Gestalt

Gestalt operates in the financial technology sector, providing a specialized data warehouse solution for lenders of all sizes, including startups, community lenders, banks, and credit unions. The company was founded in March 2023 to address a common industry challenge: lenders expend significant resources to build and maintain centralized data warehouses to consolidate information from disparate systems. Gestalt’s core offering is a pre-built, out-of-the-box data warehouse that can be implemented in as few as 30 days, providing a single source of truth for all of a lender's data.

The company was co-founded by CEO Stephanie Hanson, a fintech veteran who previously founded and led defi SOLUTIONS, a successful auto lending software company. Her background in organizing complex systems in the lending industry directly influenced Gestalt's mission. She partnered with the venture studio Ensemblex, founded by fintech experts like Shawn Budde, who recognized the widespread issue of messy, unreliable data hindering AI adoption and operational efficiency. The founding leadership team also includes CTO/CPO Justin McClintick. In September 2024, Gestalt announced it had raised a $5.9 million seed round, bringing its total funding to $8 million.

Gestalt's business model is based on providing its data warehouse as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution. This model offers a cost-effective alternative to hiring a team of data engineers or expensive contractors, positioning the service's cost to be comparable to that of a single data engineer. The platform is designed to handle 80% of a lender's data model needs out-of-the-box, with the remaining 20% being configurable. It integrates with various loan origination and management systems, standardizing data automatically. This allows lenders to accelerate reporting for compliance, such as Fair Lending and SCRA monitoring, enhance visibility for stakeholders, and reduce data maintenance time by up to 90%. By centralizing and organizing data efficiently, Gestalt aims to accelerate insights, enable AI adoption, and allow lenders to focus on core business operations rather than data management.

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