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Blackbullion
The ultimate finance space for GenZ
- 21-100 employees
- Fintech
- B2C
- B2B
- Enterprise
- Education
- Personal finance
- SaaS
- London, UK
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Company mission
Blackbullion's mission is to help young people develop financial skills for life.
Our take
Blackbullion is a digital financial wellbeing platform that streamlines and simplifies the discovery, application, receipt and effective use of student funding. It provides courses to learn financial skills to develop financial confidence and knowledge, and empower better decision making. It also helps locate funding for education through university funds, scholarships and bursaries.
The platform uses gamification through data modelling, personalised learning through machine learning and features that use augmented reality. The founder, Vivi Friedgut, spent the early part of her career managing the wealth of high-net-worth families and individuals. It was that work that made her question what could be achieved if financial education became more accessible.
Blackbullion is deployed on campuses across the UK, Australia, and New Zealand and almost 1 million students have access. The company is actively trying to widen participation cohorts, especially for first-in-family and marginalised students. Increasingly the platform is forming a major part of university retention strategies and has attracted funding from major future learning investors such as MPA Education and Emerge Education.
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Benefits
- 📈 Options: Every team member is granted options under the EMI scheme: we want everyone to “have skin in our game” and be part of our success
- 🏖 Time off: 32 days of holiday (incl. bank holidays) plus your birthday off too – we strongly believe in recharging and re-energising regularly
- 🚲 Cycle to work & tech scheme: Save up to 40% on a new bike and/or equipment and also on gadgets and tech
- ⏳ Flexible working: You’ll have the freedom and flexibility to manage your time and routine in a way that suits you, and your team, allowing you to deliver your best work. We do regularly get together as we believe that proximity is still best for culture and we take that stuff pretty seriously!
- 🌵 Office: Our gorgeous new office in Shoreditch is available as, and when, you want to use it. We aim to be together at a minimum monthly but some people come in 2-3 days a week
- 📚 Learning & development: We have a training budget set aside for every member of staff and we will do our best to contribute to anything you want to learn – whether through courses, books, or more formal learning
- 💻 Equipment: We want to make sure everyone is set up to work effectively and comfortably - so you’ll get to choose your own kit, including any additional equipment you might need to work from home
Company values
- Learning never stops
- Be proud of what we do
- Team above ego
- Mission first
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2024
$0.1m
GRANT
Oct 2022
$3.2m
SEED
Total funding: $4.5m
Leadership
Vivi Friedgut
(CEO)Former Relationship Manager in private banking and current Member of the Advisory Group for Edtech UK.