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Vesta

Vesta

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Overview

Vesta builds a mortgage loan origination system that combines a loan system of record, configurable workflows and AI agents. Lenders use it to coordinate work from application through funding.

Jobs
12
open roles
Founded
2020
by Mike Yu and Devon Yang
Total raised
$55M
company-reported · September 2026
Why we invested

In her January 2022 investment memo, Angela Strange argued that modernizing mortgages required rebuilding the core loan origination system. Vesta paired a new system of record with configurable workflows and open APIs so lenders could connect and automate the steps around it.

The thesis combined infrastructure and domain expertise: Mike Yu and Devon Yang had worked together at Blend, bringing experience in mortgage product development, engineering and selling to financial institutions. Strange saw an opportunity to make the process more transparent for borrowers and easier for lenders to improve.

→ Investing in Vesta — Angela Strange, January 2022
a16z-led round
$30M Series A
announced January 2022

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Talent Outreach Coordinator

$90K – $115K • Offers Equity·Remote, United States·Posted 13 days ago
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Sr Manager, People

$160K – $190K • Offers Equity·Remote, United States·Posted 13 days ago
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Senior Manager, Customer Success

$160K – $195K • Offers Equity·Remote, United States·Posted 18 days ago
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Product story

2020
Building a new mortgage core

After working together at Blend, Yu and Yang set out to replace the loan origination systems that lenders told them were holding back their operations.

The founders’ storyVesta ↗

Funding rounds

Date
Round
Raised
Valuation
Lead / investors
Mar 2025 disclosure
Strategic financing
Raised $20M
Valuation
Strategic investors; identities, lead and closing date were not disclosed in the report.
27 Jan 2022
Series A
Raised $30M
Valuation
Led by a16z, with Zigg Capital, Conversion Capital and Bain Capital Ventures participating.

Team

Mike YuMike YuCo-Founder & CEOPreviously worked in product at Blend, helping launch major lender integrations and new business lines. Co-founded Vesta in 2020.LinkedIn ↗Devon YangDevon YangCo-Founder & CTOBlend’s first engineering hire and later an engineering group manager. At Vesta, his public writing explains the architecture connecting rules, AI models and loan workflows.LinkedIn ↗
Chris IrwinChris IrwinHead of ProductLeads product at Vesta. His writing describes visible reasoning and structured human feedback as principles for designing mortgage automation.Vesta · Head of Product essay ↗
Lydia GreenLydia GreenHead of ImplementationsHelped onboard Vesta’s earliest customers and build its implementations function. Her public writing focuses on process readiness, feedback and change management.LinkedIn ↗
Culture

How Vesta works

Work model

Remote-first, with places to gather

Current Vesta roles describe a remote-first culture with physical hubs in the Bay Area and New York. Check each posting for its eligible locations.

Vesta careers posting · September 2026 ↗
Vesta team posing together at Game On!
Time together

Regular gatherings across a distributed team

Vesta’s careers page lists twice-yearly company offsites and quarterly team gatherings. Its team photography includes an outing at Game On!

Vesta · careers ↗
Remote support

Support for the workday at home

The careers page lists an annual home-office stipend, monthly expenses, access to local coworking spaces and DoorDash lunch credits.

Vesta · careers ↗
New parents

16 weeks of paid parental leave

Current recruiting materials specify 16 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, including adoption.

Vesta careers posting · September 2026 ↗
Wellness

Health coverage and time for yourself

Vesta advertises medical, vision and dental coverage with approximately 100% of employee premiums covered, plus a gym membership and wellness stipends.

Vesta · careers ↗
Engineering practice

Match the tool to the uncertainty

In his November 2025 essay, CTO Devon Yang describes three parts of Vesta’s architecture: rules for predictable tasks, models for ambiguous data, and workflow coordination that preserves an audit trail.

Devon Yang
Co-Founder & CTO

Vesta · From Rules to Intelligence ↗
Product design

Make automated decisions inspectable

Head of Product Chris Irwin describes two design principles: show the data and policy behind automated decisions, and record human corrections so the system can improve. His November 2025 essay treats transparency as part of the product’s design.

Chris Irwin
Head of Product

Vesta · Designing for Transparency ↗
Implementation practice

Begin with a measurable use case

Head of Implementations Lydia Green’s November 2025 essay advocates starting with one use case, then connecting workflows and deliberately collecting corrections. She describes implementation as a design and change-management process that brings operations, compliance and technology together.

Lydia Green
Head of Implementations

Vesta · Lessons from the Front Lines ↗
The founders’ history

A working relationship, and weekly boba walks

In Vesta’s launch essay, Mike Yu recalls working with Devon Yang at Blend on platform growth and new business lines. Along the way, they sampled Financial District boba shops on weekly walks. That shared history came before starting Vesta in 2020.

Mike Yu · Vesta launch essay, January 2022 ↗
Cultural principlesAct as an owner · Champion the team · Live in reality · Bring fun to the process · Win the right way