Credit and Lending Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2025

Zidisha is the world's first direct peer-to-peer lending service to bridge the international wealth divide, allowing individuals worldwide to lend to and communicate with borrowers in developing countries without local intermediaries. The direct connection creates better transparency, more profit for the entrepreneurs and lenders, and greater wealth creation for the world's poorest communities. We've been featured in numerous press and media for our groundbreaking work in using internet and mobile phone technologies to connect entrepreneurs in some of the world's most isolated and impoverished places with the international peer-to-peer lending market.

We back growing digital businesses using revenue based financing. Many of growing businesses in Asia are highly "bankable" yet 50-70% are unable to obtain capital to grow their business. Having been business owners ourselves, we experienced firsthand the struggles of funding a business - from expensive equity options to loans that required personal guarantees. We went live in Singapore first to validate the product/market fit. We plan to expand across the APAC region.. Our sweet spot is backing repeatable business spend - expenses that leads to increased revenue. Our financing product allows businesses to keep growing with us over time. Over a third of our advances today are from repeat borrowers. We created a brand new asset class in Asia - offering flexible repayment options, such as tieing repayment with sales. Business owners LOVE this. Our automated financial technology platform ingests revenue and alternative data sources that gives us a proprietary edge in understanding the behavior of our borrowers. As we collect continuous data, we are able to offer better financial and technology solutions, while mitigating our downside risk. Funds are seamlessly deployed via our virtual Jenfi Wallet and MasterCard solution, giving borrowers flexibility to make payments while giving Jenfi real-time tracking of their spend. Recent coverage: https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/03/jenfi-wants-to-solve-small-business-lending-in-southeast-asia/

Asset management firm that specializes in esoteric private credit assets in litigation and bankruptcy

Tranqui is a debt collection company that has revolutionized the industry with its digital-first approach. Utilizing cutting-edge analytics and machine learning, Tranqui offers a more efficient and effective debt collection experience for users. Our technology-driven approach enables us to analyze user data and behavior patterns to develop personalized communication and repayment plans. This ensures that our users receive a tailored experience that is optimized for their individual needs, resulting in a higher success rate for debt repayment. With Tranqui, users can manage their debt repayment on their own terms, from the comfort of their own homes, thanks to our convenient and flexible digital channels. Our approach not only improves the debt collection experience for users but also helps to improve their overall financial health. Choose Tranqui for a better debt collection experience, with 2x the effectiveness of traditional debt collection methods.

R2 enables platforms to seamlessly offer capital to their SMB customers in Latin America

Moni finances small businesses in groups across Africa. The collective responsibility of the group serves as a collateral on the loan while the social pressure from the members ensures on-time repayment. There are over 44million SMBs in Africa.  
 We launched 7 months ago and we already have $72k MRR growing at 50% MoM. We achieved 99% repayment on 11,000 units of loans with over $5M disbursed. This is 15 times higher than most financial services in Africa. 
 Femi (CEO) worked previously with the World Bank with a focus on financial services while Dapo (CTO) led the development of the technology for one of the largest digital lending apps We are also backed by Y Combinator(W22), Magic Fund, Ventures Platform, Voltron Capital and more.

Dayra makes it easy for Egyptian businesses offer Loans and virtual bank accounts to their unbanked workers and customers through their App. For example, one of our customers an Egyptian trucking marketplace uses our API to give truck drivers an early advance on their earnings.

Verde is a lending platform that offers fast loans to small-and-medium sized farmers in Brazil. Our vertical software allows independent ag loan advisors to originate loans digitally and manage their operations more effectively.

We're building the one-stop shop for creator finances. Your favorite digital creators—the ones you follow every day on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or Twitch—aren’t just extraordinarily talented personalities and community builders. They’re also businesses. That means they have business needs—managing revenues, expenses, savings, credit, banking. We’re building products that help creators spend less time worrying about finances so they can focus on creating.

Creizer is Clearbanc (Clear.co) for LATAM. We provide revenue-based financing to online sellers. More than 80% of SMEs can’t have access to loans in LATAM, thus limiting their growth. They represent 99% of online sellers in the region. At Creizer we built a unique risk model in which the requirements for these online sellers are 100% accessible since the scoring is based on the store’s metrics and collections on a percentage of their daily sales. We are growing 65% MoM and experiencing overdemand every month. Helping our customers to grow up to 7x in less than a year.

Wagetap is a mobile app that allows users to get an advance of up to $2,000 on their next payday and pay their bills in more manageable installments. Wagetap's vision is to offer a suite of financial products to become the financial partner for everyday people.

