# Boost Capital

> Boost Capital is a Singapore-based fintech that builds AI-powered customer onboarding technology for banks and financial institutions across Southeast Asia. Its white-labelled, agentic-AI platform lets lenders run e-KYC, e-KYB, document validation, AML checks and e-contracting entirely through popular chat apps - Messenger, Telegram, WhatsApp - with no app download. Born from a pilot serving underbanked entrepreneurs in Cambodia, Boost has processed onboarding for over 2 million applicants and merchants and now sells its stack to institutions like GCash, Wing Bank and BDO Network Bank.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Singapore, Singapore
- **Founders:** Gordon Peters (Co-founder & CEO), Lucinda Revell (Co-founder), Sergey Lesninsky (Co-founder & Head of Technology)
- **Team size:** ~54 employees
- **Products:** Boost Onboarding Platform, e-KYC (Identity Parsing) & Liveness, e-KYB (Business Parsing), Document Validation, e-Contracting & e-Signature
- **Notable:** Enabled onboarding for over 2 million applicants and merchants across Singapore, the Philippines, Cambodia and India., Won Women's World Banking's Fintech Innovation Challenge (2021)., Registered ~96,000 MSMEs in Cambodia, about 68,000 of them women-led, and disbursed US$1.7M in loans within a year.

## Products & services

- **Boost Onboarding Platform** — White-labelled, chat-based onboarding that lets financial institutions collect loan, savings and account applications through Facebook Messenger, Telegram and WhatsApp with no app download.
- **e-KYC (Identity Parsing) & Liveness** — AI-driven identity verification, document parsing and liveness/facial checks for digital customer verification.
- **e-KYB (Business Parsing)** — Automated business identity and document verification for onboarding SMEs and merchants.
- **Document Validation** — OCR-based document capture and validation with more than 99% accuracy.
- **e-Contracting & e-Signature** — Automated generation of loan contracts and capture of customer e-signatures within the chat flow.
- **AML Checks & Credit Consent** — Built-in AML screening and automated capture of credit-check consent during onboarding.
- **Data Dashboard & Analytics** — Analytics dashboard that has helped client banks grow their applicant pool by up to 30% through data insights.
- **Agentic AI Profile Development** — Progressive, AI-driven profile-building UX and omnichannel deployment via SDK, API and white-labelled portals, integrated with core banking systems.

## Achievements

- Enabled onboarding for over 2 million applicants and merchants across Singapore, the Philippines, Cambodia and India.
- Won Women's World Banking's Fintech Innovation Challenge (2021).
- Registered ~96,000 MSMEs in Cambodia, about 68,000 of them women-led, and disbursed US$1.7M in loans within a year.
- Named among the Center for Financial Inclusion's Top 50 inclusive fintechs.
- Achieved >99% OCR accuracy on document validation with bank-grade, ISO-certified security.
- Raised US$2.5M seed round led by leading global and regional early-stage investors.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Published an insight brief on using AI to unlock access to small business finance through rapid onboarding platforms.
- **2025-06** — Reported a Series A funding milestone.
- **2025-05** — Released 'unboxing' demos of chat-based financial services with Filipino entrepreneurs across three Philippine banks.
- **2024-12** — RAFI Microfinance digitized its customer journey via Boost's chat-based onboarding integrated with Instafin core banking.
- **2024-09** — Launched Data Dashboard feature; a client bank grew its applicant pool by 30% using the insights.

## Links

- Website: https://www.boostkh.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/boostcapital

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Last updated: 2026-08-05