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| 25.05.2025 | Millions of Americans hit with bad credit after missed student loan payments | Please subscribe to IBJ to decode this article.
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| 15.09.2022 | Student loan startup CommonBond is quietly winding down operations after the pandemic's interest and payment pause massively hit its core business | CommonBond's refinancing business took a massive hit amid the pandemic's interest and payment pause.
It effectively exited the business in June and pivoted to loans for residential solar panels.
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| 14.09.2022 | Student loan startup CommonBond is quietly winding down operations after the pandemic's interest and payment pause massively hit its core business | CommonBond cofounder and CEO David Klein. CommonBond
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CommonBond's refinancing business took a massive hit amid the pandemic's interest and payment pause.
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| 21.06.2022 | Companies of all kinds are expanding into residential solar — here are seven examples | Companies of all kinds are expanding into residential solar — here are seven examples
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| 03.02.2022 | CommonBond, best known for student lending, launches solar financing business | CommonBond, best known for student lending, launches solar financing business
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Fintech company CommonBond, best known for its student lending business, officially launched its new solar financin... |
| 01.06.2021 | Senior tech leader at Square, published author, and established engineering mentor to join CommonBond's Board of Directors | NEW YORK, June 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- CommonBond, a pioneering fintech company for young professionals, today announced the addition of Sonali Sambhus to its Board of Directors. Sonali currently leads the developer platform at Square, wher... |
| 03.12.2020 | Refinancing Your Student Loans Now Could Be A Colossal $50,000 Mistake | Do not refinance your student loans until Biden announces his plans for student loan forgiveness and ... [+] cancellation. Refinancing today could cost you up to $50,000. AFP via Getty Images |
| 05.05.2020 | Got A Private Student Loan? These Lenders And Servicers Offer COVID-19 Relief | Private student loan servicers are offering forbearance for borrowers financially impacted by ... [+] COVID-19.2005 AFP |
| 06.04.2020 | What To Do If Your Student Loans Are Ineligible For Coronavirus Relief | UNITED STATES - APRIL 5: Georgetown University workers walk across campus with cleaning supplies on ... [+] Sunday, April 5, 2020. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images |
| 09.01.2020 | Here's how to decide whether you should refinance your student loans | Advertisement
Should you refinance your student loans? It depends on whether you can get a lower interest rate and save money.
You may be able to consolidate and refinance your student loans at the same time, which combines your loans into ... |
| 13.12.2019 | 7 things on your financial to-do list that are much easier than they seem | Advertisement
Whether you need to start a high-yield savings account, shop for car insurance, or write a will, there are quite a few financial tasks that sound harder than they are.
These seven things are easily accomplished in an hour - ev... |
| 15.11.2018 | CommonBond Teams Up with Investor Fifth Third Bank on Student Loans | Online lender CommonBond has partnered with Fifth Third Bank to provide students a path to better manage their student loans. Fifth Third Bank is also an investor in the Fintech platform.
CommonBond is a platform that finances and refinance... |
| 23.07.2018 | 12 Boston Startups That Tackle the $1.3 Trillion Student Debt Problem | Student debt is a huge and expensive problem in the U.S.: totalling $1.4 trillion and 44 million borrowers in 2017 alone. Even with new rules proposing to let student debtors discharge their loans in bankruptcy, support systems remain thin.... |
| 22.03.2018 | CommonBond Secures $50M Series D Equity Round, Led by Fifth Third Bancorp | CommonBond, a financial technology company that empowers students and graduates to pay for higher education, announced a $50M Series D round.
Fifth Third Capital, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fifth Third Bancorp, led the round, with First R... |
| 21.03.2018 | CommonBond Secures $50M Series D Equity Round | CommonBond, a leading financial technology company that empowers students and graduates to pay for higher education, today announced a $50M Series D financing round.
Fifth Third Capital Holdings, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fifth Thir... |
| 21.03.2018 | CommonBond Secures $50M in Series D Equity Funding | CommonBond, a NYC-based financial technology company that allows students and graduates to pay for higher education, raised $50M in Series D financing.
The round, which brings total funding raised to over $130M, was led by Fifth Third Capit... |
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| 21.03.2018 | CommonBond Secures $50M Series D Equity Round | CommonBond, a leading financial technology company that empowers students and graduates to pay for higher education, today announced a $50M Series D financing round.
