About Moneyline
An industry that moves billions deserves better than a forum from 2010.
Manifesto
Alternative business finance is a $20 billion market built on relationships: 1,200 funders, thousands of brokers and ISOs, and the attorneys, underwriters and software vendors who keep it running. It moves fast, it runs on trust, and until now it has run on tools nobody would choose.
The events are great. The conversation is real. But the news arrives late, the forums look like 2005, and the data is whatever someone paid to put in a PDF. Moneyline brings it all into one place, a daily habit for the people who fund Main Street.
We're not competing with deBanked and DailyFunder. We're replacing them.
That means premium reporting every weekday, channels as fast as the best chat apps, a deal box that turns asking around into a market, and rankings that can't be bought. It means building for the phone first, and verifying everyone.
Principles
Four rules we don't bend.
Trust first
Real names, verified firms, visible track records. Trust is the product; everything else is a feature.
Data-driven
Rankings, reviews and market numbers come from verified submissions and closed deals, never from a sales call.
Mobile-first
Deals get placed between meetings. Every screen is designed for one thumb before it's designed for a desk.
Never pay-to-play
No funder, sponsor or Enterprise customer can buy placement, ratings or coverage. If that ever changes, we've failed.
Methodology
How rankings are made.
The short version of the full methodology we publish with every ranking. If a number on Moneyline can't be traced to a verified source, it doesn't ship.
What we never do
- Sell placement in rankings or search
- Let sponsors review or edit coverage
- Hide who wrote a review
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Sources
Funder rankings draw on broker submissions made through Moneyline, funding confirmations from both sides, and program data published by verified funders.
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Verification
Submissions count only when both counterparties are verified members. Reviews require a closed deal on record.
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Weighting
Volume is weighted by verified submissions over a rolling quarter, adjusted for deal size so a handful of large files can't dominate.
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Publication
Rankings publish quarterly with the full method and sample sizes. Funders see their own inputs before anyone else sees the results.
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Corrections
Anyone can flag an error. Corrections are logged publicly, with what changed and why.
Team
Operators, reporters and engineers.
Moneyline is built by Paragon Group with people who have funded, placed and reported on deals for years. Full team announcement soon.
- FC
Founder & CEO
Announcing soon
- EC
Editor in Chief
Announcing soon
- HD
Head of Data
Announcing soon
- HC
Head of Community
Announcing soon
- DE
Design Engineering
Announcing soon
- EP
Events & Partnerships
Announcing soon