ELEVATE CREDIT ANNOUNCES FIRST QUARTER 2017 RESULTS

$1.7 Million in Net Income for the first quarter of 2017

and $24.9 Million in Quarterly Adjusted EBITDA¹

FORT WORTH, TX – May 8, 2017 – Elevate Credit, Inc. (NYSE: ELVT) (“Elevate” or the “Company”), a leading tech-enabled provider of innovative and responsible online credit solutions for non-prime consumers, today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017.

“We are pleased with our first quarter performance, which saw the Company generate net income and strong quarterly Adjusted EBITDA,” said Ken Rees, Chief Executive Officer of Elevate. “We believe these results highlight Elevate’s unique growth opportunity in serving non-prime consumers with more responsible online credit products. Elevate has generated nearly 100% compound annual revenue growth rates since 2013, and we are particularly proud that between 2013 and 2016 we have simultaneously reduced the average customer APR by over 40% while expanding margins. With our proven advanced analytics and IQ technology platform, we are well positioned to continue to grow our innovative products and help our customers improve their financial health; ultimately delivering on our promise of a ‘good today, better tomorrow’.”

First Quarter 2017 Financial Highlights

Liquidity and Capital Resources

The Company completed its initial public offering in April 2017 by selling 14.3 million shares of its common stock for total net proceeds of approximately $81 million after deducting related offering expenses. The Company used these proceeds to pay off $15 million of convertible term notes and $45 million of sub-debt term notes, with the remainder used to pay off a substantial portion of its UK term notes and for general corporate purposes. The reduction in this debt will save the Company approximately $14 million in annual pre-tax interest expense. After the debt pay-offs discussed above, the Company’s debt-to-equity ratio is approximately 4 to 1.

As announced in early May, Elastic SPV, Ltd., which purchases loan participations in the Elastic line of credit product originated by Republic Bank & Trust Company (“Republic Bank”), increased its debt facility with Victory Park Capital from $150 million to $250 million. This is the first step in a two-step process to provide additional funding, diversified funding sources and further lower the cost of funds. The second step will involve adding another special purpose vehicle, or “SPV,” during the second quarter of 2017.

First Quarter 2017 Business Highlights

Financial Outlook

For the full year 2017, the Company expects total revenue of $680 million to $720 million, net income of $13 million to $19 million and Adjusted EBITDA of $95 million to $105 million.

Conference Call

The Company will host a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2017 financial results on Tuesday, May 9^th at 7:30am Central Time / 8:30am Eastern Time. Interested parties may access the conference call live over the phone by dialing 1-877-407-0792 (domestic) or 1-201-689-8263 (international) and requesting the Elevate First Quarter 2017 Earnings Conference Call. Participants are asked to dial in a few minutes prior to the call to register for the event. The conference call will also be webcast live through Elevate’s website at http://www.elevate.com/investors.

An audio replay of the conference call will be available approximately three hours after the conference call until 11:59 pm ET on May 23, 2017, and can be accessed by dialing 1-844-512-2921 (domestic) or 1-412-317-6671 (international), and providing the passcode 13660205, or by accessing Elevate’s website.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such statements contain words such as “may,” “will,” “might,” “expect,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “could,” “would,” “estimate,” “continue,” “pursue,” or the negative thereof or comparable terminology, and may include (without limitation) information regarding the Company’s expectations, goals or intentions regarding future performance. In addition, forward-looking statements in this press release include statements regarding: the Company’s expectations regarding fiscal year 2017 revenue, net income and Adjusted EBITDA; the Company’s belief that it is well positioned to continue to grow its products and help its customers improve their financial health; the Company’s targeted loan loss provision range of 45%--55%; the expectation that the reduction in debt from the use of the initial public offering proceeds will save the Company approximately $14 million in annual pre-tax interest expense; the intention to create an additional SPV during the second quarter of 2017 as another funding source for the Elastic line of credit product; and the expectation that this additional SPV for Elastic would provide additional funding, diversified funding sources and further lower the cost of funds. Forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those discussed in any such statement. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the Company’s limited operating history in an evolving industry; new laws and regulations in the consumer lending industry in many jurisdictions that could restrict the consumer lending products and services the Company offers, impose additional compliance costs on the Company, render the Company’s current operations unprofitable or even prohibit the Company’s current operations; scrutiny by regulators and payment processors of certain online lenders’ access to the Automated Clearing House system to disburse and collect loan proceeds and repayments; a lack of sufficient debt financing at acceptable prices or disruptions in the credit markets; and other risks related to litigation, compliance and regulation. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ are discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” and in other sections of the Prospectus related to the Company’s initial public offering of common stock filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, and in the Company’s current and periodic reports filed from time to time with the SEC. All forward-looking statements in this press release are made as of the date hereof, based on information available to the Company as of the date hereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement.

