
Starkapital: the custom SaaS lending core handling COP 1B+ in loans every month
In 10 months, DataLab built the SaaS core for Starkapital, a Colombian fintech that finances taxis and other public transport vehicles. The platform covers every loan from origination to portfolio management and now handles more than COP 1 billion a month in loan processing.

Starkapital by the numbers
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Context
Starkapital is a fintech that finances income-generating vehicles: taxis and other public transport vehicles. For the driver, the vehicle is how they earn a living; for the lender, every loan is a cycle that starts with an application and ends with the final payment. That entire cycle had to live in one place.
The challenge for Starkapital
At many lenders, origination, approval and portfolio management sit in separate tools, and data gets copied from one to the next. Starkapital needed the opposite: a single system that tracks every loan end to end, with rules built for its niche, and that can keep up as monthly volume grows.
The hypothesis
If the full loan lifecycle runs on one SaaS core designed for commercial vehicle financing, the team works from the same data at every stage, and operations can scale without rebuilding processes every time volume climbs.
What we did
- Mapped the full loan journey with Starkapital's team, from origination to portfolio management, through our discovery and requirements process.
- Designed the UX/UI for each stage so everyone operating the loan works from the same information.
- Built the custom SaaS core with Scrum, shipping in sprints over 10 months from our nearshore team in Bogotá.
- Unified each loan's data in one system, from application to collections.
- Documented and reviewed every release with Starkapital's team, as our ISO 9001:2015-certified quality system requires.
- Tracked monthly credit volume flowing through the platform as the core's adoption metric.
Results for Starkapital
After 10 months, the core supports loan processing worth more than COP 1 billion a month. Origination and servicing share one platform and one data set, so every decision on a loan is made with its full history in view. For a lender whose customers depend on their vehicles to earn a living, that single view is what lets the business grow without losing control.
Stack and tools
- Custom SaaS lending core
- Loan origination
- Portfolio management
- UX/UI design
- Scrum sprints
What we learned
In asset-based lending, technology has to understand the business before the code. Designing the core around the full loan lifecycle, not around a single department, is what lets volume grow without operations falling apart.
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