Bright Funding & Investors

San Rafael, CA

Bright is a mission-driven consumer fintech company dedicated to helping everyone delete debt and build wealth. The birthplace of MoneyScience™, Bright delivers AI-driven financial planning that delivers real results —automatically. Based in San Francisco, CA, and Bangalore, India, data science is at the heart of every product that we build. Our founding team brings deep expertise in building data science and A.I. systems: Avi Patchava (formerly of McKinsey and InMobi), Petko Plachkov (formerly of McKinsey and a CommuterClub founder), Varun Modi (formerly of InMobi) and Alexander Seyfert (formerly of Amazon and Yahoo). Backed by three major venture capital funds (Sequoia, Falcon Edge and Hummingbird) and with top angel investors from the US, UK and India, Bright has raised $30 million in Series A funding in 2021. Our mission is to help every American double their wealth by enabling better financial decisions, powered by data sciences and behavioral design. At Bright, we believe everyone should benefit from financial planning driven by world-class AI.