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CARDIFF, INC.

San Diego, CA · Founded 2020
LAST FUNDING
$5.7M
Series A

Looking for small business financing? Get approved in 2 minutes or less and get your funds within 24 hours at Cardiff. We have funded over $12 billion for small businesses across the US.

Funding history

RoundAmount
Series A$5.7M

About CARDIFF, INC.

How much funding has CARDIFF, INC. raised?

CARDIFF, INC. has raised $5.7M in total funding. The most recent round was Series A.

Where is CARDIFF, INC. headquartered?

CARDIFF, INC. is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

What does CARDIFF, INC. do?

Looking for small business financing? Get approved in 2 minutes or less and get your funds within 24 hours at Cardiff. We have funded over $12 billion for small businesses across the US.

What problem does CARDIFF, INC. solve?

Small businesses across industries like auto repair, construction, and trucking need fast access to working capital to keep operating and growing.

What's CARDIFF, INC.'s solution?

Cardiff offers business credit cards, loans, equipment financing, lines of credit, merchant cash advances, and SBA loans, with pre-qualification in 60 seconds via a Plaid-connected bank account and no credit pull.

What makes CARDIFF, INC. different?

It states a real underwriter reviews each application rather than an algorithm, and that connecting a bank account via Plaid yields 2x faster and 25% larger approvals, with funding wired the same day.

What makes CARDIFF, INC. notable?

Co-founded by Mike Georgopoulos and William Stern, the small-business lender has funded more than $13 billion to small businesses nationwide.

Leadership

ALI IRANI TEHRANI
Executive Officer
MOHAMMAD IRANI-TEHRANI
Executive Officer
VADIM LYULKIN
Executive Officer
Executive Officer
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Industry
Fintech
Founded
2020
HQ
San Diego, CA
Raised
$5.7M
Stage
Series A
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