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Plend - the social lending marketplace
by: Startacus Admin ~ 23rd September 2021
The lowdown on Plend, the London-based fintech that's on a mission to end the hardship caused by financial exclusion so people are not held back by their credit history
Financial exclusion is a growing issue where people are, as the term suggests, excluded from financial services and can access nothing more than a basic bank account. Financial insecurity affects more than 13 million people in t...
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P2P investment aggregator Orca raises £500k in two days
by: Startacus Admin ~ 18th September 2018This week (w/c 17 Sept 2018) P2P investment aggregator Orca announced that it was raising £500K on equity crowdfunding platform, Seedrs. By the end of play Tuesday, the Fintech startup had exceeded it's campaign target.
For two years, Orca has been providing market-leading research on the peer to peer lending (P2P) sector. Their data-driven analyses and insights have supported ret...
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Access to Business Finance in NI and ROI
by: Startacus Admin ~ 13th April 2015Access to Business Finance in NI and ROI (excluding the Banks!)
Following on from our recent article on the organisations that can support your startup in Ireland (North and South), Donal Leahy, Business Boot Camp Programme Manager at Enterprise NI has kindly offered to write a separate, but inter-linked article on the non-bank finance options which are currently available to businesses, startup ...
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