When I first read the news when I woke up this morning I thought it must have been a joke....
In his interview with AltFi, Laplanche reflects on his experience at LendingClub and how that has helped him shape his...
There are still funding rounds getting done during the pandemic, evenly solidly up rounds; Renaud Laplanche’s Upgrade has just closed...
Many of us in this industry will be glad to see the last of 2016. It has been a difficult...
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Below you will find the presentations of several speakers at LendIt USA 2015. This includes, Renaud Laplanche (Founder & CEO, Lending...
Renaud will kick off day two of LendIt Europe with a keynote speech discussing online lending 2.0 as well as the US online lending industry and its role within fintech overall; Laplanche is currently the CEO of newly founded US consumer lending platform Upgrade; the platform raised $60 million from a Series A fundraising and launched in April 2017. Source
Editor’s note: The interview below was not conducted by me. Another publication conducted this interview and wrote the article but...
Today we got a glimpse of what former Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche has been working on since he resigned...
Renaud Laplanche has announced the launch of a new online consumer lending platform called Upgrade; the firm's investors include Apoletto, CreditEase, FirstMark Capital, Noah Holdings, Ribbit Capital, Sands Capital Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Union Square Ventures, Uprising and Vy Capital; the firm will partner with WebBank for loan originations and plans to sell its loans to institutional investors; it is working with Jefferies on its capital markets strategy and a loan securitization program; the firm also has plans to use blockchain for data management and transactions. Source
Fresh off a new funding round that put Upgrade in unicorn status, CEO and Co-founder, Renaud Laplanche talked with Crowdfund...