Fifth Third Capital Holdings, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fifth Thir... |
| 25.04.2017 | CommonBond now offers direct student loans alongside debt refinancing | CommonBond, one of the biggest of the second generation of startups tackling online lending, has launched a direct student loan product as it expands its footprint in the debt business.
The company is known for its strict qualification requ... |
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| 23.07.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 7/23/16 | Unilever bought Dollar Shave Club; Expedia acquired Trover; Postmates purchased Hey
Unilever signed an agreement to acquire men's grooming subscription service Dollar Shave Club. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed, but the price ... |
| 19.07.2016 | CommonBond Gets $30M in Equity, $300M in Debt Financing, Acquires Gradible | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Just when the online lending scene seemed mired in doldrums and doubt, New York-based CommonBond landed several deals to shake things up.
The company announced on Tuesday it r... |
| 19.07.2016 | Online Student Lender CommonBond Receives approx. $330M; Buys Gradible | CommonBond, a NYC-based online lender that uses data and technology to lower the cost of student loans, received approx $330m in new funding.
The capital was a combination of equity capital to fund operations and lending capital to fund loa... |
| 19.07.2016 | Student loan platform CommonBond raises $300M and $30M in equity, buys Gradible | Some online loan platforms have taken a hit of late, but not all of them are struggling: today, CommonBond, a platform that specialises in loans and refinancing for students, is announcing that it has raised $300 million in debt to loan out... |
| 19.07.2016 | CommonBond Raises Over $300 Million | CommonBond, a leading online lender that uses data and technology to lower the cost of student loans, today announced over $300 million in new funding. The influx of capital is a combination of equity capital to fund operations and lending ... |
| 17.05.2016 | For online lenders, it’s suddenly touch-and-go | A year ago, privately held online lenders like Prosper, SoFi and Avant looked all but certain to go public at the same unicorn valuations their venture investors had assigned them — if not higher. They were seemingly reshaping the student, ... |
| 25.04.2016 | CommonBond Completes $150M Securitization | CommonBond, a NYC-based tech-enabled lender, completed a $150m securitization of student loan assets co-led by Barclays and Goldman Sachs.
Barclays served as co-lead manager and structuring agent for the transaction, and Goldman Sachs serve... |
| 13.04.2016 | Climb Credit looks to transform student lending with a new business model based on graduate success | The U.S. is facing a crisis in higher education.
Once the ticket to the middle class life at the center of the fabled “American Dream”, the college and university experience is now under attack from all sides. Education has become pricier, ... |
| 26.02.2016 | Tribeca Venture Partners Closes Its Second NY-Focused Fund | Tribeca Venture Partners, a New York-based early-stage venture firm founded in 2011, is today announcing that it has closed its second fund with $107 million — significantly more than its $65 million debut fund.
That’s good news for New Yor... |
| 05.01.2016 | CommonBond Picks Up $275 Million In New Lending Capacity | The online lending market continues to generate heat in the financial services sector as student lending service CommonBond rakes in another $275 million in available lending capital.
Through the deal announced earlier today, Macquarie Capi... |
| 09.09.2015 | Daily funding roundup - September 9, 2015 | Didi Kuaidi scored $1B; Chef bagged $40M; Primus Power raised $25M
The battle for supremacy among e-hailing services in China is heating up, and fast. In the same week that Uber revealed that it has raised an additional $1.2 billion to expa... |
| 08.09.2015 | CommonBond Attracts Another $35 Million For Its College Lending Marketplace | Concerns over the student loan crisis in the U.S. continue to roil through the economy (even reaching into the campaign trail of the next presidential election), and increasingly venture investors are betting on startup companies like SoFi ... |
| 08.09.2015 | CommonBond Announces $35M Series B Round |
NEW YORK, NY, CommonBond today announced it has raised $35 million in Series B funding.
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| 08.09.2015 | CommonBond Raises $35M in Series B Funding | CommonBond, a New York, NY-based lending platform for student loans, raised $35m in Series B funding.
The round was led by August Capital with participation from Nyca Partners and existing investors. In conjunction with the funding, Tripp J... |
| 08.09.2015 | Student Loan Marketplace CommonBond Raises $35M, Plans New Hires | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A bit more cash is going into the pockets of yet another New York-based fintech company.
