Fuse Lands $25M to Bring AI to Credit Union Lending
AI-powered loan origination startup Fuse closes $25M Series A to modernize lending for credit unions and financial institutions.
Fuse just pulled in a $25M Series A to shake up how credit unions and financial institutions handle loan origination. The company uses AI-powered software to streamline the lending process — and it's betting big that the old ways are ripe for disruption.
Co-founders Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa spent three years building an automotive lending startup before pivoting in 2023. That's when they realized large language models could fundamentally modernize loan origination — a space still drowning in manual processes and legacy systems.
The fresh capital should give Fuse serious runway to scale its platform across more institutions. Credit unions in particular have been underserved by modern fintech tooling, making them a smart beachhead market.
With LLMs now mature enough to handle complex financial workflows, Fuse is positioned at the intersection of two hot sectors: AI infrastructure and lending tech.