Following a successful product launch in November 2021, Mast Technologies has raised £1.2m to accelerate the development of its cloud-native mortgage origination platform and to support rollout for new clients.
The round is led by Antler VC, with additional participation of angel investors including founders of Booking.com, Monzo, ThirdFort, and senior executives from Pivotal, VMWare, Jones Lang Lasalle, Airwallex and many more.
Mast has built a cloud-native mortgage origination platform which has helped process over £50m of mortgage applications since inception.
By providing real-time feedback on the quality of applications upfront, Mast ensures the data and documents used in an application meet the lender’s requirements to prevent the cumbersome back and forth process seen today.
The new funding will allow Mast to continue the development of its fully customisable underwriting workflow tools and Policy Engine to help automate more of the origination journey.
To support the complete origination journey, Mast acts as a golden source of lending criteria with a secure risk and control framework built around it, has secure two-way messaging built-in and encrypted note-taking.
Mast’s open infrastructure allows lenders to leverage other technologies as part of the origination journey, permitting applications to be submitted and reviewed faster, plus the free movement of data in and out of the platform to other parties in the lending ecosystem.
Jed Rose, partner at Antler, said: “As one of the world’s most active early-stage investors, we are typically the first money in and continue our support with investments up to Series C.
“We invest in only 1% of more than 50,000 founders we meet annually and currently have 40+ companies in our UK portfolio.
“We were impressed early on by the drive of Mast’s co-founders, who instantly stood out. After backing the team with their first investment, we are thrilled to lead this next round as well.
“The broader participation of other great investors is further validation that there is significant support around applying deep industry experience and new technologies to solve this decades-old problem in lending.”
Mast co-founder and CEO Joy Abisaab added: “We’re very excited to announce this milestone and are very grateful to those joining us on our journey who trust our ambitions.
“Since launching with our first client, we have significantly helped improve conversion rates and time to offer timelines. We are building the platform with direct and close feedback from lenders and brokers.
“This funding will enable us to accelerate the product roadmap and engineering velocity considerably.
“Over the last 15 years we’ve seen dramatic innovation across the financial landscape, but mortgage lending technology has lagged behind the improvements made to consumer services. Now is the time to bring lending technology up to speed”.
