Dallas Fintech Yendo Secures $200M Funding from i80 Group
Yendo just secured a $200M warehouse facility from i80 Group. Let that breathe for a second. $200M to fuel a credit card business that does not pretend your FICO score is your personality.
Jordan Miller, Co-Founder and CEO, saw something most lenders politely ignore. Americans are sitting on roughly $4T in vehicle equity, but traditional credit models act like that value is invisible. George Utkov, Co-Founder and CPO, and Daniel Ashy, Co-Founder and CTO, built the machine that turns that dormant metal into revolving credit, up to $10K, fixed rates, rewards included. A car is not just transportation. At Yendo, it is collateral with a pulse.
This latest commitment from i80 Group, with Managing Director Peter Frank backing the vision, is not Yendo’s first lap around the capital track. After an early seed round in 2021 of about $8.5M with Mark Cuban and Uncommon Capital, followed by a $4.5M extension, the company stepped on the gas. In June 2023, a $24M Series A led by Wesley Chan of FPV Ventures, with Human Capital and Autotech Ventures, added serious institutional weight. In May 2024, Yendo pulled in $165M in debt and equity, including $150M in debt led by i80 Group. October 2025 brought a $50M Series B backed by Spice Expeditions, Autotech Ventures, FPV Ventures, Pelion, Clocktower, and again Mar
Thibault Fulconis, CFO, joined in early 2025 after helping scale Varo. Timing matters. You do not bring in a seasoned finance operator unless you are preparing to orchestrate scale with discipline. Capital is oxygen. Structure is lungs.
The business lesson is clean. Yendo did not chase hype. It identified an overlooked asset class parked in driveways across America and wrapped disciplined underwriting around it. It aligned venture equity with structured debt. It stacked board depth with Wesley Chan, Logan Green of Lyft, and Nick Huber of Spice Expeditions. When capital providers see repeatable performance, they lean in. That is not magic. That is math meeting execution.
Consumers get access to credit without the usual penalty box. Investors get exposure to a secured product in a market measured in trillion dollars. And the fintech ecosystem gets a reminder that innovation does not always scream. Sometimes it idles, signals, then accelerates.