Heron
YC S20 · Active · Underwriting automation for small business finance
Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 Two DotsShared: underwriting automation, fraud, consumerActiveAI | AI | Active | YCS22 |
 HandledShared: still spend, spend hour, financeActiveAI | AI | Active | YCS24 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
 EmbrokerShared: insurance policy, underwritten, offersNot statedOther | Other | Not stated | 500 Global2015 |
 BrizaShared: insurance policy, underwriting, smallNot statedOther | Other | Not stated | 500 Global2020 |
 BlockReShared: insurance policy, underwriting, offersNot statedOther | Other | Not stated | Plug and Play |
 DraftPilot.aiShared: minute instead, hourNot statedAI | AI | Not stated | 500 GlobalDistro 1 |
 GovGuardShared: still spend, spend hourActiveAI | AI | Active | YCX26 |
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About Heron
Heron is on a mission to eliminate the underwriting tax on American businesses. When a consumer applies for credit, a spinning wheel can return an offer in seconds; when a business applies for a loan or insurance policy, humans still spend hours reading documents, verifying the business, detecting fraud, and deciding what to offer. Heron does that work in software: lenders, insurers, and credit brokers send applications in and get declines and offers out in minutes instead of days. We have underwritten roughly 1 in 8 US employer businesses in the past year. That scale allows us to go beyond what any individual could ever do: identify cross-customer signals across millions of businesses to build new data products, and ultimately become the data layer for private businesses in the US. Backed by Insight Partners and Y Combinator.
- YC batch
- S20 · Summer 2020
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- AI
- Team size
- 60
- Location
- New York City, NY, USA
- Checked
- 32m ago
Heron: questions
Which YC batch was Heron in?
Heron was in Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch (S20).
Is Heron still active?
Y Combinator lists Heron as active.
Where is Heron based?
Heron lists New York City, NY, USA as its location on YC's directory.
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