Primary Job Title Founder, CEO & Chairman of the Board of Directors Primary Organization Nav
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage Number of Exits
Website www.nav.com LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Levi King is the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Nav. Raised on a farm in rural Idaho, King is a self-taught, serial entrepreneur who has started businesses in the manufacturing, franchising and retail financing spaces (and invested in many more). During this time, he had to work to overcome the same issues faced by most small business owners –
access to capital, financing, and marketplace credibility. After getting a handle on how business credit works, Levi was able to get business loans and financing more than 30 times.
Prior to starting Nav, he co-founded Lendio, a business financing marketplace that links commercial lenders and small business owners. While at Lendio, Levi saw too many applicants get denied for financing or only get approved for financing they couldn’t afford. He realized someone needed to help business owners become better-qualified applicants, which led him to start Nav.
Levi’s has regular columns in Inc., Entrepreneur and Forbes, and has been quoted in numerous new interviews on small business, credit, lending and fintech.
