Responsible financing that leads with impact.
Small and medium-sized businesses are the backbone of our economy, and we’re proud to support them.
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Business funding for a better future.
Supporting economic growth
By empowering businesses to grow, YouLend has contributed £7+ billion to growth of the GDP worldwide.
Creating jobs
Businesses funded by YouLend increase their employee count by 14%, on average adding 1 new job for each business.
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Empowering female businesses
YouLend tends to approve 30% of total funding for female-led businesses, compared to the UK average of 12%.
Supporting Sustainable Development
YouLend's impact is focused across four key goals. To track and report on our progress against the SDGs, we incorporate the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) as part of our annual financial reporting.
If you'd like to know more about our reporting or impact initiatives, please contact sustainability@youlend.com.
Gender Equality
Goal 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Decent Work & Economic Growth
Goal 8: Promote inclusive and productive employment for all.
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Goal 9: Promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
Partnership For The Goals
Goal 17: Strengthen global partnerships for sustainable development.
What we’ve achieved so far.
We’re hugely proud of our social impact since we began in 2015, but there’s still more to be done to ensure equal access to finance for all businesses.
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Inclusive finance for everyone.
Whether its for inventory management or hiring more staff - we’re here to cover your needs.
It was nice to be taken seriously as a female business owner by YouLend, often this just doesn't happen, but they have had faith in me as the owner and in my business.
Dominique Hogan, Opies Emporium
United Kingdom
Thanks to funding from YouLend, I have been able to expand my kitchen which has allowed me to increase my production. The flexibility in payments gives me so much peace of mind.
Jorge Caamaño, Chinchilla
Spain
Having the funding from YouLend really helped give me the confidence to invest in my business.
Marly Jones, Body Organics
USA
During our first year of business, we applied for a small loan through YouLend. It was a small amount that might be traditionally overlooked, but really helped us scale up.
Danielle Best, Mexi Bean Express
Ireland
It was nice to be taken seriously as a female business owner by YouLend, often this just doesn't happen, but they have had faith in me as the owner and in my business.
Dominique Hogan, Opies Emporium
United Kingdom
Thanks to funding from YouLend, I have been able to expand my kitchen which has allowed me to increase my production. The flexibility in payments gives me so much peace of mind.
Jorge Caamaño, Chinchilla
Spain
Having the funding from YouLend really helped give me the confidence to invest in my business.
Marly Jones, Body Organics
USA
During our first year of business, we applied for a small loan through YouLend. It was a small amount that might be traditionally overlooked, but really helped us scale up.
Danielle Best, Mexi Bean Express
Ireland
It was nice to be taken seriously as a female business owner by YouLend, often this just doesn't happen, but they have had faith in me as the owner and in my business.
Dominique Hogan, Opies Emporium
United Kingdom
Thanks to funding from YouLend, I have been able to expand my kitchen which has allowed me to increase my production. The flexibility in payments gives me so much peace of mind.
Jorge Caamaño, Chinchilla
Spain
Having the funding from YouLend really helped give me the confidence to invest in my business.
Marly Jones, Body Organics
USA
During our first year of business, we applied for a small loan through YouLend. It was a small amount that might be traditionally overlooked, but really helped us scale up.
Danielle Best, Mexi Bean Express
Ireland
Read the complete Impact Report.
YouLend partnered with Experian, a leading global information services company, to analyse the social impact of YouLend’s financing when it comes to female-led, minority-owned and financially disadvantaged businesses.
Together, we have examined over 100,000 instances of SME financing via YouLend’s platform.
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Hear from our partners
Since partnering with YouLend, Epos Now has seen a significant uplift in business funding to our customers compared to previous partners we have used. This is due to the agnostic, flexible, and automated capital offering now in place.
By partnering with YouLend, our sellers have access to fast and flexible business funding that can help them manage cashflows and focus on the bigger business challenges ahead.
YouLend has been an excellent partner to provide cash advance funding to our merchants. The APIs are very rich and well-documented and the solutions team made it a breeze to go live.
After going live, the team have been committed to working with us to continually enhance the merchant experience.
Through our new partnership with YouLend, we can place funds in the hands of businesses that would have been otherwise locked out of funding, or would only have access to slow and expensive options.
We’re excited to keep exploring new ways to help our customers grow with fast, transparent, and flexible funding products.
By partnering with YouLend, we can offer restaurants - our customers - access to fast and flexible financing that will help them manage their cashflow, overcome the any bumps on the way, and then grow sustainably.
