June 10, 2026
Figure Enters into Agreement to Acquire Kiavi, Bolstering Blockchain-Native Marketplace
- Figure to acquire Kiavi’s technology and operating platform; a joint venture between Sixth Street and Figure to acquire Kiavi’s balance sheet assets.
- With this transaction, the #1 Residential Transition Loan (“RTL”)1 lender joins the leading
home equity marketplace. - Acquisition adds over $7 billion in new annual first-lien volume to Figure Connect
marketplace and more than $100 million monthly to Democratized Prime. - Asset class will be the first use case for fully agentic, agent-to-agent onboarding
featuring Adaptor, Figure’s newest AI product.
New York, June 10, 2026 – Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. (“Figure,” Nasdaq: FIGR; OPEN:
FGRS), the blockchain-native capital marketplace for the origination, funding, sale, and trading
of tokenized assets, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Kiavi, an AI-powered
lending platform for residential real estate investors. The transaction includes the purchase of
Kiavi’s balance sheet assets by a joint venture between Figure and Sixth Street, a leading
global investment firm, which is buying loans off Kiavi’s balance sheet. The total transaction
purchase price is $717 million.
Kiavi’s AI-powered platform provides real estate investors with the capital they need to buy,
renovate and/or rent investment properties at scale. Kiavi’s products include short-term
Residential Transition Loans (“RTL”) and long-term rental property loans known as Debt Service
Coverage Ratio (“DSCR”) loans, a growing product within Figure’s existing portfolio. This
transaction represents a $200 billion annual addressable origination opportunity that will be
brought onto Figure’s tokenized rails.
Acquiring Kiavi supports four objectives:
- Tokenized Asset Scale: Advances Figure’s mission of modernizing capital markets by
bringing all assets onto blockchain. Figure currently accounts for 75% of real-world asset
tokenization, and Kiavi is expected to instantly add $7 billion in annual volume, including
over $100 million of monthly flow on Democratized Prime, Figure’s blockchain-native
warehouse marketplace where lenders are matched with investors in search of
institutional-grade returns. - Bolsters First-Lien Focus: Further vertically integrates Figure’s product stack into the
company’s first-lien segment, which grew approximately 2.5 times year-over-year in
2025. The first-lien market is 25 times larger than second-lien, and with Kiavi, Figure’s
consumer loan marketplace volume is projected to reach 40%+ first-lien for the full year
2027. - Figure Reinforces 60% Medium-Term EBITDA Margin Target. The Kiavi platform that
Figure is purchasing will be high-margin and asset-light. With the combined businesses’
shared operational strengths and expanded scale, Figure is reaffirming its margin target
and expects both accretion to Earnings per Share and an unlevered cash payback in
less than four years. - Agent-to-Agent Adaptor Onboarding: Adaptor, Figure’s newest AI product, supports
Agent-to-Agent onboarding to impose uniformity to disparate originator data schemes
across all asset types in Figure Connect and Democratized Prime, saving partners
months’ worth of time and resources when onboarding. Kiavi assets will be Adaptor’s
first use case.
“Figure is relentless in our pursuit of moving the capital markets onto blockchain rails, and nine
months past our successful IPO, this Kiavi transaction is a further pole vault into tokenization,
first-lien diversification and our agentic AI platform,” said Michael Tannenbaum, Figure CEO.
“Adding Kiavi’s RTL and DSCR capabilities into our partner network will symbiotically
supercharge their growth and the growth of our consumer loan marketplace.”
“For the past 13 years, Kiavi has been focused on powering our data flywheel and proving
what’s possible when technology and industry expertise converge,” said Arvind Mohan, CEO of
Kiavi. “This transaction represents a massive leap forward for the asset class. With Kiavi’s
industry-leading platform powered by Figure’s innovative blockchain marketplace, we have the
opportunity to deliver an entirely new – and unmatched – standard of reach, reliability, and
execution.” Following the deal close, Mohan will join Figure’s executive team as Chief Business
Officer.
