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[Finterest] Meet the young Filipina teaching AI to read crumpled payslips for loans

Built to help lenders make sense of messy financial records, Carmel Limcaoco and Rhea Malhotra's Kita has processed over $130 million in loan volume and raised $4.5 million in seed funding

[Finterest] Meet the young Filipina teaching AI to read crumpled payslips for loans

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Built to help lenders make sense of messy financial records, Carmel Limcaoco and Rhea Malhotra's Kita has processed over $130 million in loan volume and raised $4.5 million in seed funding

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Built to help lenders make sense of messy financial records, Carmel Limcaoco and Rhea Malhotra's Kita has processed over $130 million in loan volume and raised $4.5 million in seed funding

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