London’s 101 Fastest Growing Lending Startups

July 30, 2022

At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and organisations we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.

We’ve ranked the top 101 Lending companies in London. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).

We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:

  • Track record
  • Executive leadership
  • Market share
  • Innovation
  • ESG rating

Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as CrunchbaseSemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Top Lending Companies & Startups (London)


Fintern

FoundersDr Michelle He, Gerald Chappell
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Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans.


LANDBAY

FoundersGray Stern, John Goodall
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Landbay is a specialist Buy to Let mortgage lender using peer-to-peer technology to fund its loans.


ezbob

FoundersTomer Guriel
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ezbob is a UK based software provider for banks and other financial institutions.


Funding Options

FoundersConrad Ford
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Funding Options is a business to business services marketplace platform operating in the UK and the Netherlands.


Pave

FoundersChris Butcher, Sho Sugihara
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The proper path to good credit


Keebo

FoundersMatthew Hallett, Michael Vanaselja
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Hey, we’re Keebo, the credit card designed for the new generation to build better credit and improve financial wellbeing.


CUDONI

FoundersJames Harford-Tyrer
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Europe’s only full-service luxury resale platform. Effortlessly buy and sell authentic designer items at up to 90% off retail price.


LendInvest

FoundersChristian Faes, Ian Thomas
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LendInvest is the leading marketplace platform for property finance.


Playter

FoundersJamie Beaumont, Theodor Chichirita
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Playter is funding the community of startups and scaleups by helping them convert any invoice into Buy Now, Pay Later.


Nexo

FoundersAntoni Trenchev, Georgi Shulev, Kosta Kantchev
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The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets


Knoma

FoundersBrett Shanley
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Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.


Plend

FoundersJames Pursaill, Robert Pasco
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Building a better way to borrow, where people are no longer held back by their credit history


Akrod Limited

FoundersAndrea Gerosa, Frederic Nze, Georgios Psonis
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Powering the next generation of credit technology for the world’s underbanked


Lendingblock

FoundersLinda Wang, Steve Swain
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Lendingblock is a securities lending platform for cryptocurrencies and digital assets.


Leanpay

FoundersMisa Zivic
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Leanpay is an omni-channel POS financing company that aims to disrupt consumer loans segment, and help consumers buy products they need.


Populous World

FoundersSteve Nico Williams
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Populous is an invoice and trade finance platform.


Wollit

FoundersLiad Shababo
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The UK’s most powerful financial membership


RateSetter

FoundersPeter Behrens, Rhydian Lewis
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RateSetter is a P2P lending platform allowing users to lend and borrow money directly from each other according to their own interest rates.


Lendflo

FoundersChristopher Smith, John Smith, Rémi Tuyaerts
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Invoice financing platform leveraging technology to make the process faster, simpler and cheaper for Small and Medium Businesses


Castle Trust

FoundersSean Oldfield
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Castle Trust is a privately held company that provides investment and mortgage products.


ZEON Network

FoundersUnknown
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ZEON Network: a decentralized platform for financial services. Crypto-backed loans, deposits, wallet, buy and sell digital assets.


Divido

FoundersAnders Hallsten, Christer Holloman, Fredrik Borgquist
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Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers.


Greensill Capital

FoundersJason Austin, Lex Greensill
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Greensill Capital is a provider of structured working capital financing to businesses globally.


Proportunity

FoundersStefan Boronea, Vadim Toader
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Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.


Ahauz

FoundersJoão Rocha, Karthik Srivats
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A proptech start-up helping first time buyers get on the property ladder.


Elfin Market

FoundersLakshithe Wagalath, Mansour Bouaziz
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Elfin Market is a peer-to-peer lending platform which offers its borrowers an affordable alternative to credit cards.


OnLadder

FoundersCameron Orcutt, Samuel Hatley
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OnLadder is a proptech company that aims to make property ownership accessible to everyone.


Trade Ledger

FoundersMartin McCann, Matthias Born
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Trade Ledger is a Business lending platform.


HARNESS Data Intelligence

FoundersBen Mein
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Commercial Data Intelligence


Paysme

FoundersDerek Stewart
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Paysme is a FinTech champion of SMEs.


Yielders

FoundersAbid Karim, Irfan Khan, Zee Uppal
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Yielders UK is a crowdfunding property investment platform that puts UK property investment within your reach.


Aviation and Tech Capital

FoundersDavid Bradley-Ward, Tony Griffin
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Owner of Ablrate.com an asset backed peer lending platform specialising in capital equipment and the world’s first to offer aircraft loans


Join Universe

FoundersMarcelo Barreneche
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Join Universe develops software for the financial industry to help people access credit on emerging countries.


