Stash (company)

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Stash Financial, Inc.
Type Private
Industry Financial technology
FoundedFebruary 2015;8 years ago (2015-02)
Founder
  • Brandon Krieg
  • Ed Robinson
  • David Ronick
Headquarters
New York City, New York
,
United States
Products Investment management, investment portfolios, stock portfolios, stock trading
AUM Increase2.svg $2 billion (2020) [1]
Website www.stash.com

Stash Financial, Inc., or simply Stash, is an American financial technology and financial services company based in New York, NY. The company operates both a web platform and mobile apps, allowing users to incrementally invest small amounts, commonly known as micro-investing. [2] [3] It also provides robo advice. By summer 2017, it had approximately 1 million users. [4] As of July 2020, the number has grown to over 5 million. [5]

Contents

History and Services

Stash was founded in February 2015 by Brandon Krieg, David Ronick, and Ed Robinson. [6] [7]

It was launched on the iOS App Store in October 2015 [8] [9] and made available on Android in March 2016. [10]

In February 2018, the firm raised $37.5 million in a Series D funding in a round led by Union Square Ventures. [11] In April 2020, it raised another $112 million in Series F funding in a round led by LendingTree. [1]

Reception

In February 2018, CNBC praised the app's automation and ease-of-use. [12]

Products and services

Stash offers retirement, banking, individual investment, and custodial accounts through a subscription model. [5]

Through the web platform and mobile apps, users can invest as little as $0.01 in fractional shares of thousands of stocks [8] and more than 80 exchange-traded funds. [12] [13] Users can invest in personal brokerage accounts, retirement accounts, Roth IRAs, traditional IRAs, or custodial accounts. [14] [15] Stash also offers financial education and automatic investing. [16] [17]

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