We Are a Purpose Led Company
Uplinq’s core mission is helping small business owners globally gain access to Fair Credit.
Ron Benegbi, Founder & CEO
I’m an immigrant. My family migrated to Canada in the early 70’s with only a few dollars in our pockets. My dad baked bread at night to put food on the table. In 1973, he approached a bank and applied for a small business loan, to which the branch manager replied “Mr. Benegbi, you don’t meet the bank’s criteria for this loan. However, I believe in people, so here’s $5,000.” My dad took this money and started a small business. A year later my mom followed a similar path.
That $5,000 became the springboard for our family’s lives in Canada. I’ve grown up in a small business family and my professional successes, and failures, have come as a small business owner. Small business has traditionally been an underserved segment within financial services. With the impact and devastation all small business owners felt through the pandemic, and now entering this uncertain economic climate, access to fair and ethical credit has never been more difficult to attain.
Uplinq is the first, global credit assessment and scoring platform for small business lenders. Drawing insights & analytics from over $1.4 Trillion in underwritten loans & 10,000+ unique data sources, we empower lenders to approve and manage risk on loans they would have otherwise declined based on conventional underwriting criteria.
If we are able to turn even one no into a yes, then we’ve served our purpose. Hopefully, we’ll do a lot more than this and be able to positively impact the lives of millions of families worldwide.
That $5,000 became the springboard for our family’s lives in Canada. I’ve grown up in a small business family and my professional successes, and failures, have come as a small business owner. Small business has traditionally been an underserved segment within financial services. With the impact and devastation all small business owners felt through the pandemic, and now entering this uncertain economic climate, access to fair and ethical credit has never been more difficult to attain.
Uplinq is the first, global credit assessment and scoring platform for small business lenders. Drawing insights & analytics from over $1.4 Trillion in underwritten loans & 10,000+ unique data sources, we empower lenders to approve and manage risk on loans they would have otherwise declined based on conventional underwriting criteria.
If we are able to turn even one no into a yes, then we’ve served our purpose. Hopefully, we’ll do a lot more than this and be able to positively impact the lives of millions of families worldwide.
Patrick Reily, Co-Founder
Patrick Reily is an elite mathematician, an economist and a 30+ year FI veteran. He is an early AI pioneer in financial services, whose work to predict macroeconomic expansion & contraction is being used by the US Federal Reserve today.
Over his career, Pat has held several senior level positions within a number of traditional financial institutions and has advised the US Government & World Bank on matters related to credit lending, as well as being an ongoing thought leader speaker at the G20.
Since the late 1980’s, Pat has led the use of unstructured & transactional data for predictive modeling in applications for underwriting, utilization, retention, optimization, offer management, cross-selling, customer service & fraud prevention.
Pat is one of the rare recipients of The Malcolm Baldrige National Award, which recognizes U.S. business performance excellence. The Baldrige Award is the only formal recognition of performance excellence given by the President of the United States.
Over his career, Pat has held several senior level positions within a number of traditional financial institutions and has advised the US Government & World Bank on matters related to credit lending, as well as being an ongoing thought leader speaker at the G20.
Since the late 1980’s, Pat has led the use of unstructured & transactional data for predictive modeling in applications for underwriting, utilization, retention, optimization, offer management, cross-selling, customer service & fraud prevention.
Pat is one of the rare recipients of The Malcolm Baldrige National Award, which recognizes U.S. business performance excellence. The Baldrige Award is the only formal recognition of performance excellence given by the President of the United States.
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Every small business is unique and to get a clear picture of the risk profile, lenders need to consider a rich and varied set of factors. Uplinq has done the hard work of integrating thousands of data sources and leveraging insights from over a Trillion $ in loans to do just that, to help complement and improve existing underwriting.
Rex Salisbury
Managing Partner, Cambrian Ventures
Uplinq is supported by a stellar group of institutional investors…
