Tagged: dan carroll

April 29, 2021 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

California-based Fintech firm Wealthfront revealed on Wednesday (April 28, 2021) that it’s now offering new features for its investment portfolios that will allow its clients to make investments in a wider range of “carefully-vetted” exchange-traded-funds or ETFs and Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) options. According to… Read More

April 20, 2021 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

California-based Fintech firm Wealthfront revealed on Tuesday (April 20, 2021) that it has launched the “final set of features” that make up the first version of Self-Driving Money™. As noted in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider, the firm’s “relentless” focus on automation has led… Read More

February 18, 2021 @ 9:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

California-based Fintech firm Wealthfront has announced that clients who use their Cash Account to invest in a Wealthfront Investment Account may have their funds invested in the market “within minutes.” Wealthfront customers who choose to direct deposit their paycheck into the Wealthfront Cash Account may… Read More

January 25, 2018 @ 11:28 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Instavest, a money management platform similar to multi-billion dollar robo-fintech platform Wealthfront, aims to differentiate itself by using “complex options strategies” to make users money in up or down markets, similar to hedge funds. Founded in 2015, Instavest also does not charge management fees; the… Read More

January 4, 2018 @ 1:29 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Robo-advisor Wealthfront announced a $75 million round of financing led by Tiger Global Management with participation from all existing venture capital investors, including Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Greylock Partners, Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Social Capital and Spark Capital Growth. Launched by Andy Rachleff and Dan Carroll in December 2011, Wealthfront currently… Read More