Aura Financial

About

Aura is a financial service company that provides affordable, credit-building loans to working families.

San Francisco,California,United States
101 - 250
http://myaura.com

Highlights

Details

Last Funding Type: Series B
Last Funding Money Raised: $17.20M
Industries: Banking,Financial Services,FinTech,Lending,Software
Founded date: Jan 1, 2012
Number Of Employee: 101 - 250
Operating Status: Active
Legal Name: Aura Financial LLC
Also Known As: INSIKT

Aura is a technology-powered, Community Development Financial Institution that provides fair, affordable loans to working families in America. Aura's mission is to build financially healthy low-income communities, by providing empowering financial services to underbanked and unbanked.

Aura uses its proprietary scoring algorithms to review and approve credit applications and offers free credit scores and personalized expense management guidance to borrowers, allowing the working population to access loans in a simplified manner.

Aura was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

14

$584.70M

Aura Financial has raised a total of $584.70M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Mar 5, 2020 from a Debt Financing round.

Announced Date	Round	Money Raised	Number of Investors	Lead Investors	Post Valuation
Mar 5, 2020	Debt Financing	$10M	1	Bridge Bank	—	Detail
Oct 29, 2019	Debt Financing	$130M	1	Varadero Capital	—	Detail
Jul 24, 2019	Debt Financing	$28.70M	1	Angel Island Capital	—	Detail
Jun 25, 2019	Corporate Round	$10M	1	Prudential Financial	—	Detail
Dec 17, 2018	Debt Financing	$210M	—	—	—	Detail

Investments

Number of Investments

Number of Lead Investments

7

0

Aura Financial has made 7 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jan 28, 2022, when Unblocked raised $10M.

Date Company Name	Round	Money Raised	Industry	Lead Investor
Jan 28, 2022 Unblocked	Seed	$10M	Blockchain	—
Dec 12, 2013 Blend	Series A	—	Financial Services	—
Mar 1, 2013 Aura Financial	Seed	$1.30M	Banking	—
Nov 18, 2012 SubtleData	Seed	$500K	E-Commerce	—
May 1, 2012 Livingly Media	Series B	$8.90M	Advertising	—

Investors

Number of Lead Investors

Number of Investors

9

32

Aura Financial is funded by 32 investors. Bridge Bank and Varadero Capital are the most recent investors.

Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round
Bridge Bank	Yes	Debt Financing
Varadero Capital	Yes	Debt Financing
Angel Island Capital	Yes	Debt Financing
Prudential Financial	Yes	Corporate Round
Coppel Capital	Yes	Series D
LEAP Global Partners	Yes	Series Unknown
Colchis Capital Management	—	Series D
FirstMark	—	Series D
Revolution	—	Series D
Revolution Ventures	—	Series D