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start-up and scale-up customers
changed dramatically with a surge in
traffic from businesses of
all sizes from all corners
of the UK and Ireland.
“Demand is up 1,000
per cent because of coro-
navirus,” says Reynolds,
a corporate finance
expert who set up the
fintech with former
KPMG colleague and
Swoop’s operations chief Ciaran Burke.
Technological advances enabled the
two to plug the gap they identified
and enable intelligent matching. “The
arrival of cloud accounting, open
banking and application programming
interfaces has made it possible to
automate the role of finance adviser at
scale,” Reynolds explains. As well as‘Demand is
up 1,000%
because of
coronavirus’
IF THERE is any support and savings
out there for a business in these
turbulent times, money matchmaker
Swoopfunding.com and its Covid-19
hotline might just be the quickest way
of finding out.
Working with the main banks and
using information from 1,000 private
and public providers, the digital
finance platform provides a key link
in the funding chain, helping weave
together a fragmented sector.
Viable options and access to loans,
grants, equity funding and savings are
quickened and simplified, while switch-
ing services for foreign exchange, utili-
ties, broadband and mobiles phones
are also offered.
In the current crisis, a
business looking to dis-
cover what it is eligible
for can check appropri-
ate funding initiatives
and continually updated
announcements.
Encryption of financial
information is to banking
standard and there is no “footprint or
credit impact on any business inquir-
ing about investment”, explains chief
executive Andrea Reynolds.
Since launching in 2018, Swoop’s
300 per cent annual growth, with £85
million in completed deals, shows
why clarity was needed. A £6 million
turnover is expected this year. Last
Funding finder’s fast fix
CASH CUSHION: Reynolds
learned from last recessionreferrals from banks, some of them
license parts of Swoop’s technology.
“Swoop does the heavy lifting for
providers and helps small firms which
cannot afford hefty fees know what is
on offer without wasting time on
repetitive form filling,” adds Reynolds
“Our holistic approach is different.
The solution may not always be a
loan. We look at all areas, the every-
day money reality for a business,
whatever stage they are at.”
Backing for Swoop, which employs
50, has come from Enterprise Ireland,
seed investment from a group includ-ing Velocity Capital and it was also
awarded £5 million from the UK’s
Banking Competition Remedies
fund, which promotes more competi-
tion in the SME banking market.
Including the public sector in the
offering was no easy task. “We had to
do it to show our value, but it took
patience and perseverance,” she says.
The last recession taught her the
importance of a cash cushion. “It was
a reason for Swoop, and more true
now than I ever expected.”
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