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We started Greenlight® because kids learning to be financially responsible
is too important to be left to cash. Cash is easy to lose, hard to keep on
hand, and hard to track and create teachable moments with. Yet since 1793,
when the US Mint began circulating coins, cash has been the preferred (and
usually the only) option for American parents.
48
million
41
There are 48
million US families
with kids at home
(US Census)
of which 41 million
That’s about to change. Now, any parent with an iOS or Android
(86%) rely
primarily on cash
smartphone can give a reloadable Greenlight debit card to their kids and get
to give their kids
an unprecedented benefit:
the ability to specify the exact stores,
money, according
websites, and types of stores where their child can spend (patents
million to our research.
pending). In addition, parents can use our mobile app to automate
allowances, instantly send money to their child, and get real-time notifications. And kids, after all these
years, get a safe, teachable way to enter the world of money.
We launched the Greenlight debit card for kids in January 2017. Greenlight Financial Technology, Inc. is
headquartered in Atlanta, GA.
Co-Founders
Tim Sheehan, CEO
Johnson Cook, CBO
John Hagelgans, CTO
Team Background
Patents
4
pending
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