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Candidly, the market's leading AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform, today announced the launch of CaitTM (Conversational AI Tool), a sophisticated multi-agent AI assistant that delivers comprehensive financial guidance spanning student loan repayment and college planning. Unlike single-purpose chatbots, Cait's advanced multi-agent architecture enables deep expertise across the full education financing lifecycle. Cait will be initially available to employees through their employers at a critical time when borrowers face the resumption of involuntary collections on federal student loans.

Candidly, the market’s only AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform, today announced it has been selected as a World Economic Forum (WEF) 2025 Technology Pioneer, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. Candidly will now join this prestigious community of companies from around the world that are shaping the future through breakthrough technologies and innovations.

Candidly, the market’s leading AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform has partnered with Fiducius, a top provider of financial wellness benefits. Through this collaboration, Fiducius will enhance its employee benefits platform by integrating select Candidly tools for college savings and private student lending.

Candidly, the market’s only AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform, announced today that its Founder and CEO, Laurel Taylor, has been named to Inc.’s Female Founders list for 2025.

Candidly, the market's only AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform, today announced milestone achievements in its 2024 Annual Impact Report, including $1.8 billion in projected student debt impact and over 200,000 years saved off of student debt repayment. Other achievements reached by the company in 2024 include being named to the Fast Company Most Innovative Companies list in the category of personal finance and launching two new products for the workplace benefit and retirement industries: a SECURE Act 2.0-enabled Student Loan Retirement Match solution and Onward, an API-first comprehensive debt management solution.

Candidly, the category leader in student debt and savings solutions, today announced the launch of Onward, a revolutionary consumer debt optimization solution designed to help financial institutions empower their end-customers to better manage their financial futures. Initially available as an API-only offering, with a full front-end experience coming in early 2025, Onward is poised to reshape how American workers allocate their hard-earned money across debt, savings, and investing.

Candidly, the leading AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform, announced today a partnership with intellicents to bring Candidly’s student debt solutions to intellicents’ customers who include plan sponsors and their plan participants. This collaboration serves to support intellicents on its mission to help the typical American worker - “the underserved” - get their financial house in order by helping them plan and pay for college, repay student debt, and build savings via access to Candidly.

Candidly, the leading AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform, has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024. Candidly earned this accolade for its pioneering role in revolutionizing traditional retirement benefits with a new retirement plan provision that gets student loan borrowers off the sidelines and into long-term financial security. To date, Candidly has generated $1.2B of projected student debt impact for the workers it serves.

Candidly, the leading AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform, released today its 2023 Impact Report, which highlights customer profiles and shares key milestones met by the company in 2023. Achievements featured in the report include surpassing $1 billion in projected impact over the life of the loans of its end users, the vast majority of whom are offered Candidly as a workplace benefit from their employer. This number represents the total dollar impact that Candidly users are on track to realize as a result of actions taken and payments facilitated through the Candidly platform; for example, dollars saved on interest from extra payments, monthly savings from income-driven repayment plans, and projected forgiveness amounts.

Candidly, the leading AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform, announced today the launch of its Emergency Savings solution. This new offering will be available to users as a workplace benefit through employers, record keepers, and financial institutions, alongside Candidly’s full-suite of student debt and SECURE 2.0 retirement savings enablement solutions.

Candidly, the market’s leading student debt management platform, today announced that it is the winner of the “Best Student Loan Management Platform” award in the 7th annual FinTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by FinTech Breakthrough. This is the second consecutive year that Candidly has been recognized with a FinTech Breakthrough Award.

Candidly, the market’s most comprehensive student debt and savings optimization platform, today announced it raised $20.5M in a Series B round of financing, led by Altos Ventures, with follow-on participation from Cercano Management. The Series B financing follows a year of record growth in which the company saw 10x revenue growth and a 3,600% increase of payments flowing through the Candidly platform.

Candidly, the market’s most comprehensive student debt management platform, today announced that American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE: AEO), a leading global specialty retailer, has facilitated more than $100,000 in contributions to associates’ student loan debt, creating $2.8M+ of total impact and shaving 766 years off associates’ repayment time. Candidly, together with AEO, offers student debt and financial wellness benefits to tens of thousands of the retailer’s US-based employees.

Candidly, the market’s leading student debt management platform, today announced its Federal Forgiveness Finder, which enables borrowers to determine how much loan forgiveness they are eligible for under the student loan relief plan announced by President Biden on August 24, 2022.

Candidly, the market's most comprehensive student debt management platform, today announced the release of its automated Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) tool. Adoption of this new tool transforms the PSLF application process, reduces complexity for borrowers, lowers the administrative burden on resource-strapped employers, and ensures error-free applications for review by the Department of Education (DOE) and associated student loan servicers.

FutureFuel.io, the market's most comprehensive student debt management platform, today announced the acquisition of College Finance Company, the leading multi-lender marketplace for education financing. The company also announced a complete rebrand of its corporate identity, including a new logo, updated visual brand elements, and a new company name: Candidly.