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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.

Quick Facts

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

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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2012 Company founded
Affirm was founded in 2012 per the company profile source on file.
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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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2020 Development
November 18, 2020: Affirm files with the SEC in preparation for an initial public offering.
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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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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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2023 Development
June 7, 2023: Affirm's Adaptive Checkout becomes available to merchants through Amazon Pay.
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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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Financial AI product

Adaptive Checkout, a pay-over-time product offering biweekly and monthly installment plans with a real-time underwriting decision;…

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