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84 new businesses were created every hour across Britain in the first half of 2025 despite continued economic uncertainty, according to the annual Business Hotspots list from iwoca — one of Europe’s largest SME lenders. iwoca’s research, derived from an analysis of Companies House data, finds that over 363,000 businesses were registered in Britain between January and June 2025.
Our advanced Lending API will, for the first time, give small business owners immediate real-time loan decisions with finance marketplaces Funding Xchange and Funding Options.
Since launching in 2012, we've funded more than 30,000 customers and made finance available for over 50,000 businesses of all shapes and sizes.
We’re all about opening doors for small business, so we made it our logo.
For the sake of the UK's 5.7 million small businesses, iwoca CEO and co-founder Christoph Rieche has written a letter to the Chancellor arguing why the Bank Referral Scheme deserves to be fixed.
It’s iwoca’s birthday! We’ll be blowing out seven candles on our cake today.Our company was founded back in 2011 by Christoph Rieche, our CEO, and James Dear, our CTO, and we’ve been incredibly busy ever since then.
