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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Better.com's AI agent, Betsy™ Selected as Finalist for Inman's 2025 Innovator Award
The AI-mortgage lender has been recognized as a finalist for the "Most Innovative Use of AI" category highlighting its groundbreaking technology and commitment to transforming the homebuying experience. NEW YORK, July 16, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR), the AI-powered digital home ownership company, today announced that it has been selected as a 2025 Inman Innovator Award finalist for its Betsy™ AI agent that is a part of the Tinman® AI Platform. Inman is at the forefront real estate journalism, providing trusted insights, market analysis, and industry events to brokers, agents, tech founders, lenders, and investors. The Inman Innovator Awards spotlight companies that have made bold breakthroughs and developed impactful solutions through intelligent technologies. Inman Innovator Award finalists are handpicked by Inman's editorial team, and meant to honor "companies, individuals and new technology that elevate productivity, efficiency and transparency for consumers and real estate professionals alike." This finalist recognition highlights Better's mission to build technology bridges that gap between efficiency and empathy; helping homebuyers move faster through their mortgage journey without sacrificing transparency or trust. "Betsy™ sets itself apart from existing mortgage technology because it's not a simple voice or chat bot with one defined AI personality. Betsy™ is a part of the larger Tinman® AI Platform, which can be customized to be used by any lender or broker, making its impact and benefits no longer exclusive to said Leah Price, VP of Tinman® AI Platform. "Each of Tinman®'s clients, will now be able to leverage our tech stack and offer their customers a streamlined end-to-end mortgage process. Better isn't just building mortgage tools for our own business; we're building infrastructure that will redefine the next generation of home lending." Over the past year, Better has achieved an array of technological breakthroughs and product innovations, including the launch of Betsy™, the world's first voice-based AI loan assistant. By building the Tinman® AI Platform into a modular, API-accessible platform, the company is now able to sell to lender and brokers which will enable broader adoption across the mortgage and home equity ecosystem; democratizing access to cutting edge mortgage technology. Built exclusively for the mortgage industry, Betsy™ harnesses advanced generative AI to streamline mortgage applications and manages 127,000+ monthly borrower interactions — resolving 80% without human escalation and cutting response times from hours to seconds. In 2025, the company also launched its NEO Home Loans powered by Better division, which replaced outdated mortgage tech with Better's Tinman® AI platform and Betsy™. Through this partnership, NEO Home Loan advisors have grown loan volume by 6x and seen gross margins rise by 20% within 90 days of launch. This success is powered by local loan officers across the country that have been equipped with their own branded AI assistant. "Better's Tinman® AI Platform was built to empower homebuyers across the nation to access financing seamlessly, securely, and affordably. Bringing Tinman® and Betsy™ to market for lender and brokers moves us closer to that goal," said Vishal Garg, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Better. "Being named a finalist by Inman affirms our belief that technology can make buying a home radically simpler, faster, and more empowering for everyday Americans and celebrates our team's relentless pursuit of innovation and commitment to a better way forward." Beyond Inman, Better's commitment to excellence has earned widespread recognition. In 2025, Better has won the Banking Tech Awards' Best LendTech Solution and Fintech Breakthrough's Digital Mortgage Innovation Award. The AI mortgage lender was previously named the Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ. The company's founder Vishal Garg's numerous honors have included winning Inman's Best of Finance Award winners for two consecutive years, E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, Housing Wire's Most Influential Mortgage Executive, and the Golden Pegleg Award for Outstanding Alumni from Stuyvesant High School. The full list of 2025 Inman Innovator Award finalists can be found here. For more information about Better, please visit About Better Home & Finance Holding Company Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR; BETRW) is the first AI-powered mortgage lender and first fintech to fund more than $100 billion in mortgage volume. Since 2016, Better has leveraged its industry-leading AI platform, Tinman™, to achieve a singular mission of making homeownership cheaper, faster, and easier for Americans. Tinman™ allows customers to see their rate options in seconds, get pre-approved in