Chariot
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About Chariot
Chariot is a fintech company building financial infrastructure for the $326 billion donor-advised fund (DAF) market, the fastest-growing segment of philanthropy. Our gift processing platform is an end-to-end solution for processing DAF payments, including workplace giving. It combines a financial account with AI-powered data transformation to solve a fast-growing operational challenge that costs the 1.4 million nonprofits and thousands of grantmakers in the U.S. millions of hours annually.DAFpay by Chariot, named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025, is the industry’s first DAF payment option. It is embedded on over 100,000 nonprofits’ donation forms including American Cancer Society, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and University of Pennsylvania.Backed by Maveron, Y Combinator, SV Angel, and Spark Capital, our team is committed to empowering nonprofits to achieve their visions.*Chariot is a financial technology company, not a bank. Chariot Deposit Accounts are provided by Column N.A., Member FDIC.
Open positions (16)
Content Marketing
Senior Product
Software Engineer, Agentic Infrastructure
Backend Engineer, Payments
Product Marketing
Head of Product
Implementations
Mid-Market Account Executive
Chariot Labs Engineer
Nonprofit Partnerships
Software Engineer
Backend Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer
SMB/Mid-Market Account Executive
Software Engineer
Partnerships
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$15.4M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
Salomon Serfati
Salo is the CEO of Chariot. Before Chariot, Salo was a backend engineer at BlackRock and a founding engineer at Forage (YCS21). Salo graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in computer science. Salo was a President Innovation Prize finalist and at the age of 18 co-built a roommate app with 5,000+ users in 2 months with 0 CAC, 5 interns & 50+ brand ambassadors. Salo was born in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Drew Schneider
Drew is the Chief Product Officer of Chariot. Before Chariot, he was a consultant at Bain & Company. At Bain, he ran due diligence on software systems for top healthcare providers. Drew graduated Summa Cum Laude from Dartmouth College with a degree in Human-Centered Design. He has an extensive background in UI/UX and the design workflow process.
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Aaron Kahane
Aaron is the COO of Chariot. Before Chariot, he was a consultant at Bain & Company. At Bain, he worked for a $100B+ hedge fund looking at public equities in the tech/telecom space. Aaron graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the highest distinction in his major. He also worked with Adam Grant on his NYTimes’ best-selling book Think Again and Angela Duckworth on her book Situated.
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