Salient

Financial AI · Debt Collection & Recovery

Overview

Salient builds artificial intelligence agents for consumer lending servicing. Its voice and chat systems handle payments and collections conversations. The company serves auto lenders and finance companies.

Funding and backers

Total raised
$60M
1 round on record
Latest round
$60M
Venture round · Jul 2025 · 15 mo ago
The money's age
Due for its next round
15 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
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Last sign of life
2 mo ago
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Jul 28, 2025 Raised a round Venture round $60M · The Manila Times 2023 Founded
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Web presence
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Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jul 2025 $60M — The Manila Times
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Financials

Total raised
$60M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $60M Details

News

News Salient 6 months ago
The Perfect Cripple: A User Guide to Being Palatable
Pluto RennieThere is a correct way to be disabled. No one tells you outright. There's no handbook, no neat list of expectations. But people recognize it instinctively-and, more importantly, they recognize when you fall short.Consistency helps. You should
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News Pulse 2.0 1 year ago
Salient: $60 Million Raised To Transform Loan Servicing With AI
Salient, an innovator in AI-powered financial services technology, has raised $60 million in funding from notable firms like Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Michael Ovitz, and Y Combinator. This investment will help expand Salient's loan servicing p
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News Auto Remarketing 1 year ago
Salient gains $60M in funding for servicing solution already praised by subprime lenders
Already earning high praise from a quartet of finance companies that often operate in the subprime space, Salient announced on Monday that it has secured $60 mi
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Press release The Manila Times 1 year ago
Salient Secures 60 Million Dollars to Expand AI-Powered Loan Servicing Platform
Comprehensive AI Solution Transforms Loan Servicing Operations While Ensuring Regulatory Compliance
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News arXiv.org 2 years ago
AutoBencher: Towards Declarative Benchmark Construction
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2407.08351: AutoBencher: Towards Declarative Benchmark Construction
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News arXiv.org 2 years ago
Scalable Detection of Salient Entities in News Articles
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2405.20461: Scalable Detection of Salient Entities in News Articles
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News arXiv.org 2 years ago
Discovering Salient Neurons in Deep NLP Models
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2206.13288: Discovering Salient Neurons in Deep NLP Models
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Corning United States
Regional office
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88 E. Tioga Avenue, Corning, NY 14830
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