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Jun 27
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213: Meet the Founders of Finnable: ₹3,0...

Z47
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India’s largest creditworthy segment remains invisible to the lending ecosystem, not because of a credit problem, but because of a design problem.

When every lender chased the top tier or flooded the informal market, Finnable saw an opportunity to build for the 60–70% in between: salaried, PF-backed Indians earning ₹15–40K a month.

Join co-founders Amit Arora and Nitin Gupta on the Z47 podcast as they trace their vision behind building a full-stack, risk-first, and collections-led lending engine—designed to scale, but built customer-backward.

The duo, in conversation with the Z47 team, reflect on the decisions that shaped the company: from making collections the third hire, to designing 200+ fraud algorithms rooted in field intelligence.

Understand why their model went against the industry wave, offering longer-tenure, higher-ticket loans designed for credit discipline and repeatability.

When COVID hit, their customers didn’t default. They returned. That resilience validated the model across cycles, powering a ₹3,000 crore book & pointing to a lending business quietly built for public markets.

Listen to the latest #ZeroToInfinity podcast on building lending systems that stay with the customer.
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