Leap Finance

About Leap Finance

Leap Finance is an Indian fintech company headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka, that provides cross-border education-financing products for Indian students pursuing higher education abroad. The company was founded in 2019 by Arnav Kumar and Vaibhav Singh and operates as part of the broader Leap group, which also includes the test-prep and counselling brand LeapScholar. Leap Finance's principal product is a US-dollar-denominated education loan that allows Indian students admitted to overseas master's and bachelor's programmes — primarily in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Ireland — to finance tuition and living costs without the need for an Indian-resident co-signer in many cases. The company complements the loan with services such as US bank-account opening, foreign-exchange remittance, credit-building cards, and refinancing of existing student debt. The platform combines a digital application flow with underwriting models that incorporate the student's admit profile, expected post-graduation earnings, and academic record, alongside more traditional financial documentation. Leap has raised funding from investors including Owl Ventures, Jungle Ventures, Sequoia Capital India (Peak XV), Harvard Management Company, and others, and has expanded its product suite to include international career and immigration services. Indian fresher and early-career hiring at Leap Finance typically targets software-engineer, data-science, product, design, credit-and-risk, operations, and customer-experience roles, with applications routed through the Leap careers page.

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