Ari Malik’s Post

Excited to announce that Salient has raised $60M in Series A funding! Led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Matrix, Y Combinator, and Michael Ovitz. It's surreal to think this journey started in a bedroom in San Francisco just a few years ago. What began as a vision to transform financial services through AI has grown into a platform trusted by industry leaders. Grateful to partner with incredible lenders who've believed in our mission from day one: Westlake Financial, American Credit Acceptance, AutoNation, Exeter Finance, Mid Atlantic Finance Company, United Auto Credit Corporation, and many more. Your partnership has been instrumental in shaping our AI agent platform and compliance monitoring suite. This milestone belongs to our entire team. There's no secret formula here—just relentless hard work, obsessive focus on customer success, and an unwavering commitment to building technology that actually moves the needle for our partners. Thank you to all your hard work - this is all down to you! Ray Lee, Smarak Pattnaik, Eric Chen, Ivan F., Zizhong Zhang, Brian Thompson, Flynn Träger, Gauraang Naik, Joseph Carothers, Matt Hoenecke, Ritesh Reddy, Sai Krishna Reddy Lakkam, Sheng-Yang Tsui Thamires Mouta, Travis Senf, Albert Heath, Anmol Mekala,Pavan Katta, Rushil Sheth! We just moved into our new San Francisco headquarters and we're hiring across all functions: Sales, Product, Engineering, and Customer Success. If you're passionate about using AI to solve real problems in financial services, please reach out to ari at try salient dot ai! Here's to the next chapter of democratizing AI for lenders everywhere.