Credit and Lending Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2026

Commercial lenders manage billions in assets but service their loans like it's 2005: spreadsheets, legacy software, and teams of people doing manual reconciliation all day. Zolvo replaces that entire back office with AI. We automate reconciliation, verification, collections, and reporting so lenders can scale their portfolios without scaling their teams. We're building the operating system for commercial lending

Proximitty is the AI operating system for commercial loans - we build regulator-grade AI agents that ingest and parse documents, spread financials, automate loan operations and track covenants. We help FDIC-insured banks and fintechs underwrite faster and scale their loan books without scaling costs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 $1B of loans.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kredi is rocket mortgage for LatAm.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment firm specializing in alternative investments involving legal and regulatory risk.