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Yahoo
7 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
7 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.
Bloomberg
10-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Mortgage Lender Better Taps Ex-FHFA Fintech Lead to Spearhead AI Platform
Mortgage lender Better tapped the Federal Housing Finance Agency's former financial technology lead, Leah Price, to helm its artificial intelligence platform. Price left the FHFA roughly a year and a half after joining the government agency to ramp up its integration of generative artificial intelligence.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Pleasant's Sean Murphy wrestles away a championship from the competition at the MOAC meet
MARION — In his first year of running track at Pleasant, senior Sean Murphy became a champion. Not bad for a rookie. He won the boys 400 meters during the Mid Ohio Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships during the running finals on May 15, clocking 50.26 seconds in Harding Stadium. He took third in the 200 in 23.21 and helped anchor the 4x400 relay team to a runner-up spot in 3 minutes, 29.72 seconds. Advertisement Murphy spent previous springs working on his craft in wrestling, which kept him away from the oval. With wrestling behind him now, he felt free to try running track. Track districts schedule, sites: Marion-area athletes set to compete in district track meets. When, where will they go? More MOAC track and field: River Valley's Eva Moran proves she's back in form following a broken ankle "I definitely wanted to keep wrestling for sure. Making the state (in wrestling this winter for the first time) was really awesome. I loved it. I love wrestling, but this is awesome, too," he said. "I was looking at times (last year), and I was like, 'Man, I can run that. I can do that. I've got to come out here and do it,'" he said. Advertisement He showed he belonged with the best in track this week at the MOAC meet, putting together three all-league finishes. Now his attention turns to next week's district meet where he and the rest of the Pleasant boys will compete in Division II at River Valley. "Confidence is through the roof. I've just got to tweak little things because I lack experience, but I'm putting in the work," he said. Marion Harding's Leah Price takes the lead in the girls 1600 meters at the Mid Ohio Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships on May 15, 2025 at Harding Stadium. Price sisters dominate distance races Lydia Price showed she's rounding back into shape after missing three weeks of the regular season with a back injury. The Marion Harding junior defended her girls 3200-meter MOAC title, winning it again with an 11:57.21. Advertisement Meanwhile, twin sister Leah Price won the 1600 in 5:19.63 and was a runner-up in the 800 in 2:25.02 and the 3200 in 12:19.42. On Tuesday, Leah also was second in the high jump at 5 feet. "I'm still not in my best shape. I was lucky. They were probably tired from the mile and Leah from the 800," Lydia said of her victory. "I was able to pull away. I do better at the longer distances." Marion Harding's Lydia Price won the girls 3200-meter run at the Mid Ohio Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships that wrapped up May 15, 2025 at Harding Stadium. It was the first truly hot day of the season for the competitors with temperatures in the 80s, and that affected the times, especially in the longest race. At last year's MOAC meet, Lydia won the 3200 in 11:18.46 and the 1600 in 5:17.47. Advertisement "The heat was definitely a factor that did not help. I'm really excited I got that (1600 win). I didn't think I was going to get it," Leah said. "I was hoping I would get at least one first place, but I was glad I was able to follow with three other second places. While the two ran against each other Thursday evening in the two longest events with Lydia taking fourth in the 1600 in 5:36.56, there is no hint of a sibling rivalry. "It was really nice that we were able to get the one-mile and two-mile. I'm really glad that she got it," Leah said. "I've been hoping I would get first place, and Lydia was out for a while injured, but she made a really good comeback at this race. It was definitely her race to do it in the two-mile." Added Lydia: "It's really cool. Those go together. I knew she would probably win the mile because she's better at that one than I am. I was happy to win one." Pleasant's Sean Murphy won the boys 400 meters during the Mid Ohio Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships at Harding Stadium on May 15, 2025. Other All-MOAC performers The top three finishers in every event earned all-league honors. Winners get first team; runners-up get second team; and third-place finishers get honorable mention. Advertisement Ending as a runner-up from the Marion area on Thursday were Pleasant's Taydon Obenour in the girls 100 hurdles at 16.59, Highland's Owen Winkelfoos in the boys 1600 at 4:38.83, Pleasant's Will Lichtenberger in the boys 400 at 52.12, Pleasant's Sarah Jordan in the girls 300 hurdles at 49.79, Highland's Toby Rogers in the boys 300 hurdles at 41.86, Pleasant's Elijah McGinniss in the boys 800 at 2:00.03 and Highland's Matthew Miller in the boys 3200 at 10:41.61. Taking third from the area were Rogers in the boys 110 hurdles at 16.55, the Marion Harding boys 4x200 team at 1:33.53, Harding's Jaidin Ramirez in the boys 1600 at 4:39.68 and 3200 at 11:00.91, the Harding girls 4x100 team at 50.91, Highland's Kameron Stover in the girls 400 at 1:00.05, Obernour in the 300 hurdles at 52.05, Harding's Sebastian Swihart in the boys 800 at 2:03.84, Highland in the girls 4x400 relay in 4:21.25 and Highland's boys 4x400 unit in 3:40.44. Ontario won the boys team title with 163 points as Clear Fork was second with 106 points. Highland was fourth, Pleasant fifth, Harding sixth and River Valley eighth. Shelby won the girls team crown with 162 points as Ontario was runner-up with 112 points. Harding was third with 99 followed by Highland in fifth, RV in sixth and Pleasant in seventh. rmccurdy@ 419-610-0998 X @McMotorsport Instagram @rob_mccurdy_star This article originally appeared on Marion Star: Harding's Price sisters dominate in distances at MOAC track finals
