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With natural disasters fueling massive storms, we need an all-hands-on-deck effort across the public and private sectors.

To bring more benefits to those in need, we must focus on the back end of the public benefits process by streamlining data.

Administrative barriers are adding pressure at a time of growing need.

In her role as COO, Kimberly will help ensure Beam’s platform increases equitable and fast delivery of critical public benefits.

The company once focused on education, but now, with recession fears growing, it wants to help more local and state agencies administer benefit programs. Beam’s platform offers tools for rent relief and other programs.

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Beam helps deliver government funds, like emergency cash assistance, rental relief and public utility benefits.

/PRNewswire/ -- Beam – the end-to-end platform that streamlines equitable public benefit administration, formerly known as Edquity – today announced its $6.4...

Edquity offers a first of its kind college financial planning app for high school and college students. Founded by David Helene in 2016, Edquity is backed by investors that include Lumina Impact Ventures, Queen City Fintech, Stacked Capital and is headquartered in Brooklyn.

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) announced today four early stage fintech companies – Edquity, Hurdlr, Redrock Biometrics, and SimSpace – are the latest startups to join the Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator .