Pathfinder builds a financial product — the Pathfinder Education Visa Charge Card — issued by Column, N.A., Member FDIC, under license from Visa, specifically for participants in education savings account programs. The company spent two years researching families and alternative education settings to design its offering and was informed by the founder’s prior experience starting an alternative school and operating across six cities. The card is currently available to ESA participants in Arizona. Pathfinder positions itself to help scale school choice and put educational decision-making back into parents’ hands, and the recent $4M seed raise led by Gradient and Reach Capital is intended to support that expansion. The company announced numerous angel supporters and early believers alongside the funding.

Total raised

$4M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Mar 2026