30 min
Rohit Mittal, Co-Founder and CEO of Stilt - Loans for Immigrants and the Underserved Wharton FinTech Podcast
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Anirudh Singh sits down with Rohit Mittal, co-founder and CEO of Stilt. They discuss the difficulties Rohit faced when looking to rent an apartment in New York City, why United States immigrants are an underserved but creditworthy population, and how Stilt has approached solving this problem.
Rohit Mittal:
Rohit Mittal is the co-founder and CEO of Stilt. Rohit has extensive experience in credit risk analytics and data science. He spent years building credit risk and fraud models for top U.S. banks. In his current role, he defines the overall business strategy, leads debt and capital fundraising efforts, leads product development, and leads other customer-related aspects for the company. Stilt is backed by Y Combinator and has raised a total of $275M in debt and equity funding to date.
Prior to founding Stilt, Rohit started his career at Verisk Analytics using big data to optimize credit risk. He went on to become the founding member of the data science team at Popsugar, helping the company build its analytics framework for data science efforts.
Rohit has a Bachelor's degree from Delhi College of Engineering and Master's degree from Columbia University.
Anirudh Singh sits down with Rohit Mittal, co-founder and CEO of Stilt. They discuss the difficulties Rohit faced when looking to rent an apartment in New York City, why United States immigrants are an underserved but creditworthy population, and how Stilt has approached solving this problem.
Rohit Mittal:
Rohit Mittal is the co-founder and CEO of Stilt. Rohit has extensive experience in credit risk analytics and data science. He spent years building credit risk and fraud models for top U.S. banks. In his current role, he defines the overall business strategy, leads debt and capital fundraising efforts, leads product development, and leads other customer-related aspects for the company. Stilt is backed by Y Combinator and has raised a total of $275M in debt and equity funding to date.
Prior to founding Stilt, Rohit started his career at Verisk Analytics using big data to optimize credit risk. He went on to become the founding member of the data science team at Popsugar, helping the company build its analytics framework for data science efforts.
Rohit has a Bachelor's degree from Delhi College of Engineering and Master's degree from Columbia University.
30 min