Renaud will kick off day two of LendIt Europe with a keynote speech discussing online lending 2.0 as well as the US online lending industry and its role within fintech overall; Laplanche is currently the CEO of newly founded US consumer lending platform Upgrade; the platform raised $60 million from a Series A fundraising and launched in April 2017. Source
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
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Below you will find the presentations of several speakers at LendIt USA 2015. This includes, Renaud Laplanche (Founder & CEO, Lending...
In April we reported on Renaud Laplanche’s new venture called Upgrade. While we gained some insight into Upgrade from the...
There are still funding rounds getting done during the pandemic, evenly solidly up rounds; Renaud Laplanche’s Upgrade has just closed...
What a day. Everyone is still trying to digest the big news from Lending Club this morning. More details are...
Last week there were significant developments in the legal troubles that have dogged both LendingClub and former CEO Renaud Laplanche...
Just last month we hosted our largest event, which brought together nearly 2,500 delegates to New York for LendIt USA...
When I first read the news when I woke up this morning I thought it must have been a joke....
Editor’s note: The interview below was not conducted by me. Another publication conducted this interview and wrote the article but...