Episode 292 Fireside Chat with Mitch Jurius, Founder of The Origination API

Mitch Jurius, Founder and CEO of The Origination API, joins Jesse Johnson on this week’s Fireside Chats with Jesse. Mitch’s career has taken him from equipment finance operations at CIT and Direct Capital, to product development, to helping build Fullscope’s equipment finance platform, where he was involved in roughly 25 to 30 LOS implementations. Today, he is taking those experiences and building The Origination API, an equipment finance infrastructure platform designed to simplify how originators connect and submit transactions to their funding sources. In this episode, Mitch and Jesse talk about the problem he is trying to solve, why equipment finance still has so much opportunity for better connectivity, and what entrepreneurship looks like when you are building a technology company from the ground up. Topics covered include: Mitch’s path into equipment finance and technology His experience at CIT, Direct Capital and Fullscope Why he launched The Origination API Creating one API connection between originators and multiple funding sources Eliminating rekeying, multiple lender portals and unsecured transmission of sensitive information Why equipment finance technology still struggles with integration Using AI to accelerate development while maintaining reliability and explainability The realities of entrepreneurship and building an early-stage company Why industry experience matters for people entering equipment finance technology Building a business around solving one problem extremely well Mitch’s home brewing hobby and life outside of work Mitch summed up his approach simply: solve one problem, solve it well, build software that works, and do good business with people you want to work with. Fireside Chats with Jesse features conversations with leaders throughout the equipment finance industry discussing technology, leadership, operations, sales, innovation and the future of equipment finance. Thank you to our Fireside Chat series sponsors: Consult Disrupt, Liventus, Inc. and Equipment Finance Cares. #EquipmentFinance #EquipmentLeasing #FinTech #Technology #API #Entrepreneurship #FiresideChatswithJesse