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>Our hypothesis is that existing lenders are disproportionately ineffective at detecting and underwriting internet businesses

Is that because you have a view into your business customers cash flows, so you think you'll be able to better assess risk than traditional lenders?

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Yes, but much of it is simply taking the problem more seriously. In principle, others could build this by leveraging bank account data. (Or by using Stripe Connect.)

We were so struck by the extent of the problem reported by Stripe users, and by how that remained constant over time, that we decided to go tackle it directly.

You should research as much as possible about ONDK, the 800lb gorilla in SMB lending. They're a public company so the data is in their quarterly reports.

Which is exactly why Square got into it as well: https://squareup.com/us/en/capital

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