One of the true pioneers of the fintech space joins us for the show today. This is someone who has...
Just before Christmas last year I went to San Francisco to sit down for a chat with former Lending Club...
According to the Wall Street Journal, former Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche has started a new online lender called Credify; the company has setup offices in the financial district of San Francisco and was incorporated less than a month after leaving Lending Club; former Lending Club executives Jeff Bogan and Adelina Grozdanova have also joined the new company; it plans to make its first loans in 2017. Source
In April we reported on Renaud Laplanche’s new venture called Upgrade. While we gained some insight into Upgrade from the...
In a wide ranging interview with Crowdfund Insider, Upgrade CEO and Co-founder Renaud Laplanche discusses what makes his company unique...
Business Insider interviewed Renaud Laplanche last week at LendIt Europe; on his exit from Lending Club, Laplanche stated, “It was very, very frustrating. I'm not commenting on the story, but the best way to actually understand what really happened is to read the filings. I think the press made it sound a lot worse, a lot more sensational, than it really was.”; he is taking what he learned from building Lending Club and applying it to his new company Upgrade; Laplanche stated that he hopes to launch a new product each year with possible expansion into mortgages, auto loans, credit cards, home equity and lines of credit. Source
Today we got a glimpse of what former Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche has been working on since he resigned...
Renaud Laplanche has announced the launch of a new online consumer lending platform called Upgrade; the firm's investors include Apoletto, CreditEase, FirstMark Capital, Noah Holdings, Ribbit Capital, Sands Capital Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Union Square Ventures, Uprising and Vy Capital; the firm will partner with WebBank for loan originations and plans to sell its loans to institutional investors; it is working with Jefferies on its capital markets strategy and a loan securitization program; the firm also has plans to use blockchain for data management and transactions. Source
Fresh off a new funding round that put Upgrade in unicorn status, CEO and Co-founder, Renaud Laplanche talked with Crowdfund...
In his first public appearance in over a year Renaud Laplanche, the CEO of Upgrade, gave a presentation this past...