Tagged: streetshares

June 30, 2015 @ 1:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

StreetShares has received a California Finance Lenders’ License. The license provides the licensee with an exemption from the usury provision of the California Constitution. StreetShares, a veteran-owned and operated platform,  currently focuses on using competition and affinity lending to lower borrowing costs for veteran-owned small businesses…. Read More

May 13, 2015 @ 12:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

StreetShares, a peer-to-peer marketplace that is described as “Shark Tank meets eBay,” was named the lead Founding Affiliate of the Coalition for Veteran Business (CVOB), an alliance created by First Data Corporation and the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University (IVMF). The CVOB’s mission is to support the successes… Read More

April 30, 2015 @ 11:03 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Veteran and Military Business Owners Association (VAMBOA) and MilitaryConnection.com today announced their partnership with peer-to-peer (p2p) small business lender, StreetShares, to further enable veteran business owners to secure growth capital for their businesses. StreetShares recently secured $200 million to fund veteran businesses, the largest… Read More

March 11, 2015 @ 12:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

StreetShares, the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending marketplace for small business loans, today announced commitments from Direct Lending Investments, Community Investment Management (CIM) and Eagle Bank Corp for more than $200 million in funding to back loans on the StreetShares marketplace, with a focus on funding veteran-owned small businesses. Direct Lending Investments, a business… Read More

March 3, 2015 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer-to-peer lender StreetShares has announced that General George Casey will be joining the direct lender on its Board of Advisors. Casey’s appointment expands the Board to three members, alongside Fenway Summer, LLC’s Managing Partner, Raj Date, formerly of the CFPB, and SoFi Co-Founder, Pete Hartigan. General… Read More