Credit for the emerging economy in Latam. We have 10K users and nearly $2M in annualized revenue, from our small loans to micro-merchants and individuals in the informal economy. We do our underwriting with our proprietary AI risk model processing 250+ variables from the user's smartphone and credit bureau.

More than 150 million people in India are not able to access formal Credits in India either because of lack of financial data or low credit scores. We use Alternative Credit scoring models to provide a Pay Later option on UPI to a wider audience.

Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly through alternative credit data. As a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA), Nova Credit leverages its unique data infrastructure, compliance framework, and credit expertise to help lenders fill critical gaps in traditional credit analytics. The company transforms the fragmented universe of consumer financial data into compliant, actionable risk insights through a comprehensive platform designed to increase conversion through expanded coverage, speed, and reliability. Leading organizations, including HSBC, RBC, SoFi, Scotiabank, Appfolio, and Yardi, work with Nova Credit to make smarter credit decisions through cash flow underwriting with Cash Atlas™, quickly verify income with Income Navigator, and reach new-to-country consumers with Credit Passport®. Nova Credit is backed by investors including Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, and Canapi as well as executives from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Citi. Learn more at www.novacredit.com or reach out to connect@novacredit.com.

An early wage access platform allowing salaried employees to draw down a percentage of their accrued salary before the next payroll cycle. Helping employees to avoid late payment fee on bills, access emergency cash and substitute expensive debt. We work on a B2B2C model allowing companies to extend the product as a benefits program to their employee base.

Breezeful gets you the best mortgage online from start to close. Instead of dealing with multiple banks, credit checks and in-person meetings, we’ll use your income, credit score, and other financial data from your application to negotiate with hundreds of lenders on your behalf in seconds.

Hi - Mark and Gab here! We met while working at Alt, a marketplace for collectibles, where we built a $200 million specialty finance business line. At Alt, we faced the complex challenges that come with servicing consumer loans. We spent countless hours and resources developing internal tools to manage loan payments, communicate with borrowers, and keep track of loan performance—all while ensuring a positive experience for our customers. However, after dealing with the headaches of manual data entry, fragmented systems, delayed payments, lack of personalized borrower engagement, and the stress of maintaining accurate records, we knew there had to be a better way to service consumer loans. So, we started Finosu to build the servicer we wish we had—an AI-powered consumer loan servicer designed to streamline and enhance every aspect of the loan servicing process. Our mission is to transform loan servicing into a seamless, efficient, and customer-centric experience. The operational cost of servicing loans reaches into the tens of billions a year and that is money out of the pocket of lenders, borrowers, investors, and ultimately the consumers as a cost of doing business – we are changing that.

Fynn helps people afford trade school in the US. We bring fair and affordable private loans to the trade space, to help students pursue in-demand careers like electricians, nurses, welders, or pharmacists.

Yenmo offers a better way to access cash for India’s 65 million investors who either resort to personal loans at over 18% interest or have to liquidate their investments when in need of money. With Yenmo, they can pledge their investments digitally and instantly get a loan at a fixed 10.5% interest rate. Our Insight - In India, over 30% of personal loan borrowers have active investments and are paying double the interest rate they qualify for with us.

Lenk empowers financial institutions in Latin America with advanced loan origination solutions. Our platform optimizes the entire loan lifecycle, from lead acquisition to disbursement, leveraging automation and AI to enhance efficiency and improve digital experiences. Lenk enables institutions to streamline complex tasks, ensuring compliance and agility while boosting productivity and customer satisfaction.

We offer instant underwriting of financing at the point of sale (ecommerce or physical) focused on small purchases ($100-$1000).

Aella is a diversified credit payments platform with over 2 million users, offering a raft of financial services to underbanked users across Africa with a focus on lending. We are at the forefront of financial inclusion and empowerment of the underbanked. Aella’s Debt-as-a-service model ensures that agents across Africa are able to have quick and easy access to funding through its partnerships with leading agency banks across the continent.

Veritus is a omni-channel platform for deploying AI agents for loan servicing and collections, including inbound and outbound voice agents. Our agents negotiate repayment plans, follow up across channels, and drive recoveries with zero human involvement. By combining cutting edge voice AI with deep regulatory compliance and vertical specialization we're able to drastically reduce the cost-to-collect while increasing recovery rates.

ErudiFi is a mission-driven technology company focused on expanding access to financial services for students. Operating as Danacita in Indonesia and Bukas in the Philippines, ErudiFi provides students a smarter way to pay for education and helps them build credit history. By providing financial inclusion to underserved students across the region, we believe we can drive generational transformation and build a better tomorrow.