Zorin Finance

FoundersLuke Townsend
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Zorin Finance is a Real estate company.


Leap

FoundersFawzi Kyriakos-Saad
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Leap‘s peer to peer (P2P) lending platform connects borrowers and lenders directly, creating a community where everyone can thrive.


LandlordInvest

FoundersFilip Karadaghi, Joe Vallender, Nikolajs Smirnovs
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LandlordInvest is an online marketplace which matches professional landlords.


Credit Peers

FoundersTorsten Hartmann
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Credit Peers is a privately held company that makes commercial property lending accessible to everyone.


Loanpad

FoundersLouis Schwartz
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Loanpad is a peer-to-peer lending platform with the operational simplicity and control of an online account.


Relendex

FoundersMichael Lynn
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Relendex is a peer-to-peer marketplace that brings together lenders for loans secured on professionally valued properties.


Tymit

FoundersJuan Montalvo Bressi, Martin Magnone, Nicolas Magnone
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Tymit is a provider of credit cards that offers financing purchases overtime and manages the monthly budget.


Zopa

FoundersDave Nicholson, Giles Andrews, James Alexander, Richard Duvall, Tim Parlett
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Zopa offers peer-to-peer loans with low rates, flexible terms, and no early repayment fees.


Paycado

FoundersNadya Miteva, Veselin Sidjimov
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Paycado is a new Fintech Neobank aiming to provide affordable and innovative banking services.


Simple Crowdfunding

FoundersAtuksha Poonwassie, Davin Poonwassie
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Simple Crowdfunding is a regulated peer to peer lending and crowdfunding platform, offering property finance.


Sensible Lender

FoundersUnknown
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Sensible Lender is a lending business


Funds4Talents

FoundersChristopher Muelhausen, Marcus Feistl, Rajbir Nirwan
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Income-Contingent Student Loans


RedCloud Technologies

FoundersJustin Floyd
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RedCloud believe technology will universally change the way in which services are distributed & accessed by people in new digital economy.


Emerio Banque

FoundersKenneth Jackson
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Emerio Banque Ltd is an International trade finance company providing LC, BG, documentary collections etc.services to global businesses.


Sphonic

FoundersAndy Lee
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Sphonic is a Context-Broker that leverages 3rd party vendor data with a workflow engine to enable fraud prevention, AML, KYC


Pepper Money

FoundersUnknown
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Pepper Money is a lender offering, exclusively through intermediaries, a variety of residential and sale mortgages that use common sense.


Mast

FoundersHenry Stanley, Joy Joseph Abisaab, Robert Stronach
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Mast is building cloud-native mortgage technology to help lenders process more mortgage applications in less time.


MARLO

FoundersSaravana Sivasankaran, Saul Greenberg
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MARLO is the world’s first lending platform for the $100 Billion+ ocean freight industry.


Beechbrook Capital

FoundersNick Fenn, Paul Shea
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Beechbrook Capital provides mezzanine finance and equity co-investments to support buy-outs of businesses by private equity.


Pomanda

FoundersAleksei Bazhenov, George Pennock, Gordon Husbands, Scott MacDonald
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The UK deal network and business insight platform for Private Companies, Investors and Lenders


easyMoney

FoundersStelios Haji-Ioannou
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easyMoney is a lending platform backed by UK Property.


Growth Lending

FoundersLance Mysyrowicz
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Growth Lending is a digital platform that provides financial services for companies.


BOMADU

FoundersAbi Elohim
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BOMADU is a home deposit finance platform.


Fundsquire UK

FoundersUnknown
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R&D Tax Credit Advance Finance


Alterest

FoundersJeevan Param
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Alterest is a data and intelligence provider.


Finalto

FoundersUnknown
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Finalto offers lending, trading, investment, risk management and financial solutions to businesses.


Lendwise

FoundersIoannis Georgiou
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Peer to Peer Loans, P2P Lending, Marketplace Loans, Education Finance


MoneyBaba

FoundersMarcelo Barreneche
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Moneybaba operates exclusively online and focusing on responsible lending and facilitating access to credit across emerging countries.


SME Capital

FoundersAntoine Grisay, James Kaberry
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SME Capital is a debt funding platform matching institutional investors.


Atempo Growth

FoundersJack Diamond, Luca Colciago, Matteo Avramov Giulivi
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Atempo Growth provides growth finance solutions to European tech startups at every level of their development.


Rise

FoundersJames Jameson
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On-demand health and wellbeing for the modern workplace & employee.


Logical Glue

FoundersColin Magee, Daniel McPherson
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Logical Glue is a software company that creates products to analyze data for a business to predict profitable outcomes for a business.


Library of Things

FoundersEmma Shaw, Rebecca Trevalyan, Sophia Wyatt
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Library of Things is a start-up that lends out products from drills to sound systems to GoPros from smart borrowing kiosks.


