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Avital Pardo

Founder

Avital Pardo is listed as a founder of Pagaya on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

Quick Facts

Role Founder
Company Pagaya
Country Israel
Industry AI in Finance
Founded 2016
Known For Pagaya's model — plugging its AI credit-decisioning technology directly into a lender's existing approval flow via…
Last Reviewed Aug 2026

Avital Pardo is listed as a founder of Pagaya on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

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2016 Company founded
Pagaya was founded in 2016 per the company profile source on file.
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2016 Development
March 20, 2016: Pagaya Technologies is incorporated in Israel by Gal Krubiner, Avital Pardo, and Yahav Yulzari.
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2020 Funding
June 2020: Pagaya raises a $102 million Series D round.
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2021 Partnership
October 2021: Pagaya announces a partnership with SoFi, which the companies described at the time as Pagaya's biggest deployment of its technology in the fintech marketplace to date.
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2021 Acquisition
September 2021: Pagaya announces a merger with EJF Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, valuing Pagaya at approximately $8.5 billion.
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2022 Development
June 2022: The merger closes and Pagaya begins trading on the Nasdaq under ticker PGY.
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2023 Partnership
September 2023: Pagaya announces a partnership with Westlake Financial to expand its auto-lending product; further auto partnerships, including with Exeter Finance in December 2023, follow.
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2024 Development
By its 2024 fiscal year, Pagaya reports its network has processed more than $3.6 trillion in loan applications since inception, per its own SEC filings.
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Avital Pardo is listed as a founder of Pagaya on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

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