Trent Hedge

Trent Hedge is the Founder and CEO of Pylon, a mortgage infrastructure platform based in San Francisco, USA. Under his leadership, Pylon has raised over $30 million in funding and developed enterprise-grade APIs that support the processing of 25,000 loans per month. The fintech startup recently secured a strategic minority investment from Citi, establishing a partnership to sell mortgages directly through the financial institution's trading desk. Prior to launching Pylon, Hedge co-founded Atmos, a digital custom homebuilding company that participated in the Y Combinator Summer 2020 cohort before becoming inactive. His ventures have attracted backing from prominent investors and institutions, including Conversion Capital, Khosla Ventures, Peter Thiel, and Sam Altman. Hedge maintains a primary professional focus on developing programmatic originations and capital markets integration within the broader real estate technology sector.