They are an Oakland-based fund that understands that startup companies have the ability to transform entire industries and to address urgent social needs as they do so. It was founded in 1999 and headquartered in Oakland, California.

Kapor Capital

Village Capital uses the power of peer support to change the traditional dynamics between investors and entrepreneurs, providing access to entrepreneurship for everyone.  We recruit entrepreneurs solving specific problems in agriculture, energy, education, financial inclusion, and health. We then put the power of investment in the hands of the entrepreneurs, who award pre-committed seed funding to the two ventures ranked highest by the entrepreneurs at the end of every program. Our programs connect high potential, early-stage entrepreneurs with the people, institutions, and capital they need to succeed. We support early-stage ventures with a 501c3 nonprofit that operates training programs for founders, investors, and communities. We also manage a for-profit, managed investment fund that provides early-stage capital to top graduates of each program, as selected by their peers. Our unique peer-selection model received McKinsey/Harvard Business Review’s prestigious M-Prize for innovation in 2013, and we have supported more than 550 enterprises across 51 programs in 9 countries. Since 2009, Village Capital has supported more than 1,000 entrepreneurs through our programs and partnered with affiliated investment funds, including VilCap Investments, that have invested seed capital in more than 90 program graduates. Over the past 8 years, our program graduates have gone on to generate $61.5M in revenue, reach 8.5 million customers, and create over 11,500 jobs. 96% of our alumni would recommend our program to other entrepreneurs, and to date and 91% of our entrepreneurs are still in business.

Village Capital

VilCap Investments leverages the experience of the Village Capital accelerator programs to find, train, and fund entrepreneurs. They make seed and follow-on investments in peer-selected companies in agriculture, education, energy, financial services, and health around the globe.

VilCap Investments

FSV provides insights and capital to entrepreneurs re-inventing the multi-trillion dollar financial services industry and building innovative companies, strong brands, and world-class teams. FSV primarily makes early stage investments but will also consider promising growth stage investments.

Fenway Summer Ventures

bizjournals is the online media division of American City Business Journals, the nation's largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers. It operates the Web sites for each of the company's 41 print business journals and operates a web-only site with local business news and information for Los Angeles.  The national bizjournals site features local business news from around the nation, updated throughout the day, top business stories from American City's print editions, industry-specific news from more than 40 industries, advice columns, and a full menu of tools to help business owners and operators manage their businesses more successfully. There's also easy navigation to each of the 42 local business sites.  Characterized among the ''Best of the Web'' by Forbes magazine, bizjournals' archives contains 1.25 million business news articles published since 1996. Bizjournals' sites have more than 4 million unique monthly visitors.  Email offerings include daily local business updates from any bizjournals market, breaking news from around the nation and weekly updates of industry news from throughout the country.  The site also features online commercial real estate listings, a special focus on business women, local networking and business events, local online business directories, downloadable sales leads and strategic partnership opportunities.  We make it easy for visitors to subscribe to any business journal, order a Book of Lists from more than 60 markets, and obtain advertising information for all our newspapers. Subscribers to print editions of American City's newspapers may also download a PDF e-dition of that week's complete business journal every Friday morning.

The Business Journals

Socratic Labs is an educational technology-focused startup accelerator, coworking community, and campus in New York City.

Socratic Labs

John Hancock's core retail products in the U.S. focus on providing financial solutions at every stage of our clients' lives. Our product suite includes life insurance, mutual funds, 401(k) plans, long-term care (LTC) insurance, and annuities. We distribute our products primarily through licensed financial advisors, and through John Hancock Financial Network, a national network of independent firms.

John Hancock

Prudential Financial is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of investment management, life insurance, and retirement benefits. It focuses on helping individuals and institutional customers to grow and protect their wealth. The company also offers an inclusive work environment where employees can develop to their full potential, and give back to the communities where they live and work.  Prudential Financial was founded in 1875 and headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

Rubicon Venture Capital (Rubicon) is a Late Seed / Series A VC fund with a unique global community of value added investors to build lasting technology companies. Their investors are mainly successful entrepreneurs and executives located in key cities around the world. Rubicon invests in enterprise Saas, Fintech, hospitality tech, logistics, insuretech, PropTech, AI/ML and direct to consumer companies. Typically companies will have achieved at least $1m in ARR. We invest in Later Stage Seed and Series A & B venture capital financing rounds of high potential early stage disruptive technology companies.

Rubicon Venture Capital

Access Ventures is a private operating foundation that is working to initiate systemic change in communities that results in an inclusive and creative economy an economy that functions for all people, and in which everyone is valued. It works every day alongside its partners to consciously construct a dynamic portfolio.

Access Ventures

Vestigo Ventures is a seed an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts that invests in technology companies focused on financial services.  We are distinguished by our deep financial industry expertise, exclusive access to the team and technology at Cogo Labs, powerful network of advisors and proven record as investors and operators. These advantages position us to successfully target the next generation of disruptive FinTech companies.

Vestigo Ventures

TruStage Ventures is a venture capital arm of CUNA Mutual Group that advances financial and insurance solutions through investments and innovation for consumers and financial institutions. The firm helps credit unions and hardworking Americans build financial security. It seeks to invest in financial technology, data analytics, education and protection, and digital channel sectors. CMFG was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.

TruStage Ventures

Vault provides the most comprehensive software platform in the market to address the financial burden of student loan debt. Our intuitive web-based tool provides a highly secure employee experience that empowers employees to achieve financial freedom. With the option to make contributions to employees’ debt repayment, Vault enables companies to attract and retain their valuable talent. Vault empowers companies with relevant, flexible products that provide advice, create pathways to manage student debt more effectively, and enable paying-down student loans while building 401(k) savings.

Vault, formerly known as Student Loan Genius, is a student loan and education benefits platform that serves over 3,000 employers, including prominent companies such as New York Life, Ralph Lauren, and Mastercard. The company's primary focus is on providing HR leaders with tools to address recruiting and retention challenges through various financial wellness benefits. These include options for employers to contribute to employees' student loan payments, college savings plans, and facilitate student loan retirement matching. Vault's technology enables employers to offer creative solutions to support their employees' financial well-being, particularly in the areas of student debt management and education savings.

Vault

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