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Better.com Expands Lending Solutions with Biz2Credit to Support Small Business Owners with Home Equity Financing Options

By: Better Home & Finance Holding Company via Business Wire

April 24, 2025 at 09:00 AM EDT

The collaboration will offer Biz2Credit customers additional financing options through Better.com’s fully digital home equity product suite including HELOCs and HELOANs

Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR) (“Better.com”), the leading AI-powered digital homeownership company, today announced a new partnership with Biz2Credit, the leading financing platform for small businesses. This collaboration will provide Biz2Credit’s customers the option to receive $50,000 to $500,000 in additional financing options through Better.com’s Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) and Home Equity Loan (HELOAN) products.

Founded in 2007, Biz2Credit has supported over 250,000 small businesses with over $10 billion in financing on its award-winning Biz2X® digital financing platform. This partnership highlights the companies’ shared mission of leveraging AI and other advanced technology to support early stage entrepreneurs in need of additional capital with simple, fast, and accessible financing solutions.

“By joining forces with Biz2Credit, in addition to delivering on our mission for homeowners, we are most excited about the opportunity to empower thousands of small business owners with more financial flexibility to thrive,” said Vishal Garg, CEO & Founder of Better.com. “We continue to accelerate the opportunity to secure financing with faster and more intelligent lending products, and this partnership will enable Biz2Credit customers to access our industry-leading technology and secure additional liquidity from their homes.”

As a part of this partnership, Biz2Credit customers will be offered a $250 price concession when funding a HELOC or HELOAN through the Better partnership channel. To access the offering, Biz2Credit customers can visit a dedicated and co-branded landing page hosted on Better.com, where they will have access to Better’s end-to-end second lien mortgage origination experience, powered by Tinman™, Better’s proprietary loan origination platform.

“Small businesses are a critical component of the U.S. economy. Business owners and aspiring founders need the flexibility to obtain capital conveniently,” said Rohit Arora, CEO and Co-Founder of Biz2Credit. “Our partnership with Better.com gives entrepreneurs a unique opportunity to obtain additional financing from Better, secured with their real estate assets. We are glad to partner with companies like Better.com that share our vision of using data and AI to make financing easier to access.”

With this partnership, Better.com continues to diversify its distribution channels through its growing B2B business and provide its AI-driven origination capabilities to a broader set of customers. For more information on this partnership and available financing options, Biz2Credit customers can visit the dedicated partnership page at better.com/b/biz2credit.

About Better.com

Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR; BETRW) is the first AI-powered mortgage lender and first fintech to fund more than $100 billion in mortgage volume. Since 2016, Better has leveraged its industry-leading AI platform, Tinman™, to achieve a singular mission of making homeownership cheaper, faster, and easier for Americans. Tinman™ allows customers to see their rate options in seconds, get pre-approved in minutes, lock in rates, and close their loan in as little as three weeks. In addition, Betsy™, the first voice-based AI loan assistant built exclusively for the mortgage industry, revolutionizes the homebuying journey by delivering timely application status updates to consumers, answering questions, and moving their loan application along 24/7/365. Better’s mortgage offerings include GSE-conforming mortgage loans, FHA and VA loans, and jumbo mortgage loans. In January 2023, Better launched "One Day Mortgage,” allowing eligible customers to go from click to Commitment Letter within 24 hours. Better won the 2025 Fintech Breakthrough Awards for Digital Mortgage Innovation, and was named Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ in 2023, ranked #1 on LinkedIn’s Top Startups List for 2021 and 2020, #1 on Fortune’s Best Small and Medium Workplaces in New York, #15 on CNBC’s Disruptor 50 2020 list, and was listed on Forbes FinTech 50 for 2020. Better serves customers in all 50 US states and the United Kingdom.

For more information, follow @betterdotcom on Instagram and TikTok.

About Biz2Credit

Founded in 2007, Biz2Credit has helped thousands of companies access more than $10 billion in small business financing through its financing platform. Biz2Credit is headquartered in New York City, employs over 800 people with over half in product, data science, and engineering roles. Using data analytics and predictive modeling, Biz2Credit seeks to enhance the accuracy and transparency of business credit decisions, fueling long-term economic development. Biz2Credit’s digital lending platform, Biz2X, is the financing platform that powers business lending from banks and CDFIs around the country. Biz2Credit has been a multi-year member of the Deloitte Fast 500, Financial Times America’s Top Companies, CNBC World’s Top Fintechs and has won numerous technology awards for its Biz2X platform including from the Banking Tech Awards and iBSI Global Fintech Awards. Visit www.biz2credit.com, or follow the company on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and X (formerly Twitter).