Tagged: sam hodges

October 20, 2020 @ 1:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

​Vouch Insurance​, a business Insurtech platform for startups, has expanded its coverage into New York, according to a release. Vouch notes that in New York there are over 9,000 startups valued at $147 billion. The New York expansion marks a major milestone in Vouch’s growth,… Read More

July 16, 2020 @ 9:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Vouch, an Insurtech targeting the startup sector, says it has expanded its services from seed-stage startups to Series B companies while moving into 22 new states in the past 12 months. Vouch is on a mission to simplify the insurance process for early stage firms… Read More

November 21, 2019 @ 11:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Insurtech Vouch has raised $45 million in a Series B funding round according to a release. The funding was led by Y Combinator Continuity. To date, Vouch has raised $70 million capturing the backing of many prominent VCs including Ribbit Capital, SVB Financial Group, Y… Read More

September 19, 2019 @ 11:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Sam Hodges, c0-founder of SME P2P lender Funding Circle and former MD of US operations, has surfaced as the CEO and co-founder of a new startup “Vouch Insurance.” The Insurtech seeks to provide insurance products exclusively to startups and claims to be the “only insurance… Read More

April 3, 2018 @ 12:41 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Funding Circle, a leading small business loans platform, has expanded its U.S. operations with a second office in Denver, Colorado. With the move Funding Circle will look to hire around 290 new employees in the Denverarea over the next two years to support the company’s… Read More

March 14, 2018 @ 2:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, online lender Funding Circle announced it was appointed Bernardo Martinez as its new U.S. managing director. He succeeds co-founder Sam Hodges, who is now to become Chairman of Funding Circle U.S. According to Funding Circle, Martinez joins the platform’s team from PayPal, where he… Read More

March 1, 2017 @ 9:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

SME lender Funding Circle announced on Wednesday that Community Investment Management (CIM), an investment firm focused on marketplace lending, will finance an additional $100 million in loans to businesses originated through Funding Circle in the U.S. According to the online lending platform, the multi-year agreement… Read More

September 27, 2016 @ 9:02 am By Erin Hobey  |  

After 5 years, 4 months and 10 days marketplace lender Funding Circle hit £1 billion lent, and now, a mere 9 months later, the platform blogged its newest record, £1.5 billion lent. Funding Circle investors numbering over 50,000 have helped more than 16,000 businesses across the country. Independent research published by the… Read More

August 11, 2016 @ 10:12 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Finova Financial, a cloud and mobile-based consumer auto title lending platform, has raised $52.5 million in a combination of equity and a credit facility, claiming to be one of the largest initial rounds in FinTech industry history, announced the platform. The funding round was led by… Read More

April 17, 2016 @ 6:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

  LenditUSA 2016 was bigger than ever. If you look back just three years the venue and the organizers have scaled what was once a relatively small gathering of 375 industry participants in 2013 to one that is truly a global event with over 3,500… Read More

April 6, 2016 @ 11:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

As had been rumored for quite some time, marketplace lending leaders Lending Club (NYSE:LC), Prosper and Funding Circle, have announced the creation of an industry association to represent their interests and advocate on behalf of sector growth.  Formed as a not for profit membership organization,… Read More

December 17, 2015 @ 1:20 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

To help minority-owned small businesses navigate the evolving lending landscape and secure the right financing they need to grow, Funding Circle, a leading marketplace for business financing, has partnered with the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), a bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce. This news… Read More

November 24, 2015 @ 11:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

AlliedCrowds, has published a new Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurship report as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.  The data analysis company stated: “Crowdfunding is no longer just a niche form of financing for creative projects. In 2015, transactions across donations, lending, reward, and equity crowdfunding is expected to cross $34… Read More

November 16, 2015 @ 10:00 am By Georgia Quinn  |  

At a time when some are claiming that marketplace lending has not gone far enough to challenge the traditional banking system, Sam Hodges and Funding Circle have quietly proven that steadily acting on your principles and advancing your mission, can achieve meaningful change. It had… Read More

September 28, 2015 @ 11:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdnetic, a provider of technology and market data solutions to the marketplace lending industry, today announced the launch of “Marketplace Lending Gateway” (“Gateway”), a centralized technology platform that connects loan applicants from banks and retailers to alternative funding sources through a real-time matching and allocation… Read More

September 11, 2015 @ 2:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Marketplace lender Funding Circle has added a new partner to its growing roster of collaboraters. H&R Block, the accounting service provider, will now provide a new service for business loans of up to $500,000 via Funding Circle’s platform. The new agreement is described as bolstering… Read More

September 3, 2015 @ 4:00 pm By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  With the publication of the Small Business Borrowers’ Bill of Rights, one of the first consensuses on responsible small business lending practices, earlier this month, marketplace lending platforms including Funding Circle, Lending Club and Fundera showed their support for greater transparency for borrowers and accountability for platforms and… Read More

July 14, 2015 @ 4:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle is on a trajectory to originate around $1 billion in loans for 2015. The direct lender facilitated $100 million in loans in both the US and UK combined for the month of June, according to CEO and founder Samir Desai. The marketplace lending… Read More

May 29, 2015 @ 7:33 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  Skim the peer-to-peer lending headlines over the last few months, and Funding Circle is a regular part of the news cycle. This year alone, the 5-year-old company received a capital boost to the tune of $150 million (the equity funding round was led by DST Global with participation from Baillie Gifford,… Read More

May 15, 2015 @ 2:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

The House Committee on Small Business held a hearing this past week to discuss peer to peer lending.  With the influx of institutional funds into P2P lending platforms, many direct lenders are taking up the banner of “Marketplace Lending”.  This does not mean small investors… Read More