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  • October 3rd, 2012

    Investment Platform For Your Savings, Betterment Raises $10M From Menlo Ventures, Bessemer

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    Betterment, an investment platform for your savings, has raised $10 million in financing led by Menlo Ventures with Bessemer Venture Partners and Anthemis Group also participating in the round. This brings Betterment’s total funding to $13 million.

    Betterment, which launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010, aims to disrupt the financial savings industry by letting customers invest their savings… → Read More

    May 3rd, 2012

    Betterment Talks About The Disrupt Bump And The Future Of Investing

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    Betterment, the better investment app, launched at Disrupt in 2010 and went on to manage approximately $50 million in two years.

    The site is essentially an investment engine. Seamless automatic deposits ensure that you drag cash over to your investment account every month and the UI is clean, readable, and eminently simple – a gauge tells you how much you’re investing in various buckets of… → Read More

    December 1st, 2010

    Bessemer Backs Better-Savings Startup Betterment With $3 Million

    Betterment, a financial savings startup which launched last May at TechCrunch Disrupt, raised $3 million in a series A financing led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The Anthemis Group, Thomas Lehrman, and other angel investors also participated.

    Betterment aims to disrupt the financial savings industry by letting customers invest their savings in a carefully-selected blend of stock and bond… → Read More

    May 26th, 2010

    The TechCrunch Disrupt Final Five: Betterment, MOVIECLIPS, Publish2, Soluto And UJAM

    Eighty thousand people have tuned in to TechCrunch Disrupt to watch the launch of twenty new startups and products in the Startup Battlefield – nearly 2,000 in live attendance and another staggering 78,000 on the live video stream.

    Of those twenty just ten made it to the second round, where the focus was on the business model. After long deliberations, and after calculating the total score of… → Read More

    May 24th, 2010

    Betterment Wants To Be Your New, Higher-Yield Savings Account

    Betterment, a new startup that is launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt, is looking to become the “replacement for your savings account” — it earns you more money than a standard savings account while offering more flexibility than you’d get from higher yield accounts. And, unlike most financial services, Betterment is designed so that anyone can use it, regardless of their knowledge about… → Read More