Cultivating a Community for Entrepreneurs

Established® builds an inclusive startup community for all founders and their teams.

For over a decade, Established has supported startups in growing their companies via the Startup of the Year® program, events, mentoring hours, competitions, investor connections, workshops, and more. That being said, we’ve always known that at the heart of it all, the biggest value for founders and their teams is the startup community, itself. Our Startup Community is part of our “why”, and we want to make sure our readers are in the loop.

Meet the FinTech Startups celebrated as Startup Spotlights in April:

• CashQ Money Transfer (Miami, FL)
  CashQ platform facilitates international bank card networks and e-wallets that provide single-point access to the global financial ecosystem and build network rails for instant money transfer.
• Circa (Portland, ME)
  Circa offers financial stability to residents by removing payment friction, reporting to the credit bureaus, and more. At the same time, they improve the bottom line for real estate property owners. Their mission is to build stronger communities with payment innovation.
• Debtle (Kohler, WI)
  Debtle’s cloud-based SaaS automates, improves, and simplifies the negotiation and settlement of individual bad debt accounts.
• Ditto (Charlottesville, VA)
  Ditto is a payments platform purpose-built for project-based work. It integrates project management and payments to automate away administrative tasks and mitigate risk for contractors and their clients.
• ExitGuide (Austin, TX)
  ExitGuide simplifies the exit process for small business owners.
• Home Lending Pal (Orlando, FL)
  Home Lending Pal is an AI-powered mortgage advisor and blockchain-based marketplace built to address mortgage inefficiencies and biases.
• Hunter Labs Technologies (San Francisco, CA)
  Hunter Labs empowers global Millennials to champion their financial wellness journey starting with their investment portfolio using our data-driven tools
• KarbonPay (Richardson, TX)
  KarbonPay is an automated payroll processing that works across multiple countries.
• Loaner (Los Angeles, CA)
  Loaner is a personal finance super app: cash advances, credit-building debit cards, automated budgeting, expense splitting, debt refi.
• MCSquared Health (Oakland, CA)
  MCSquared Health radically simplifies patient billing.
• PTO Exchange (Seattle, WA)
  PTO Exchange is a fintech platform that delivers portable and flexible benefits for an evolving workforce.
• SaasIQ (Tempe, AZ)
  SaasIQ is an analytics dashboard for community banks to better engage their small business customers.
• StashUp (Portland, ME)
  StashUp is a budgeting and payments app that lets users create and manage their budget, pay, and save all in one mobile app.
• The Beans (San Francisco, CA)
  The Beans is the cure for being bad with money.
• TipHaus (Seattle, WA)
  TipHaus automates the process of getting tip data from the POS and then calculating who should get what.
• Trustate Corporation (Tampa, FL)
  Trustate closes estates at the click of a button.
• Viva Equity Fund (Edinburg, TX)
  Viva is a network of housing that allows tenants the flexibility of renting at market rates while earning up to 8% cashback, which converts into interest-bearing equity at the end of their lease.

Other Startup Community news: Webinar Series Launch | How to Unlock Free Money with TaxTaker and Hiring & Bias with InterviewAI

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By Jessica Boone, VP of Events and Communications, Established