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Funding Circle
Peer-to-peer business loans
At a glance
- Founded
- 2010
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Listing
- IPO 2018
- Sector
- Fintech
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Funding Circle.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A1 investor entered at this stage
Series B and later6 investors entered at this stage
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Funding Circle employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
EAElyos AIEst. 2023
PEPenfoldEst. 2018
RARayloEst. 2018
Jinden BadeshaUnited Kingdom
SPSuper PaymentsEst. 2022
Samir DesaiUnited Kingdom
TRTriverEst. 2023
Jerome Le LuelUnited KingdomGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
1 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Funding Circle was the backer or acquirer, 2010–2020. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
8 deals across Funding Circle's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where Funding Circle deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
Funding Circle's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Funding Circle on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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