About Elevate

Elevate (NYSE: ELVT) has originated $4 billion in non-prime credit to more than 1.6 million non-prime consumers to date. Its responsible, tech-enabled online credit solutions provide immediate relief to customers today and help them build a brighter financial future. The Company is committed to rewarding borrowers’ good financial behavior with features like interest rates that can go down over time, free financial training and free credit monitoring. Elevate’s suite of groundbreaking credit products includes RISE, Elastic and Sunny. For more information, please visit http://www.elevate.com.

Investor Relations:

Solebury Communications

Sloan Bohlen, (817) 928-1646

investors@elevate.com

or

Media Inquiries:

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Ishviene Arora, (917) 765-8720

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Elevate Credit, Inc. and Subsidiaries

Condensed Consolidated Income Statements

(Unaudited)

Elevate Credit, Inc. and Subsidiaries

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

Quarterly Revenue by Product

Loan Loss Reserve by Product

Customer Loan Data by Product

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

This press release and the attached financial tables contain certain non-GAAP financial measures, including Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA margin, combined loans receivable and combined loan loss reserve.

Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA margin

In addition to net income determined in accordance with GAAP, Elevate uses certain non-GAAP measures such as “Adjusted EBITDA” in assessing its operating performance. Elevate believes this non-GAAP measure serves as an appropriate measure to be used in evaluating the performance of its business.

Elevate defines Adjusted EBITDA as net income excluding the impact of income tax benefit or expense, non-operating income or expense, foreign currency transaction gain or loss associated with our UK operations, net interest expense, stock-based compensation expense and depreciation and amortization expense. Elevate defines Adjusted EBITDA margin as Adjusted EBITDA divided by revenue.

Management believes that Adjusted EBITDA is a useful supplemental measure in analyzing the operating performance of the business and provides greater transparency into the results of operations of our core business. Management uses this non-GAAP financial measure frequently in its decision-making because it provides supplemental information that facilitates internal comparisons to the historical operating performance of prior periods and gives an additional indication of Elevate’s core operating performance. Elevate includes this non-GAAP financial measure in its earnings announcement in order to provide transparency to its investors and enable investors to better compare its operating performance with the operating performance of its competitors.

Our use of Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider it in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are:

Additionally, Elevate’s definition of Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.

The following table presents a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA margin to Elevate’s net income for the three months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016:

The Company’s Adjusted EBITDA guidance does not include certain charges and costs. The adjustments in future periods are generally expected to be similar to the kinds of charges and costs excluded from Adjusted EBITDA in prior periods, such as the impact of income tax benefit or expense, non-operating income or expense, foreign currency transaction gain or loss associated with our UK operations, net interest expense, stock-based compensation expense and depreciation and amortization expense, among others. The Company is not able to provide a reconciliation of the Company’s non-GAAP financial guidance to the corresponding GAAP measure without unreasonable effort because of the uncertainty and variability of the nature and amount of these future charges and costs.

Combined Loan Information

Elevate defines combined loans receivable – principal as loans owned by the Company plus loans originated and owned by third-party lenders pursuant to our CSO programs. In Texas and Ohio, we do not make Rise loans directly, but rather act as a Credit Services Organization (which is also known as a Credit Access Business in Texas), or, collectively, “CSO,” and the loans are originated by an unaffiliated third party. Elevate defines combined loan loss reserve as the loan loss reserve for loans owned by the Company plus the loan loss reserve for loans originated and owned by third-party lenders and guaranteed by the Company. The information presented in the tables below on a combined basis are non-GAAP measures based on a combined portfolio of loans, which includes the total amount of outstanding loans receivable that we own and that are on our condensed consolidated balance sheets plus outstanding loans receivable originated and owned by third parties that we guarantee pursuant to CSO programs in which we participate.

We believe these non-GAAP measures provide investors with important information needed to evaluate the magnitude of potential loan losses and the opportunity for revenue performance of the combined loan portfolio on an aggregate basis. We also believe that the comparison of the combined amounts from period to period is more meaningful than comparing only the amounts reflected on our condensed consolidated balance sheets since both revenues and cost of sales as reflected in our condensed consolidated financial statements are impacted by the aggregate amount of loans we own and those CSO loans we guarantee.

Our use of total combined loans and fees receivable has limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider it in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Some of these limitations are:

As of each of the period ends indicated, the following table presents a reconciliation of:

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