Kanda is building Affirm for general contractors. We allow contractors to offer financing to homeowners who want to remodel but can’t pay the full price upfront.
Kanda is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2021 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Affirm for general contractors. The founders listed are Phillip Daneshyar (Founder), Richard Fleeman (Founder), Rob Gallagher (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, March 1, 2021).
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Kanda is building Affirm for general contractors. We allow contractors to offer financing to homeowners who want to remodel but can’t pay the full price upfront.
Phillip Daneshyar
Founder
Ex-Kanda CEO (W21), working on AI tooling & giving thoughts on selling to SMBs
Richard Fleeman
Founder
Co-founder and COO at Kanda. I have vast experience in the home remodelling sector after running an electrical contracting business for 10 years. This was the driving force behind the idea for Kanda, after losing out on jobs to bigger companies that could get credit facilities for there customers that just weren't available for my own company.
Rob Gallagher
Founder
Technical co-founder of Kanda. Started out as an academic, studying Theoretical and Experimental Astrophysics, first completing an MSci at the University of Nottingham, before earning my PhD at the University of Cambridge. Highly proficient in data analysis through Python, having created a bespoke data reduction and analysis pipeline during my PhD. Founded Kanda and took on the CTO role whilst writing my thesis.
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