The company's web-based platform enables customers to access capital in as few as five days by providing home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging. Figure is transforming the trillion-dollar financial services industry using blockchain technology and has unveiled a series of fintech firsts using the Provenance Blockchain for loan origination, equity management, private fund services, banking, and payments sectors. The company was founded in 2018 by Mike Cagney, a serial technology entrepreneur who also founded SoFi, and is one of less than a thousand companies considered a unicorn globally.