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Upstart Holdings has filed proposed terms for a $252 million U.S. IPO.
The firm provides lead generation and white label software that matches lenders with consumers seeking personal loans.
Upstart Holdings (
UPST) has filed to raise $252 million for itself and selling shareholders from the sale of its common stock in an IPO,
The company provides machine learning technologies to help lenders obtain the most suitable borrowers for personal loan products.
Roblox is somewhat interesting for sure but this upcoming IPO also deserves a look, it's sort of finance.... It's about loans matching people and banks with personal loans.
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Company & Technology
San Mateo, California-based Upstart was founded to utilize machine learning techniques to maximize the matching of lenders with consumers seeking personal loans.
Management is headed by co-founder and CEO Dave Girouard, who was previously president of Google Enterprise and a product manager at Apple.
The firm makes money by charging referral fees, platform fees and loan servicing fees.
In Q3 2020, Upstart funded only 2% of loans through its platform. The company has partnered extensively with consumer loan banks and institutional investors in loans.
Upstart has received at least $162 million from investors including Third Point Ventures, Stone Ridge Trust, Khosla Ventures, Rakuten (
OTCPK:RKUNY), and First Round Capital.
Upstart provides its consumer loan underwriting and matching service via either its own website or through a white label product on the bank partner website.