We are a purpose led company
We are a purpose led company, with a mission of helping lenders achieve financial inclusion for all of their small business customers, globally.
I’m an immigrant. My family migrated to Canada in the early 70’s with only a few dollars in our pockets. My dad baked bread on a night shift in order to put food on the table. In 1973, he approached a bank and applied for a small business loan, to which the branch manager replied “Mr. Benegbi, you don’t meet the bank's criteria for this loan. However, I believe in people so here’s $5,000. ” My dad took this money and started a small business. A year later my mom followed a similar path.
That $5,000 became the springboard for our family’s lives in Canada. I’ve grown up in a small business family. My professional successes and failures have come as a small business owner. Small business has always been traditionally an underserved market but the impact and devastation all small business owners have felt with Covid has been especially difficult, and for me personally very upsetting.
Uplinq is the first, global credit assessment platform for small business lenders. Through billions of unique and validated data signals beyond traditional credit indicators, we provide lenders confidence to make the most accurate decisions possible.
If we are able to turn even one no into a yes, then we’ve served our purpose. Hopefully, we’ll do a lot more than this and be able to impact the lives of millions of families worldwide.
Pat Reily is an elite mathematician, an economist and a 30+ year FI veteran. He is an early AI pioneer in financial services, whose work to predict macroeconomic expansion & contraction is being used by the US Federal Reserve today.
Over his career, Pat has held several senior positions within a number of traditional financial institutions and has advised the US Government & World Bank on matters related to credit lending, as well as being an on-going thought leader speaker at the G20.
Since the late 1980's, Pat has led the use of unstructured & transactional data for predictive modeling in applications for underwriting, utilization, retention, optimization, offer management, cross-selling, customer service & fraud prevention.
Pat is one of the rare recipients of The Malcolm Baldrige National Award, which recognizes U.S. business performance excellence. The Baldrige Award is the only formal recognition of performance excellence given by the President of the United States.
Leading by empathy, humanity & purpose
Business is not about tech and not about product. Business is about people.
We understand that the people we surround ourselves with will be the difference between success and failure. When you find good people, you must allow yourself to believe in their spirit and – essentially – develop a shared vision, grounded in values that align to that vision.
It is vital that there is a collective desire to want to do something together, something that’s special; and that this desire be genuine and authentic. Building a good culture and a strong company comes from kindness and from having empathy for people.
At Uplinq we are resolute, serious, and willing to hold people to account…but it’s empathy, humanity & purpose that allows people to flourish, and those are the qualities we look for in any person we engage with professionally.
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