Raising the world’s financial IQ

Hiro is financial intelligence

AI is ushering in a new era of machine intelligence. The impact on personal finance will be profound.

What does this mean? No more app-hopping between Google searches, spreadsheets, budgeting tools, banking apps and investment accounts. It means having a super sharp financial partner that knows your situation deeply and can actually help you make better decisions. It means the end of financial advice that sounds smart but isn't personalized to your reality.

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Hiro founders

Our founding story

Ethan and Rushabh first connected in 2017, while Ethan was building Digit and Rushabh was developing products at Facebook. Rushabh joined Ethan in 2020, helping expand Digit from a savings app into a financial platform offering savings, investing, and banking.

Digit helped millions of Americans save billions of dollars and was acquired by Oportun (NYSE: OPRT) for $238M in 2021.

While building Digit they dreamed of creating a financial AI, but the technology wasn't ready. The dream never died — it just had to wait.

After leaving Oportun in 2023, Ethan took time to recharge while Rushabh dove into the world of LLMs, spurred by the launch of ChatGPT.

In early 2024, Rushabh was showing Ethan what he had been learning and building. Ethan was shook: the universe was calling. The technology that enabled their dream of a financial AI was here and they had to go build it!

Backed by the best in financial technology

Shishir Mehrotra CEO, Grammarly
Chris Lattner CEO, Modular AI
Eoghan McCabe CEO, Intercom
Josh Elman Former VP Product, Robinhood
Srinivas Narayanan VP Eng, OpenAI
Hunter Walk Partner, Homebrew
Avichal Garg Partner, Electric Capital
Renaud Laplanche CEO, Upgrade
Dan Martell Author, Buy Back Your Time
Nikhil Chandhok CPTO, Circle
Akash Garg Former CTO, AfterPay
Dan Manges Former CTO, Root Insurance
Hoang Vuong CFO, Weka
Daniel Kang CFO, Mercury
Ficus Kirkpatrick CTO, /dev/agents
Ragavan Srinivasan VP Product, Meta AI
Alka Gupta Co-founder, former CEO, GlobaliD
J. Money Founder, BudgetsAreSexy.com
Snigdha Kumar CEO, Brico
Tom Brown Partner, NYCA
Carolyn Satenberg-Stewart CPO, AKASA
Ryan Nier COO, Nova Credit
Chris Hutchins Founder, All The Hacks
Darius A Monsef IV / Bubs CEO, Rides
Sasha Klein Partner, PWC