VISHAL GARG

Founder and CEO of Better

Meet Vishal.

Vishal Garg is the Founder & CEO of Better.com, the leading AI mortgage platform. To date, under Vishal’s leadership, Better.com has provided over $100 BN in home financing and provided over $35BN in cumulative coverage through Better Cover and Better Settlement Services, the insurance divisions of Better.com. Better.com has raised over $1.75 Bln in equity capital and is backed by SoftBank, L Catterton, Kleiner Perkins, Goldman Sachs, Ally Bank, American Express, Citi, IA Ventures and other investors.

Prior to founding Better.com, Vishal was the Founder of 1/0 Capital, an early stage investment firm focused on investments in fintech, data science and consumer products companies. Notable seed stage investments include Paribus, Ramp, Trumid, Creditas, Climb Credit, Notable, among many others.

Vishal previously co-founded MyRichUncle.com , the first online student lender, which he started in 1999 with $30,000 at the age of 21 and built into the fourth largest publicly traded private student loan company in the US. Prior to MyRichUncle, Vishal was an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley & Co.

Vishal has received numerous awards, including E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, Innman's 2024 Best of Finance Award, Housing Wire’s Most Influential Mortgage Executive, and the Golden Pegleg Award for Outstanding Alumni from Stuyvesant High School. Originally from India, Vishal is a lifelong New Yorker. He grew up in Queens, NY, is a graduate from Stuyvesant High School and was a Dean's Scholar at NYU Stern, where he graduated with highest honors. Vishal now lives in downtown Manhattan with his wife and three kids.

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