Kiavi

Kiavi, formerly LendingHome, is a San Francisco-based lender to residential real-estate investors. It originates bridge and DSCR loans against single-family homes for buying, renovating and renting them, underwriting on its own data platform, and funds the loan book largely through securitisation — more than $5.5bn of notes across 20 transactions since 2019. It was founded in 2013 by Matt Humphrey and James Herbert, and rebranded from LendingHome to Kiavi after Michael Bourque succeeded Humphrey as chief executive in December 2020.