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Sheena Allen has announced the closure of a venture supporting unbanked communities. Since 2018, Allen has been the founder of CapWay, a mobile bank inspired by her upbringing in Terry, MS, a ...
Growing up in Terry, Mississippi, Sheena Allen didn't spend much time in banks. The small town, located 17-miles south of Jackson, only had one bank branch (and still does). Much of the community ...
Sheena Allen grew up in a one-bank town where lots of people relied on payday lenders. She's building her company to help those she grew up with.
In the latest episode of UnBossed, serial entrepreneur and financial tech connoisseur Sheena Allen gave listeners a deep dive into the challenges of banking while Black as well as what […] ...
Sheena Allen is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and creative architect. She was born in Terry, MS, and is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, where she received a dual degree ...
Sheena Allen is no stranger to the world of technology. In 2011, the Mississippi native started her first tech company in her senior year of college called Sheena Allen Apps. With no coding ...
It’s not common to hear of many tech startup founders being born and raised in Terry, Mississippi. But those odds did not discourage Sheena Allen. Instead, she used them as a purpose driver and ...
In 2016, Sheena Allen started working on CapWay, an online banking and financial literacy app that aims to help the unbanked, underbanked and people living paycheck to paycheck.
Allen also knew those differences could be — in marketing speak — her unique selling proposition. And it was clear that Sheena Allen Apps was never going to be the typical Silicon Valley tech ...
School officials have begun working with Sheena Allen, a 2011 Southern Miss graduate, on a financial app called CapWay. It will teach students financial facts and let the university know where ...
CapWay, a Y Combinator-backed fintech that sought to bring financial services to those in so-called “banking deserts,” has been shut down, according to its founder Sheena Allen. Allen wrote ...
In 2016, Allen had the idea to create an app that organizes money and spending. The app, CapWay now serves to guide people toward a prosperous financial future.