minutes, lock in rates, and close their loan in as little as three weeks. In addition, Betsy™, the first voice-based AI loan assistant built exclusively for the mortgage industry, revolutionizes the homebuying journey by delivering timely application status updates to consumers, answering questions, and moving their loan application along 24/7/365. Better's mortgage offerings include GSE-conforming mortgage loans, FHA and VA loans, and jumbo mortgage loans. In January 2023, Better launched "One Day Mortgage," allowing eligible customers to go from click to Commitment Letter within 24 hours. Better won the 2025 Fintech Breakthrough Awards for Digital Mortgage Innovation, the 2025 Banking Tech Award for Digital Mortgage Innovation, and was named Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ in 2023, ranked #1 on LinkedIn's Top Startups List for 2021 and 2020, #1 on Fortune's Best Small and Medium Workplaces in New York, #15 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 2020 list, and was listed on Forbes FinTech 50 for 2020. Better serves customers in all 50 US states and the United Kingdom. For more information, follow @betterdotcom on Instagram and TikTok. View source version on Contacts Media Contact: better@ Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Wire
6 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Better.com's AI agent, Betsy™ Selected as Finalist for Inman's 2025 Innovator Award
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR), the AI-powered digital home ownership company, today announced that it has been selected as a 2025 Inman Innovator Award finalist for its Betsy™ AI agent that is a part of the Tinman® AI Platform. Inman is at the forefront real estate journalism, providing trusted insights, market analysis, and industry events to brokers, agents, tech founders, lenders, and investors. The Inman Innovator Awards spotlight companies that have made bold breakthroughs and developed impactful solutions through intelligent technologies. Inman Innovator Award finalists are handpicked by Inman's editorial team, and meant to honor "companies, individuals and new technology that elevate productivity, efficiency and transparency for consumers and real estate professionals alike." This finalist recognition highlights Better's mission to build technology bridges that gap between efficiency and empathy; helping homebuyers move faster through their mortgage journey without sacrificing transparency or trust. 'Betsy™ sets itself apart from existing mortgage technology because it's not a simple voice or chat bot with one defined AI personality. Betsy™ is a part of the larger Tinman® AI Platform, which can be customized to be used by any lender or broker, making its impact and benefits no longer exclusive to said Leah Price, VP of Tinman® AI Platform. 'Each of Tinman®'s clients, will now be able to leverage our tech stack and offer their customers a streamlined end-to-end mortgage process. Better isn't just building mortgage tools for our own business; we're building infrastructure that will redefine the next generation of home lending.' Over the past year, Better has achieved an array of technological breakthroughs and product innovations, including the launch of Betsy™, the world's first voice-based AI loan assistant. By building the Tinman® AI Platform into a modular, API-accessible platform, the company is now able to sell to lender and brokers which will enable broader adoption across the mortgage and home equity ecosystem; democratizing access to cutting edge mortgage technology. Built exclusively for the mortgage industry, Betsy™ harnesses advanced generative AI to streamline mortgage applications and manages 127,000+ monthly borrower interactions — resolving 80% without human escalation and cutting response times from hours to seconds. In 2025, the company also launched its NEO Home Loans powered by Better division, which replaced outdated mortgage tech with Better's Tinman® AI platform and Betsy™. Through this partnership, NEO Home Loan advisors have grown loan volume by 6x and seen gross margins rise by 20% within 90 days of launch. This success is powered by local loan officers across the country that have been equipped with their own branded AI assistant. 'Better's Tinman® AI Platform was built to empower homebuyers across the nation to access financing seamlessly, securely, and affordably. Bringing Tinman® and Betsy™ to market for lender and brokers moves us closer to that goal,' said Vishal Garg, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Better. "Being named a finalist by Inman affirms our belief that technology can make buying a home radically simpler, faster, and more empowering for everyday Americans and celebrates our team's relentless pursuit of innovation and commitment to a better way forward." Beyond Inman, Better's commitment to excellence has earned widespread recognition. In 2025, Better has won the Banking Tech Awards' Best LendTech Solution and Fintech Breakthrough's Digital Mortgage Innovation