The AI-mortgage lender’s founder and CEO was recognized for the second consecutive year as one of real estate’s best and brightest in the mortgage and finance space

NEW YORK, June 24, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Better Home & Finance Holding Company (NASDAQ: BETR), the AI-powered digital home ownership company, today announced that Founder & Chief Executive Officer Vishal Garg has been named one of Inman’s 2025 Best of Finance awardees for the second consecutive year. Awardees are handpicked by Inman’s editorial team, and meant to “honor those pushing the envelope and reshaping the homebuying space.”

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.