On a mission to empower teams
We started as friends with two very different backgrounds and growing up in different parts of the world. We met while working in the fintech industry and immediately thought we’ve known each other all of our lives.
Both of us were similar in our love of technology but different how we spent our corporate careers….one in product development, design and operations and the other in the cultures of people and companies. We are both very social people and we found a need for organizing our friends around finances… whether it was for a group trip, a reunion or our kid’s school and sports activities…. we found that there was a gap in technology that helped groups financially interact. We didn’t want money to be a sore topic between friends, families and colleagues; we wanted people to interact like they socially do with happiness and trust.
We thought if we could bring trust into how people interact financially, then we’ve solved “the people” part of the equation.
Our Vision
is about connecting people to build trusted and meaningful relationships.
Our Culture
We believe that relationships are the key to life so we have developed our values centered around PEOPLE and TRUST.
Our Mission
is to free groups to reimagine their financial and social life in one app.
Our Values
Being honest, open, creative and a team player are the values that we seek from our team.
Our Leaders
Meet the Team
Rekha Garapati
CEO & Founder
I am passionate about using technology to solve problems at scale & building high performance teams. Our goal is to connect groups and communities, in meaningful ways to build trust and help others. As an entrepreneur, mom, friend, and community member, I believe our solution can create impactful change.
Leaders
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Jenn Friday Jones
Chief Connection Officer & Co-Founder
Connecting people is something that I have always loved! I truly believe in what we have been working on because it does two very important things that I am passionate about: connecting people and being able to trust where my donations are going! It's a game changer!
Leaders
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Jocelyn Lubach
Chief Compliance Officer
Banking compliance is not easy and I have a passion for helping make the compliance process easier and doable. I started helping SoshWallet from their first day and I too want to deliver the best banking experience for all groups.
Leaders
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Austin Jones
Director of Digital Strategy
I've always been an entrepreneur as I've created my own medical app, am a 5 star rated freelancer on Fiverr for my digital work, and I own & manage a food truck called Seoul Food BBQ. My passion and what gets me up every day is wanting to empower small businesses with the tools they need to be successful in the digital world from SEO to business strategy. Defining a target audience and laser focus on that audience with digital strategy is my sweet spot. As a father of two, I love spending time with my family in the outdoors and of course, it always includes food.
Leaders
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Angela Arena
Creative Director
Living in the creative world is what I do every day.........I'm at my best when I can engage people for any of my clients from NASA to SoshWallet and launching my own social media where I have over 70,000 followers. Being able to dive into the data of social media and understand my audience to engage them further is what keeps me energized as I bring my client's personality to life. I live life to the fullest......shouldn't everyone? In my spare time, I love being with my family because it's this time that gives me the peace to be creative and be ME!
Leaders
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Our Interns
Damaris Martinez
Marketing Intern
I am majoring in marketing when I graduate because I believe that every company should understand who they are marketing to and drive to engage that audience into a deeper relationship. I am a believer in relationship marketing and that's why I chose to work with SoshWallet. Read my blog here.
Our Advisors
David Springer
Investor
David has been a successful venture capitalist with an expertise of leading technology companies in various roles as CEO, Operations & Engineering. He has served as a member of FTC Solar's Board of Directors since January 2017 and as their Executive Vice President, Field Operations since May 2019. David previously served as FTC Solar's Chief Executive Officer from January 2017 to May 2019. From 2013 to 2016, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Solar Materials at SunEdison. From 2011 to 2013, David was the Vice President of Manufacturing at MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. From 2005 to 2011, he held multiple leadership positions, including Vice President of Manufacturing Operations, at Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. David has also served as a Navy submarine officer. David has a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the United States Naval Academy.
Snehal Fulzele
Founder & CEO Cion Digital
Snehal is a serial entrepreneur with his roots in engineering at Adobe and Oracle. He launched Cloud Lending in 2013 which brought lending to the cloud in a front-to-end platform solution making loans easier for financial institutions. He's had a love of improving and innovating the banking experience of customers and has brought a new crypto solution to financial institutions with Cion Digital. They help clients access revenue opportunities by expanding and integrating their existing financial systems to succeed in the evolving digital asset economy. He is Chairman of the Board for Phyt.Health and a Board Member of SentryHealth. He has his Masters of Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Our Experience
Technology Experience
Our team's passion for utilizing technology to make life easier shows through our 30+ combined years of experience in the tech industry. From developing technologies and doing good for our people and the planet to making banking better through mobile-first platforms, we have what it takes to understand how banking, people and technology come together! Our technology is backed by the leading industry experts helping to make you feel comfortable with who you are trusting with your groups' financial needs.
Your Experience
Our goal is to provide an experience that is tailored to your groups' needs in the way that you socially interact around expenses and giving. We are a company that prides ourselves in open and transparent feedback so please reach out to us! We would love to hear your thoughts!
Our Technology
Connecting your Bank
We use Plaid to connect your bank account with our app. They are an industry leader in banking integrations & your data is held with them.
Built on BlockChain
With the need for financial transparency, we used IBM Hyperledger as our framework for building our app.
Storing Your Data
Our app is hosted by Amazon Web Services which is a leading provider for storing and protecting your data.
Protecting You
Partnered with Sila for our bank grade identification of our users so you know who you are paying & to ensure every account is FDIC insured up to $250K
