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 Crunchbase, SemRush 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
Founders | Dr 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
Founders | Gray 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
Founders | Tomer Guriel |
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ezbob is a UK based software provider for banks and other financial institutions.
Funding Options
Founders | Conrad Ford |
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Funding Options is a business to business services marketplace platform operating in the UK and the Netherlands.
Pave
Founders | Chris Butcher, Sho Sugihara |
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The proper path to good credit
Keebo
Founders | Matthew 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
Founders | James 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
Founders | Christian Faes, Ian Thomas |
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LendInvest is the leading marketplace platform for property finance.
Playter
Founders | Jamie 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
Founders | Antoni Trenchev, Georgi Shulev, Kosta Kantchev |
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The World’s Leading Regulated Financial Institution for Digital Assets
Knoma
Founders | Brett Shanley |
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Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Plend
Founders | James 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
Founders | Andrea Gerosa, Frederic Nze, Georgios Psonis |
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Powering the next generation of credit technology for the world’s underbanked
Lendingblock
Founders | Linda Wang, Steve Swain |
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Lendingblock is a securities lending platform for cryptocurrencies and digital assets.
Leanpay
Founders | Misa 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
Founders | Steve Nico Williams |
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Populous is an invoice and trade finance platform.
Wollit
Founders | Liad Shababo |
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The UK’s most powerful financial membership
RateSetter
Founders | Peter 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
Founders | Christopher 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
Founders | Sean Oldfield |
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Castle Trust is a privately held company that provides investment and mortgage products.
ZEON Network
Founders | Unknown |
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ZEON Network: a decentralized platform for financial services. Crypto-backed loans, deposits, wallet, buy and sell digital assets.
Divido
Founders | Anders 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
Founders | Jason Austin, Lex Greensill |
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Greensill Capital is a provider of structured working capital financing to businesses globally.
Proportunity
Founders | Stefan Boronea, Vadim Toader |
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Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Ahauz
Founders | João Rocha, Karthik Srivats |
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A proptech start-up helping first time buyers get on the property ladder.
Elfin Market
Founders | Lakshithe 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
Founders | Cameron Orcutt, Samuel Hatley |
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OnLadder is a proptech company that aims to make property ownership accessible to everyone.
Trade Ledger
Founders | Martin McCann, Matthias Born |
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Trade Ledger is a Business lending platform.
HARNESS Data Intelligence
Founders | Ben Mein |
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Commercial Data Intelligence
Paysme
Founders | Derek Stewart |
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Paysme is a FinTech champion of SMEs.
Yielders
Founders | Abid 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
Founders | David 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
Founders | Marcelo Barreneche |
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Join Universe develops software for the financial industry to help people access credit on emerging countries.
Zorin Finance
Founders | Luke Townsend |
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Zorin Finance is a Real estate company.
Leap
Founders | Fawzi 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
Founders | Filip Karadaghi, Joe Vallender, Nikolajs Smirnovs |
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LandlordInvest is an online marketplace which matches professional landlords.
Credit Peers
Founders | Torsten Hartmann |
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Credit Peers is a privately held company that makes commercial property lending accessible to everyone.
Loanpad
Founders | Louis Schwartz |
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Loanpad is a peer-to-peer lending platform with the operational simplicity and control of an online account.
Relendex
Founders | Michael Lynn |
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Relendex is a peer-to-peer marketplace that brings together lenders for loans secured on professionally valued properties.
Tymit
Founders | Juan 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
Founders | Dave 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
Founders | Nadya Miteva, Veselin Sidjimov |
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Paycado is a new Fintech Neobank aiming to provide affordable and innovative banking services.
Simple Crowdfunding
Founders | Atuksha Poonwassie, Davin Poonwassie |
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Simple Crowdfunding is a regulated peer to peer lending and crowdfunding platform, offering property finance.
Sensible Lender
Founders | Unknown |
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Sensible Lender is a lending business
Funds4Talents
Founders | Christopher Muelhausen, Marcus Feistl, Rajbir Nirwan |
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Income-Contingent Student Loans
RedCloud Technologies
Founders | Justin 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
Founders | Kenneth 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
Founders | Andy 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
Founders | Unknown |
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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
Founders | Henry 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
Founders | Saravana Sivasankaran, Saul Greenberg |
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MARLO is the world’s first lending platform for the $100 Billion+ ocean freight industry.
Beechbrook Capital
Founders | Nick 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
Founders | Aleksei 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
Founders | Stelios Haji-Ioannou |
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easyMoney is a lending platform backed by UK Property.
