Oct 5, 2018

Credit Karma Cares for Your Car On- and Offline

Credit Karma Auto cruises past major milestones; offers free car washes to Los Angelenos Less than a year ago, Credit Karma launched an experience around the idea that people should have one central place to access information about their car. Since launch, more than 8 million members have synced their cars to the platform. To […]

Oct 2, 2018

Credit Karma is attacking the nearly $21 billion pricing gap in car insurance

Last November, we launched Credit Karma Auto. It quickly became obvious that our members wanted to understand their vehicles better. We built the entire auto experience around this insight, giving our members free access to this DMV, loan and vehicle data, directly within a new surface on Credit Karma. By adding car and driver data […]

Sep 19, 2018

Penny: Powering the future of conversations at Credit Karma

In March, Credit Karma acquired a three year old company by the name of Penny. For those of you not already familiar, Penny was a personal finance app that served hundreds of thousands of people primarily by having conversations about your finances. The acquisition aligns with Credit Karma’s bigger vision—a vision that we’re betting conversation […]

Sep 5, 2018

Unmasking the Dark Web

Everyone deserves to feel confident about their finances. We believe that confidence shouldn’t cost money. Fraud is a huge problem that can undermine your financial confidence and cost you a lot of money. In 2017 alone, there were 1.1 million fraud reports costing Americans more than $900 million. Just as understanding credit scores can be […]

Aug 17, 2018

Welcome to the Credit Karma family, Approved!

At Credit Karma, we’re on a mission to help our 80+ million members make financial progress. Whether it’s filing your taxes for free with Credit Karma Tax or getting the best deal on an auto loan, we have the scale and technology to help you through every step of your financial journey — and that […]

Oct 17, 2017

Why Haven’t Mobile Payments Taken Off (Yet)?

October 17, 2016 We’re approaching a decade since Apple launched the first iPhone in 2007, a massive leap in the evolution of smartphones that led to handheld, internet-connected computers ending up in the pockets of more than 200 million Americans. After the launch of the iPhone, the promise of smartphones as a mobile wallet was widely […]

May 16, 2017

Credit Karma Now Helps Homeowners Save on Their Mortgages

May 16, 2017 By Arun Mohan Buying a home is the biggest financial decision many of us will make in our lifetime. Unfortunately, it has also historically been one of the most confusing, so many people don’t bother to shop around for the best deal on their home loan. As many as half of all homeowners might […]

May 9, 2017

Credit Karma Unclaimed Money Will Help Return Billions of Dollars to Americans

If you’ve ever found money under the couch, we’ve got some news for you. There is over $40 billion hiding in America’s proverbial couch. It’s called unclaimed money, and it’s owed to tens of millions of people. The problem is most people don’t know they have money just sitting with the state, waiting to be […]

Mar 31, 2017

A Decade of Financial Progress with Credit Karma

Ten years ago, we started Credit Karma with the idea that everyone should have free access to their credit information. A few months later, the recession hit and there were so many reasons we could’ve failed: a tough economy, lack of funding, widespread distrust of consumer credit companies… the list goes on. But despite these […]

Feb 7, 2017

Credit Karma’s Journey to Mobile: From Web 1.0 to Top Ranked App

Our team was thrilled when Apple® named Credit Karma one of the “10 Best Apps of the Year” in 2016, out of two million other apps in the App Store®. Mobile is an important priority for us, and it’s easy to understand why. For many of you, regularly staying on top of your credit is […]