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Mortgage technology company Vesta announced a $30 million Series B financing led by Conversion Capital, adding capital and strategic support from lenders that are already navigating the economics of automation in loan production.
Participants included Pennymac, New American Funding, Citi Ventures, nbkc bank, First American and FirstKey Mortgage, alongside existing and other investors. The new round brings Vesta’s total funding to $85 million, according to the company.
Mortgage lenders invest in the platform
Vesta develops a loan origination system with AI agents and automated workflows embedded in the core software. It says those agents are already handling application reviews, underwriting-related work and closing-document checks. The company estimates that roughly 40% of tasks completed on its platform are now handled by agents and automation, a figure reported by Vesta rather than independently audited.
Vesta also says its revenue increased more than twelvefold over the previous 12 months, while its customer count and headcount each rose more than 50%. Lenders using or transitioning to the platform originate more than $100 billion in loans annually, the company said. That volume is not the same as loans processed entirely through Vesta today.
What this means for originators
Strategic investments from operating lenders matter because mortgage software adoption can be constrained by long implementations, legacy data structures and compliance requirements. Vesta’s pitch is that automation works best when built directly into the system of record instead of layered over an older interface.
There is an important distinction between automated processing and autonomous credit decisions. Lenders remain responsible for fair lending, underwriting compliance, documentation and appropriate human oversight regardless of the technology vendor. Vesta’s announced performance measures should be assessed against lenders’ own implementation results and audit requirements.
In a separate interview with TechCrunch, co-founder and CEO Mike Yu described growing demand for AI-enabled workflows and plans to expand product development. The financing places Vesta among the mortgage technology firms seeking to replace manual loan-processing steps, but the scale of measurable savings will depend on execution at individual lenders.
