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Meet The Marietta Startup Tackling Financial Literacy Problems...One Video At A Time

Meet The Marietta Startup Tackling Financial Literacy Problems...One Video At A Time

Startup founders are known to get scrappy when it comes to finding office space, maybe turning a garage, a spare bedroom, or a co-working space into an early-stage HQ. Not Andrew Scholtens out in Marietta, Georgia. He found startup office space for his venture OinkChing in a historic

NC fintech startup gamifies financial education, lands American Express pilot

NC fintech startup gamifies financial education, lands American Express pilot

This North Carolina startup says the key to teaching financial literacy to Generation Z is simple: games and incentives. Meet Zogo Finance, a Durham-based fintech startup founded by a Gen Zer himself, recent Duke University grad Bolun Li. Since launching its gamified financial literacy app back in 2019, it

Greenlight Talks Series D Investment & New Investing Tool For Kids

Greenlight Talks Series D Investment & New Investing Tool For Kids

If you turned to Robinhood or other investment platforms during the height of the GameStop trading frenzy earlier this year, you definitely weren’t alone. A poll out from Yahoo Finance and The Harris Poll found that one in four American adults bought a viral stock in January 2021. That

Techstars Fintech Startup Teaches Teens Financial Literacy By Paying Them

Techstars Fintech Startup Teaches Teens Financial Literacy By Paying Them

According to a 2017 survey, only 23 percent of Gen Z participants (anyone currently between the ages of 4 and 24) surveyed said that they talk to their parents frequently about money. While some secondary schools now host seminars about money, rising Duke University senior Bolun Li felt they weren&

MaxRewards Simplifies Education Debt Repayment By Condensing Content and Auto-Pay In One Platform

MaxRewards Simplifies Education Debt Repayment By Condensing Content and Auto-Pay In One Platform

By the end of 2017, the education debt in the U.S. rose to nearly $1.38 trillion, with 11 percent of borrowers 90 days or more delinquent. Many borrowers are having a hard time finding effective resources that will help them deal with the financial burden of their student

Homey App Teaches Kids To Budget While Helping Parents Track Chores

Homey App Teaches Kids To Budget While Helping Parents Track Chores

Teaching financial literacy at a young age has a big effect later on — especially considering that according to the Federal Reserve, total U.S. outstanding consumer debt was $3.62 trillion as of May 2016. Learning accountability, the need to stay within a budget, and concepts like credit and debt,