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Our Story: Octane was founded in 2014 to make financing powersports fast and easy. Octane offers instant financing to fuel your lifestyle. We’re passionate about fast and fair lending, so we built the Octane Platform to enable instant financing for as many people as possible. And because we’re quicker and simpler than other lending platforms, we’re growing fast. Octane reaches millions of enthusiasts through editorial brands like Cycle World and UTV Driver and helps consumers buy their favorite products by prequalifying them on dealer and OEM websites. Join us in our mission to connect people with their passion. Instant Finance Offers: Octane Prequal expands markets by providing personalized, real rates and payments. We give dealers and consumers tools to compare and understand what they can afford, even without perfect credit. Soft-Pull, Impact-Free Credit Technology: We feel strongly about not impacting potential customers’ credit scores, so we built a technology that lets shoppers browse vehicles and rates without the damaging impact of hard credit pulls. Robust Digital Tooling for Dealers: Our Dealer Platform provides flexibility and financing options for dealers. Octane enables serving more customers faster with an instant, fully digital experience, shaving hours off deal times. Octane increases sales and customer satisfaction.

Americans have more debt than they do savings. We believe that debt shouldn’t hold people back in life, so we started Spinwheel to democratize intelligent debt solutions. Spinwheel provides the core infrastructure that popular apps and services can use to embed the payment, management, and application of loans. By increasing access, choice, and transparency, Spinwheel helps to alleviate the burdens of living with debt and improve outcomes for all borrowers. Spinwheel makes it easy to offer full-featured debt use cases in any app or service, starting with student loan debt. Read and write consumer debt API's and drop-in modules offer robust and comprehensive capabilities not available anywhere else. As the leader in embedded consumer debt tech, our customers launch in hours with our no-code drop-in modules and build custom solutions quickly with our modern APIs and developer tools.

Launched by our two co-founders in 2020, with the mission to provide fair and affordable capital to promote social mobility. We bring an innovative spirit and disruptive DNA, which we focus on generating value for customers with every step we take. Our purpose is to make our customers' financial journey more manageable by offering personalised loans. Using state-of-the-art technology, we are able to offer adaptable loans that help our customers reach their financial goals. We use a combination of data points about customers to understand past, current and future financial situations in order to provide the most affordable loan at all times. We take a fresh and innovative perspective on affordability to offer customers a loan that considers their month-to-month spending habits.

Our staff is made up of experts who help everyday people fund small businesses and franchises through a full suite of funding solutions, which include SBA loans; unsecured loans; portfolio loans; and equipment leasing, plus Rollovers as Business Start-ups (ROBS). In fact, we structure more ROBS arrangements each year than any other provider in the space and boast a spotless IRS track record.

We specialize in software product development and marketing technology. We offer a wide range of software engineering services including web development, mobile app development and software testing. Our core competence in marketing technology is content management systems and eCommerce platforms.

At Insurdinary (insurdinary.ca), our initiative is to continuously develop in-depth resources to help consumers make smarter financial decisions. Our team is made up of determined, driven and focused individuals. Many of which, who spend their time sourcing information such as news, guides and product overviews. Together with our talented engineers who devote their efforts in developing the most up to date calculators, quoters and applications - we are providing clarity in the confusing world of finance. We are proud to say that we have helped thousands of Canadians make informed financial decisions. Whether it be finding life, auto, home, health, travel insurance, applying for the right credit cards or comparing mortgage rates. All financial resources in one place, Insurdinary.

Vansun's story started back in 2018 with Unicorn Tech Media, during a time when the advertising world was changing fast. Back in 2018, we set out to build a data exchange called UTM (Unicorn Tech Media). Our goal was to help businesses use data more intelligently and make smarter, more deterministic decisions by connecting information from across the web. But we quickly realized the market wasn't ready for this approach. Data was fragmented, messy, and brands struggled to understand how to turn it into meaningful outcomes for their campaigns. Still, building UTM turned out to be one of our most valuable experiences. It taught us how to identify genuine buyers within large, unfocused audiences. We noticed a pattern: everyone was chasing the used-car segment, while the broader story of automobile ownership, especially around new vehicles, was being neglected. That insight became our turning point. We saw an opportunity to think bigger. Rather than focus on a single transaction or one type of customer, we envisioned building something that could accompany people across their entire automotive journey, whether they were buying their first bike, upgrading to a car, or following wherever their aspirations led. On March 23rd, 2020, that vision came to life with the launch of 91Wheels. Today, we're proud to be India's youngest and fastest-growing automotive platform. But our story didn't stop there. We never stopped experimenting. Not every idea worked, and that's okay. We explored used-car subscriptions, EV financing, and even ventured into unexpected territories like fertility care and venue marketplaces. Some of these ideas emerged from personal conversations, others from market gaps we spotted, and many through collaborations with people who shared our belief in building meaningful, valuable businesses.

Landjourney is the all-in-one platform for agricultural lenders. We build cloud-native software that helps banks double loan-production efficiency: AI-powered origination, automated document collection, white-labeled digital servicing portals, and capital-markets tooling. Agriculture has been underserved by financial technology for decades. A new generation of farmers expects a digital experience, and lenders need to deliver it without giving up the relationships that make ag lending work. That is the gap we close. Relationships should not come at the expense of efficiency, transparency, or certainty. What we build: Origination. An AI-powered loan application with bank-specific smart suggestions that match farmers with the loans they actually qualify for, on any device, online or on the farm. Servicing. A white-labeled portal where borrowers see balances and available credit, request credit releases, and renew loans directly. Data and document collection. Upload a document and a complete loan file assembles itself, organized, data-validated, and checked for missing or inconsistent information in real time. Capital markets. An auto-decisioning model using eligibility criteria from your bank and alternative institutions, so receiving institutions never have to re-originate the loan. The platform is SOC 2 Type II compliant with bank-level security, and automates regulatory reporting requirements such as 1071. Within our first year after launch we signed one of the largest independent ag lenders and the largest cooperative client in the nation. We are a seed-stage team headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with engineering in Boulder, Calgary and Montreal. The engineering group is small and deliberately senior, which means real ownership over the platform rather than a narrow slice of it. We look for strong work ethic, grit, humbleness, humor, and a genuine interest in the people we build for: farmers and the lenders who serve them.