Happy Money, previously known as Payoff, is a company offering financial services to their customers save money that is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California and was founded in 2009 by Eden Warner and Scott Saunders. According to the companies website they have over 70,000 members and have helped people pay off over $1 billion worth of debt.
On April 7, 2010 Happy Money completed their seed funding round with $1.7 million in funding from FirstMark Capital. On January 11, 2012 Happy Money expanded their seed funding round with $4.1 million in funding from Great Oaks Venture Capital, Anthemis Group, Firstmark Capital, and several other undisclosed investors. In total, happy Money raised $5.8 million in seed funding.
On December 3, 2013 Happy Money completed their series A funding round with $7 million in funding from Anthemis Group (lead investor), and Joe Saunders.
On October 22, 2014 Happy Money completed their series B funding round with $12 million in funding from Mohamed El-Erian.
On June 15, 2016 Happy Money completed their series C funding round with $46.7 million in funding from Tencent Holdings and Anthemis Group.
On September 5, 2019 Happy Money completed their series D funding round with $70 million in funding from CMFG Ventures.
Timeline
Funding rounds
People
Adam Zarlengo
Employee
Amanda Ferris
Employee
Andrew Gauer
Employee
Andrew Wen
Employee
Annie Truong
Employee
Arielle Caron
Employee
Brandon Tracey
Employee
Carey Ransom
Investor
Caylee Larsen
Employee
Chris Hilliard
Employee
Christopher Bielinski
Employee
Craig Tadlock
Employee
Curtis Arnold
Investor
Dan Korpman
Employee
Dan Sinner
Employee
Danica Isaacs
Employee
David Herman
Employee
David S. Kidder
Investor
DeCarlis Wilson
Employee
Frank Meehan
Investor
Galen Buckwalter
Employee
Gaurav Gupta
Employee
Gina Costantino
Employee
Harley Williams
Employee
Hash Aboulhosn
Investor