Employee financial wellness start-up Rain lands $116m in equity and debt

Worker monetary wellness start-up Rain has raised $116 million in funding, made up of $66 million in fairness and $50 million in debt.

Rain raises $66m in fairness and $50m in debt

The Sequence A fairness spherical was led by QED Traders and Invus Alternatives and noticed participation from corporations together with WndrCo, Tribe Capital and Dreamers VC. The debt facility has been organized by Sound Level Capital Administration.

The Los Angeles-based fintech says the funding will assist gas its ongoing US enlargement and plans to take a position the money in expertise and infrastructure, advertising and marketing and constructing its workforce.

The Rain platform permits staff to entry their pay “on demand”. Often known as “earnings streaming”, workers can entry their pay shortly after finishing a shift, moderately than ready for payday.

Rain integrates with present payroll and timekeeping software program utilized by many center market and enterprise companies and automates a payroll deduction movement.

Staff pay a small charge every time they withdraw their earned wages. To advertise accountable use, workers are unable to withdraw greater than 50% of gross earned wages per pay interval.

Rain co-founder and CEO Alex Bradford says the platform “improves particular person monetary wellbeing and boosts morale whereas giving employers a priceless software for recruiting and retaining staff throughout a good labour market”.

The corporate launched its On the spot Pay app in early 2020 and claims to have grown its person and shopper base greater than 20% per 30 days over the previous 30 months.

Up to now, Rain has disbursed greater than $150 million in earned wages.