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Press contact

EMAIL · press at zion-pbc dot com · typically responds within one business day.

FOUNDER · Dimitri McDaniel, founder and chief executive officer, available for on-record interviews. See Team for full bio.

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Zion is a public benefit corporation building a record each household owns and controls, a shared space for the people who serve them, and public systems that follow, for the 56 million U.S. households at the ALICE Threshold. The company is bound by a public Charter and held in a Mission Trust.

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Zion Datum Public Benefit Corporation is building public infrastructure for households at the ALICE Threshold, the working middle of the U.S. population that earns above the federal poverty line but below the cost of living. The company is structured as a Delaware PBC, bound by a public Charter that sets hard limits on every part of the product, and held in a Mission Trust whose Trust Advisory Board includes community representation. Zion’s three products, LP Account (a record each household owns and controls), OutPosts (the shared space built on top of it), and Oasis (a later stage where practitioners earn on the platform and public agencies can plug in), are built in sequence, with each earning the right to build the next.

Facts that are true today

• Zion is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation, incorporated in 2026.
• The Charter, Mission Trust Instrument, and No Core Paywall Pledge are public and downloadable.
• Zion is raising a $3.5M Pre-Seed round, with a philanthropic track open to foundation Program-Related Investments ($250K–$1M) and grants ($50K–$250K).
• LP Account v1 is the Pre-Seed deliverable; OutPosts is the Seed milestone; Oasis is the Series A → Series B story.
• The founding three-seat Trust Advisory Board is target-confirmed by Q4 2026 / Q1 2027.
• Founder and CEO Dimitri McDaniel practiced affordable-housing finance law for six years at Klein Hornig LLP in Washington, D.C., specializing in the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit, HUD, and IRS tax-exempt-organization frameworks.
• Dimitri holds a BA from The Ohio State University (2015) and a JD from Case Western Reserve University School of Law (2020), and is admitted to the bar in Ohio and Washington, D.C.