Growth Lending
Founders | Lance Mysyrowicz |
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Growth Lending is a digital platform that provides financial services for companies.
BOMADU
Founders | Abi Elohim |
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BOMADU is a home deposit finance platform.
Fundsquire UK
Founders | Unknown |
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R&D Tax Credit Advance Finance
Alterest
Founders | Jeevan Param |
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Alterest is a data and intelligence provider.
Finalto
Founders | Unknown |
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Finalto offers lending, trading, investment, risk management and financial solutions to businesses.
Lendwise
Founders | Ioannis Georgiou |
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Peer to Peer Loans, P2P Lending, Marketplace Loans, Education Finance
MoneyBaba
Founders | Marcelo Barreneche |
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Moneybaba operates exclusively online and focusing on responsible lending and facilitating access to credit across emerging countries.
SME Capital
Founders | Antoine Grisay, James Kaberry |
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SME Capital is a debt funding platform matching institutional investors.
Atempo Growth
Founders | Jack 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
Founders | James Jameson |
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On-demand health and wellbeing for the modern workplace & employee.
Logical Glue
Founders | Colin 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
Founders | Emma 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
Founders | Unknown |
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Koodoo works with lenders and aggregators to intelligently connect homeowners with their next mortgage.
Backbone
Founders | Ron Shteinberg |
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Credit as a Service
RCP Finance
Founders | Christopher 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
Founders | Unknown |
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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
Founders | Philip Schajer, Robert Stafler |
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Fintex Capital is a unique investment firm dedicated to alternative credit
BETALD
Founders | James 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
Founders | Rupert Taylor |
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Brismo is a provider of lending performance data.
GLAS
Founders | Unknown |
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GLAS provides direct lending, liability management, loan administration and escrow services.
Global Prime Partners
Founders | Unknown |
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GPP is a multi-award winning financial services firm.
Riverfort Global Capital
Founders | Unknown |
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Riverfort Global Capital provides venture capital, investment management, direct lending, high return impact investing & funding solutions.
Allium Money
Founders | Unknown |
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Allium Money specialises in financing energy efficient home improvement projects.
CreditSCRIPT
Founders | Aisha Sudally, Michael Arnaldi |
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CreditSCRIPT is an alternative credit investment platform that helps professional investors assess loans and portfolios.
NextCredit
Founders | Unknown |
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Nextcredit is a direct lender that offers online instalments loans.
Legion Finance Trade Limited
Founders | Edward 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
Founders | Unknown |
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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
Founders | Roman 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
Founders | Anup 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
Founders | Kirill Slavin, Lana Holmen |
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Unlocking the sharing economy’s data for insurers
London Loan Bank
Founders | Unknown |
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London Loan Bank is the professional online credit lending company
Punjab National Bank (International)
Founders | Unknown |
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Punjab National Bank (International) offers banking, NRI, money transfer facility, debit cards and lending services.
East Lodge Capital
Founders | Unknown |
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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
Founders | Unknown |
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Spotcap UK is an online lender for small and medium-sized businesses.
FAST INVEST
Founders | Unknown |
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FAST INVEST is an alternative investment platform for investing in personal loans.
American TV.
Founders | Unknown |
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American has built a market-leading reputation for exceptional customer service, selection, and price earning.
Os Money
Founders | Rosie Wilson |
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Os Money is a best Online Leander In United Kingdom.
eCoinomic
Founders | Alex Smolyanov, Maria Smolianova, Max Akulshin, Vitalii Topor |
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eCoinomic is a financial services platform based on crypto assets.
Amicus Finance
Founders | Unknown |
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Amicus is a financial services group, delivering outstanding property finance, commercial mortgages and asset finance solutions.
MoneyBoat
Founders | Unknown |
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MoneyBoat provides payday, quick, fast, short-term, quick, emergency, installment loan options, lending, and brokerage services.
Century Capital
Founders | Unknown |
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Century Capital offers bridging loans and mortgage services to entrepreneurs, first-time home buyers, and property developers.
Brydg
Founders | Unknown |
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Brydg is a property financing and asset backed lending platform.
Ortus Secured Finance
Founders | Unknown |
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Ortus Secured Finance provides lending, loan, financial and consulting services for residential and commercial sectors.
Orka Ventures
Founders | Unknown |
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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
Founders | Unknown |
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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
Founders | Unknown |
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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
Founders | Unknown |
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Housing Disrepair Helpline helps tenants with free housing advice then connects them with housing solicitors to fight their cases.