FinTech Startup Income& Raises $2.9 Million in Seed Funding Round, Announces PRIMO(TM)
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 12/08/15 — Income&, a marketplace investing platform based in San Francisco, today announced the raise of $2.9 million in combined seed funding and capital committed to support company operations.
Income& is the innovator behind the PRIMO™, a low-risk, superior-yielding fixed income product backed by high-quality, prime-rated mortgages. On Income&’s next-generation peer-to-peer marketplace, investors will be able to customize and directly purchase a diversified and fully transparent portfolio of PRIMOs™. Income& is seeking yields up to 7.5% on PRIMOs™.
Income& fills a cavernous hole in the investment market by finally providing investors access to high-yield, low-risk investments that are easy to customize, simple to purchase, fully transparent, and backed by hard assets.
CEO Brad Walker said, “We founded Income& to solve two problems: the lack of investments for baby boomers to support a comfortable retirement, and the absence of transparency in the mortgage market which in part led to the ‘Great Recession’.” Walker continued, “Ten thousand baby boomers turn 65 every day, which means that 76 million Americans with trillions in assets are desperate for the safety of a low-risk, fixed-income product with superior returns. Until the launch of PRIMOs™, there has been a lack of products that satisfy this need.”
Walker added, “Income& works with established, name-brand mortgage lenders to onboard high-yield, safe, prime-rated loans to the PRIMO™ marketplace, which are further reviewed and rated for an added measure of clarity. The technology Income& has developed gives investors unprecedented transparency, control and access to their customized portfolio of PRIMOs™.”
Income& is led by CEO Brad Walker, the former Director of Institutional Product and Strategy for PENSCO Trust Company, and a team of accomplished financial services and technology veterans. Founders include President and CFO Benjamin Strub, who has held executive positions in finance, treasury, operations and risk management at public and private financial services companies; CTO Vincent Phillips, who built the world’s first web trading system for Charles Schwab and pioneered groundbreaking platforms at multiple FinTech companies; and CMO Keith Meyer, who served in senior roles at Schwab and Visa before serving as the Head of Marketing at Prosper, America’s first peer-to-peer lending marketplace.
Income&’s investors include iSeed Ventures, an early stage VC, and advisor Jeffrey Lyons, a former member of the Executive Committee at Charles Schwab and board member at Barclay’s and Nationwide funds. Other luminaries on Income&’s advisory board include Colin Walsh, the former Chairman of the UK Council of Mortgage Lenders, and Mike Norris, the former Vice President of Investor Services for LendingClub, the marketplace lending giant.
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The look and feel of the PRIMO™ website and marketplace was designed by Cibo, an integrated brand experience agency that works with Tesla, Facebook, Salesforce, Twitter and Disney, among others. Cibo is an early investor in Income&.
PRIMOs™ will be available in early 2016 for purchase by accredited investors who have registered on the Income& platform.
For a first look or for more information, visit www.incomeand.com.
PRIMOs™ will initially only be offered to accredited investors or their Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) who have registered on the Income& platform. PRIMOs™ are only offered or sold pursuant to a private placement memorandum, which investors should read carefully. Although we believe PRIMOs™ offer attractive risk characteristics compared with investments offered by other peer-to-peer marketplaces, PRIMOs™ do involve investment risks which are explained in detail in the private placement memorandum.
ABOUT INCOME&:
Income& (www.incomeand.com) is a San Francisco-based financial technology company focused on redefining the fixed-income marketplace. Today’s traditional fixed-income options feature either frustratingly low yields or exceedingly high risk. That’s why Income& invented the PRIMO™, a new type of fixed-income investment that is simple, transparent, and soon available to everyone. With higher yields and lower risk, PRIMOs™ are revolutionizing the marketplace and raising the bar for fixed-income investing.
FinTech Startup Income& Raises $2.9 Million in Seed Funding Round