Tagged: marketplace lending

May 22, 2015 @ 10:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“We are extremely excited by the possibilities of the next decade in the alternative finance market… OnDeck’s vision is to transform how money flows to small businesses by leveraging our platform to provide capital on demand for small business owners. The data flowing through a small… Read More

May 14, 2015 @ 8:42 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Small business financing leader Guidant Financial has entered a strategic partnership with InvestNextDoor to create what they believe to be the marketplace lending industry’s largest small business loan origination agreement: Guidant Financial has committed to drive at least $100 million in business to InvestNextDoor’s marketplace lending platform. “Our business is solving… Read More

May 14, 2015 @ 2:28 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

In a Wednesday hearing titled “Bridging the Small Business Capital Gap: Peer-to-Peer Lending,” Funding Circle‘s co-founder and managing director Sam Hodges presented to the House Committee on Small Business​. According to the committee’s website, “The purpose of the hearing was to examine the rise of peer-to-peer lending platforms… Read More

April 28, 2015 @ 8:47 am By Erin Hobey  |  

OnDeck Capital, a U.S.-based online marketplace which offers short-term loans to businesses of between $5,000 and $250,000, is expanding its offerings in Canada, joining a growing number of tech-oriented lenders that promise to transform the financial services landscape, according to 680 news.  Experts say Canada has… Read More

March 12, 2015 @ 12:42 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

EVEN Financial today announced it has raised $2.8M in seed funding. The round was led by Canaan Partners, who also led the first venture-backed investment rounds for Lending Club and Orchard Platform in the P2P lending market. Other investors include Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Ron Suber of Prosper, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Conversion Capital, Social Leverage, 555… Read More

March 11, 2015 @ 10:39 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Study of 15,000 Companies Finds Average Revenues of Women-Owned Businesses Increased Nearly 40% in a Year-to-Year Comparison. Analysis shows that a gender-gap still exists, despite the increased profitability that we are seeing with women-owned business in recent years. Average annual revenues and loan approval percentages of… Read More

December 29, 2014 @ 9:42 am By Erin Hobey  |  

In his blog on Spend Matters Network, David Gustin eloquently highlights several themes that impact the world of business credit during 2014: “The first of course is the rise of alternative lending products that go by such categories as online receivable auctions, private pcard exchanges, and peer… Read More

December 5, 2014 @ 1:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Orchard Platform has been on the move recently.  The catalyst for the peer to peer lending industry is flexing its tech muscle once again by announcing the release of a new application giving investors more analytical power in their decision making process.  The “Orchard Originator… Read More

December 3, 2014 @ 2:30 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

After reading Orchard Platform’s Bill Ullman elegantly deliberated “Is Fin-Tech History Rhyming Again?” on the platform’s blog last week and prepared for Thanksgiving, I wondered how the early days of online trading revisit fintech and crowdfunding disruption innovation.  While prepping for last week’s feast, I… Read More

November 20, 2014 @ 7:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Prosper, a leading peer to peer or “marketplace” lending platform, Q3 results are available via their 10Q filing at the SEC.  According to the document $493 million in loans originated on the platform for the 3 months ending in September.  This was generated by a… Read More

November 17, 2014 @ 10:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Orchard Platform, an investment and analytics platform focused on the global peer to peer or “marketplace lending” market, partnered with Duff & Phelps, a global valuation and corporate finance advisor.  The partnership is described as allowing Orchard clients to effectively view online lending portfolios and… Read More

October 21, 2014 @ 1:51 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Orchard, the Marketplace Lending Platform backed by Spark Capital, Canaan Partners, and industry veterans, secures $14.7M in total investments Founded in NYC 2013, Orchard Platform, an investment and analytics platform focused on the global marketplace lending market, today announced it has raised $12 million in Series A… Read More

October 17, 2014 @ 11:33 am By Erin Hobey  |  

An Interview with Orchard Platform’s CEO Matt Burton Founded in 2013, the tech company Orchard Platform enables Direct Lending originators and institutional investors to optimize and scale Direct Lending at a global level. The Orchard Platform Advisors, LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Orchard Platform (Orchard… Read More