NewRalo raised $2.9M to make mortgages actually affordable. Learn more →

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Our Mission

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“To give every borrower the savings the mortgage industry keeps for itself.”

Why we
started Ralo

Why we started Ralo

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We got mortgages too. It was miserable.

It felt like we had time traveled to 1995. We were chasing paperwork, getting spammed, and bouncing between loan officers.

So we looked closer. The problem wasn't lack of software. It was the system: hidden fees, inflated rates, misaligned incentives. There was a loan officer, processor, and underwriter all increasing the costs of your rate. The overhead was never a feature. It was a tax. And borrowers paid it.

So we got licensed as loan officers ourselves, learned the industry from the inside, and taught it to AI.

Now our AI does the work a dozen middlemen did, at a fraction of the cost. What's left: a rate more than half a point below the national average and a closing in days instead of weeks.

The savings the industry used to pocket? Yours now. Every dollar.

Ralo is the product we wish existed when we got our first mortgages. Now it does.

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Backed By

Y Combinator
Manresa
Pioneer
Black Ventures
Blast
Watson Ventures
Wharton Entrepreneurship
EXITFUND

Supported by Industry Experts

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Aaron King

Founder, Snapdocs

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Ryan Frazier

Co-founder & CEO, Arrived

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Jake Mintz

CPO, Valon Mortgage

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Linda Du

COO, Valon Mortgage

Leadership Team

Arjun Lalwani - Co-founder & CEO
Arjun Lalwani
Co-founder & CEO

Arjun spent years as a product manager at Google and YouTube, shipping products used by millions every day. His work building and scaling marketplaces even earned U.S. government recognition for extraordinary ability. He then became a licensed loan officer to learn the mortgage industry from the inside. By pairing sharp product instincts with a firsthand grasp of how mortgages actually work, he is redesigning the whole mortgage experience from the ground up.

NMLS: #2753950

Helly Shah - Co-Founder & CTO
Helly Shah
Co-Founder & CTO

Helly's experience spans Google Maps—building products that impact billions of users—and Goldman Sachs quantitative finance, where she built pricing models and systematic algorithms for interest-rate markets. She is a licensed mortgage professional and comes from a family of real estate developers—bringing both technical depth and real-world housing expertise.

NMLS: #2695701