Scott Saunders, Angel Investor

Scott Saunders is a fintech entrepreneur recognized by Ernst and Young as an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year®, by Goldman Sachs as a Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneur, and has been featured in Bloomberg, Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything for Futuristic Fintech. Scott founded Happy Money with the mission of helping borrowers become savers and served as CEO from inception through $125M in revenue and a $1B+ valuation, raising $150M in equity capital from venture capitalists and current and former presidents and CEOs of American Express, Goldman Sachs, ING Direct, PIMCO, and Visa. Scott is a leading consumer financial services innovator, building the first online lending platform using credit models based on cash flow and other behaviors not captured in the FICO Score. Through Happy Money, he forged partnerships with a national network of credit unions to help consumers pay off higher interest rate credit cards faster and cheaper and help credit unions compete nationally and digitally, funding over $5B in loans to more than 250,000 new credit union members. Scott is also an angel investor in various early-stage companies. Some of his investments are in Intro, SoLa Impact, Smile GDP, and LenderLive.