About Funder Intel

Funder Intel (funderintel.com) is the alternative business lending industry's leading resource, content, and community platform. Since 2019, Funder Intel has been the destination where MCA funders, revenue-based financing companies, ISOs, commercial loan brokers, and fintech vendors come together to find partners, access deal tools, stay informed, and build their businesses.

We are not a lender. We are not a broker. We are the industry's intelligence layer, the platform that connects every participant in the ecosystem and gives them the information, tools, and community they need to operate at a higher level.

Our Mission

Funder Intel's mission is to be the most trusted source of intelligence in the business lending industry.

That means more than publishing news. It means building tools that give brokers a real operational advantage. It means maintaining funder directories that are actually accurate and useful. It means producing editorial content that treats our industry's professionals as intelligent adults who deserve real analysis, not press release summaries. And it means building a community where the people who work in this industry can connect with each other in ways that move their businesses forward.

The alternative lending industry has historically been fragmented, opaque, and difficult to navigate, especially for new entrants. Funder Intel exists to change that. Every feature we build, every article we publish, and every event we host is designed to make this industry more transparent, more connected, and easier to operate in.

Our Story

Funder Intel was founded in 2019 by Shane Mahabir, MBA, a South Florida native who spent the previous eight years working inside the alternative business lending industry, first at funding companies in sales and ISO relations roles, then running his own brokerage.

That experience gave Shane a specific, firsthand view of a problem that nobody had solved: the industry had no central, neutral platform where funders, brokers, and vendors could find each other efficiently, evaluate each other honestly, and grow together. Information was scattered across forums, group chats, and word-of-mouth networks. Underwriting guidelines existed only in emails. Vendor quality was impossible to assess without personal connections. New brokers entering the space had almost nowhere to go for structured, reliable guidance.

Funder Intel was built to solve all of that at once. Starting with the MCA/RBF Funders List, which grew into the most comprehensive publicly available directory of merchant cash advance and revenue-based financing companies in the industry, the platform expanded to include broker training courses, deal tools, software directories, editorial content, a podcast, community features, and live events.

Today, Funder Intel serves thousands of industry professionals across the country and has become the go-to reference point for funders, ISOs, and vendors who take their businesses seriously.