If you’re a Xero accountant, you’ve seen how technology empowers you to give the best business advice to your clients. With the launch of Xero’s partnership with iwoca, you can now help your clients fund growth and manage cash flow, all from within the Xero interface. Here at iwoca, our mission is to fuel economic […]
Viktoria on We’re thrilled to be recognised for Innovation in Lending and best in class Technology: Data & Analytics at the 2017 Credit Awards. “We set up iwoca in 2012 because we saw the opportunity to use technology and innovation to open up access to finance for small businesses” said Christoph Rieche, iwoca CEO and Co-Founder, “it’s […]
It’s the conversation that so many business banking Relationship Managers dread: telling a valued customer, perhaps someone they know well on a personal level, that the bank is not able to give them any credit. No loan. No overdraft. Nothing. It can be a crushing blow for the relationship. Credit is the fuel that small […]
If you’ve called into iwoca or used our live chat, there’s a good chance that you’ve spoken to Anselm. He looks after our onboarding team, making sure that businesses get top notch support as they apply and that we have the information we need to get them approved. Anselm joined iwoca in June 2015 shortly […]
Peter Marsh on Pete is one of our python developers. He’s working on migrating all of our data from MySQL to Postgres. Here he describes how he’s going about the project. Be warned – there’s a lot more code here than in our typical post. The main iwoca Django project is split into a large number of apps […]
We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised £46 million from world-class investors to help us grow. The round comes just ahead of our fifth birthday – we were incorporated on 5 October 2011 – and will help us to support tens of thousands of businesses over the coming years. The total investment includes a £21 million Series C equity round, led by Prime Ventures, […]
Rare Pink, one of iwoca’s more glamorous customers, is an award-winning bespoke engagement ring business founded by Nikolay Piriankov and Dave Sutton. Since launch, they have designed and delivered over 1,000 bespoke engagement rings. Here Nikolay tells us what makes them stand out and how iwoca has helped them along the way. At Rare Pink, […]
We are delighted to announce that iwoca has become a patron of the NACFB (the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers). With over 1,600 members, the NACFB is the UK’s leading organisation representing the interests of commercial finance brokers and promoting good business practice. As a patron of the NACFB, we will be providing information […]
Adrian is our Purveyor of Probabilities. With a degree in theoretical physics, he builds models and analyses data to help us better understand our customers and make faster, fairer decisions. He is an avid cellist and cross country runner. Here he talks about a function the team has written to make it easier to query […]
We’ve just introduced live chat across our website so you can now chat to one of our expert account managers live, without picking up the phone. Regardless of whether you’re visiting for the first time or already use iwoca, you can start a chat from any page of our website by clicking the blue speech […]
