Avant (company)

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Avant, LLC
Avant Logo.png
Website www.avant.com
Ownership type Private
Founded 2012, by Al Goldstein, John Sun, Paul Zhang
Headquarters Chicago (Illinois) , United States
Industry Consumer Finance, Financial Services, Financial Technolgy
Product/Service Lines of credit, Personal loans

Avant, LLC is a privately held company (in Chicago, Illinois) operating in the financial technology industry. The company was founded in 2012 by serial entrepreneur Albert ‘Al’ Goldstein, John Sun and Paul Zhang.[1]

From 2012 onwards Avant saw a significant growth with over $ 1 billion in loans raised through the Avant website and $ 1.4 billion in contributions from Investor|investors (such as August Capital, Tiger Global and Victory Park Capital).[2]

  1. Avant: About us. Retrieved on December 2020.
  2. Avant raises 400 Million. Retrieved on November 2020.