Perl Street is democratizing structured finance through our platform, unlocking billions in financing for sustainable infrastructure and next-generation hardware technologies. Perl Street has already helped multiple hardware startups receive over $140M in debt financing offers from some of the world’s most reputable institutions. Climate change is a massive hardware problem. According to IEA estimates - reaching net zero emissions would require over $4 trillion per year in global clean energy investment. This means we need to upgrade nearly everything with new hardware - from energy storage devices to electric vehicles, charging stations and building electrification. The future of infrastructure is both distributed and resilient. And none of it is possible without financing new hardware.

1 in 4 Americans do not get their full 401(k) match. That means 25 million workers are leaving $24 billion on the table in free employer contributions. The primary reason these workers cannot get their match is because they do not have enough to both cover living expenses and invest. Lendtable helps workers get thousands in additional income by giving them a cash advance to cover their living expenses so they can finally begin earning their employer match. Once their money has vested we take some of the match money earned in order to cover our expenses. Workers now have thousands of dollars more without putting any money down, and we make money helping them do so -- we win if they win.

Kanda is building Affirm for general contractors. We allow contractors to offer financing to homeowners who want to remodel but can’t pay the full price upfront.

Developer of a personal loans provider platform intended to benefit self-employed people financially. The company's platform offers weekly invoices, and payment through an application and does not charge an annual fee, enabling clients to focus on their business growth.

Sivo provides debt as a service. Our API and risk protocol allows fintechs, neobanks, and gig platforms to lend money to their users, at scale, without having to raise debt which can take up to two years. You can think of us as Stripe for Debt. We started 6 months ago, in March signed a $100m debt capital partnership, and will be launching our API in April. We already have more than 100 companies in our customer pipeline including Uber.  We’ve been able to move so quickly because we are a team with previous exits and decades of experience in risk, debt, and enterprise software for companies including Goldman Sachs, Revolut, NASA, McKinsey and Citigroup.

Finley simplifies debt capital raise and management. Our software helps companies like Ramp, Arc and Parafin automate due diligence, ensure compliance, and streamline ongoing reporting with their capital providers. Our team brings experience from Goldman Sachs, Nova Credit, and Palantir Technologies, and is backed by Y Combinator and Bain Capital Ventures.

Kredi is rocket mortgage for LatAm.

Payhippo provides loans to small businesses in Africa in under 3 hours. We made $42k in revenue in Nigeria in July 2021, growing 25% m/m with a 97% repayment rate.

Haven is re-imagining the $11 trillion U.S. mortgage industry, with a focus on engaging the 53 million homeowners with a mortgage. The incumbent technologies used by mortgage lenders and servicers are decades old, and the borrowers who are served by them increasingly demand modern digital experiences and frictionless financial products throughout the home journey. Haven’s mission is to deliver them at a transformational scale, and to improve lives in one of the world’s largest asset classes. The company is well capitalized and backed by top fintech and mortgage venture funds and led by seasoned veterans of tech startups and financial marketplaces.

We are building a new financial platform that helps underbanked workers get paid as they earn it, anytime, anywhere. By partnering up with corporate employers, GIMO is providing a mobile financial application as a benefit to their employees, aiming at changing the way the employees earn, spend, save and invest.

Drip is a digital trade finance startup. Trade finance is an age-old paper-based industry dominated by banks that focus on large, established corporate customers. Today, however, small businesses account for 40% of trade, but still remain neglected by banks. Drip is using technology to re-build core parts of the trade finance infrastructure and make the underwriting and financing of B2B transactions seamless for small businesses. Our mission is to level the playing field for small businesses and to finance their trade at the click of a button. Drip consists of experts in both finance and technology and has offices in Palo Alto and Mumbai. Drip is backed by top tier investors Accel, Sequoia, Wing, Initialized and Y Combinator.

Building a plug-and-play suite of APIs and lending tech stack to enable financial inclusion. OneFin is backed by marquee investors from Silicon Valley like Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, etc. Leading NBFC, SFB and fintech companies in India are our users. We have enabled loan disbursement/migration of around $2B in last few years across more than 1 million loans across education loans, EV financing, business loans, credit line, 2 wheeler financing, personal loans, invoice discounting, and various other credit products.

Airfordable is payment plans for airline tickets. The service allows users to secure tickets with a deposit upfront and pay the remaining balance in recurring payments before the departure date.

Chestnut is the first AI mortgage lender. We automate 99% of human work with AI agents, saving customers 0.5%+ in interest. This is Spencer's second mortgage startup; the first processes 2% of US mortgages annually. So far, Chestnut is licensed in Texas and Colorado where we power purchases, refinances, cash-outs, and more.

