Salient is a vertical AI company building AI agents that handle borrower interactions for consumer finance and lending companies across voice, text, email and chat. Its AI agents automate routine customer service and servicing workflows such as payment collection, payoff processing, insurance updates and account questions, helping lenders improve customer experience while substantially reducing servicing and contact-center costs, all with compliance in mind for a regulated industry. Salient's platform has been deployed by lenders including Consumer Portfolio Services to advance their collections and servicing strategy. The company raised a $60M round with participation from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Matrix Partners, Y Combinator and Michael Ovitz to scale its AI-powered loan servicing and borrower support platform.