Safely Finance
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Safely Finance was a Y Combinator (S19) startup founded in 2019 by Jason Corwin and Roland Mansilla. It offered a pay-over-time platform for moving and renting: financial security deposits for renters, move-in and lease-break financing from 0% APR, loans for home rentals and moving costs on monthly repayment plans, and credit-score improvement services. Its Communities product embedded payment options directly into leasing experiences via widget, API or property management integrations.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded and backed
Jason Corwin and Roland Mansilla found Safely Finance in San Francisco; the company joins Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch and completes an accelerator round of $150,000.
- Product Hunt launch
Safely Finance launches publicly on Product Hunt on October 19, 2021 with its move-in and lease-break financing offer from 0% APR.
- Secondary transaction
PitchBook records a secondary private transaction for Safely Finance in June 2024, with the company still listed as privately held and generating revenue.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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