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9fin
9fin is a London-based, AI-native intelligence platform for the global debt markets. Founded in 2016 by former banker Steven Hunter and former engineer Huss El-Sheikh, it uses machine learning to extract structured data from dense financial documents and pairs that data with news, analytics, and AI-powered workflows. Its platform covers leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, CLOs, private credit, and asset-based finance, and is used by investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, law firms, and advisors. In March 2026 the company raised a $170M Series C at a $1.3 billion valuation.
CredCore
CredCore is a New York-based vertical-AI company modernizing the roughly $5 trillion enterprise debt capital markets. Its platform turns unstructured credit-deal documents into structured, actionable intelligence across the full deal lifecycle - pre-deal evaluation, diligence, and post-deal portfolio monitoring - while pairing proprietary AI models with the oversight of senior credit and legal experts. Backed by $16M in Series A funding led by Avataar Ventures, CredCore supports asset managers overseeing hundreds of billions in assets and won the Banking category at the 2025 Money20/20 Awards.
Percent
Percent is a New York-based fintech company building the technology infrastructure for the private credit market. Its platform digitizes the full lifecycle of private credit transactions - sourcing, structuring, syndication, surveillance and servicing - connecting corporate and asset-based borrowers, underwriters and accredited investors on a single, transparent marketplace. Founded in 2018 (originally as Cadence) by Nelson Chu, Percent has powered roughly $2 billion in transaction volume and offers short-duration, high-yield private credit deals with lower minimums than traditional channels.
Karthik Nandyal
Karthik Nandyal is the co-founder and co-CEO of CredCore, a New York vertical-AI company building an end-to-end platform for the roughly $5 trillion enterprise debt capital markets. A two-time founder and long-time capital markets technologist, he previously ran product and R&D for Reliance Jio's Financial Innovation Group and held roles at BNP Paribas, Instinet (Reuters), and IBM, and earlier co-founded the fashion visual-search startup Styloot. In February 2025 CredCore raised a $16M Series A led by Avataar Ventures, and its AI platform now supports oversight of more than $650B in assets under management.
Prath Reddy
Prath Reddy is the CEO and CIO of Percent, a New York fintech building infrastructure for the $3.5T private credit market. A CFA charterholder and former UBS Investment Bank Director in Debt Capital Markets, he was Percent's first hire in 2018, spent years as President, and stepped into the CEO role in June 2026 when co-founder Nelson Chu moved to Executive Chairman.
Saumil Annegiri
Saumil Annegiri is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of CredCore, a New York-based vertical AI platform for institutional debt capital markets. He built the company with Karthik Nandyal in 2022 after a two-decade career in capital markets and digital infrastructure at Guggenheim Partners and Deutsche Bank. CredCore raised a $16M Series A in February 2025 led by Avataar Ventures.
Steven Hunter
Steven Hunter is the CEO and co-founder of 9fin, an AI-native data and intelligence platform for the roughly $145 trillion global debt markets. A former leveraged finance banker at J.P. Morgan and investment executive at Babson Capital Management, he quit banking in 2016 to build the tool he wished he had, teaming with his university roommate Hussam El-Sheikh. In March 2026 the company raised $170 million in Series C funding at a $1.3 billion valuation, and now serves 300-plus of the world's leading credit institutions from offices in London, New York, Belfast, and Hong Kong.