AWARD YEAR
2021
CATEGORY
Home
GOALS
Innovative Financial System
KEYWORDS
Credit worthiness , alternative credit rating, banking, finance
COUNTRY
United States of America
DESIGNED BY
Dave
WEBSITE
https://www.dave.com/
Dave
build credit with your rent and utility payments
Dave is the finance version of David vs. Goliath. Three friends were fed up with their banking experience, often incurring $38 overdraft fees and never having insights into how much money was left before payday.
With customer loyalty at big banks at an all time low, they figured building the next great financial institution, one that could service 99% of Americans, not just the 1%, was the right idea for the times.
Instead of building a bank right away, they started with solving for simple pain points like overdraft protection and automated budgeting to amass millions of loyal members.
Today, Dave has reinvented many other areas of finance, from no-interest cash advances, income creation, un-bounceable checks and more to truly take on goliath.