The world of banking and investing is incredibly - maybe intentionally - opaque. It's difficult to find out exactly which companies your savings or retirement funds are supporting, and it's even more difficult to ensure your money isn't being invested in companies whose values aren't aligned with your own. Enter OpenInvest: a transformative financial startup using automated investing technology to bring transparency and unprecedented progressive action to capital markets. Its short-term mission is to make it easy for English majors like me to invest profitably and in companies doing good work on the issues I care about - but in the long term the company hopes to aggregate and leverage the financial power of progressive people to force publicly-owned corporations to change for the better.  

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References & Links: 

• OpenInvest's Website
• A great blog post from OpenInvest's blog on when it makes sense to start investing
• Closing Music:  "Birds of Prey" by DarkSunn - Creative Commons License Here