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Buckle: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

Buckle is a full-stack insurance and credit platform that partners with Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) to provide financial products and services to support the gig economy, made up of 55 million Americans and growing.Through its program management strategy, working with its TNC and reinsurance partners, Buckle divides the US$15 billion gig-economy insurance market into different segments of drivers and fleet operators. Buckle’s current gig economy programs include its signature hybrid auto product, taxi, limo and nonstandard auto (NSA). The general theme of all these programs is that they help supply drivers and vehicles to various TNCs (such as Uber, Lyft, Doordash and GoPuff), forego the current credit score methodology heavily used by traditional financial institutions, and are powered by Buckle’s technology and data throughout the insurance and credit value chains.

www.buckleup.com LinkedIn Jersey City, United States 251-500 employees
Credit FinTech InsurTech Lending Ride Sharing
Total raised
$36.0M
Rounds
2
Latest
Debt Financing
Mar 2022

Buckle has raised $36.0M across 2 funding rounds on record, the most recent a Debt Financing of $15.0M announced in Mar 2022.

That round is in line with the $14M median round size for Financial Services companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Buckle Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$36.0M
across 2 rounds on record
Funding rounds on record
2
Latest funding round
Debt Financing
$15.0M in Mar 2022
Employees
251-500
reported band
Headquarters
Jersey City, United States

Latest funding round on record: Mar 2022.

Buckle Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Debt Financing
$15.0M
Undisclosed round
$21.0M

Buckle raised $21.0M in an undisclosed round announced in Aug 2020.

1.6 years later, a Debt Financing of $15.0M was announced in Mar 2022.

Buckle Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Dustin Walsey
CEO
Locked
Martin Young
CEO
Locked

Contact details for the Buckle team: 2 of 2 have an email address on file.

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Buckle Funding Compared to Other Financial Services Startups

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Median round

Buckle's latest round of $15.0M is in line with the median round in Financial Services. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Buckle Funding FAQs

What does Buckle do?

Buckle is a full-stack insurance and credit platform that partners with Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) to provide financial products and services to support the gig economy, made up of 55 million Americans and growing.Through its program management strategy, working with its TNC and reinsurance partners, Buckle divides the US$15 billion gig-economy insurance market into different segments of drivers and fleet operators. Buckle’s current gig economy programs include its signature hybrid auto product, taxi, limo and nonstandard auto (NSA). The general theme of all these programs is that they help supply drivers and vehicles to various TNCs (such as Uber, Lyft, Doordash and GoPuff), forego the current credit score methodology heavily used by traditional financial institutions, and are powered by Buckle’s technology and data throughout the insurance and credit value chains.

How much funding has Buckle raised?

Buckle has raised $36.0M across 2 rounds on record. The most recent is a Debt Financing of $15.0M announced in Mar 2022.

When did Buckle last raise funding?

Buckle's most recent funding round on record is a Debt Financing of $15.0M, announced in Mar 2022.

Who is the CEO of Buckle?

Dustin Walsey is listed as CEO at Buckle.

Where is Buckle headquartered?

Buckle is based in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States.

How many employees does Buckle have?

Buckle is in the 251-500 employee band.

How does Buckle's funding compare to other Financial Services startups?

Buckle's latest round of $15.0M is in line with the $14M median round size for Financial Services companies on FundedIQ across 5,745 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Buckle Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Buckle is left off this page rather than filled in.

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