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COMPANY PROFILE
Avant
Online lending platform that is the leading provider of credit alternatives to middle income consumers in the US & UK
Revenue
$100–500M
Latest reported FY
Headcount
500–1k
Current team size
At a glance
- Founded
- 2012
- Headquarters
- Chicago, United States
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A2 investors entered at this stage
- VCVictory Park Capital
August Capital
Series B and later12 investors entered at this stage
- BMBalyasny Asset Management
RRE Ventures- MVMark Vadon
- PCPamlico Capital
Tiger Global- AMAres Management
Peter Thiel
General Atlantic
DFJ Growth
KKR- SBSean Bill
QED Investors
Employees mapped
975
incl. 8 AI specialists
Founders
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quality score
Key operators
23
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Potential founders
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likely future founders
Talent movements
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past 12 months
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Avant employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
SSSuper SegurosEst. 2019
Sebastian VillarrealMexicoSignal score89
FFFuture FinanceEst. 2013
Adam JiwanIrelandSignal score84
TLTread LabsEst. 2023
YDYibo DuanUnited States
Signal score70
LGLive Tech GamesEst. 2020
Raj SinghUnited KingdomSignal score70
EMExponential MarketsEst. 2021
Ryan NaughtonUnited StatesSignal score69
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Global footprint
Workforce by country
15
countries with
team presence
team presence
🇺🇸 United States92.1%
🇮🇳 India1.4%
🇧🇷 Brazil1.1%
🇦🇺 Australia0.7%
🇵🇰 Pakistan0.7%
Web traffic by country
2.4M
monthly visits
across markets
across markets
🇺🇸 United States96%
🇨🇦 Canada0.4%
🇳🇬 Nigeria0.3%
🇮🇩 Indonesia0.3%
🇿🇦 South Africa0.3%
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Avant on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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