Brock Blake[1][2] is founder and CEO of Lendio, an online marketplace for small business loans.
Blake founded Lendio after witnessing how small businesses struggled to get capital from U.S. banks following the 2008 global financial crisis.
In the first month of the Paycheck Protection Program during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lendio onboarded hundreds of lenders to help facilitate what would eventually amount to $8 billion in loan approvals for over 100,000 businesses.
For every loan facilitated on Lendio's marketplace platform, the company donates a percentage of funds to low-income entrepreneurs around the world through the nonprofit organization, Kiva.
[13] The program, Lendio Gives,[14] typically awards loans in amounts from $150 to $5,000 to early stage small businesses in impoverished countries around the world.