Award. The AI mortgage lender was previously named the Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ. The company's founder Vishal Garg's numerous honors have included winning Inman's Best of Finance Award winners for two consecutive years, E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, Housing Wire's Most Influential Mortgage Executive, and the Golden Pegleg Award for Outstanding Alumni from Stuyvesant High School. The full list of 2025 Inman Innovator Award finalists can be found here. For more information about Better, please visit About Better Home & Finance Holding Company Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR; BETRW) is the first AI-powered mortgage lender and first fintech to fund more than $100 billion in mortgage volume. Since 2016, Better has leveraged its industry-leading AI platform, Tinman™, to achieve a singular mission of making homeownership cheaper, faster, and easier for Americans. Tinman™ allows customers to see their rate options in seconds, get pre-approved in minutes, lock in rates, and close their loan in as little as three weeks. In addition, Betsy™, the first voice-based AI loan assistant built exclusively for the mortgage industry, revolutionizes the homebuying journey by delivering timely application status updates to consumers, answering questions, and moving their loan application along 24/7/365. Better's mortgage offerings include GSE-conforming mortgage loans, FHA and VA loans, and jumbo mortgage loans. In January 2023, Better launched "One Day Mortgage," allowing eligible customers to go from click to Commitment Letter within 24 hours. Better won the 2025 Fintech Breakthrough Awards for Digital Mortgage Innovation, the 2025 Banking Tech Award for Digital Mortgage Innovation, and was named Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ in 2023, ranked #1 on LinkedIn's Top Startups List for 2021 and 2020, #1 on Fortune's Best Small and Medium Workplaces in New York, #15 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 2020 list, and was listed on Forbes FinTech 50 for 2020. Better serves customers in all 50 US states and the United Kingdom. For more information, follow @betterdotcom on Instagram and TikTok.
Yahoo
25-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Better CEO Vishal Garg Receives Inman's 2025 Best of Finance Award
The AI-mortgage lender's founder and CEO was recognized for the second consecutive year as one of real estate's best and brightest in the mortgage and finance space NEW YORK, June 24, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR), the AI-powered digital home ownership company, today announced that Founder & Chief Executive Officer Vishal Garg has been named one of Inman's 2025 Best of Finance awardees for the second consecutive year. Awardees are handpicked by Inman's editorial team, and meant to "honor those pushing the envelope and reshaping the homebuying space." The Best of Finance Awards are meant to celebrate the achievements and successes of the real estate community's best and brightest, according to the publication. For Garg, this recognition highlights his mission to build a more efficient, transparent, and customer-centric homebuying ecosystem. "Buying a home should feel like a milestone, not a minefield," said Garg. "Since founding Better, many aspects of the business have evolved, but my singular mission to fix a broken system has remained steady. Each day, we continue to build on our cheaper, faster, and easier homebuying experience to help families across the country achieve their homeownership dreams. I'm honored to receive this award, which highlights the impact that innovation makes possible." Over the past year, Better has achieved an array of successes with Garg at the helm, including the launch of Betsy™, the world's first voice-based AI loan assistant, built exclusively for the mortgage industry. Betsy™ helps customers through their homebuying journey 24/7/365; making home loans effortless by harnessing advanced generative AI to streamline mortgage applications. In addition, Better introduced the Better Forever program, which rewards loyal customers by waiving origination fees on future refinance or purchase loans funded through Better. The company also launched its NEO Home Loans division, which enables customers to work with local mortgage professionals and their realtor partners, and scaled the business to a $2.5 billion run rate on originations in the first six months post launch. Beyond Inman, Better's commitment to excellence has garnered myriad accolades. In 2025, Better won the Banking Tech Awards' Best LendTech Solution and Fintech Breakthrough's Digital Mortgage Innovation Award. The AI lender was previously named the Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ. Garg's numerous honors have included winning E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, Housing Wire's Most Influential Mortgage Executive, and the Golden Pegleg Award for Outstanding Alumni from Stuyvesant High School. The full list of 2025 Inman