Ellie Horvath
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 36 Consumer 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 Consumer Lending Companies & Startups (London)
Fintern
| Founders | Dr Michelle He, Gerald Chappell |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Fintern is a lending startup looking to offer an AI-driven alternative to costly payday loans.
Pave
| Founders | Chris Butcher, Sho Sugihara |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The proper path to good credit
Keebo
| Founders | Matthew Hallett, Michael Vanaselja |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
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 |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Europe’s only full-service luxury resale platform. Effortlessly buy and sell authentic designer items at up to 90% off retail price.
Knoma
| Founders | Brett Shanley |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Plend
| Founders | James Pursaill, Robert Pasco |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
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 |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Powering the next generation of credit technology for the world’s underbanked
Leanpay
| Founders | Misa Zivic |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Leanpay is an omni-channel POS financing company that aims to disrupt consumer loans segment, and help consumers buy products they need.
Wollit
| Founders | Liad Shababo |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The UK’s most powerful financial membership
Divido
| Founders | Anders Hallsten, Christer Holloman, Fredrik Borgquist |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers.
Proportunity
| Founders | Stefan Boronea, Vadim Toader |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
OnLadder
| Founders | Cameron Orcutt, Samuel Hatley |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
OnLadder is a proptech company that aims to make property ownership accessible to everyone.
Paysme
| Founders | Derek Stewart |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Paysme is a FinTech champion of SMEs.
Yielders
| Founders | Abid Karim, Irfan Khan, Zee Uppal |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Yielders UK is a crowdfunding property investment platform that puts UK property investment within your reach.
Leap
| Founders | Fawzi Kyriakos-Saad |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Leap‘s peer to peer (P2P) lending platform connects borrowers and lenders directly, creating a community where everyone can thrive.
Tymit
| Founders | Juan Montalvo Bressi, Martin Magnone, Nicolas Magnone |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Tymit is a provider of credit cards that offers financing purchases overtime and manages the monthly budget.
Paycado
| Founders | Nadya Miteva, Veselin Sidjimov |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Paycado is a new Fintech Neobank aiming to provide affordable and innovative banking services.
Sensible Lender
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Sensible Lender is a lending business
Funds4Talents
| Founders | Christopher Muelhausen, Marcus Feistl, Rajbir Nirwan |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Income-Contingent Student Loans
BOMADU
| Founders | Abi Elohim |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
BOMADU is a home deposit finance platform.
Rise
| Founders | James Jameson |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
On-demand health and wellbeing for the modern workplace & employee.
Backbone
| Founders | Ron Shteinberg |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Credit as a Service
Fintex Capital
| Founders | Philip Schajer, Robert Stafler |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Fintex Capital is a unique investment firm dedicated to alternative credit
Allium Money
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Allium Money specialises in financing energy efficient home improvement projects.
NextCredit
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Nextcredit is a direct lender that offers online instalments loans.
East Lodge Capital
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
East Lodge Capital is an investment firm that provides hedge funds, asset-based lending, commercial mortgage and employee benefit services.
Claim Capital
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Claim Capital provides credit claiming, HMRC enquiry support, and technical reporting services to small and medium-sized enterprises.
fuelGenie
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
fuelGenie is a subsidiary of French IT services firm Atos SA, provides business consulting, systems integration, and managed IT services.
iQiCharge
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Smartphone charging at the table! Exclusively developed for restaurants, hotels, events and corporate boardrooms.
Pitchstor
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Pitchstor is a digital funding mechanism or in other words an online bank for financing, operating in the disruptive era of FinTech.
L.O.A.F.
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
L.O.A.F. To disrupt an industry that exploits people’s periods of acute financial insecurity by building a high quality financial services.
Pickbrella
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Pickbrella is First umbrella renting stations.
Paperless Home
| Founders | Markus J Becker |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
The UK’s most convenient document scanning service.
UrbanShaadi
| Founders | Unknown |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
UrbanShaadi is a portal which will help customers to find all wedding related vendors under one roof.
Celsius Network
| Founders | Alex Mashinsky, Nuke Goldstein, Rod Bolger, S. Daniel Leon |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
Celsius Network is a blockchain-based lending platform that is accessible through a free mobile app.
SteadyPay
| Founders | John Downie, Oleg Mukanov, Oleg Mukhanov, Victor Pawley |
| Follow | Website, Crunchbase, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin |
SteadyPay is an income smoothing app for the modern economy.
