Nickel Finance, Inc.

Nickel is a mobile app that helps young finance users manage finances in one place and make meaningful connections with businesses and nonprofits.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Financial Services
  • Location Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded March 2020
  • Employees 3
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website nickelfi.com

Company Summary

Nickel is a mobile app that will help young finance users manage their finances in one place and make meaningful connections with businesses and nonprofits via our personal mobile banking and philanthropic ecosystem. Nickel also serves businesses by providing a contactless payment method with no processing fees and added consumer rewards. Nonprofits will have access to a platform to reach and retain donors in a way that is social and centralized.

Team

  • Jason Tortorete
    Co-founder, CEO

  • Keston Crandall
    Co-founder, CTO

  • Jonathan Powers
    Co-founder, COO

    Jonathan received his MBA and M.S. Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. During his time at Pitt, he co-founded a landsharing app called AdventureHound and won $5,000 at the Randall Family Big Idea Competition pitch competition. At his day job, he's a Product Design Integration engineer at Tesla, regularly hosting vehicle trade-off and coordination meetings with 25+ engineers, including Sr. Managers and VPs of engineering.

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