aid: commonbond
name: CommonBond
description: >-
  CommonBond was a New York City based financial technology lender founded in 2011 by David Klein,
  Michael Taormina and Jessup Shean that refinanced student loans for university graduates and
  originated in-school loans for MBA, law, medical and engineering students, later adding Parent PLUS
  refinancing and a solar/green home-improvement lending product. It raised institutional debt and
  equity financing, including a $35M Series B in 2015 and a $150M lending partnership with Nelnet,
  and operated a consumer lending platform at commonbond.co with an externally documented Postman
  based API at api-docs.commonbond.co. The company exited student loan refinancing in 2022 after the
  federal payment and interest pause removed much of the refinance market, pivoted to solar lending,
  and subsequently wound down. As of this profile the commonbond.co domain is parked and every path
  on it, including the former API documentation host, returns HTTP 410 Gone, so no public API surface
  remains to profile.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/commonbond/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-09'
modified: '2026-08-09'
tags:
- Company
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Lending
- Student Loans
- Consumer Finance
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/commonbond_stock/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-09'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: >-
    CommonBond wound down after exiting student loan refinancing in 2022; commonbond.co is now a
    ParkingCrew "Buy this domain" holding page and every path on it — including the former Postman
    documented API host api-docs.commonbond.co — answers HTTP 410 Gone, and the CommonBond GitHub
    organization holds zero public repositories.
  evidence:
  - url: http://commonbond.co/
    status: 410
  - url: http://api-docs.commonbond.co/
    status: 410
  - url: http://commonbond.co/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 410
  - url: http://commonbond.co/openapi.json
    status: 410
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/commonbond
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-09'