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Alex Rampell

Founder

Alex Rampell is listed as a founder of Affirm on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

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  • Role Founder
  • Company Affirm
  • Country United States
  • Industry AI in Finance
  • Founded 2012
  • Known For Affirm makes an AI-driven credit decision at the exact moment a shopper checks out, at a…
  • Last Reviewed Aug 2026

Executive Summary

Alex Rampell is listed as a founder of Affirm on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

Career Timeline

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  1. 2012 Company founded

    Affirm was founded in 2012 per the company profile source on file.

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  2. 2012 Development

    2012: Affirm is founded by Max Levchin, Nathan Gettings, Jeffrey Kaditz, and Alex Rampell, spun out of Levchin's HVF innovation studio in San Francisco.

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  3. 2020 Development

    November 18, 2020: Affirm files with the SEC in preparation for an initial public offering.

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  4. 2021 Development

    January 13, 2021: Affirm lists on the Nasdaq under ticker AFRM, raising about $1.2 billion in its IPO.

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  5. 2021 Product

    September 22, 2021: Affirm launches Adaptive Checkout, presenting biweekly and monthly pay-over-time options side by side at checkout.

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  6. 2023 Development

    June 7, 2023: Affirm's Adaptive Checkout becomes available to merchants through Amazon Pay.

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  7. 2025 Development

    Fiscal 2025u20132026: Affirm rolls out Adapt AI, an AI-powered configuration layer for Adaptive Checkout that the company said lifted gross merchandise value by about 5% for participating merchants, per its fiscal fourth-quarter 2025 earnings call.

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Alex Rampell is listed as a founder of Affirm on the Brel Digital company profile. Expand biography only from verified public sources.

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