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Fuse, which offers AI-powered loan origination software to credit unions and other financial institutions, raised a $25 million Series A round.— In 2023, after three years of building an auto loan startup, Fuse co-founders Andres Klaric and Marc Escapa realized that LLMs could modernize something…
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