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Series CFintechNew York & San FranciscoFounded 2019
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Overview

Valon builds ValonOS, software that brings mortgage data, payments and servicing workflows into one system of record.

Jobs
25
open roles
Founded
2019
Built the servicer to build the software
Series C
$100M
October 2024 · led by WestCap
Why we invested

We backed a team combining mortgage expertise with the ability to turn complex regulation into modern software. Our February 2021 investment memo argued that rebuilding servicing from the ground up could give homeowners clearer information and better support throughout the life of a mortgage.

The thesis centered on three capabilities: understanding consumer-finance regulation, translating it into adaptable code, and earning the trust of mortgage institutions. Andrew Wang brought mortgage-investing experience; the founding team brought product and engineering expertise. Today, Valon is focused on bringing the resulting platform, ValonOS, to other servicers.

→ a16z investment memo · February 2021→ Valon’s next chapter · August 2026
Series A
$50M
February 2021 · a16z led
Series C
$100M
October 2024 · a16z participated

Featured Jobs

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Valon

Mortgage Product Strategist

$100K – $195K·Remote, San Francisco, California, United States, New York, New York, United States·Posted 3 days ago
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Valon

Deployment Strategy Lead (People Manager)

New York, New York, United States, San Francisco, California, United States·Posted 11 days ago
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Valon

Engineering Manager

$241.5K – $284K • Offers Equity·New York, New York, United States, San Francisco, California, United States, Remote·Posted a month ago
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Product story

2019
Start with the operating problem

Founded in 2019, Valon built and operated a mortgage servicer to learn the details of payments, escrow and compliance firsthand. That work became the foundation for ValonOS.

The company’s founding approachCarrington · Aug 2026 ↗Six Years in the MakingValon · Feb 2026 ↗

Funding rounds

Date
Round
Raised
Valuation
Lead / investors
2 Feb 2026
Strategic equity investment
Raised Undisclosed
Valuation
Rithm Capital · Long-term minority equity ownership announced; investment amount not disclosed.
Oct 2024
Series C
Raised $100M
Valuation
WestCap led; a16z participated, alongside other new and existing investors.
3 Nov 2021
Equity financing
Raised $43.9M
Valuation
Starwood and Freedom Mortgage affiliates, Human Capital, a16z participated, alongside other investors. Bloomberg reported the financing without identifying a lead.
2 Feb 2021
Series A
Raised $50M
Valuation
a16z led · Jefferies Financial Group, New Residential Investment Corporation and 166 2nd LLC participated.

Team

Andrew WangAndrew WangCEO & Co-FounderAn engineer by training, Wang previously invested in mortgage assets as a principal at Soros. He leads Valon’s work to rebuild servicing infrastructure.LinkedIn ↗Linda DuLinda DuPresident, COO & Co-FounderHelped build the operating business that shaped ValonOS. A Harvard graduate who began her career with a software-engineering internship at Google.LinkedIn ↗Jonathan HsuJonathan HsuCo-FounderPart of Valon’s founding team. Before Valon, Hsu spent the first six years of his career at Twilio, starting as an intern.LinkedIn ↗Hongxia ZhongHongxia ZhongHead of EngineeringPreviously an early engineer at Robinhood, CTO of Flannel and Senior Director of Engineering at Flex. Leads Valon’s engineering organization.LinkedIn ↗Jake MintzJake MintzChief Product OfficerBrings product leadership experience from Stripe, Google and Bump. At Valon, he also writes about how the team designs and learns with AI.LinkedIn ↗Marisa RacksonMarisa RacksonHead of PeopleLeads the people function. Her public recruiting writing describes work on onboarding, learning systems and manager development.LinkedIn ↗
Culture

How Valon works

Andrew Wang, Valon CEO and co-founder
Andrew Wang, Valon CEO and co-founder
Learning the domain

Learn to spot when AI is wrong

In August 2026, Andrew Wang and Jake Mintz described temporarily withholding AI access from new non-engineering hires until a manager confirms they can detect incorrect answers. The learning plan includes individual mentorship and hands-on work. Engineers retain access from day one.

Andrew Wang & Jake Mintz
CEO and Chief Product Officer

Valon · 18 Aug 2026 ↗
Jake Mintz, Valon Chief Product Officer
Jake Mintz, Valon Chief Product Officer
Design practice

A design system people and agents can read

In a conversation led by CPO Jake Mintz, Valon designers describe Foundry: a component registry and rules connecting design tokens to the codebase. Their evolving design playbook gives product managers and engineering leads shared context before a designer joins the work.

Valon design team · 6 Aug 2026 ↗
Engineering practice

Code review becomes a shared memory

Valon turns recurring lessons from pull-request discussions into a library of review rules. Each rule links back to the original discussion and is checked against the current codebase. The team published its mining pipeline as open source.

Maxim Gurevich · 18 Mar 2026 ↗
Linda Du, Valon President, COO and co-founder
Linda Du, Valon President, COO and co-founder
How the product was built

Operations taught the software team

In their February 2026 account, Andrew Wang and Linda Du describe a recurring loop: operators encountered an edge case, engineering changed the data model or workflow, and operators tried again. They say that collaboration now extends to software customers.

Andrew Wang & Linda Du · 2 Feb 2026 ↗
Engineering

Model the rules behind the workflow

The Senior Software Engineer role pairs domain learning with infrastructure design and collaboration with Product and Design. Its stated stack includes Python, React, Docker, Kubernetes and Google Cloud.

Senior Software Engineer · checked 1 Oct 2026 ↗
Work model · engineering role

New York, San Francisco and remote options

The Senior Software Engineer posting lists New York, San Francisco and U.S. remote options, while classifying the role as hybrid. Other roles have different location requirements; check each posting.

Senior Software Engineer · checked 1 Oct 2026 ↗
Development · engineering role

Feedback from more than one direction

The Senior Software Engineer benefits include company orientation and recurring reviews with 360-degree feedback.

Senior Software Engineer · checked 1 Oct 2026 ↗
Team time · engineering role

A budget for time together

The same engineering posting offers quarterly outing budgets, with cooking classes, team dinners and team merchandise among the examples.

Senior Software Engineer · checked 1 Oct 2026 ↗
Benefits · engineering role

Paid time to welcome a child

The Senior Software Engineer posting provides 12 weeks of fully paid leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents.

Senior Software Engineer · checked 1 Oct 2026 ↗
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