Brock Blake


Brock Blake is founder and CEO of Lendio, an online marketplace for small business loans. Lendio offers borrowers access to loan options from more lenders than any other marketplace in the industry.
Blake is an Inc. 500 CEO, national keynote speaker, and Forbes columnist.
He was educated at Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management. He lives in Utah with his wife and four children.

Career

Blake founded Lendio in 2011 after witnessing how small businesses struggled to get capital from U.S. banks following the 2008 global financial crisis. Lendio's platform enables small business owners to fill out a free online loan application, then browse multiple loan products from a network of more than 75 lenders. In October 2018, Lendio announced it had serviced $1B in total loans to over 51,000 small businesses across the country.
Prior to Lendio, Blake founded FundingUniverse, a company that connected entrepreneurs with angel investors. FundingUniverse ultimately evolved into Lendio after five years in business.

Awards

Brock Blake has received several awards throughout his career, including:
Through Lendio, Blake has instituted numerous philanthropic efforts to give back to the small business community. 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. The program, Lendio Gives, typically awards loans in amounts from $150 to $5,000 to early stage small businesses in impoverished countries around the world. One hundred percent of every dollar the company lends to Kiva goes to funding loans.
As of October 2018, Lendio Gives had funded 4,100 microloans to entrepreneurs across 78 countries totalling $104,000.