With $35 million more funding announced Tuesday, CommonBond plans to grow its staff, d... |
| 15.05.2015 | Startups Share Their Tactics and Thoughts on Community Management | Earlier this week, we learned that Instagram is a company whose growth could be attributed to their focus on community. Instead of taking a product-first approach and bringing in a designer or developer as its first hire, the company brough... |
| 05.02.2015 | CommonBond Receives Equity Investment from Nelnet | CommonBond, a student lending company, received an equity investment from Nelnet (NYSE: NNI), an education planning and financing company.
Nelnet, which joined current investors Tribeca Venture Partners and The Social + Capital Partnership,... |
| 12.08.2014 | Brooklyn real estate is out of step with tech needs | Brooklyn real estate isn’t keeping up with the demands of its tech community, and the borough is losing good companies — particularly early- and mid-stage tenants, the ones who either aren’t ready to commit to long-term leases or can’t affo... |
| 08.07.2014 | CommonBond moved out of Brooklyn | CommonBond, the peer-to-peer lending company for graduate and professional school students, has moved its Downtown Brooklyn office to Manhattan. As the company expanded, the people it hired weren’t Brooklynites. That and upward price pressu... |
| 07.05.2014 | Ringly will sneak peek its designs on Instragram probably [Startup Roundup] | Well, it’s Spring. There’s a lot going on, or so it seems with this, likely our largest Startup Roundup yet.
Who’s getting money?
Susty Party closed a $500K equity only round, according to this blog post. The seed round was led by Radicle C... |
| 23.04.2014 | 5 successfully funded crowdfunding campaigns [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Here are the results of recent crowdfunding efforts that we have written about here:
The Cam Girlz documentary raised $69,449 from 629 backers toward its $65,000 goal.
Magnetic Kitchen‘s laser engraved skate deck campai... |
| 09.04.2014 | Blue Apron negotiating a $500 million valuation [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Blue Apron may be headed to a $500 million valuation, according to Fortune Tech. It is reportedly closing a deal now that would put it at the half-billion mark. We covered its expansion to the West Coast last year.
We a... |
| 02.04.2014 | Tech Triangle wants to hire and pay for your summer IT interns | The Brooklyn Tech Triangle is looking for local firms to participate in its summer paid internships program, which places local students in tech firms for the summer. We all know that interns can add stress to an organization, but this prog... |
| 21.03.2014 | With Over $100M Raised, P2P Lending Platform CommonBond Expands To 100 Programs To Help Grad Students Reduce Debt | New York City-based CommonBond launched in late 2012 on a mission to bring the power of person-to-person lending and crowdsourcing to the student debt crisis. With student debt in the U.S. having surpassed $1 trillion, college grads find th... |
| 19.03.2014 | Watch for Susty Party on Shark Tank April 4 [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
A lot of funds do filings with the SEC, and we don’t usually cover them. Hyacinth Capital Fund is raising a fund, as noted via an SEC filing. While not all are, this fund may end up being tech relevant, though. We only ... |
| 28.02.2014 | The Rise And Future Of The New York Startup Ecosystem | Contributor Contributor
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| 21.01.2014 | CommonBond wants to be R&D for student lending: CEO David Klein | CommonBond, the student lending startup aiming to leverage low-interest alumni loans, sees itself as something like R&D for education financial aid.
In a recent post on its company blog, CommonBond CEO David Klein described a meeting hi... |
| 15.01.2014 | MyBell’s latest prototype // $800k raise for Stkr.it [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Stkr.it raised $810,040 on an offered $1.2 million offered equity round, according to an SEC filing. The company allows consumers to purchase codes that can then be linked to digital products, like photos or videos, and... |
| 23.12.2013 | Peer-to-peer lending will tap $10 trillion unused capital: CommonBond fireside chat | Does information technology make large scale financial intermediaries less and less necessary? The San Francisco team behind peer-to-peer lending platform Prosper seems to think it does.
David Klein, CEO of CommonBond, welcomed Ron Suber, g... |
| 11.12.2013 | Henna goes high-tech // CommonBond gets its data whiz // Brooklynites get buzz [Startup Roundup] | Who’s raising money?
Fort Greene’s Radico, Inc. raised $1.8 million on an offered $2 million Series A Equity round, according to an SEC filing. The company makes organic hair care products, henna and hair coloration products, but also appea... |
| 18.09.2013 | Naked Apartments secures $103K Series B equity round [Startup Roundup] | Who’s Getting Funded?
