Informed.IQ secures $63M in funding from Invictus Growth Partners with eyes on expansion in auto & other markets
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Before 2025 closed, Informed.IQ announced a $63 million growth equity investment from Invictus Growth Partners to help fuel its technology designed to reduce fraud in auto lending and other parts of financial services.
Informed.IQ said the investment from Invictus arrived at an important time. According to Equifax, consumer non-mortgage write-offs surged 145% in 2024 compared to 2021 levels, while estimated auto lending fraud loss exposure exceeds $7.9 billion.
Informed.IQ’s dataset spans more than 2 billion lending data points from more than 100 million loan documents. This data enables Informed.IQ to detect fraud patterns and automate verification processes.
“Lenders are capturing more loans with their current staff,” Informed.IQ CEO and co-founder Justin Wickett said in a news release. “We’ve built the industry’s most comprehensive lending intelligence platform, enabling faster, more accurate verification and fraud detection that previously was going uncaught, contributing to the rise in losses. This investment from Invictus validates our approach and will fuel our next phase of growth.”
Invictus will join Informed.IQ’s investor group, which includes early investors Nyca Partners and US Venture Partners.
“The nation’s largest lenders trust Informed.IQ’s AI-first platform,” Invictus co-founder and managing partner John DeLoche said. “Their dataset is a true differentiator. We are honored to work with Justin and the team to accelerate product innovation for their customers and expand these benefits into new markets.”
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Informed.IQ already serves seven of the top 10 U.S. auto lenders, including Westlake Financial Services, which continues to increase profit margin using Informed.IQ’s services.
“Westlake takes fraud very seriously,” Westlake Financial Services president Ian Anderson said in the news release from Informed.IQ. “Informed.IQ’s AI helps us identify GenAI-fabricated consumer applications and prevent losses in the double-digit millions per year.”
The new funding accelerates Informed.IQ’s expansion in auto finance, and supports its strategic entry into mortgage, consumer lending, tenant screening, and government benefit administration.
“What stood out about Informed.IQ is that they incorporate years’ worth of historical loan performance data when training their models,” Invictus co-founder and managing partner William Nettles said. “We backed them to bring this level of forensic precision to the mortgage and government sectors where the cost of verification errors is the highest.”
