Valon

Saving the world from mainframes, legacy systems, and outdated infrastructure with ValonOS: the AI-native operating system for mortgage servicing

[Valon @valon]

Today we announced a $150M Series D at $2.3B, welcoming @RibbitCapital as a new investor and continued participation from @a16z, and others. Within 6 months of bringing ValonOS to market, we closed over $200m in contracted ARR, and ValonOS will power 1 in 6 mortgages in America. If you want to work on hard problems that matter, we're hiring across all teams in NYC, SF, and remotely.

[Linda Du @xlindadu]

had fun talking about chickens and barter economies on @tbpn last week! thanks for having me on @jordihays @johncoogan

[a16z @a16z]

.@Valon just raised a $150M Series D at a $2.3B valuation. Within six months of selling software, they signed over $200M in deals.

(And they're hiring!)

How the seven-year-old company got there:

- Mortgage is $13 trillion of consumer debt running on a system built before the internet, and no servicer will trust a new platform. So Valon became one.

- Co-founder Andrew Wang read every federal and state regulation, 18 hours a day for six months, and turned it into code.

- They ran their own servicer on the software until it hit 3x the industry's efficiency, sold that servicer to a larger mortgage company, and now sell the software to everyone else. One of the biggest servicers in the US is moving 4 million loans onto it, nearly 10% of the market.

Valon is hiring deployment strategists in NY and SF. Read more about their open roles: https://t.co/ZdA0AsffSZ

@xlindadu @wangandrewd

[Andrew Wang @wangandrewd]

Yesterday, @xlindadu and I announced Valon’s $150M Series D. Forbes profiled our journey and what we think a world with AI agents looks like for the mortgage industry. Thank you, @zoyahasansoomro, for telling our story!

https://t.co/azkEfo9TPx

[Valon @valon]

@xlindadu @Forbes @zoyahasansoomro Congrats!!

[Valon @valon]

@MTSlive Let's go @wangandrewd @xlindadu !

[Valon @valon]

@katiekirsch @RibbitCapital @a16z Thank you @katiekirsch ! So grateful for your support

[Valon @valon]

Today we announced a $150M Series D at $2.3B, welcoming @RibbitCapital as a new investor and continued participation from @a16z, and others. Within 6 months of bringing ValonOS to market, we closed over $200m in contracted ARR, and ValonOS will power 1 in 6 mortgages in America. If you want to work on hard problems that matter, we're hiring across all teams in NYC, SF, and remotely.

[Valon @valon]

@tbpn @bryan_johnson @Seanfrank @Gedmark @apartovi @0xSigil @Jerr_Wu Let's go @xlindadu !!!

[Valon @valon]

@RibbitCapital @a16z Read more from our founders @wangandrewd and
@xlindadu about how we're deploying ValonOS and AI to the mortgage industry: https://t.co/WXIoC0byNe

[Valon @valon]

@xlindadu @RibbitCapital @a16z Let's goo!

[Valon @valon]

@astrange Grateful for your support @astrange ! Excited for what's to come.

[Valon @valon]

@xlindadu @elonmusk me too 🤣

[Nick Rudder @nrudder_]

@Get_Sphere and @a16z are hosting Ground Truth: a half-day event for senior engineers building at the intersection of AI and regulation.

Regulated spaces are the last layer of AI infrastructure yet to be unlocked.

For good reason: they run on unstructured, contradictory and constantly moving rules. They exist as a reasoning problem, and reasoning is what AI made buildable.

We're bringing together the people shipping in the space for lived insights on two technical topics:

1/ Reliability guarantees in production AI + human-in-the-loop design
2/ Compliance-as-a-moat

With the engineers and technical leaders:
- @Harvey: Abhishek Verma
- @valon: Tamjid Rahman
- @raindrop_ai: Zub
- @Luminai: Vamsi Chitters
- @Forus: Anirudh Jain
- @Databricks: Conor B. Murphy

+ others to be announced

Spots limited, RSVP via the link: https://t.co/0ptkmCCffK

[Valon @valon]

@nrudder_ @get_sphere @a16z Great topic - even better lineup 😎

[Valon @valon]

We use AI aggressively and have also turned off AI access for new (non-engineering) hires. Here’s why: 👇

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

An AI startup CEO says AI overuse increased costs and left colleagues cleaning up AI slop. Now, most new hires must learn the job without it. https://t.co/BAX2owmQj4

[Valon @valon]

@astrange @xlindadu @wangandrewd Thanks for sharing, @astrange . We’re just getting started :)

[Valon @valon]

and it's never been a better time to join :). open roles at https://t.co/h4HB96GcHe

[angela strange @astrange]

This is my new favorite mission statement: “saving the world from mainframes, legacy systems and outdated infrastructure” @xlindadu @wangandrewd @valon

[Valon @valon]

@kylebrussell Congrats @kylebrussell ! What a year it's been, and we're excited for what's to come🎉.

[Valon @valon]

We're hiring in NYC & SF :) open roles in https://t.co/MQEwhk6qed

[New York Post @nypost]

NYC surpasses San Francisco as biggest tech talent hub, study shows https://t.co/n8sK3XzaaS

[Andrew Wang @wangandrewd]

1/
Two weeks ago, we turned off AI access for every new non-engineering hire at @valon.

That is a strange decision for a company at the frontier of AI adoption. It is also one of the biggest bets we can make on our people.

https://t.co/NDvFLHGH8Q