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LendEDU (YC W16) — LendEDU is a marketplace for consumer financial products

LendEDU was Co-Founded by Nate Matherson and Matt Lenhard in 2014. LendEDU is a personal finance comparison website.

LendEDU is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2016 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: LendEDU is a marketplace for consumer financial products. The founder listed is Matthew Lenhard (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, November 12, 2015).

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LendEDU

New accelerator entry · 2015-11-12 · the record

Winter 2016
batch
10
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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What the record says

BatchWinter 2016
Announced2015-11-12
StageEarly
StatusAcquired
Team size10
IndustryEducation
Sub-industryEducation
SectorsFintech, Marketplace
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedNew York City, NY
HiringNo
Sitehttps://lendedu.com

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LendEDU was Co-Founded by Nate Matherson and Matt Lenhard in 2014. LendEDU is a personal finance comparison website. Our goal is to create transparency in a number of markets including student lending, unsecured lending, auto lending, banking, credit cards, and some misc. insurance products. LendEDU participated in Y Combinator's W16 program in Mountain View California. LendEDU has been featured and mentioned on a variety of websites including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, CNBC, Bloomberg, USA Today, MSN, Fox News, CBS News, NBC News, Yahoo! Finance, Forbes, Bustle, and roughly 500 other media outlets. LendEDU is a graduate of the Iowa Startup Accelerator. LendEDU received seed funding from Built By Iowa, the Iowa Startup Accelerator Fund, and others. We'd love to tell you about LendEDU! Email support@lendedu.com with any questions, comments, or criticism (really!). Pronounced "Lend E D U"​, our website is located at LendEDU.com!

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