Heron

Our full case study with Good Funding is live. Coming off 30% quarter over quarter growth in originations, Good Funding is a fast-moving funder in small business finance, backing merchants across the country with short-term working capital. Most of their volume comes through ISOs, where brokers go with whoever answers first. Their team handles everything from scrubbing bank statements to background checks, with one goal: decide fast enough to win the deal, and be sure enough to stand behind it. The results: ✅ 15-minute median time to a credit decision, 97% faster ✅ 59% of approvals fully automated ✅ 30% growth in originations, quarter over quarter ✅ ~36% more funded dollars per submission Huge credit to Ben Gold and the entire Good Funding team for automating their decisioning without giving up an inch on credit quality. We're proud to be building the future of underwriting together. Heron is built for funders where speed and accuracy decide who wins the deal. Our automated background checks pull the full public records net, classify every record, and hand underwriting a flag. Read the full Good Funding story: https://lnkd.in/giwNhSJJ If you're in the space and want to see what's possible, let's chat. #MCA #Underwriting #SMBLending #RevenueBasedFinancing

Last Friday, we celebrated Heron’s birthday with a field day in Central Park! 🦆🎂 A lot has changed at Heron over the past year — more customers, bigger challenges, new faces, and a growing team behind it all. Days like this are a nice reminder that the best part of that growth is the people you get to build alongside. Happy birthday, Heron. Here’s to another year of building, growing, and hopefully improving our tug-of-war strategy.

Today we're celebrating another year of Heron! Hear from our co-founder and CEO, Johannes Jaeckle, on how we got here, what the next chapter looks like, and the kind of people we need to build it. We're hiring → jobs.ashbyhq.com/herondata #Fintech #Startup #Hiring #Careers

Today we're launching Heron Background Checks: the full owner + business check, run automatically inside your underwriting workflow before the offer goes out. Background checks are the last step before funding, and at most funders they still run by hand at the end of the funnel, after the offer is already out. Roughly 1 in 5 deals that pass cashflow checks die there, which means clawing back offers brokers have already sold. With Heron, the check runs the moment a deal clears your cashflow policy: → The right owner and business are found and matched for you (97% match rate, full search trail) → Raw records become clean signals: liens, judgments, criminal history, bankruptcies, sanctions, unreported officers → Your own policy runs on top — pass / review / decline in under a minute, evidence attached to every finding Underwriters only see the deals that need their judgment, with the evidence already attached. Book a 15-minute demo — see it run on your own deals: https://lnkd.in/eFwq-weA

Rishabh P. didn't come from a sales background. He joined Heron when the GTM playbook wasn't written yet — and helped build it from the ground up. And we're still building that playbook. If that sounds exciting, we're hiring → jobs.ashbyhq.com/herondata #Sales #Fintech #StartUp #Hiring #Careers

Sharing our press release today on how NBS Underwriting automated broker submission intake with Heron — halving underwriting time and growing the book without growing the team. NBS is one of the UK's leading MGAs, writing ~£120M GWP across 40+ products. After implementing Heron, NBS saw quote volumes climb even in a soft market, and now NBS is now rolling Heron out across its full book to keep that growth going. Full press release on Associated Press: https://lnkd.in/eud6rTsT Or read the full case study: https://lnkd.in/eEsnxiQk #Insurance #InsurTech #MGAs #Underwriting

Excited to share our full customer case study with NBS Underwriting! NBS is one of the UK's leading MGAs, writing ~£120M GWP across 40+ products, entirely through brokers. Their team handles everything from pubs and restaurants to commercial combined and PI and roughly 95% of submissions arrived the same way: a broker manually entering the risk into the portal. So they partnered with Heron to automate submission intake across their broker portal, with one clear goal: underwriters underwriting, not entering data. The results: ✅ Underwriting time cut ~50% per case ✅ 25–40% more submissions reviewed per underwriter, per day — no added headcount ✅ Quote volume up 10% in a soft market where comparable lines ran 16% down ✅ £8–10M in projected additional premium as all 40 products go live on Heron Huge credit to Rachel Oldroyd and the NBS team for leading the way on broker service — brokers send submissions in whatever format they have, and NBS turns them around in half the time. We're proud to be building the future of underwriting together. Heron is built for MGAs, where speed and accuracy aren't negotiable. If you're in the space and want to see what's possible, let's chat. Full case study: https://lnkd.in/eEsnxiQk #Insurance #InsurTech #MGAs #Underwriting

Alisa K. builds workflows that automate underwriting for Heron's customers — from shadowing a head underwriter on-site to shipping the feature straight to them. That's product ops at Heron: close enough to the customer to see the problem, fast enough to solve it. We're hiring → jobs.ashbyhq.com/herondata #Hiring #Fintech #WomenInTech #StartUps #HeronData

Chase Wiseman's first day at Heron, he was put on a flight to Houston for a conference. Within nine months, he'd been to six more. His sales playbook? Research what a prospect actually cares about, show up in person with coffee and donuts, and build real relationships. No script. No 200 cold calls a day. First job out of college. Already sitting in C-suite meetings alongside our co-founder. That's what being a SDR looks like here. We're hiring: jobs.ashbyhq.com/herondata #StartupJobs #Hiring #Sales #SDR #Careers

Excited to share that Heron is now a supplier member of the Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA)! MGAs shouldn't have to choose between growing submission volume and drowning in manual processing. That's the problem we solve: whatever hits the submissions inbox, we turn into clean, structured data instantly. No rekeying. No format chasing. Just faster quotes and underwriters focused on judgment. Joining the MGAA puts us at the heart of the UK MGA community, and we can't wait to get stuck in. Fellow members: want to see what automated submission intake looks like? Let's talk. #MGAA #Insurtech #MGA #Underwriting #Insurance