Powering Specialty Lending: Octane’s Jason Guss

Powering Specialty Lending: Octane’s Jason Guss

In this episode, we speak with Jason Guss, Co-Founder and CEO of Octane, a financing platform assisting fast and confident powersports purchases by making financing as easy as cash and creating access through fair credit products.

Under Jason’s leadership, Octane has raised both debt and equity amounting to approximately $2.6 billion. Prior to Octane, Jason worked at Capital One in Corporate Strategy.

Since 2014, Octane has partnered with dozens of manufacturers and thousands of powersports dealerships to help drive more sales with their platform. They are backed by Valar Ventures, Contour Venture Partners, IA Ventures, DreamIt Ventures, FinTech Collective, Third Prime Ventures and Citi Ventures.

Jason supports Baby2Baby. To learn more about this organization click here.

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