Overview
- Rithm confirmed a long-term minority equity investment in Valon, with financial terms undisclosed.
- Newrez, one of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers, will begin deploying ValonOS across more than 4 million loans in 2027.
- Rithm and Newrez say the rollout is intended to cut cost-to-service and improve the customer experience through automation.
- The announcement extends Rithm’s early backing of Valon and follows Newrez’s recent technology moves, including a January investment in underwriting platform Homevision.
- Valon describes ValonOS as an AI-native system that captures servicing data and decision logic to enable audit-ready scale, and the company, founded in 2019, has raised about $230 million, according to Tracxn.