Ivella
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Ivella was a Santa Monica-based fintech startup founded in 2021 by Eric Wang, Kahlil Lalji and Vishal Dubey that built banking products for couples. Its launch product was a split-account debit card: couples kept individual accounts and balances, and an Ivella card linked to both, automatically splitting each transaction at a ratio the couple chose (e.g., prorated by income) via real-time decision logic. Backed by $3.63 million in seed funding from investors including Y Combinator, Anthemis, Soma Capital, Financial Venture Studio, Sahil Lavingia and Joshua Browder, it launched in 2022. No failure event has been reported.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Ivella is founded in Santa Monica by Eric Wang, Kahlil Lalji and Vishal Dubey to build banking products for couples.
- $3.5M seed round and launch
Ivella launches its split-account product for couples with a $3.5 million seed round from Anthemis, Financial Venture Studio, Soma Capital, Y Combinator, Joshua Browder and Sahil Lavingia.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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