Joe Sanberg

Joseph N. Sanberg is an entrepreneur and investor who is using business as a force for good, harnessing the power of innovation to make people’s lives better. He is Co-Founder and Chair of Aspiration.com, an online financial company that empowers people to choose whatever fee they think is fair, even zero, and enables them to bank, invest, and spend in accordance with their values. Joe is a leading investor in a number of industry-changing companies including Blue Apron, the largest fresh meal-kit company in the US; IVY, the leading social university; and Bright Funds, a next-generation charitable platform. As founder of the Golden State Opportunity Foundation, Joe has been the leading advocate for California's new earned income tax credit for low-income families. Joe not only lobbied California to pass the credit, but when the state didn't allocate enough money for outreach, Joe created CalEITC4Me to connect California families with $1 billion of state and federal tax refunds.