Promise partners with all types of local governments and utilities to provide simple, secure payment and affordability solutions. Improve payments. Improve outcomes. Start today.
Location: United States, California, Oakland
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $20M
Founded date: 2017
Investors 10
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 23.02.2021 | Series A | $20M | - |
Mentions in press and media 12
| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.12.2023 | Покупай сейчас, плати потом: чем отличаются сервисы BNPL и SNPL от рассрочек и кредитов | Сервисы BNPL и SNPL: что это такое, чем отличаются друг от друга и зачем нужны Разберем, чем отличаются BNPL и SNPL друг от друга, а также от рассрочек и кредитов. BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) BNPL (Купи сейчас, заплати позже) — это то же самое... |
| 09.02.2023 | 43 startups to bet your career on in 2023 | From left: Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Nikhil Mathew, Jaleh Rezaei, and Anurupa Ganguly. Promise; Mutiny; Prisms; Marianne Ayala/Insider This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. In ligh... |
| 11.07.2022 | Promise Pay – Fines in Installments by Alexander Gornyi | The post was originally published in Russian on Startup of the Day. Alexander kindly agreed to republish what we think is of great value to our readers. A regular BNPL service allows a person to choose: pass on the opportunity to buy Unaff... |
| 24.02.2022 | Promise’s flexible payment platform for government debts grows fast, raises $25M to keep growing | Paying bills is never easy, but the last couple years of hardship have made it even tougher. Promise works with utilities and government agencies to provide flexibility in payments for people who can’t cover their whole water or electricity... |
| 26.03.2021 | Promise Co-Founder and CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins on Being a Force for Good | Pheadra Ellis-Lamkins, Co-Founder and CEO of Promise, had witnessed technology’s impact on the work communities in which she’d been a part — and not always for good. In the labor force and the environment sector, she’d seen technology repla... |
| 23.02.2021 | U.S. Payment Tech Platform Promise Secures More Than $20 Million through Series A Funding Round | Promise, a U.S.-based payments technology platform, recently announced it secured $20 million through its Series A funding round, bringing its total fundraising amount to over $30 million. The investment round was notably led by Kapor Capit... |
| 20.02.2021 | Daily funding roundup - February 20th, 2021 | Recogni has raised $48.9M; Photomath secured $23M; Torii landed $10M; Pipe17 picks up $8M Highland Electric Transportation: Highland Electric Transportation is a Hamilton, Ma.-based company that provides electric vehicles that are owned, po... |
| 19.02.2021 | With $20M A round, Promise brings financial flexibility to outdated government and utility payment systems | The last year has been one of financial hardship for billions, and among the specific hardships is the elementary one of paying for utilities, taxes and other government fees — the systems for which are rarely set up for easy or flexible pa... |
| 24.12.2020 | 45 enterprise startups that will soar in 2021, according to venture capitalists | We asked a group of investors at successful venture capital firms to name the startups set for big success next year from inside and outside their portfolios. VC named so many enterprise startups – those that make tech for businesses – that... |
| 16.09.2020 | The art of pivoting with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins and Jessica O. Matthews | Building and growing a startup is hard, but pivoting said startup into something new and then achieving that same growth is even harder. But it’s not impossible. Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, founder and CEO of PromisePay, and Jessica O. Matthews,... |
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