Baubap is LatinAmerica's firts AI-powered, credit-focused bank. Today we're the leading AI lending app in Mexico

Hypercore is a loan management software for small lenders. We help lenders automate workflows and provide them with real-time analytics and KPIs on their portfolios. Since June we are running paid pilots ($3.5K MRR), 1 LOI ($1.5K MRR). The founding team met while serving together as officers in technological units in the Israeli Defence Forces. We then established together a software development company specialized in fintech projects such as e-wallets and open-banking projects. That’s where we discovered how archaic are the tools lenders use that are ready for disruption. Hypercore is building the tools for private lenders who currently do everything in Excel, culminating in a 'Nasdaq of private loan books' - utilizing the platform to securitize loan books.

Kosh is a digital lending platform in India, empowering blue-collar workers with a unique joint liability model (much like microfinance but for a different segment). The social component of their underwriting helps control credit risk significantly and lower CAC/Opex in one go, making this 150mn-strong segment credit-worthy.

Grain is a mobile app that transforms the debit card you already have into a credit card by linking it to a line of credit based on your cash flow. For the millennials, Gen Zs, and immigrants who are afraid of falling into crippling credit card debt, there is now a distinct market opportunity to offer an alternative to how these 100M people access and manage credit.

We build AI agents for loan servicing and collections Prodigal has AI agents for loan servicing and collections. Our AI agents and apps help teams improve margins, run leaner operations, and maximize payments. We are working towards an Agentic vision for consumer finance wherein our AI agents automate critical roles, enhance operations, and drive revenue.  Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Prodigal's global team combines deep expertise in financial services, AI research, and product innovation, driving efficiency and transformative results across the consumer finance landscape.

We are a Y Combinator / Latitud backed micro-lending platform in Mexico led by talent from companies such as Capital One, Bain & Company, Konfio, DiDi, Clip, Klarna, etc. We are hyper focused on making sure that customers improve their financial lives significantly through their relationship with us. In a very short time, we have achieved significant traction with exceptional consumer outcomes and unit economics. We are also building and incorporating a significant amount of AI into our operations, so this is a great place to work for anybody who has ambitions to build real time applications of AI. Our goal is to build the biggest AI enabled consumer fintech platform in Mexico and eventually LatAm.

Nano is an income streaming app which pays workers daily instead of monthly for retailers and manufacturers in South East Asia. This is essential because these employers compete for workers with the gig economy, which pays daily with a flexible work schedule. Nano integrates seamlessly with any HRM/Attendance Software from employers, helping them save turnover costs and build a more engaged and productive workforce.

Small shop owners earn daily unlike salaried people but when it comes to loan repayment both are asked to pay monthly. For these shop owners it is difficult to calculate how much to save daily so that they will have the required installment amount at the end of the month and also at the time of repayment they have a big hole in their working capital. Therefore, when you earn daily why not pay daily and get away from the stress of huge one-time installments. Every day a small amount of $X is deducted from your digital wallet which is on the auto-debit mandate and you don't need to worry about keeping your balance of $XXXX. You never default and also good credit scores are created.

Numida provides working capital loans to African micro businesses. Instead of borrowing from informal lenders or family, micro business owners download the Numida app, apply in minutes, and receive capital within a day. We have figured out how to score and disburse unsecured loans to cash-based businesses that have no digital transaction history, while maintaining excellent collection rates. Since 2021 we have provided $23M in working capital to 32,000 businesses in East Africa.

We at Karbon Cards provide corporate credit cards, vendor payment solutions and forex outward remittance products to Indian companies. We partners with banks and other FI's to provide comprehensive spend management and working capital solutions. Companies qualify for credit via a liberalized startup friendly underwriting process. For those do not qualify, we provide payments option where companies can top up and use card/vendor payment solutions.

Under "Buy Now, Pay Later" business model, Wibond is a 100% flexible digital payment method enabling the 200 million underbanked consumers without credit cards to shop online for the first time. We integrate directly into the purchase flow of online merchants, and we offer consumers a credit, when they have already made up their mind that they want to acquire a specific product. We provide financial and digital access to a large community of people offering payment options according to their possibilities and profile. Wibond is an inclusive and simple solution: - Consumers can create their free account to quickly access and pay without banks, in installments, and without a card. - Merchants with e-commerce channels increase their sales and integrate Wibond in a very agile way by offering a new form of payment and expanding their markets. We’re also integrated in the purchase flow of more than 500 merchants, including Samsung, Musimundo (one of the Biggest retailers in LATAM) , and Motorola. And up to 65% of the payment transactions on these sites go through us.

