About us

We're on a mission to make small businesses the best place in the world to work

Small business owners shouldn't have to choose between taking care of their people and taking care of their budget.

What we believe

Health benefits shouldn't be this hard

The problem

Small businesses shouldn't have to

Become insurance experts

Spend weeks trying to find a health plan their employees like and that they can afford

Force one plan on everyone

Absorb double-digit premium increases every year

Our vision

Small businesses deserve

Benefits that work at any size

Real control over their budget

Genuine choice for employees

A simple path to offering coverage

Small business benefits

We didn't start StretchDollar to build another insurance company

Marshall and Kaiza first met while helping small businesses at Gusto. Over the years, they heard the same frustration again and again:

"I want to offer health benefits. I just can't make traditional group insurance work."

Sometimes it was too expensive. Sometimes the team was too small. Sometimes employees needed completely different types of coverage.

The desire was always there. The options weren't.

After spending years in payroll, benefits, and health insurance, they realized there had to be a better way. So they built StretchDollar—a platform that gives employers control over their budget while giving employees the freedom to choose coverage that actually works for them.

The co-founders of StretchDollar, Marshall and Kaiza, stand outdoors with a cartoon brown dog wearing a foam finger.

Why?

“Because helping your team shouldn't require becoming an insurance expert.”
Marshall & Kaiza

Co-founders @ StretchDollar

Co-founders of StretchDollar, Marshall and Kaiza, wearing StretchDollar shirts standing outdoors with green foliage and wooden wall behind.
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60% of businesses with under 10 employees don't offer health benefits today. A 20% increase from the decade before.

We're here to change that

Our team

Meet the people behind the mission

Our team includes experts from healthcare, insurance, technology, customer success, and brokerage operations—all working toward the same goal: make health benefits dramatically easier for small businesses.

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Every day, a small business owner decides it's time to take care of their people

We make sure they actually can.

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