Valon
How Valon Built a FinTech Platform That Scaled Like an Enterprise Without Startup Growing Pains
About
Valon is a next-generation FinTech platform built to handle millions in regulated financial transactions with zero tolerance for failure. From loan servicing to payment processing and regulatory reporting, Valon needed a system that was fast to launch yet strong enough to survive enterprise-level scrutiny.
Key Results
The Opportunity
Like most FinTech founders, Valon faced the toughest paradox: move fast enough to capture market share, but build strong enough to survive regulation and high transaction volumes.
Most startups in financial services try to solve this by:
The result? Compliance headaches, scaling bottlenecks, and expensive rebuilds within 12–18 months. Valon wanted to skip those traps.
The Impact
Challenge | With Typical MVPs | With Better Software |
Technical debt & bottlenecks | Monoliths collapse as teams grow past 10 engineers | Modular domains enabled 5–10 teams working in parallel |
Compliance risk | High penalties for outages or data breaches | Zero compliance violations during rapid growth |
Scalability ceiling | Databases fail at 10K+ daily transactions | Architecture scaled seamlessly to enterprise volumes |
Slowed feature delivery | Feature conflicts & long QA cycles | 15–20 features/month delivered reliably |
The Solution
Better Software partnered with Valon to design foundations that combined startup speed with enterprise-grade resilience.
Our Approach
Modular architecture: 290+ domain-specific modules allowed independent development and deployment, avoiding monolithic slowdowns. Type safety everywhere: Full TypeScript + Python typing eliminated entire classes of production bugs. Testing-first culture: 7,500+ automated tests with compliance validation provided a built-in audit trail. Custom frameworks: Internal tooling for code generation, migrations, and deployments multiplied developer productivity as the team scaled.
Lessons for Other Founders
Strong foundations are not a luxury in regulated industries, they’re survival insurance.
Focus on modularity, testing, and type safety early; they pay back in 6–12 months.
The more complex your domain, the higher the ROI from investing in proper architecture.
Better Software helped Valon prove that in FinTech, startups don’t need to choose between speed and stability, you can have both from day one.
“By investing in strong engineering foundations, we captured our market opportunity twice as fast while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability. We avoided the technical debt crisis that kills most FinTech startups.”
