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February Demo Day: Blend

Blend’s Rapid Home Equity Blend’s Rapid Home Equity is an automated digital origination solution that leverages real-time data to accelerate the home equity lending cycle. It features instant pre-approvals, pre-filled applications, and integrated debt consolidation tools, enabling lenders to close loans in days rather than weeks with significantly higher pull-through and operational efficiency. Product Fast […]

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FirstClose names Adam Nicholson director of professional services

FirstClose, a fintech provider of data and workflow technology for mortgage and home equity lenders, announced on Tuesday that it has appointed Adam Nicholson as director of professional services. Nicholson, who has spent more than a decade leading implementation and professional service teams in the fintech space, will lead the company’s implementation operations along with

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Blend Labs reports shrinking mortgage revenue even as its partnerships gain steam

Blend Labs Inc. shared its third-quarter earnings on Thursday afternoon, posting revenue of $32.9 million from July to September, down 1% on an annual basis. The company reported a GAAP gross profit margin of 74% in the third quarter, unchanged from the same period in 2024. Non-GAAP gross profit margin rose to 78%, up from

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November Demo Day: Intelligent Quality Control by Blend

Intelligent Quality Control Blend’s AI-powered Intelligent Quality Control product enhances loan quality control, helping QC analysts detect issues more efficiently. It applies digitized underwriting guidelines to loan data and documents and provides step-by-step validation and reasoning, enabling the QC analyst to focus on areas of high judgment. This ensures a comprehensive, accurate, and efficient pre-funding

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Blend Labs unveils AI system for lending

Blend Labs Inc. on Wednesday introduced Intelligent Origination, an AI-driven system designed to streamline the lending process by embedding automation and analytics throughout its digital origination platform. The company said the system integrates artificial intelligence into each stage of origination to interpret data and documents, perform complex tasks autonomously and learn from outcomes. Each feature

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Blend Labs narrows Q2 losses, announces new head of finance

In tandem with its Q2 2025 earnings release, Blend Labs, Inc. announced that Jason Ream will join as the company’s Head of Finance and Administration. Ream, who has over 25 years of experience as a financial and operating leader in technology and software, previously served as the CFO of two public companies, SailPoint Technologies Holdings,

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August Demo Day: Blend’s DocAI

Blend’s DocAI Blend’s DocAI revolutionizes mortgage and home equity closings by automating document processing, dramatically shortening time to close and boosting customer satisfaction. Product Fast Facts #1 Instantly verify uploaded document type and check for data mismatches, shortening time to close and accelerating decision making #2 Real time checks at the beginning of the process

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Tech Pulse: Realtor.com acquires Zenlist; Zillow unveils new tools

Welcome back to Tech Pulse — HousingWire‘s weekly series rounding up the latest in technology news, including tools, integrations and trends that impact mortgage and real estate. Here’s what happened this week: Realtor.com parent Move acquires Zenlist Realtor.com parent Move Inc. has acquired Zenlist, a real estate tech startup known for its agent-client collaboration tools. The deal boosts Realtor.com’s

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Blend, Doma expand partnership with title solution integration

Blend Labs Inc. and Doma Technologies LLC announced on Wednesday an expanded partnership to bring Doma’s AI-powered instant title decisioning technology to lenders through Blend’s home lending platform. Lenders using Blend’s mortgage and rapid home lending solutions can now access instant title decisions via Doma’s Upfront Title, which is now embedded into the borrower application

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