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Zolvo automates commercial lending back offices so firms manage reconciliation, collections, and monitoring at 80% lower operational cost per dollar.

Zolvo is back-office software for commercial lenders, automating the loan servicing work that asset-based lenders, factors, and private credit firms still run through spreadsheets, email, and large operations teams. The product connects to a lender's bank accounts, inbox, cloud folders, and management systems, then handles reconciliation, invoice verification, collections, and reporting in one place. According to the launch video, more than 90% of payments are automatically matched against invoices and over 80% of debtor outreach (sending payment reminders, verifying invoices, and collecting remittance advices) runs without a human in the loop, compressing reconciliation cycles that previously took a full day into roughly 30 minutes. The launch matters now because commercial lending AUM is growing faster than firms can hire analysts to service it, and the tweet from Y Combinator frames the wedge as roughly 80% lower operational cost per dollar across reconciliation, collections, and monitoring . Zolvo is part of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, based in San Francisco with a team of four , and its positioning, building the operating system for commercial lending , suggests an ambition beyond a single workflow tool toward the system of record for non-bank lenders. The company was founded by Isabela Rodriguez (CEO) and Tony Montes (CTO), who previously worked together at Domu (YC S24). Rodriguez was the first GTM hire at Domu, where she closed the company's first $1M in revenue with clients including Chubb , while Montes was Domu's founding AI engineer and built voice AI infrastructure that scaled to over 100,000 calls per day for enterprise fintech clients, with a research background including publications at ACL and EMNLP and generative-model work at Cornell . For operators evaluating tools to scale a lending portfolio without scaling headcount, Zolvo is worth a look, particularly given the free reconciliation audit offered on its site.

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