Best of Finance Award winners can be found here. For more information about Better, please visit About Better Home & Finance Holding Company Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR; BETRW) is the first AI-powered mortgage lender and first fintech to fund more than $100 billion in mortgage volume. Since 2016, Better has leveraged its industry-leading AI platform, Tinman™, to achieve a singular mission of making homeownership cheaper, faster, and easier for Americans. Tinman™ allows customers to see their rate options in seconds, get pre-approved in minutes, lock in rates, and close their loan in as little as three weeks. In addition, Betsy™, the first voice-based AI loan assistant built exclusively for the mortgage industry, revolutionizes the homebuying journey by delivering timely application status updates to consumers, answering questions, and moving their loan application along 24/7/365. Better's mortgage offerings include GSE-conforming mortgage loans, FHA and VA loans, and jumbo mortgage loans. In January 2023, Better launched "One Day Mortgage," allowing eligible customers to go from click to Commitment Letter within 24 hours. Better won the 2025 Fintech Breakthrough Awards for Digital Mortgage Innovation, the 2025 Banking Tech Award for Digital Mortgage Innovation, and was named Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ in 2023, ranked #1 on LinkedIn's Top Startups List for 2021 and 2020, #1 on Fortune's Best Small and Medium Workplaces in New York, #15 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 2020 list, and was listed on Forbes FinTech 50 for 2020. Better serves customers in all 50 US states and the United Kingdom. For more information, follow @betterdotcom on Instagram and TikTok. View source version on Contacts MediaNneka Etonirubetter@
Business Wire
24-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Better CEO Vishal Garg Receives Inman's 2025 Best of Finance Award
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR), the AI-powered digital home ownership company, today announced that Founder & Chief Executive Officer Vishal Garg has been named one of Inman's 2025 Best of Finance awardees for the second consecutive year. Awardees are handpicked by Inman's editorial team, and meant to 'honor those pushing the envelope and reshaping the homebuying space.' The Best of Finance Awards are meant to celebrate the achievements and successes of the real estate community's best and brightest, according to the publication. For Garg, this recognition highlights his mission to build a more efficient, transparent, and customer-centric homebuying ecosystem. 'Buying a home should feel like a milestone, not a minefield,' said Garg. 'Since founding Better, many aspects of the business have evolved, but my singular mission to fix a broken system has remained steady. Each day, we continue to build on our cheaper, faster, and easier homebuying experience to help families across the country achieve their homeownership dreams. I'm honored to receive this award, which highlights the impact that innovation makes possible.' Over the past year, Better has achieved an array of successes with Garg at the helm, including the launch of Betsy™, the world's first voice-based AI loan assistant, built exclusively for the mortgage industry. Betsy™ helps customers through their homebuying journey 24/7/365; making home loans effortless by harnessing advanced generative AI to streamline mortgage applications. In addition, Better introduced the Better Forever program, which rewards loyal customers by waiving origination fees on future refinance or purchase loans funded through Better. The company also launched its NEO Home Loans division, which enables customers to work with local mortgage professionals and their realtor partners, and scaled the business to a $2.5 billion run rate on originations in the first six months post launch. Beyond Inman, Better's commitment to excellence has garnered myriad accolades. In 2025, Better won the Banking Tech Awards' Best LendTech Solution and Fintech Breakthrough's Digital Mortgage Innovation Award. The AI lender was previously named the Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ. Garg's numerous honors have included winning E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, Housing Wire's Most Influential Mortgage Executive, and the Golden Pegleg Award for Outstanding Alumni from Stuyvesant High School. The full list of 2025 Inman Best of Finance Award winners can be found here. For more information about Better, please visit About Better Home & Finance Holding Company Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR; BETRW) is the first AI-powered mortgage lender and first fintech to fund more than $100 billion in mortgage volume. Since 2016, Better has leveraged its industry-leading AI platform, Tinman™, to achieve a singular mission of making homeownership cheaper, faster, and easier for Americans. Tinman™ allows customers to see their rate options in seconds, get pre-approved in