Like Figure, Kiavi has benefited from strong U.S. housing fundamentals, an aging housing stock
that demands investment, and the opportunity for technology to solve manual origination
processes and rigid capital markets. Last year was a record-breaking year for Kiavi, with over
$250 million of reported revenue and over $100 million in reported EBITDA.
Figure combines the high-quality, structured data of blockchain as an infrastructure layer with
custom-built AI that acts as a decision layer. Kiavi similarly specializes in AI-powered
decisioning on large, unique data sets, including its proprietary post-renovation home value
engine and document review technologies.
Figure’s AI-enabled marketplace infrastructure will facilitate Kiavi’s origination flow, loan trading
counterparties, and funding distribution, which will be integrated materially faster and at lower
operational cost than traditional financial infrastructure platforms, and is reflected in the
reaffirmed 60% EBITDA margin target. This infrastructure creates scalability and margin
advantages as additional asset classes and originators are brought onto the network.
“As long-standing partners of Figure, we are proud to continue working together as Kiavi joins
the Figure platform,” said Michael Dryden, Partner and Head of Asset Based Finance at Sixth
Street. “We are pleased to be contributing our residential mortgage and private credit expertise
to support Kiavi’s growth as a leading originator.”
“Blockchain is a big idea, but the on-chain capital markets are in their infancy. Figure needs to
make bold moves to bring entire asset classes on chain,” said Mike Cagney, Figure Co-Founder
and Executive Chairman.
To learn more, visit Figure.com.
Webcast Information:
Figure will host a conference call and webcast today, June 10 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time, to
discuss this transaction. A link to the live discussion and accompanying presentation will be
made available on the Company’s investor relations website at https://investors.figure.com/. A
replay will also be made available following the discussion at the same website.
Advisors:
Barclays Capital Inc. served as exclusive financial advisor to Figure and Sixth Street, and
Jefferies LLC served as exclusive financial advisor to Kiavi. Latham & Watkins served as legal
counsel to Figure, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz served as legal counsel to Sixth Street and
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati served as legal counsel to Kiavi.
About Figure:
Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIGR; OPEN: FGRS) is a blockchain-native capital
marketplace that seamlessly connects origination, funding, and secondary market activity. More
than 380 partners use its loan origination system and capital marketplace. Collectively, Figure
and its partners have originated over $25 billion of home equity to date, among other products,
making Figure’s ecosystem the largest non-bank provider of HELOCs. The fastest growing
components are Figure Connect, its consumer credit marketplace, and Democratized Prime,
Figure’s on-chain decentralized lending marketplace. Figure’s ecosystem also includes DART
(Digital Asset Registry Technology) for asset custody and lien perfection, and $YLDS, an SEC-
registered yield-bearing stablecoin that is issued by a tokenized face-amount certificate
company, which is a type of registered investment company.
Figure is the market leader in real-world asset tokenization. The company has received AAA
ratings from S&P and Moody’s on multiple loan securitizations, the first of its kind for blockchain
finance. For more information, visit https://figure.com or follow Figure on LinkedIn.
About Sixth Street
Sixth Street is a global investment firm with over $130 billion in assets under management and
committed capital. The firm uses its long-term flexible capital, data-enabled capabilities, and
One Team culture to develop themes and offer solutions to companies across all stages of
growth. Founded in 2009, Sixth Street has more than 750 team members including
approximately 300 investment professionals around the world.2 For more information, and
additional disclosures, visit www.sixthstreet.com, and follow Sixth Street on LinkedIn.
About Kiavi
With more than $30 billion in funded loans, Kiavi is one of the nation’s largest non-bank lenders
to residential real estate investors (“REIs”). Kiavi harnesses the power of data and technology to
offer REIs a simpler, more reliable, and faster way to access the capital they need to scale their
businesses. Founded as LendingHome in 2013 by Matt Humphrey and James Herbert, and
backed by Foundation Capital, Ribbit Capital, RenRen and other fintech investors, Kiavi is
committed to helping its customers revitalize the approximately $25 trillion of aged U.S. housing
stock to provide move-in ready homes and rental housing for millions of Americans across the
country. For more information, visit www.kiavi.com.
1 #1 Residential Transition Loan (RTL)
2 Total Sixth Street employees as of 3/31/2026
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