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Go Rise provides financial services to migrants, enabling them to maintain control over their income and remittances to families. The company focuses on financial management and control for migrant workers rather than reducing remittance costs alone.
Founders & leadership
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Padmini GuptaCEO and Co-Founder2016–2020Padmini Gupta is a banker who spent the 1990s in California managing commercial portfolios and developing financial products for women and minority-led businesses, later earned an MBA from Oxford, and served as a Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum. She co-founded Rise in 2016 to provide financial services to migrant workers.
Investors · 2
500 Globallisted by 500 GlobalPalo Alto · $150K
How we know: open dataset · 500 Global portfolio 2026-08 · Not right? Tell us
Companies House · registry record
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- Registered name
- GO-RISE LTD
- Company number
- 09396604
- Status
- Dissolved
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Incorporated
- 20 Jan 2015
- Dissolved
- 7 Nov 2023
- Registered office
- 4 Market Street Lane, Blackburn, BB2 2DE
- Nature of business (SIC)
- 82990 — Other business support service activities n.e.c.
Current officers
- Jordan Lewis Woods — director, appointed 20 Jan 2015
Source: Companies House public register · retrieved 6 Aug 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Gorise do?
- Go Rise provides financial services to migrants, enabling them to maintain control over their income and remittances to families. The company focuses on financial management and control for migrant workers rather than reducing remittance costs alone.
- Who founded Gorise?
- Gorise was founded by Milind Singh, Padmini Gupta.
- Who are Gorise's investors?
- Gorise's investors include 500 Global, Phoenician VC.