Tomeka Greene and Belinda Kelton are representing Team Kafene this weekend at Booth 13 in the HFA Resource Center of the Furniture Plaza Building, at High Point Market Authority in North Carolina. Come by to say hi, learn more about Kafene, and pick up some swag! 😁 #HFAResourceCenter #FurniturePlazaBooth13 #hpmkt2023 #hpmkt
Kafene
Finanzdienstleistungen
New York, New York 5,903 followers
We offer a flexible and affordable form of consumer financing that helps retailers serve a wider segment of customers.
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Kafene is a leading point-of-sale financing partner dedicated to empowering flexible ownership solutions for underserved customers nationwide. By enabling our retail partners to offer flexible lease-to-own (LTO) purchase options for prime and nonprime consumers, Kafene helps merchants expand their customer base, and meet growing demand for furniture, appliances, electronics, tires, and other durable goods. Utilizing more than 20,000 data inputs in tandem with cutting-edge AI and machine learning technologies, our platform creates the best-in-class financing experience for both merchants and customers. With over $100 million in sales achieved in under 3 years, we are continuing our growth trajectory and scaling rapidly, led by our innovative and dedicated team. Our talented team of over 100 people values and celebrates our culture, and we are proudly selected as one of the Built In Startups to Watch and Best Startups to Work for in NYC, Lendit Emerging Fintech Company finalist, and Forbes' Best Startup Employers.
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http://www.kafene.com
External link for Kafene
- Industrie
- Finanzdienstleistungen
- Größe des Unternehmens
- 51-200 Mitarbeiter
- Hauptsitz
- New York, New York
- Typ
- In Privatbesitz
- Gegründet
- 2019
- Spezialitäten
- Machine Learning, Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Sales, and Financial Modeling
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Primäre
New York, New York 10022, US
Employees at Kafene
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Peter Bordes
CEO Collective Audience NASDAQ: CAUD, Founder, Board Member, Investor, managing partner Trajectory Ventures & Trajectory Capital
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Enrico Pandian
Novaterra, Everli, Checkout technologies [EXIT], FrescoFrigo, PrezziPazzi....and other 13 companies.
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Neal Desai
CEO and Co-founder at Kafene (We're Hiring!)
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Wirawan Krisman
Finance Leader | Strategic Corporate Controller | Expert in Business Scaling, Accounting, FP&A, and Compliance | MBA
Aktualisierungen
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What does being a portfolio manager on Wall Street teach you about running a growth stage startup? Listen to our CEO Neal Desai’s discussion with Peter Renton about how his unusual career path led him to found Kafene, and how lease-to-own financing helps merchants increase their customers' buying power and build their credit scores.
You probably don't think of the lease-to-own space when you think of cutting-edge #fintech innovation. But when Neal Desai, the CEO and Co-Founder of Kafene, was thinking about building a fintech company, after an exhaustive search he landed on this particular vertical. Find out why and all the details in my latest podcast interview. Listen to the interview or read the transcript here: https://lnkd.in/gdabMKi9
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We're very pleased to announce BrandSource as our latest national partner! They’re a member-owned buying organization with more than 4,500 member stores and cover many industry verticals. This is another big step forward for us! https://lnkd.in/emMHkWVh
Kafene Partners with BrandSource as an Approved Financing Platform
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Incredibly proud to be recognized by Forbes as one of the best startup employers - for the second year in a row! Being included on this prestigious list means the world to us, and it reflects our commitment to creating an A-plus culture where top talent can build thriving careers. https://lnkd.in/eqVPubsj Thank you to those of you who have been part of our journey so far. If you might be interested in joining our growing team, check out our job postings or reach out to us at [email protected].
Kafene Named to Forbes List of America's Best Startup Employers of 2024
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Thrilled to announce two additions to the Kafene team: Vin Thomas as General Counsel & Corporate Secretary and Tony Cerino as SVP of Enterprise Partnerships. Their expertise and leadership will be instrumental in this next phase of our growth. Welcome aboard Vin & Tony! https://lnkd.in/gmqfwHnp #fintech #fintechnews #retailsales
Kafene Expands Executive Leadership Team by Appointing Vin Thomas as General Counsel, Tony Cerino to Scale Enterprise Partnerships
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We're excited to have Trinity Capital on board as a capital partner to help us continue our upward trajectory! #fintechnews #retailsales #financingsolutions
We’re excited to partner with the team at Kafene. #fintech #retailsales #financingsolutions
Trinity Capital Inc. Provides $15 Million Venture Debt Facility to Kafene | Trinity Capital Inc.
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More exciting news as Kafene wraps up its best year yet: we're now integrated into Versatile Credit's network of preferred partners. We'll see more seamless integration with retailers big and small that will take our retail partnerships to the next level. We've doubled our merchant footprint in 2023 and we're approving ten percent more applicants YoY with consumer credit quality 30 points above historical averages, despite the macro backdrop. All signs of progress and resilience that we're proud of. More to come in 2024! https://lnkd.in/eNAZNbn7 #retailsales #pointofsale #retailnews #financingsolutions
Kafene Teams Up with Versatile Credit to Expand Convenient Access to Flexible, Lease-To-Own Options
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Our new SVP of Partnerships Tony Cerino shared his two cents with Furniture Today on what the credit picture is going to look like for this upcoming year. His take: 1. There’s very little wiggle room remaining for consumers, as savings rates have dropped throughout the past couple of years. We’ve seen supply-side problems recently, but 2024 could bring demand-side challenges. 2. Debt is, by nature, inflexible. Leasing is debt-free and designed for flexibility, such as times when many consumers may feel the squeeze and need the flexibility to simply cancel. https://lnkd.in/exxnGp5c #retailsales #furniture #economy #consumerpsending #underwriting
Credit picture looks hazy for coming year - Furniture Today
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This is an awesome honor and I’m proud as well as humbled to be part of this. I’ve been part of a few great teams to date, had many great mentors, and much more to come! Thank you!
We’re incredibly proud to share that this morning, our co-founder and CTO James Schuler was included on the Forbes prestigious annual 30 Under 30 list under Finance, naming FinTech’s leading founders and Wall Street’s leading dealmakers. This adds to an amazing list of accomplishments James has attained before his 30th birthday. Aside from co-founding Kafene in 2019, James went through Y Combinator before he graduated high school, and he was one of the first ever recipients of the also prestigious Thiel 20 Under 20 Fellowship. A great way to end one's twenties! Congrats, James! https://lnkd.in/ej5kGAyG #fintech #fintechnews #entrepreneurship #startups #30under30
Forbes 30 Under 30 2024
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