We Fuel the American Dream™
Entrepreneurs are the heart and soul of America.
You build your business out of nothing, an idea, a new product, a vision for a better future. At Lendio, we believe in that entrepreneur spirit, and it’s much more than getting you a loan. It’s building your dream, an industry, an economy, and our whole nation.
Main Street America, your business is the American Dream.
Without you, industries fizzle, jobs are lost, our economy wanes, and the ideals of our whole nation become a fading dream. Not so. At Lendio, our passion is to fuel American small business. Come inside our doors, and you’ll find the funding you need, now.
We fuel the American Dream™. That’s our passion.
Main Street Impact
Brock Blake and Levi King came together with a single vision.
It was something so important, so pivotal, and so game changing that they believed it promised to change the very heart of Main Street America. It would make the dreams of every American entrepreneur a reality.
Even bigger than that, Brock and Levi believed their vision would impact the very economic health of this great nation and the very future of our children and our children’s children.
It was a single vision and a wholehearted belief in entrepreneurship.
Brock and Levi were both entrepreneurs themselves.
Between the two of them, they’d started over a half dozen companies: From scooters to hotels to signs. They understand how hard it is to get a business loan today. They’d applied for dozens of loans themselves, getting dozens of denials. But even when they did get approvals, it was with bad rates, bad terms, or for amounts that were far less than they needed.
Brock and Levi’s vision was to make that whole process, the process of getting a loan, simple.
That’s it: simple.
Now, they’ve already helped hundreds of thousands of business owners get loans. It’s catching on. People are hearing about it because it works: With Lendio, businesses have a 7 out of 10 chance of getting a loan. Without Lendio, businesses have a 1 out of 10 chance of getting a loan.
1 out of 10 versus 7 out of 10: You weigh it out. It speaks for itself.
Management Team
Executive Team:
- CEO: Brock Blake
- President: Levi King
- CTO: Trent Miskin
- VP of Marketing: Burke Alder
- VP of Lender Relations: Brad Hagen
- VP of Business Development: Brett Child
VC Investors:
- Highway 12 Ventures (Mark Solon)
- Tribeca Venture Partners (Brian Hirsch)
Angel Investors:
- Josh James (Founder of OMTR – sold to Adobe for $1.8B)
- Alan Hall (Founder of MarketStar – sold to Omnicom, Partner at Mercato Partners)
- Paul Allen (Founder of FamilyLink.com and MyFamily.com)
- Mark Madsen (Former NBA Basketball professional)
Other key shareholders:
- David Bradford (Chairman of Fusion IO & former General Counsel of Novell)
Advisory Board Members:
- Mark Goines (former Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Consumer Division of Intuit and investor in Mint.com and Credit Sesame)
- Anton Commissaris (former Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Consumer Division of Intuit and investor in Mint.com and Credit Sesame)
- Jerry Ropelato (Founder & CEO of TechMedia Network)
- Greg Butterfield (Managing Partner of SageCreek Partners)
- Alex Lawrence (Vice Provost of Innovation and Economic Development and a Professor of Internet Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Weber State University)
Partners
Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. is the leading provider of business credit building and credibility management solutions for businesses. The company helps businesses establish their credit with a D&B D-U-N-S® Number and provides the only real business credit solution available to companies looking to build, monitor, and impact their business credit and credibility. Building a strong business credit report can improve your chances of qualifying for a loan.
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LegalZoom is the nation’s leading online legal document service, with over 2 million Americans served since 2001. LegalZoom gets businesses running, organized and ready for funding. Lendio shows business owners where to get that funding.
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Launched at the White House, the Startup America Partnership responds to the call to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship. The Partnership creates an alliance of major corporations, lenders, and services, with Lendio’s contribution to startups estimating at a savings of $54 million.
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Company Culture
Like we’ve already said, entrepreneur excitement is rampant here. And if anyone knows about successful entrepreneurs, you know they have an unbelievable work ethic.
That work ethic is the beauty and heart of our culture. If you were to drop by for a visit, you’d find us digging in with rolled-up sleeves, working together to get the job done and find better ways to help business owners.
What you wouldn’t see is those fancy, corporate suits, shiny shoes, perfect hair, stilettos and loafers. You’ll likely find us in T-shirts and jeans, shorts and tennis shoes – and occasionally a nice buttoned up, collared shirt. You see, helping the business world is the sexiest part of our jobs. Fancy suits and ties come second.
We’re a group of down-to-earth humans with a love of work and play. The result is a balanced team that gets things done efficiently, a few bloody elbows from sliding into 3rd base in the community softball league, and a unique culture in the finance industry.
Awards/Recognition
#1 in the Mountain West Capital Network’s Utah 100
#34 Inc. 500 in 2010
#309 Inc. 500 in 2011
UTC
Brock Blake — Forty under Forty
2007 Emerging Executive of the Year
UVEF Top 25 Under 5
UV50
V100
Community Involvement
Local Involvement
Lendio’s office sits just south of the shores of the Great Salt Lake and west of the Wasatch Mountains. We work here and live here. And we like it. That’s why we’re passionate about helping the entrepreneurial community and using Lendio’s resources to help local business owners.
We participate with local universities, editorial boards, award committees and other business competitions.
Our CEO, Brock Blake volunteers regularly for advisory boards (Weber State Entrepreneur Association), editorial boards (LaunchUtah Magazine), award committees (Innovation Awards), business plan competitions (BYU Business Plan competition), and regularly hosts college students at his office to provide mentorship and motivation.
Socialize
Join the conversation and check out all the talk about entrepreneurs, startups, small business owners, business financing, business loans, VCs, angel investors, and other random things. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn, like us on Facebook, watch our Youtube Videos and follow our blog by clicking on one of the following links:
Careers
We’re not just selling toilet paper here. We’re changing the world by helping small business owners succeed, and in turn, helping boost the economy.
If you want to do something that matters to the American economy, and be surrounded by the energy and excitement that comes with it, send us your resume.
But, before you do, realize you will work hard here. Your brain cells might occasionally burst — in a good way. If you want to play hard, we’ll let you do that, too. We have the best corporate dress code of all time, parties, community athletic teams, free lunch at company meetings, ping pong and frequent parties.