When a lender gives out a car loan, they need to file a lien with their borrower’s DMV. This is difficult because the process varies by state and county. We’ve leveraged LLMs to help lenders automate lien filings for over $500M of loans.

Landed helps employers develop programs that increase access to homeownership for their employees. We do this by unlocking the power of shared appreciation to create down payment programs tailored to the needs of each institution, improving recruitment and retention of key talent. Unlike other programs, shared appreciation is mutually beneficial to funders and buyers, creating a self-renewing pool of capital that recycles as homebuyers exit the program.

Stilt/Onbo enables you to launch credit products without a bank sponsor. We have built APIs to abstract complexity around licenses, regulatory compliance, underwriting, loan management system, credit reporting, and debt capital. We are backed by fintech investors including Y Combinator, Link Ventures, Hillsven Capital, Petrushka investments (early backer of Lending Club, Zillow, Check, Pets.com), and CEOs of billion-dollar fintech companies.

Dharma is the only Ethereum wallet capable of seamlessly moving money between any US bank account and decentralized exchanges like Uniswap. The net result is a product that looks & feels like Coinbase on steroids — Download an App. Plug in your bank. Invest in the exponentially growing universe of tokens & yield opportunities in DeFi with a tap.

BharatX was recently acquired by Flipkart, the largest startup in India, to enable Buy Now Pay Later in their own ecosystem as well as bolster their own FinTech play via Super.money. It powers Checkout Financing in their ecosystem currently on Millions of Users. BharatX enabled "Pay in 3" and "Pay in X" parts as a feature on over 1000+ brands, 300+ directly and the rest via Payment Gateway partners. Our product enabled Buy Now Pay Later, in a white-labelled way. For e.g. Flipkart PayLater on Flipkart. We grew 47X to $2.5M ARR in under 6 quarters straight after fumbling for 2 years around PMF and Credit Risk & Fraud. We started out as a platform to provide access to Credit in Developing countries without relying on traditional documentation processes by Banks, which did not give access to hundreds of millions.Over the course of BharatX, we have credit to hundreds of thousands of consumers, including many New to Credit (NTC) users.

Seawise Capital is a trade finance company for Indian exporters. We provide SME's working capital against the strength of their international customers. We are able to provide these businesses with collateral-free capital by discounting invoices from their large overseas customers.

In a transaction powered by Board, sellers and agents are doing business with Board -- not the buyer. We act as an intermediary buyer of a home, using our cash to buy homes for the 80% of homebuyers who need and qualify for a mortgage. By removing the lender from real estate transactions, sellers and agents to close in as little as 2-3 days and buyers can lock-in their homes of choice at the best possible price before closing on their mortgage. With Board, buyers can "Buy Now. Mortgage Later" so everyone can have a cash deal. We differentiate ourselves from others in the "iBuyer" market by allowing anyone to have an all cash deal as opposed to buying, fixing and flipping properties for ourselves (e.g. Opendoor, OfferPad...etc). Board works directly with national lenders to evaluate the creditworthiness of buyers upfront and will use a short term credit facility to facilitate the purchasing of homes.

Trigo aggregates consumer rent history to help landlords approve better tenants and lenders write more loans. No solution exists to consistently furnish this rent verification to landlords and lenders today. The largest database has only 3% coverage of rent data. Trigo is a Consumer Reporting Agency (CRA) that provides this missing rent data set through a real-time API and web application. We are repeat founders with consumer data and finance experience across Harvard, Citigroup, Experian, and Amazon.

Credit building platform for next billion users. We offer digital credit card over UPI

bxblue is a Y Combinator backed (S17) Personal loan marketplace for pensioners and government workers with guaranteed income in Brazil. bxblue is taking this $80 billion market online.

Level provides fast and simple financing to lending startups that gets them off the ground and grows with them as they scale. We do so by buying loans in small quantities at first and rewarding our customers with more access to capital based on performance. Co-founder & CEO, Vladimir Korshin, previously worked in the traditional venture debt system at Silicon Valley Bank, where he noticed that strong startups were frequently denied from non-dilutive financing because they were too small. Just 4 weeks after going live with our first customer, we purchased $1.3M in loans across 6 customers. The founding team brings 30+ years of startup experience: Vladimir previously worked as an operator at Facebook, Eventbrite, and Niantic; Asa Schachar was an engineer at Microsoft and managed teams of engineers at Optimizely; Molly Hogan led new and international product initiatives at Amazon for over 7 years. Level is backed by Liquid2, Y Combinator (S21), and others. https://www.trylevel.app/