A Sydney fintech startup has secured $800,000 in seed funding to help put its business loan marketplace in front of more Australian small businesses.

Valiant Finance is an online platform aiming to help SMEs secure loans with “unprecedented transparency”, matching users with lending partners through an algorithm.

The platform officially launched in November last year and has since partnered with 26 lenders. The seed funding rounds was led by Westpac’s VC fund Reinventure and supported by H2 Ventures and several angel investors.