Better CEO Vishal Garg Receives Inman's 2025 Best of Finance Award
The Best of Finance Awards are meant to celebrate the achievements and successes of the real estate community's best and brightest, according to the publication. For Garg, this recognition highlights his mission to build a more efficient, transparent, and customer-centric homebuying ecosystem.
'Buying a home should feel like a milestone, not a minefield,' said Garg. 'Since founding Better, many aspects of the business have evolved, but my singular mission to fix a broken system has remained steady. Each day, we continue to build on our cheaper, faster, and easier homebuying experience to help families across the country achieve their homeownership dreams. I'm honored to receive this award, which highlights the impact that innovation makes possible.'
Over the past year, Better has achieved an array of successes with Garg at the helm, including the launch of Betsy™, the world's first voice-based AI loan assistant, built exclusively for the mortgage industry. Betsy™ helps customers through their homebuying journey 24/7/365; making home loans effortless by harnessing advanced generative AI to streamline mortgage applications. In addition, Better introduced the Better Forever program, which rewards loyal customers by waiving origination fees on future refinance or purchase loans funded through Better. The company also launched its NEO Home Loans division, which enables customers to work with local mortgage professionals and their realtor partners, and scaled the business to a $2.5 billion run rate on originations in the first six months post launch.
Beyond Inman, Better's commitment to excellence has garnered myriad accolades. In 2025, Better won the Banking Tech Awards' Best LendTech Solution and Fintech Breakthrough's Digital Mortgage Innovation Award. The AI lender was previously named the Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ. Garg's numerous honors have included winning E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year, Housing Wire's Most Influential Mortgage Executive, and the Golden Pegleg Award for Outstanding Alumni from Stuyvesant High School.
The full list of 2025 Inman Best of Finance Award winners can be found here. For more information about Better, please visit www.better.com.
About Better Home & Finance Holding Company
Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR; BETRW) is the first AI-powered mortgage lender and first fintech to fund more than $100 billion in mortgage volume. Since 2016, Better has leveraged its industry-leading AI platform, Tinman™, to achieve a singular mission of making homeownership cheaper, faster, and easier for Americans. Tinman™ allows customers to see their rate options in seconds, get pre-approved in minutes, lock in rates, and close their loan in as little as three weeks. In addition, Betsy™, the first voice-based AI loan assistant built exclusively for the mortgage industry, revolutionizes the homebuying journey by delivering timely application status updates to consumers, answering questions, and moving their loan application along 24/7/365. Better's mortgage offerings include GSE-conforming mortgage loans, FHA and VA loans, and jumbo mortgage loans. In January 2023, Better launched "One Day Mortgage,' allowing eligible customers to go from click to Commitment Letter within 24 hours. Better won the 2025 Fintech Breakthrough Awards for Digital Mortgage Innovation, the 2025 Banking Tech Award for Digital Mortgage Innovation, and was named Best Online Mortgage Lender by Forbes and Best Mortgage Lender for Affordability by WSJ in 2023, ranked #1 on LinkedIn's Top Startups List for 2021 and 2020, #1 on Fortune's Best Small and Medium Workplaces in New York, #15 on CNBC's Disruptor 50 2020 list, and was listed on Forbes FinTech 50 for 2020. Better serves customers in all 50 US states and the United Kingdom.
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