{"id":5559,"date":"2025-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailymarkup.com\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T14:12:40","slug":"daily-markup-1143-vircle-secures-funding-to-reach-more-parents-and-expand-their-child-safe-financial-solutions-beyond-100000-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailymarkup.com\/?p=5559","title":{"rendered":"Daily Markup #1143: Vircle secures funding to reach more parents, and expand their child-safe financial solutions beyond 100,000 families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXe6D612bZNMLgl8IrlS7cSQgQ77KOo3nr5cMxAqGONgoXu3nRcq7TpPjjc0eaBTcG04ySipZZwifGMUHxzbyrsWzK5OcvpmouuDm-EKL0EiJmPgeB85aqhDjMdgXMr3jmwJF61Sbg?key=XMNsVuqjFmOPeWEhZaxvPH7d\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo credit: Vircle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pocket-sized learning<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Malaysia\u2019s first child-safe financial management platform has been transforming financial literacy for children since 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Today, 500-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vircle.com\/\">Vircle<\/a> is serving over 100,000 families across 150 nationalities with their app that helps parents manage all their child\u2019s money and teach financial learning skills.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The team also provides a prepaid Visa card for children, with parental controls and child-safe protection embedded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vircle recently secured funding from 1137 Ventures to fuel their expansion. \u201cOur core mission has always been to teach kids how to manage money wisely, and this investment enables us to scale our operations and expand our reach,\u201d shared Gokula Krishnan Subramaniam, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vircle.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Designed to help children budget, save, and spend responsibly, the platform has set an ambitious target of banking 1 million children in Malaysia and expanding to 3 million across Southeast Asia within 5 years.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The team also partners with major private and international schools by providing cashless school platforms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4jitPJ8\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pocket-sized learning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[588],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily","tag-vircle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - 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