Clutch Ranks #7 on Inc. Regionals 2025 Pacific List of Fastest-Growing Companies
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — April 1, 2025 — When a company’s headcount grows 93% in a single year, it usually signals one thing: demand is outpacing supply. That’s the story behind Clutch’s ranking at #7 on the Inc. Regionals 2025 list of the fastest-growing private companies in the Pacific region, a recognition that tracks closely […]
Clutch Wins Best Loan Origination Platform Award in 2025 FinTech Breakthrough Awards
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — March 19, 2025 — Credit unions are under growing pressure to match the speed and convenience members now expect from digital-first lenders, without losing the trust and personal service that set credit unions apart. Clutch, a digital loan platform built for credit unions, was named Best Loan Origination Platform in the […]
Clutch Secures $65M Series B Funding to Propel Credit Unions into the FinTech Era
Credit unions aren’t just competing with banks anymore. They’re competing with Uber, Amazon, and Netflix for member attention – and that shift is changing how the industry funds its technology partners. Clutch, the digital origination platform built exclusively for credit unions, has closed a $65 million Series B funding round. Alkeon Capital Management led the […]
Clutch Expands Its Accounts Team to Support Small Credit Unions
Small and mid-size credit unions face a version of the digital transformation problem that’s easy to overlook: they need the same modern lending and deposit experience as their larger peers, with a fraction of the internal resources to evaluate, implement, and manage new technology. Clutch’s expanded Accounts Team, led by Enterprise Accounts Manager Laura Traikov, […]
Clutch Partners with New York Credit Union Association
New York’s credit union market is dense and competitive, sitting alongside some of the country’s most aggressive direct-to-consumer fintech lenders. Clutch’s new partnership with the New York Credit Union Association (NYCUA) is aimed at giving member credit unions a faster path to closing that competitive gap. Clutch, a credit union service organization backed by investors […]
Clutch Partners with Dakota Credit Union Association
Rural and smaller-market credit unions often face the digital transformation challenge from a different angle than their larger, urban peers: member expectations for a fast, fintech-style lending experience are the same, but the internal resources to build or evaluate that technology are often smaller. Clutch’s partnership with the Dakota Credit Union Association addresses that gap […]
Clutch Partners with Michigan Credit Union League
Credit union leagues sit at an interesting point in the technology adoption curve: they can’t buy technology on behalf of their members, but they can shape which vendors get a fair hearing across the institutions they represent. Clutch’s new partnership with the Michigan Credit Union League (MCUL) is built on that dynamic. Through the partnership, […]
Digital Account Opening: Closing the Loan-to-Membership Gap
Most new credit union members join for a loan, not a deposit account. Internal studies from several of Clutch’s largest partners show lending products drive over 80% of new account openings, while less than 20% of members join through a deposit offering alone. Yet most digital account opening tools were built with the deposit-first member […]
Clutch Partners with ViClarity to Keep Fast Lending Compliant
Speed and compliance can pull in opposite directions in consumer lending – the faster an application moves, the more pressure it puts on the policies, disclosures, and marketing materials behind it to keep up. Clutch’s partnership with ViClarity, a global governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) provider for credit unions, is built to keep those two […]
Clutch Partners with Zest AI to Speed Up Loan Decisioning
Every extra minute a loan application spends waiting on a decision is a minute a member can back out, or a dealer can route them into financing elsewhere. Clutch’s new partnership with Zest AI is built to close that window, pairing Clutch’s application experience with decisioning models designed to move faster without compromising underwriting quality. […]