UK company record
Funding Circle
SME/P2P marketplace lending platform (loan origination and institutional funding for small businesses)
VerifiedCore UK
Snapshot
- UK location
- London · London
- Sector
- Fintech & payments
- Latest recorded round
- IPO
- Latest recorded amount
- £300M primary raise (IPO), implied valuation reported as ~£1.5bn-£2bn depending on source
- Date
- 2018-09-28
Legal-identity layer
Verified identity.
- Selected legal name
- FUNDING CIRCLE HOLDINGS PLC
- Company number
- 07123934
- Companies House status
- active
- Incorporated
- 2010-01-13
Investors
- Index VenturesLead
- none disclosed in sources foundParticipant
- Index Ventures, Union Square VenturesLead
- n/aParticipant
- Accel PartnersLead
- Ribbit Capital, Union Square Ventures, Index VenturesParticipant
- Index VenturesLead
- Accel Partners, Union Square Ventures, Ribbit CapitalParticipant
- DST GlobalLead
- Baillie Gifford, a fund managed by BlackRock, Sands Capital Ventures, TemasekParticipant
- AccelLead
- Union Square Ventures, Baillie Gifford, Index Ventures, DST Global, Ribbit Capital, Rocket Internet, Sands Capital Ventures, TemasekParticipant
- N/A (public listing)Lead
- cornerstone investor Anders Povlsen (Bestseller) committed to buy at least 10% of the offeringLead
- n/aParticipant
Current directors and active controllers
- BECK, HelenCurrent director
- BYRNE, Maeve AnnCurrent director
- DEFRIEZ, Tamsin Maria ToddCurrent director
- HARVEY, Richard JohnCurrent director
- JACOBS, Lisa JaneCurrent director
- NELIS, Hendrik WillemCurrent director
- NICOL, Anthony Richard CraigCurrent director
- RIMER, NeilCurrent director
- STANNARD, Kenneth JohnCurrent director
- WHITELEY, SarahCurrent director
- ASMUSSEN, Jörgdirector
- BENNETT, Jeremy John Leonarddirector
- DANIELS, John Ericdirector
- DESAI, Samirdirector
- EDMANS, Michael Laurencedirector
- GLITHERO, Sean Robertdirector
- GOPALAN, Geetadirector
- GRIFFITHS, Lisa Janesecretary
- KEERS, Catherine Janedirector
- KING, Matthew James Wyattdirector
- LEAROYD, Andrew Digbydirector
- MEEKINGS, Jamessecretary
- MEEKINGS, Jamesdirector
- MORGAN, Alan Williamdirector
- MULLINGER, Andrew Christopher Arthurdirector
- OVALSEC LIMITEDcorporate-secretary
- STEEL, Robert Kingdirector
- VERNALL, Lucysecretary
- WHITE, Oliver Johndirector
- WRAY, Edward Jamesdirector
- ZIRANOVA, Eugeniasecretary
Funding rows
- Series A$4.14M · 2011-04-20
- Series B$16M · 2012-04-01
- Series C$37M · 2013-10-24
- Series D$65M · 2014-07-16
- Series E$150M · 2015-04-22
- Series F$100M · 2017-01-11
- IPO£300M primary raise (IPO), implied valuation reported as ~£1.5bn-£2bn depending on source · 2018-09-28
Sources
- https://www.indexventures.com/companies/funding-circle/
- https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/behind-the-scenes-with-funding-circle/
- https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/01/p2p-small-business-lending-site-funding-circle-a-kickstarter-for-smbs-picks-up-16m-from-index-union-square-ventures/
- https://www.usv.com/writing/2012/04/funding-circle/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_Circle
- https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/funding-circle-series-c--a89fb846
- https://www.indexventures.com/news/funding-circle-announces-65m-investment-to-fuel-international-growth-of-marketplace
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/devinthorpe/2014/07/16/fundingcircle-announces-65m-series-d/
- https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/22/p2p-lending-site-funding-circle-raises-150m-led-by-dst-at-a-1b-valuation/
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/funding-circle-announces-150-million-investment-to-fuel-growth-300070631.html
- https://venturebeat.com/2017/01/11/funding-circle-raises-100-million
- https://debanked.com/2017/01/funding-circle-announces-100-million-equity-investment-to-help-thousands-more-small-businesses-globally/
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-01-12/funding-circle-raises-100-million-equity-funding
- https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/28/funding-circle-ipo/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/19/funding-circle-ipo-pricing-announced-valuing-firm-up-to-2point4-billion.html
- https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/FCH/funding-circle-holdings-plc/company-page
- https://www.indexventures.com/companies/funding-circle/
- https://www.indexventures.com/perspectives/behind-the-scenes-with-funding-circle/
- https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/01/p2p-small-business-lending-site-funding-circle-a-kickstarter-for-smbs-picks-up-16m-from-index-union-square-ventures/
- https://www.usv.com/writing/2012/04/funding-circle/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funding_Circle
- https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/funding-circle-series-c--a89fb846
- https://www.indexventures.com/news/funding-circle-announces-65m-investment-to-fuel-international-growth-of-marketplace
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/devinthorpe/2014/07/16/fundingcircle-announces-65m-series-d/
- https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/22/p2p-lending-site-funding-circle-raises-150m-led-by-dst-at-a-1b-valuation/
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/funding-circle-announces-150-million-investment-to-fuel-growth-300070631.html
- https://venturebeat.com/2017/01/11/funding-circle-raises-100-million
- https://debanked.com/2017/01/funding-circle-announces-100-million-equity-investment-to-help-thousands-more-small-businesses-globally/
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-01-12/funding-circle-raises-100-million-equity-funding
- https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/28/funding-circle-ipo/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/19/funding-circle-ipo-pricing-announced-valuing-firm-up-to-2point4-billion.html
- https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/FCH/funding-circle-holdings-plc/company-page