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Affirm
POS installment loans
- 1001+ employees
- Fintech
- B2C
- Personal finance
- Payments
- SaaS
- Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
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Company mission
To deliver honest and transparent financial products that improve users' lives.
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-11% employee growth in 12 months
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Affirm offers point-of-sale loans to consumers, working with merchants like Shopify, KAYAK, and Walmart. Buy now, pay later transactions have grown in popularity in recent years, and this business is tapping into the market with a totally different approach to credit - by delivering the Affirm card, the first US debit card with the option to pay-over-time.
Boating over 15 million customers and 245,000+ merchants, the company offers flexible payback options, ranging from 3 to 36 months. The interest rates run between 0% and 30%, so, while they are not necessarily the cheapest option, Affirm prides itself on having no fees for late payments, no hidden charges, and total transparency about what people will pay before they take out a loan.
Affirm collects payments from the customers and pays the merchants directly, shouldering the risk itself. The company has boosted its market share, expanding its availability beyond the US to include most of Canada, and continues to launch new features and create new partnerships towards bettering its offering.
Benefits
- Spending wallets
- Supportive communities
- Remote-first workforce
- Generous time off
- Birth and non-birth parents get 18 weeks’ paid leave. Plus, a 4-week return-to-work transition program, at full base pay
- Health benefits
- Mental healthcare
- We offer 24 company-wide paid days off—which help our teams collectively pause to recharge
- We have a simple, flexible, and transparent remote-first compensation structure so you can make the best decisions for yourself and your family
- Learning & development
Company values
- People Come First
- No Fine Print
- It's On Us
- Simpler is Better
- Push the Envelope
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2020
$500m
SERIES G
Apr 2019
$300m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.1bn
This company has top investors
Founders
Max Levchin
(CEO)Has founded/co-founded numerous companies, holding various executive positions at each, including Paypal, Slide, Glow, HVF Labs, and SciFi VC. Also worked at large brands including Google, Yelp, Yahoo, and Evernote.