January 17, 2019 @ 9:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Capify, a UK-based alternative small business financing provider, announced on Thursday it received a £75 million credit facility from Goldman Sachs Private Capital to support its future growth plans and provide working capital to thousands of Australian and British small businesses. Launched in 2008, Capify describes itself… Read More

January 15, 2019 @ 9:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Visa announced on Tuesday the launch of its new global initiative, She’s Next, Empowered by Visa, to champion women-owned small businesses everywhere. Through the initiative, women small business owners are able to build, sustain, and advance their businesses. According to Visa, She’s Next, will be supported… Read More

June 12, 2018 @ 11:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Radius Bank, a virtual bank focused on providing clients with banking solutions to better financial health, announced on Tuesday it has formed a partnership with Treasury Prime, a Y Combinator-backed startup, to create the Tailored Checking Account, a checking account designed for business owners. According to Radius, Tailored Checking Account… Read More

March 19, 2018 @ 11:44 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fundbox, a cash flow optimization tool platform for small businesses, announced last week it has launched a new payment and credit solution for small businesses serving other businesses called Fundbox Pay. The platform reported that it purposefully designed Fundbox Pay to help make business transactions… Read More

January 11, 2018 @ 7:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nav, a small business marketplace lending platform, announced this week it has facilitated more than 20,000 small business credit approvals in 2017. Founded in 2012, Nav described itself as an early-stage fintech company that uses data to help business owners get more funding, lower their costs,… Read More

January 9, 2018 @ 9:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube announced on Tuesday it has formed a partnership with Small Business UK to launch Small Business Grants, which is described as a free-to-enter initiative that offers £5,000 every month to a leading small business. The funding portal noted that the grant does not… Read More

July 12, 2016 @ 4:43 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Small businesses play a large part in the city.  Today marked the launch of For New York, a new online magazine from online lender Bond Street to spotlight the importance of these small businesses by interviewing their founders and owners.  Founded in New York City in 2014, Bond Street has… Read More

January 12, 2016 @ 2:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Biz2Credit revealed that according to its December 2015 small business lending index, approval rates at institutional lenders and big banks improved to a new post-recession highs. The small business financial technology platform revealed as the U.S. economy has steadily improved, big banks and institutional… Read More

December 8, 2015 @ 12:15 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Reversing a six-year downward trend, activity in established small businesses increased last year, according to a press release for the 2015 Kauffman Index: Main Street Entrepreneurship, a new report that tracks small business activity and ownership in the United States. Though the number of established small… Read More

November 23, 2015 @ 2:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fundera, an online marketplace for small business loans, announced on Monday the release of its new report on the State of Online Small Business Lending. The platform believes that this new document shows its dedication to transparency in the alternative lending sector. The report was… Read More

November 13, 2015 @ 11:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Biz2Credit, an online platform for small business funding, released its October small business lending index that showed the highest spike in big bank lending since the Great Recession. The company shared the monthly analysis of 1,000 loan applications revealed continued growth for institutional lenders and big banks,… Read More

October 21, 2015 @ 12:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lendix, a France-based small business loans platform, is gearing up for its international expansion by appointing new members to its growing team. Former Head of Daily Banking and Savings at online bank AXA Banque Pascal Ouvrard joins the company as International Development Director, reporting to… Read More

September 29, 2015 @ 4:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than a month away from its official launch at Money 20/20, marketplace platform for small business financing, Quote 2 Fund, announced on Tuesday Bank of the Internet co-founder, Mike Berengolts, will take the lead in programming and development for the San Diego-based small business… Read More

September 17, 2015 @ 11:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fundera, the online credit marketplace for small businesses, today announced an $11.5 million Series B funding round led by Susquehanna Growth Equity with participation from previous investors including QED Investors, Khosla Ventures and First Round Capital, bringing the company’s total funding to date to $15… Read More

August 13, 2015 @ 10:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Small business loan approval rates through institutional investors and alternative lenders remained higher than any other category in July 2015, according to the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index, the monthly analysis of 1,000 loan applications on Biz2Credit.com. Both categories approved approximately 61% of Biz2Credit’s total… Read More

June 17, 2015 @ 10:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

StreetShares, the peer-to-peer lending marketplace for small business loans, today announced a strategic partnership with The Company Corporation that will enable both companies to provide products, services and financing solutions to small business owners, with a special focus on U.S. Military veteran entrepreneurs. As the… 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

March 13, 2014 @ 11:53 am By Charles Luzar  |  

If you happen to have used the Internet in the past year or two, chances are you’ve stumbled upon a page created and hosted by LaunchRock. It’s a service that allowed anyone with an idea to quickly and easily set up a landing page and… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 11:19 am By Dan Gilmartin, Dr. Elisabeth Gerber & Chris Miller  |  

What would happen if we could invest in businesses in our own communities? What would happen if that entrepreneur you know could raise the capital needed to start a business from friends and neighbors and investors who are intimately familiar with the project? Michigan citizens… Read More

April 11, 2013 @ 12:21 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Today the US House of Representatives Committee on Small Business held a meeting today in an effort to provide an update on the implementation of the JOBS Act. Two panels were invited to testify on the record. The first panel included Lona Nallengara and John Ramsay of… Read More