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 […]
Joost on iwoca helped this niche recruitment consultancy with the funds to invest in new technology as it aims for global growth. Over the past 13 years The Change Group have built a reputation as London’s go-to luxury hospitality recruiters. The next step for Co-Founder Jim O’Brien was to find a way to fund the Group’s ambitious […]
With the pain of this year’s silly season starting to become a little less raw, many accountants are now turning their thoughts to what they want to achieve in their practice over the next 12 months. With so many accountants sitting on client portfolios with lots of untapped potential to grow, we asked Heather Townsend, […]
Lisa Leid on Kike Oniwinde worked very hard her whole life to become an elite athlete and to excel academically. And it’s apparent that her hard work paid off; her list of achievements is impressive. She represented Great Britain and England as an elite athlete and gained a scholarship to earn a Master’s Degree at the University of […]
Lisa Leid on In October 2016, we partnered with Xero to give accountants and small businesses a frictionless finance solution from application to funding. Now, with a few clicks, you can link a client’s Xero data to iwoca. “Finance should be hassle-free for accountants and small businesses,” Richard Sutton, iwoca’s Head of Accountant Relationships tells us. “We’re pleased […]
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, […]
