apickle is a small business direct lender
Year founded : 2021
Founders/CEO: Aaron Bassin
Location: Sydney
Size of Team: 25
Website: https://www.bridgit.com.au/
Who is your ideal customer: We help Australian homeowners who are looking to upsize, downsize, or rightsize their homes.
Why would someone work for your company: Bridgit’s team culture is like no other. We have a strong focus on collaboration and innovation, tapping into multi-discipline knowledge within the business to achieve our business goals. It’s never an individual triumph or failure, it's always either succeeding as a team, or learning as a team. Our goal is to provide our people with the opportunity to thrive and add real value to the business performance. We also have an adorable office dog named Darla and daily table tennis games.
Current Investors: OIF (Our Innovation Fund) & Perennial Partners
Why did the business start ? : From a young age, Aaron Bassin’s parents instilled in him that ‘bricks last forever’ and coming from a migrant family, they always aspired for the Great Australian Dream of owning property. After a decade of experience as a finance and business analyst, he identified an opportunity to provide a tech lead property solution that will help Aussie homeowners progress, co-founding Bridgit (formerly TechLend) with mortgage broker Nick Jacobs.
Why the name ?: We wanted to modernise the bridging loan experience in the market and establish our company as a household brand with Australians.
When people think about buying and selling homes…they think Bridgit. ‘Bridge it to your next home’..
Recent milestone? We recently hit $1 billion in loan applications and have partnered with a leading Australian aggregator, Loan Market.