Koodoo

FoundersUnknown
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Koodoo works with lenders and aggregators to intelligently connect homeowners with their next mortgage.


Backbone

FoundersRon Shteinberg
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Credit as a Service


RCP Finance

FoundersChristopher Khoi
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RCP Finance is a London-based, pan-European independent specialist in property finance for commercial and residential investment properties.


Leno

FoundersUnknown
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At Leno, we create financial solutions for the people and the businesses that don’t have access to bank financing.


Fintex Capital

FoundersPhilip Schajer, Robert Stafler
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Fintex Capital is a unique investment firm dedicated to alternative credit


BETALD

FoundersJames Larsson
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BETALD is the worlds fastest invoice factoring platform. We can finance invoices in seconds and we do it safe too with our AI.


Brismo

FoundersRupert Taylor
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Brismo is a provider of lending performance data.


GLAS

FoundersUnknown
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GLAS provides direct lending, liability management, loan administration and escrow services.


Global Prime Partners

FoundersUnknown
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GPP is a multi-award winning financial services firm.


Riverfort Global Capital

FoundersUnknown
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Riverfort Global Capital provides venture capital, investment management, direct lending, high return impact investing & funding solutions.


Allium Money

FoundersUnknown
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Allium Money specialises in financing energy efficient home improvement projects.


CreditSCRIPT

FoundersAisha Sudally, Michael Arnaldi
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CreditSCRIPT is an alternative credit investment platform that helps professional investors assess loans and portfolios.


NextCredit

FoundersUnknown
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Nextcredit is a direct lender that offers online instalments loans.


Legion Finance Trade Limited

FoundersEdward Siciliano
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We are private limited company whose aim is to provide expert financial service to clients in areas of Project Financing and Loan Funding


My Community Finance

FoundersUnknown
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My Community Finance provides access to ethical and fairly-priced financial products to the borrowers and savers of the community.


Carplus

FoundersRoman daniel
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Carplus is an online financing platform that provides a wide range of new and used automobile loans and services.


Real Funds

FoundersAnup Jadhav
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Real Funds is a London based peer-to-peer lending platform that provides alternative finance to small and medium-sized house builders.


Reputation Transfer

FoundersKirill Slavin, Lana Holmen
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Unlocking the sharing economy’s data for insurers


London Loan Bank

FoundersUnknown
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London Loan Bank is the professional online credit lending company


Punjab National Bank (International)

FoundersUnknown
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Punjab National Bank (International) offers banking, NRI, money transfer facility, debit cards and lending services.


East Lodge Capital

FoundersUnknown
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East Lodge Capital is an investment firm that provides hedge funds, asset-based lending, commercial mortgage and employee benefit services.


Spotcap UK

FoundersUnknown
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Spotcap UK is an online lender for small and medium-sized businesses.


FAST INVEST

FoundersUnknown
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FAST INVEST is an alternative investment platform for investing in personal loans.


American TV.

FoundersUnknown
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American has built a market-leading reputation for exceptional customer service, selection, and price earning.


Os Money

FoundersRosie Wilson
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Os Money is a best Online Leander In United Kingdom.


eCoinomic

FoundersAlex Smolyanov, Maria Smolianova, Max Akulshin, Vitalii Topor
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eCoinomic is a financial services platform based on crypto assets.


Amicus Finance

FoundersUnknown
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Amicus is a financial services group, delivering outstanding property finance, commercial mortgages and asset finance solutions.


MoneyBoat

FoundersUnknown
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MoneyBoat provides payday, quick, fast, short-term, quick, emergency, installment loan options, lending, and brokerage services.


Century Capital

FoundersUnknown
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Century Capital offers bridging loans and mortgage services to entrepreneurs, first-time home buyers, and property developers.


Brydg

FoundersUnknown
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Brydg is a property financing and asset backed lending platform.


Ortus Secured Finance

FoundersUnknown
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Ortus Secured Finance provides lending, loan, financial and consulting services for residential and commercial sectors.


Orka Ventures

FoundersUnknown
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Orka Ventures is a fintech company that focuses on software products for loan applications as well as insurance, banking, and debit cards.


gkCredit

FoundersUnknown
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gkCredit is a lending company that provides consumer loans, small business loans, credit analytics, and scoring services for SMEs.


Tbc Bank Group

FoundersUnknown
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TBC Bank Group PLC is the UK-based parent company of JSC TBC Bank and its affiliates, Georgia’s largest banking group.


Housing Disrepair Helpline

FoundersUnknown
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Housing Disrepair Helpline helps tenants with free housing advice then connects them with housing solicitors to fight their cases.

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