Upstart Holdings, Inc.

Upstart is the leading artificial intelligence ( AI ) lending marketplace. We aim to radically reduce the cost and complexity of borrowing for all Americans by using our proprietary AI models to remake the entire lending process. Founded in 2012, Upstart’s marketplace supports unsecured and secured credit products, such as personal loans, auto loans, and home equity lines of credit ( HELOCs ). Long-term, our vision is to become the always-on, everything-store for credit, where we can automatically approve borrowers at the right prices instantly and effortlessly. We’re dedicated to providing the best rates and the best process to all consumers. Throughout history, affordable credit has been central to unlocking mobility and opportunity. The FICO score was invented in 1989 and remains the standard for determining who is approved for credit and at what interest rate. While FICO is rarely the only input in a lending decision, most lenders use simple rules-based systems that consider only a limited number of variables. Unfortunately, because these legacy credit systems fail to accurately identify and quantify risk, millions of creditworthy individuals are left out of the system, and millions more pay too much to borrow money. Our platform applies AI to more accurately quantify the true risk of a loan, a capability we refer to as risk separation.