"We have to be really smart about our risk assessment, The goal is to connect small businesses to the capital they need. So, by effectively predicting risk, we can experience fewer defaults and pass along those savings to our borrowers."

"The first iteration of our risk model used standard regression and took a month to deploy, Now Azure Machine Learning takes care of the foundational plumbing for us so we can go from model development to deployment instantly. The month is gone. It’s the difference between reacting to the market …