In February 2015, AvantCredit acquired the debt management app and platform, ReadyForZero and re-branded itself to Avant.[12] The acquisition was designed to further Avant's mission of "lowering the costs and barriers of borrowing."[13] Another result of the acquisition was the opening of a second office location in Los Angeles, where Ready for Zero had initially been established by its founders, Rod Ebrahimi and Ignacio Thayer, who like Sun and Zhang were also Y-Combinator graduates.[14]