Tagged: sam hodges

May 14, 2015 @ 2:28 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

In a Wednesday hearing titled “Bridging the Small Business Capital Gap: Peer-to-Peer Lending,” Funding Circle‘s co-founder and managing director Sam Hodges presented to the House Committee on Small Business​. According to the committee’s website, “The purpose of the hearing was to examine the rise of peer-to-peer lending platforms… Read More

May 11, 2015 @ 8:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Committee on Small Business, in the US House of Representatives, will discuss peer to peer lending on Wednesday, May 13th, at the Rayburn House Office Building.  The hearing is entitled Bridging the Small Business Capital Gap: Peer to Peer Lending. According to a notice from… Read More

May 5, 2015 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lending platform Funding Circle has formed a new partnership with the National Small Business Association (NSBA). The new arrangement is designed to “help Main Street get better access to growth capital”.  The NSBA has an active membership of 65,000 businesses.  Their members… Read More

April 22, 2015 @ 9:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle has just received another capital boost in the amount of $150 million.  The equity funding round was lead by DST Global with participation from Baillie Gifford, a fund managed by Blackrock, Sands Capital Ventures and Temasek. Goldman Sachs acted as exclusive placement agent… Read More

January 27, 2015 @ 5:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle, a small business loan marketplace, has claimed “first’ in offering individual investors the opportunity to invest in secured fractional small business loans with the launch of its new Fractional Loan Marketplace. Now individual investors may purchase fractional loans ranging in size from $25,000 to… Read More

July 16, 2014 @ 7:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle Announces $65 Million Investment to Fuel International Growth in New Markets.  Funding Circle, one of the pioneers of peer to peer lending, has released dramatic news today stating they have raised $65 million in a series D round funding led by Index Ventures…. Read More

June 26, 2014 @ 7:10 am By Georgia Quinn  |  

In the wake of Dodd-Frank and the financial crisis, peer-to-business lending or “P2B” is stepping up to fill the funding gap for small and startup businesses. What is P2B  you may ask and how does it differ from P2P lending? Well, pretty simply, P2B is… Read More

May 5, 2014 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

P2P Platform Has Hit $500 Million Milestone. Peer to Peer portal Funding Circle has announced it will introduce a new risk tier that will allow the company to serve a quarter more of its U.S. small business loan applicants.   Funding Circle connects business owners with… Read More

May 2, 2014 @ 7:35 am By JD Alois  |  

The Ranger Specialty Income Fund will begin investing in crowdfunded small business loans through a relationship with Funding Circle USA. The fund wants to provide both domestic and international investors with attractive yields and monthly cash flow attributable to investments in the peer to peer… Read More