The Venture Codex Logo

The Venture Codex

Blend Labs

415 Kearny Street, San Francisco, California, 94108, United States

Overview

Blend is a digital lending platform that supports and simplifies applications for mortgages, consumer loans, and deposit accounts.The company helps lenders streamline the customer journey for any banking product from application to close. Its Digital Lending Platform is utilized by Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, and over 285 other leading financial institutions to acquire more customers, increase productivity, and deepen customer relationships. The company enables customers to process more than $4 billion in mortgages and consumer loans per day, helping millions of consumers get into homes and gain access to the capital they need to lead better lives. Erin Collard, Eugene Marinelli, Nima Ghamsari, and Rosco Hill headquartered the company in San Francisco, California in 2012.

Total investments
1
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
9

Sector focus

  • Financial Services
  • FinTech
  • Lending
  • Software
Visit website

Investment portfolio

  • Friday Harbor

    Participated · Seed · Apr 2025

    Friday Harbor provides an AI-powered platform that helps loan officers assemble complete and compliant loan files in real time. The platform reads and interprets borrower documents, generates borrower-specific needs lists, underwrites files and flags potential conditions, with each flagged issue including a suggested resolution. Flagged issues include suggested resolutions so loan officers can take action with a single click, aiming to remove complexity, slash origination costs and improve the borrower experience. The company combines fintech expertise with artificial intelligence to serve lenders of all sizes. Friday Harbor is led by CEO Theo Ellis and CTO Jesse Collins and is based in Seattle, WA. It recently raised $6M in seed funding to extend its engineering team and support integrations with mortgage LOS and point-of-sale platforms.

Team

  • Nima Ghamsari

    CEO & Founder ,Head of Blend

    LinkedIn
  • Erin Collard

    Founder & Board Director

    LinkedIn
  • Aesha Shah

    Head of Design

  • Steve Salis

    Investor

    LinkedIn