Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Mint.com Raises $14MM - Benchmark, Shasta, First Round Capital, Sherpalo

Mint.com is the nation's leading online personal finance service, providing over 1.4 million users a fresh, easy and intelligent approach to money management. And it's free. Mint is tracking over $175 billion in transactions, $47 billion in assets and has identified $300 million in potential savings for its users.

"Over 1 million people already use our online money management and budgeting software today, and we’re adding over 3,000 users every day. Mint.com is tracking $175 billion in transactions, $47 billion in assets and has identified more than $300 million in potential savings for its users."

At Mint, we believe that money is for living. That's why we’ve created the simplest and most effective way to manage your money…and why Mint.com is free.

Mint.com (www.mint.com), the nation's leading online personal finance and budgeting service, today announced that the company has raised $14 million in a Series C financing round led by DAG Ventures. This was a preemptive round, with new participation from The Founder's Fund, and investment from existing investors Benchmark Capital, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital, and Sherpalo. Valuation is not being disclosed, but it represents a significant up round.

Mint.com is the leading online personal finance service, now with over 1.4 million registered users. Mint is tracking over $175 billion in transactions, $47 billion in assets and has identified $300 million in potential savings for its users. Specific revenues are undisclosed, but are up 8x year over year.

This round of funding will be applied to expanding Mint's already award-winning team, particularly its engineering staff, to accelerate product upgrades and new partnership launches scheduled for the next 6-12 months.

"To be approached with funding in this climate is acknowledgement of our progress and potential in helping Americans to save and do more with their money," said Aaron Patzer, CEO and founder of Mint.com. "Now that we have a sampling of about 2% of the nation's online households, we can see some interesting economic trends, and are establishing ourselves as a source of close to real-time insights into the US economy."

This latest round brings Mint.com's total funds raised to date to $31 million. The company's Series B was led by Benchmark Capital; Series A was led by Shasta Ventures; and their seed round was led by First Round Capital.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

quicken has failed me. i'm only concerned about my account being hacked into

Anonymous said...

WHY?

Susie said...

It's a great service to keep track of your personal finances. I would at least try it out. But do not stay logged in.

ms said...

iphone app works very well.

Kush said...

Thx for the tip!