Built by bank lenders to fix commercial lending
LenderMatch was built by bank lenders who saw the broken side of commercial lending firsthand. Too many qualified borrowers get rejected, not because they aren't creditworthy, but because they applied to the wrong lender.
The only marketplace that matches you privately to one right lender, instead of blasting your deal to fifty wrong ones.
Our Mission
Bridge the gap between qualified borrowers and the right lenders, without shotgun applications, identity exposure, or guesswork. Every borrower deserves a lender who actually wants to fund their deal.
How We're Different
Privacy-First Matching
Your identity stays hidden until you choose to reveal it. Lenders see anonymized opportunity details, never your name or contact info, until you accept.
One Lender at a Time
No shotgun applications. We match you with one highly-aligned lender, ensuring focused attention and better terms.
A Proprietary Matching Engine
Our engine weighs dozens of dimensions like category fit, geography, lending velocity, and portfolio trends to find the lender most likely to fund your deal.
12,924+ Lender Network
We analyze public regulatory call-report data on more than 12,924+ banks, credit unions, and private lenders to identify institutions actively lending in your category.
Meet the Team
Lisa Steinwart
Fearless Leader
Dr. Lisa is an entrepreneur and business leader with more than 30 years of executive experience. She founded Steinwart Audiology in 1995 and built it from the ground up, running strategy, finance, and operations while never losing sight of the people she served. Having built her own business from nothing, she knows firsthand how much access to the right capital matters, and she brings that conviction to every borrower LenderMatch helps. Off the clock she has led the choir at St. Luke's Lutheran in Montgomery for 17+ years, is finishing her Italian dual citizenship to reconnect with her Sicilian roots, and will happily argue that pizza is a food group. A Slytherin through and through, give her a goal and she will find the way to get it done.
Charlie Miles
Chief Problem-Solver
Charlie is a commercial banker and builder who graduated #1 in his class from Notre Dame's business school. He built a commercial loan portfolio from the ground up at State Bank of the Lakes, the community bank his father led, and today serves as VP of Commercial Lending at First Secure Community Bank, where he has posted the group's highest loan growth with zero delinquencies. Along the way he led fintech and regtech ventures and built LenderMatch's matching logic, data flow, and document review. Away from work he plays soccer, hits the gym, and hops the occasional flight to free dive (no tank required), while striving to steward his time, talent, treasure, and testimony well at Calvary Church of Naperville, proud Hufflepuff that he is.
Scott Pfister
The Closer
Scott brings more than two decades in consumer and mortgage lending operations, spanning underwriting, compliance, processing, and closing, across community banks and national lenders. He is the person who gets a deal from approval to funded, and years spent investigating mortgage fraud gave him an eye for the detail everyone else misses. As VP of Operations at LenderMatch since 2024, he runs the deal desk that keeps borrowers moving. Outside work he is active at St. Paul's Lutheran in Aurora.
Michelle Steinwart
Vision Steward
Michelle spends her days helping people, as a hearing instrument specialist at Steinwart Audiology and as a certified health and life coach with a master's in nutrition. She brings a people-first instinct to a business that is ultimately about relationships, not just transactions. A devoted fantasy fan and proud Hufflepuff, she believes small, steady steps are how real change happens, for your health and for a business chasing its next stage of growth.
In Memoriam
Randy Miles
Founder, LenderMatch LLC
Sep 21, 1951 to Jan 13, 2026
In 1984, at the age of 33, Randy negotiated his family's acquisition of a community bank in Antioch, Illinois. He led it as President, and from 1994 also as Chairman, until its sale in January 2005; he renamed it State Bank of the Lakes in 1989 as it grew across Lake and McHenry Counties. In his first eight years he took the bank from a below-average regulatory rating to a very strong one and lifted Tier 1 capital from 5.5% to over 9%, growing deposits every year while diversifying the loan portfolio and driving down delinquencies and charge-offs. He negotiated the sale to Wintrust Financial himself, without an investment bank, at the highest price relative to book value or earnings paid in the Chicago area in more than two decades.
Two decades of saying yes and no to commercial borrowers taught him the conviction LenderMatch is built on: most businesses that get turned down are not bad credits; they simply knocked on the wrong door. He was known for his warmth, his humor, and a laugh that filled a room. Everything here still runs on his idea, and we are grateful to carry his work forward.
The Engine Behind the Match
Under the hood, LenderMatch runs a proprietary multi-dimension matching engine. It reads public regulatory data on thousands of institutions and scores each one against your specific deal: loan category, geography, lending appetite, portfolio direction, and much more, so the lender you meet is the one most likely to say yes.
Who We Serve
LenderMatch serves commercial borrowers seeking financing and the community banks, credit unions, and private lenders who want to fund them. We focus on the relationship-driven middle of the market, real businesses and the local institutions built to back them, where the right introduction changes the outcome.
How LenderMatch Compares
| LenderMatch | The old way | |
|---|---|---|
| Your identity | Hidden until you reveal it | Shared with everyone you apply to |
| Lenders contacted | One aligned lender at a time | Blasted to dozens at once |
| How lenders are chosen | Data-driven fit scoring | Whoever pays for the lead |
| Your credit inquiries | Minimized and controlled | Hit repeatedly by every lender |
Part of the Luminate Family
LenderMatch is one of several products we build for borrowers, banks, and the people who advise them.
LenderReady
Get your business financing-ready before you ever apply.
TruRate
Transparent rate comparison for community-bank borrowers.
CallReports
Call-report data and analytics for financial institutions.
PeerAnalysis
Peer benchmarking that scores how your institution stacks up.
KYCClear
B2B KYC and AML compliance, made clear.
Padlocker
Scam protection that keeps people's money safe.
BankerBoy
Distressed-debt and turnaround advisory.
Take LenderMatch With You
The LenderMatch mobile app is coming soon to iOS and Android.