Boston, MA: Building a Fintech in Three Months — Lessons from HarborLine Technology

HarborLine Technology streamlines the securities-based lending process by connecting investment portfolios with banks willing to lend against them, automating collateral intelligence, simplifying documentation, and accelerating approvals using modern AI infrastructure.

This session unpacks the strategic, technical, and operational decisions that enabled HarborLine to move from concept to a functioning product in weeks. Speakers will walk through the earliest architectural choices, the compliance and risk considerations for lending products, and the role of automation in reducing friction for banks and borrowers. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of how HarborLine built a scalable, partner-ready fintech platform by focusing on a real market inefficiency: the difficulty mass-affluent investors face in unlocking liquidity from their portfolios.

The HarborLine team — a group built at Babson — will lead the discussion, featuring three Babson alumni and one Babson professor: 

• Peter Gordon MBA '96, Founder & CEO, HarborLine Technology 
• Othmane Maacha MSF '25, Product Lead, HarborLine Technology 
• Jamie Modiano'26, Project Manager, HarborLine Technology
• Professor Linghang Zeng, Chief Scientist & Head of Risk, HarborLine Technology 

Designed for founders, innovators, and students interested in fintech, this program offers a practical blueprint for launching a financial technology product at startup speed — grounded in HarborLine’s own journey from idea to implementation.

This is an event as part of Boston Fintech Week, presented by Fintech Sandbox.