Koyo

Personal loans for people with short credit histories

Koyo logo
21-100 employees
  • Fintech
  • B2C
  • Credit Scoring
  • Banking
  • Personal finance
  • Lending
Soho, London, UK

Company mission

Koyo's mission is to lead the world in using alternative data to serve millions of people with competitively priced credit.

Top investors

25% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Koyo provides loans intended for people with short credit histories. The company offers fairly priced credit and coaches customers on things they can do to improve their credit scores, enabling young people, immigrants and students to receive competitively priced financial products.

The company looks at how customers spend their money on a day-to-day basis, rather than what a credit agency says about them. The idea is to offer attractive rates and cheaper borrowing to a usually underserved market, which equates to 13-15 million people in the U.K.

Recent funding will allow Koyo to continue to give many people in the U.K. access to competitively priced credit, during a time when most traditional lenders are quick to scale back their lending.

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Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • Free weekly yoga, meditation and breathing classes
  • 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Company pension scheme, with matched contributions
  • Competitive salary
  • Fun and friendly colleagues (at least we hope we are!)

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Oct 2022

$6.5m

SERIES A

Sep 2021

$24m

SERIES A

Total funding: $36.4m

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Leadership

Previously Business Analyst at Nasdaq for 2 years and Trader Analyst at Verition Fund Management for 3 years