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Funding Xchange

Transforming SME lending by accelerating and improving lending decisions

Funding Xchange logo
21-100 employees
  • Fintech
  • B2B
  • SaaS
London, UK

Company mission

To unlock capital for SMEs by helping banks and lenders make quicker, better and safer landing decisions

Led by a woman

Our take

Accessing funding is vital for the growth of businesses of any size, but finding the right lender can be a time-consuming process. Access to lenders is often limited and the funding options that they provide follow a "one size fits all" approach, leading available options to be unaffordable and inaccessible to SMEs.

The first product the Company launched was a digital credit broking platform, the Funding Xchange Marketplace, which has been running for nearly a decade, serving hundreds of thousands of customers, in which time the technology proved its worth, reducing approval time by 75% and saving SMEs on average £9,000 per loan in financing costs (a 57% saving). These learnings from the direct Marketplace enabled Funding Xchange to build market leading technology solutions and today, Funding Xchange is providing white-label software solutions for banks and lenders and is also developing industry-wide solutions that join up the SME finance ecosystem, deliver greater transparency and ensure businesses can access suitable products that address their needs.

Funding Xchange products have been adopted by 80 of the most innovative high street banks, challenger banks and specialist lenders. The company has been recognised as a leading innovator in the commercial lending space and has won numerous international awards, including a BCR grant. In 2024, it raised a Series B, backed by Barclays, which will catalyse the business’ ability to drive ecosystem adoption of these digital tools.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • Flexible / hybrid working
  • Virtual GP, employee assistance and wellbeing support
  • 25 days annual leave plus UK Bank Holidays
  • Life Assurance – 4 x base salary should the worst happen
  • Recruitment referral scheme
  • Autoenrollment in a pension scheme with contributions from Funding Xchange

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Apr 2024

$12.8m

SERIES B

Sep 2020

$10.2m

SERIES A

Total funding: $31.3m

Leadership

Experience as Senior Director of Strategic Planning and Head of Regional Marketing for American Express from 2005 to 2007. Manager and Principal of Bain & Company from 2007 to 2014.