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Funding Circle
Fintech · London, United Kingdom · Founded 2010 · IPO 2018
Talent graph
Funding Circle's talent
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Funding Circle mafia
Startups founded by Funding Circle alumni
Former Funding Circle employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Jinden BadeshaUnited Kingdom
Samir DesaiUnited Kingdom
Jerome Le LuelUnited Kingdom
Tom EilonUnited Kingdom
Mike RabilUnited States
Edward HooperAustralia
Sam BruntUnited Kingdom
Kajetan ArmanspergGermany
Antony RoczekGermany
Nate DunningUnited KingdomGlobal footprint
Where Funding Circle has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Patent intelligence
$20k patent portfolio · 1 active families
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Funding Circle's 8 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Funding Circle appeared as a 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.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
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.
02 · Portfolio market map
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
What the market is saying about Funding Circle
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Funding Circle on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
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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