Kelsey Willock

Co-Founder and CEO, Aura Finance · 2 appearances on the record.

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Kelsey Willock is the co-founder and CEO of Aura Finance, a behavioral financial wellness and wealth engagement platform aimed at reducing financial anxiety. Before launching Aura, she spent nearly six years at Goldman Sachs, rising to Vice President, and authored the personal finance publication Not Your Boyfriend’s Investment Advice.

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4 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 11 not checkable as stated how the 15 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

15 assertions · 1 insight · 4 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 15 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 11 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Kelsey argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Aura Finance built its financial quiz with Georgetown and Cornell researchers
“Things like getting to know your relationship with money through our money personality quiz, which we developed with a team of behavioral scientists and researchers at Georgetown and Cornell. It's an eight question quiz designed to essentially build a Myers-Br…”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 5:21 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint

Everything Kelsey Willock said on the Pitch that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Aura Exceeded Fortune 100 Client's Annual Partner Enrollment Goal in One Day
“Our Fortune 100 partner has already told us we exceeded their prior partners enrollment annual goal in one day”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 8:16 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Insight
Willock: Aura data captures employee intent to spend, save, and invest
“If you think about Pinterest as this data set of consumer intent, you can think about Aura's data as a set of information on employee intent to save, spend, and invest their paycheck.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 9:42 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Disclosure
Aura plans to eliminate human coaching calls within a year
“Over the next year, as we continue investing in our technology, the ultimate goal is to write ourselves out entirely to no longer need to have those human to human coaching interventions.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 11:14 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Disclosure
Aura Finance: Employer contracts cover departed employees for the full year
“In our contracts, we've also written in, if you sign up for the program in January and you leave the company in February, the company still pays for you the entire year, giving them the opportunity and us to win them over in the long term post leaving their em…”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 13:34 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
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Aura Finance Reached $830,000 in Annual Contracted Revenue
“The revenue we currently have is 830,000 dollars in contracted revenue of which we've already realized over a 100,000 dollars of it this year.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 19:55 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Disclosure
Aura Finance Is Raising on a $15 Million Post-Money SAFE
“Fifteen million post money.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 21:16 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Willock: Aura Finance generates $830,000 in annual revenue
“The revenue we currently have Is 830,000 dollars.”
Kelsey Willock Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 17:53 Season 13 Finale: Who Needs VC Anyway?
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Aura Finance Onboarded 17 Corporate Partners Including LinkedIn, Figma, and Whoop
“In just the past year, we onboarded 17 paying corporate partners, including companies like LinkedIn, Figma, Whoop, and more.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 3:57 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Assertion Supported
Aura Finance built its financial quiz with Georgetown and Cornell researchers
“Things like getting to know your relationship with money through our money personality quiz, which we developed with a team of behavioral scientists and researchers at Georgetown and Cornell. It's an eight question quiz designed to essentially build a Myers-Br…”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 5:21 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Willock: 37% of Aura Members Take Action Within First 30 Days
“37% of our members take action within their first 30 days with us.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 6:52 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Willock: Aura Finance reached 1.8% churn with employer partners
“I'm very proud to say that our churn this past year was 1.8% with our employer partners.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 9:03 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Assertion Supported
Aura Finance is an RIA offering HYSAs, managed accounts, and beta IRAs
“We are a registered investment advisor. Some of the products that we already offer include an HYSA, high yield savings account, and a managed investment account. We also have an IRA and beta.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 11:33 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Aura Finance Achieves 37% Workshop-to-Signup Enrollment Across Initial 15 Corporate Partners
“Across the 15 original partners we onboarded, we didn't onboard entirely company-wide, we onboarded cohorts, and our average enrollment from workshop to signing up was 37%.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 14:30 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Aura Finance Reports 3% Single-Day Adoption at Fortune 100 Partner
“With our Fortune 100 partner, we did three percent in one day. We're already tracking five percent by the end of next week.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 14:53 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Willock: Aura secured 15 corporate partners in six months via ERGs
“That's how we brought on 15 paying corporate partners in six months' time.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 19:11 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Willock: Aura Finance's burn rate is $40,000 per month
“It is 40,000.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 20:21 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Disclosure
Aura Finance Is Raising $3 Million With Nearly $2 Million Committed
“I'm raising three million. I have just under two million in commitments. That capital includes funds that are coming back in to exceed their pro rata and new capital, including a fund associated with the largest employer in the world, which as you can imagine,…”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 20:31 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Willock: Aura Finance saw 5.8% consumer churn in 2023
“In twenty-twenty-three, our churn from a consumer perspective was 5.8%.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 8:57 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Assertion Supported
Willock: Standard EAP Solutions See Average Employee Enrollment of 2% to 5%
“That is extremely and astronomically high for what you would consider an EAP-type solution, which on average is anywhere from two to five percent.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 14:44 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Assertion Supported
Aura Finance currently relies on user-reported financial data
“Right now it is user generated content. So we rely on that individual to provide us effective data.”
Kelsey Willock Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 16:50 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint

The other half of the tape: Kelsey Willock's own voice is left out of every number here. 3 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Statements about Kelsey Willock, by other people (3)

Disclosure
Josh Muccio offers $150k investment into Aura Finance from The Pitch fund
“No, I was just gonna say, I know you're talking to different leads, but this actually is in model for us, so we would love to invest through the listeners of the show, a 150,000, and then if there's more room, potentially do a syndicate, so I don't know where …”
Josh Muccio Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 27:20 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Disclosure
Elizabeth Yin: Hustle Fund passes on Aura Finance over high valuation
“I think to Jenny's point, you know, we're pre-seed investors at Hustle Fund, so for us, like, the valuation's gonna be too high, but yeah, I, I'm very impressed, Kelsey.”
Elizabeth Yin Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 26:58 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Muccio: Baukunst passed on Aura Finance due to sector and valuation
“After the show, Kate talked to her partners at Baukunst, and indeed, this one was too far out of their scope, on two axes. FinTech, they do not do, and at a fifteen million dollar price, they'd need to write a much larger check than the one million Kelsey had …”
Josh Muccio Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 34:53 Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint

Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Season 13 Finale: Who Needs VC Anyway? Jun 25, 2025 1m
Aura Finance: Chasing the Ghost of Mint Apr 9, 2025 15m
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