Adylitica, a Dumbo-based efficiency management software startup, raised a $125,000 round, according to an SEC filing.
CommonBond, a startup that raises tuition support through college alumni networks, has raised a $100... |
| 18.09.2013 | Naked Apartments secures $103K Series B equity round [Startup Roundup] | Who’s Getting Funded?
Adylitica, a Dumbo-based efficiency management software startup, raised a $125,000 round, according to an SEC filing.
CommonBond, a startup that raises tuition support through college alumni networks, has raised a $100... |
| 13.09.2013 | CommonBond: education lending startup raises $100M led by Tribeca Ventures | Brooklyn Heights education lending startup CommonBond recently raised a significant $100 million equity round, led by Tribeca Venture Partners and, as the New York Times reports, including former head of Citigroup Vikram Pandit.
See the mos... |
| 04.09.2013 | Student Loans Are Broken: This Company Just Raised $100 Million To Fix Them | CommonBond offers business school loans priced to match the quality of borrowers' degrees. |
| 04.09.2013 | CommonBond Raises Over $100M |
NEW YORK, NY, Leading student lending platform, announced today it has raised over $100M in equity and debt financing to fund and refinance student loans.
>> Click here for more funding data on CommonBond
>> To export Common... |
| 04.09.2013 | Commonbond raises $100M to conquer growing threat of student debt | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
CommonBond has raised over $100 million to rescue... |
| 04.09.2013 | CommonBond Raises over $100M in Equity and Debt Financing | CommonBond, a Brooklyn, NY-based student lending platform, raised over $100m in equity and debt financing.
The round was led by Tribeca Venture Partners, with participation from The Social + Capital Partnership, Vikram Pandit, Thomas Glocer... |
| 04.09.2013 | Funding daily: Take a smartwatch break | I pity the startup that raised funding today. Amid all the news about the smartwatch wars, and new gadgets from Samsung and Qualcomm, it was hard to get a word in edgeways.
Nonetheless, a larger than average pool of startups secured financi... |
| 04.09.2013 | Commonbond raises $100M to conquer growing threat of student debt | CommonBond has raised over $100 million to rescue students from the crushing burden of student debt.
The startup powers a platform that connects student borrowers with lenders who can help pay for their education. CommonBond raises money fr... |
| 02.08.2013 | Can’t afford college tuition? These startups can help | As you may have heard, Congress recently passed a last-minute deal on federal student loans that ties the rate to government borrowing costs.
Still, I’m not convinced that Congress will deliver any meaningful reform of education funding, or... |
| 02.08.2013 | Can’t afford college tuition? These startups can help | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
As you may have heard, Congress recently passed a... |
| 09.06.2013 | CommonBond’s David Klein: “Being an Entrepreneur is the Hardest Job You’ll Ever Have” | CommonBond‘s peer-to-peer lending model has received plenty of attention for its novel – and smart – method of helping B-school students actually afford their degrees. With some MBA students graduating with a pile of loans equal to a mortga... |
| 28.04.2013 | Created By Newbie Coders & Others, Espace Connects Meetup Organizers And Venue Owners | Some of the creators of TechCrunch Disrupt NY hackathon project Espace are still learning to code, and this was the perfect event at which to hone their skills. The six-person team designed a site this weekend to connect meetup groups with ... |
| 21.02.2013 | CommonBond: student crowdfunding platform has awarded $2.5M in Wharton MBA loans | CommonBond cofounders Michael Taormina (left) and David Klein at the startup’s January benefit for KIPP Philadelphia Schools. Photo credit: Shira Yudkoff.
CommonBond isn’t headquartered in Philadelphia, but much of the MBA crowdfunding plat... |
| 01.12.2012 | P2P Lending & Education: CommonBond Launches With $3.5M, Joining SoFi In Quest To Solve The Student Debt Crisis | Piggy-backing on the recent launch (and massive funding) of SoFi, a new startup is launching today that wants to breathe some fresh air into the broken, complex and molasses-slow student loan system.
New York City-based CommonBond aims to b... |
| 29.11.2012 | CommonBond Raises $3.5M | CommonBond, a Philadelphia, PA-based student loan crowdfunding platform, has raised a total of $3.5m.
In details, the company has raised $2.5m from prominent alumni investors to disburse to students in the form of loans, and an additional $... |
| 28.11.2012 | Funding Daily: Wacky Wednesday | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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