Nov 12, 2019
Levi King, the CEO and Co-Founder of Nav, is a self-taught, serial entrepreneur who has started seven different small businesses in the last 20 years.
"I started my first business over two decades ago, and it was a labor of love from day one. Through setbacks and advances—even if there are often more of the former than the latter—I'm proud to call myself an entrepreneur," said King.
King launched Nav in 2012 with business partner Caton Hanson, Nav's Co-Founder and Chief Legal Officer. Nav, a platform that bridges the gap between small businesses and financial institutions, features a robust business financing marketplace that leverages a proprietary, in-house technology to make understanding options easier than ever before, matching business owners with customized credit card and alternative financing recommendations based on cash-flow insights and business and personal credit data.
In recent months, King has led Nav to several milestones, including:
- Raising $44.8 million in Series C equity capital.
- An integrated, multi-year partnership with Clover to deliver U.S.-based Clover users access to their free business credit scores, as well as custom-tailored business financing and credit card options.
- A collaboration with Equifax, making Nav the first and only provider of free small business credit data from all three major business credit bureaus—Equifax, Experian and Dun & Bradstreet.
To date, more than 1 million small business owners have access to their credit data and insights powered by Nav.