CUSHION states that it is a FinTech startup described as “lattice stripes for purchasing now, and will be paid later (BNPL).”
On Thursday, the founder and CEO Paul Kessel Crocodile posted to Linkedin about the decision to conclude the company at the end of 2024.
“Despite the launch of multiple new FinTech products on the market,” Kessel Crocodile said in a post. The cushion said, “We did not reach the necessary scale to maintain the business.”
CUSHION, based in San Francisco, was founded in a total of 21.6 million from Afore Capital, Florish Ventures, Vestigo Ventures, and 500 Global. I got a dollar.
The last published salary raised in May 2022, closed the $ 12 million series A, led by Afore Capital. According to PitchBook, the evaluation after 2022 was $ 82.4 million.
Kesserwani did not respond immediately to TechCrunch comments.
CUSHION provided a consumer application that sucked a transaction history from the user's bank account, determined the cost that was evaluated to be refunded, and then negotiated. Kesserwani was designed to adjust the incentives with consumers by taking the committee only for the returned cash in TechnoCrunch in 2019.
Kesserwani quit his job on Twitter and then got the idea of CUSHION. The next time he was taking a break thinking about what he wanted to do, he helped his parents manage bank accounts while traveling to work in Lebanon. With a bank security policy, his parents could not log in to an account from Lebanon, and eventually faced the banks of bank prices due to their unmanned accounts. As Kesserwani investigated, he turned his eyes on his account and was paying a fee for adjusting $ 400, which he did not agree.
In a Linkedin post on Thursday, Kesserwani stated that CUSHION had automated bank fees, reaching $ 3 million in 10 months, and processed more than $ 300 million BNPL loans. He added that the company has more than 1 million consumers over time, with more than 200,000 paid customers.
Kesserwani writes as follows. The result was not what we wanted, but we made something to move forward. And I am proud of it. Regarding me, I am excited about the following. “
Data suggests that 2025 is expected to be a more brutal year for the closing of the startup. In late December, another Fintech -bench was suddenly closed just a few days later.
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