minutes, lock in rates, and close their loan in as little as three weeks. In addition, Betsy™, the first voice-based AI loan assistant built exclusively for the mortgage industry, revolutionizes the homebuying journey by delivering timely application status updates to consumers, answering questions, and moving their loan application along 24/7/365. Better's mortgage offerings include GSE-conforming mortgage loans, FHA and VA loans, and jumbo mortgage loans. In January 2023, Better launched "One Day Mortgage,' allowing eligible customers to go from click to Commitment Letter within 24 hours. Better won the 2025 Fintech Breakthrough Awards for Digital Mortgage Innovation, the 2025 Banking Tech Award for Digital Mortgage Innovation, and was named Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ in 2023, ranked #1 on LinkedIn's Top Startups List for 2021 and 2020, #1 on Fortune's Best Small and Medium Workplaces in New York, #15 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 2020 list, and was listed on Forbes FinTech 50 for 2020. Better serves customers in all 50 US states and the United Kingdom. For more information, follow @betterdotcom on Instagram and TikTok.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Better.com Launches Loyalty Rewards Program to Provide Lifetime Savings for Homeowners
The Better Forever program rewards loyal customers by waiving origination fees on future refinance or purchase loans funded through Better Mortgage. NEW YORK, February 05, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR) (" ("Better Mortgage") the leading digital homeownership company, today announced the launch of Better Forever, a loyalty initiative designed to reward customers with waived origination fees on future refinance or purchase loans. The launch of this program marks a new chapter in Better's mission to make homeownership easier and more affordable. Customers who funded a loan with Better Mortgage on or after January 1, 2019, are automatically enrolled, while those buying a new home will also have the benefit of a waived originations fee through the Better Forever program. With a more favorable interest rate environment anticipated in 2025, Better Forever is designed to maximize savings for customers while deepening trust and loyalty. By providing unmatched lifetime value and the ability to leverage future rate drops, the program empowers homebuyers to optimize their financial goals through Better's seamless, fully digital homeownership platform. "We are proud to continue delivering on our promise of being a digitally-native homeownership company that remains customer-first – especially at a timely moment for consumers across the country," said Vishal Garg, CEO & Founder of Better. "Homeowners deserve to feel confident in the interest rate tied to their mortgage for the life of their loan, not just when they complete their transaction. With Better Forever, we can help borrowers begin benefitting from their purchase or refinance today, without the fear of missing out on a better rate tomorrow." To learn more about the Better Forever program, users can access Betsy™, the industry's first voice-based AI loan assistant designed to improve the customer experience with more intelligent, timely and accurate answers to inquiries on an instant basis, 24/7/365 or visit Terms apply. Eligible customers include those who have previously originated and funded a purchase, refinance, or home equity loan through Better Mortgage. The Better Forever program applies to (1) the refinancing of a loan originally secured with Better Mortgage for the same property and under the same name or (2) the purchase of a new property after securing a loan with Better Mortgage. Future second lien, home equity loans, loans secured through third-party platforms and refinances within six months of a customer's last funded loan are ineligible for the Better Forever Program. Please review full Better Forever Terms and Conditions on About Since 2017, Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR; BETRW) has leveraged its industry-leading technology platform, Tinman™, to fund more than $100 billion in mortgage volume. Tinman™ allows customers to see their rate options in seconds, get pre-approved in minutes, lock in rates, and close their loan in as little as three weeks. Better's mortgage offerings include GSE-conforming mortgage loans, FHA and VA loans, and jumbo mortgage loans. Better launched its "One Day Mortgage" program in January 2023, which allows eligible customers to go from click to Commitment Letter within 24 hours. Better was named Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ in 2023, ranked #1 on LinkedIn's Top Startups List for 2021 and 2020, #1 on Fortune's Best Small and Medium Workplaces in New York, #15 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 2020 list, and was listed on Forbes FinTech 50 for 2020. serves customers in all 50 US states and the United Kingdom. For more information, follow @betterdotcom. View source version on Contacts Better@
