COMPANY PROFILE · UPDATED 01 AUG 2026

Promise

PromisePay is provides a modern payment platform built for government. They transformed the inconvenient and time-consuming process of paying down government debt into something that any resident can use. PromisePay is easy to use on…

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Founded: 2017
Headcount: 104
Open roles: 11
Last raised: Series B · Sign in to view

TECH STACK

How Promise builds

LEADERSHIP

Founders & key people

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

Non-profit CEO

PromiseHonorNature Publishing GroupGreen For AllWorking PartnershipsSouth Bay AFL-CIO Labor CouncilArmijo High School

Diana Frappier

Founder at Promise

PromiseLaw Office of Diana T. FrappierHonorNature Publishing GroupGreen For AllElla Baker Center for Human RightsUniversity of California College of the Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings)University of California Berkeley

George Strompolos

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

Dave Clark

Jamie Byrne

OPEN ROLES

Hiring at Promise

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FUNDING

Capital raised

Total raised

$48,120,000

Investors

Y Combinator First Round Capital Kapor Capital 8vcBossa Nova InvestimentosBronze InvestmentsFlucas VenturesHoward SchultzRoc NationSpringbank CollectiveTheVillage GlobalXYZ

Funding rounds

Series B
The, First Round Capital, Bronze Investments, Howard Schultz, Kapor Capital, XYZ, Y Combinator, Flucas Ventures
$25MFeb 23, 2022
Series A
Kapor Capital, XYZ, First Round Capital, Bronze Investments, Y Combinator, Flucas Ventures, Springbank Collective, Bossa Nova Investimentos
$20MFeb 17, 2021
Seed
First Round Capital, Kapor Capital, 8VC, Roc Nation, Village Global
$3MMar 18, 2018
Pre Seed
Y Combinator
$120KJan 3, 2018