Company Performance Metrics
Sunwoo Hwang: CEO & Founder
Augustine Bui: Vice President of Operation and Growth
SIXUP is a for-profit technology company innovating the way to provide scalable financing and digital wrap-around support to high-achieving, low-income students who are underfunded and underserved. Through a systems-based approach, we aggregate, underwrite, fund, and produce a new asset (talent) class called Future-Prime that represents 7M students
and $30-100 billion in volume annually.
Sixup is venture-backed with $14M in equity to-date from investors such as Collaboration Capital (Lykes Family Office), Rethink Education, Learn Capital, Kellogg Foundation, and Western Technology Investment.
Sixup has raised $41M in lending and grant capital from investors such as Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Prudential, Kellogg Foundation, Woodcock Foundation, and several family offices and impact investors.
It has partnered with community-based, advocacy, and ecosystem partners such as KIPP, Christo Rey, Genesys Works, Scholarships.com, Edvisors, and National College Access Network (NCAN).
Sixup is a for-profit, public benefit corporation based in San Francisco, and operational as a consumer lender in 18 states.
