Zogo co-founder Bolun Li launched the startup in 2018 and have become the youngest presenter to win “Better of Present” at Finovate the subsequent 12 months. A Duke College scholar on the time, Li launched Zogo’s gamified monetary literacy app and competed towards 78 worldwide corporations, together with serial entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary. [Image: Zogo]
Dallas-based Apex, which calls itself “the fintech for fintechs,” is teaming up with Zogo Finance, a “next-gen” monetary training app, to remodel the best way traders study on their very own.
Greater than 450 bite-sized modules purpose to reward clients for studying. [Image: Apex]
The strategic alliance will embody greater than 450 bite-sized modules introduced in easy-to-digest classes.
“Our mission is all about democratizing finance via entry—and training is an important a part of that,” stated Apex CEO Invoice Capuzzi.
‘Monetary literacy for Gen Z by Gen Z’
Created by Austin-based founder and CEO Bolun Li as a 19-year-old scholar, Zogo takes a Gen Z method to monetary training by providing customers present playing cards and rewards for studying on the Zogo app.
The app covers all the things from investing methods to e-sports, healthcare, insurance coverage, and extra. With the brand new partnership, the modules will now roll out to traders nationwide by integrating into fintech platforms like Fintron and UNest—each mutual purchasers of Apex and Zogo.
“Millennials and Gen Z are reinventing investing, which requires corporations to adapt to their evolving pursuits, monetary aspirations, and academic wants,” Bolun Li stated in a press release. “Apex shares our imaginative and prescient of harnessing expertise to create personalized, versatile, and accessible studying alternatives to help traders of every type.”
Apex CEO Invoice Capuzzi [Photo: Apex]
“Partnering with Zogo helps us empower our purchasers and their tens of millions of shoppers,” Capuzzi stated.
Since Zogo’s 2018 founding, customers have accomplished over 16 million “classes.”
Zogo at the moment serves over 500,000 customers and companions with 180+ monetary establishments, from banks to credit score unions to giant companies together with Dallas-based purchasers RelyOn and Southwest Monetary Federal Credit score Union.
The Zogo workforce is hiring aggressively throughout Texas, with plans so as to add round 50 folks this 12 months, based on a spokesperson.
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