Informed Funding - Sources Of Finance

Sources of Finance

Equity Finance

Angel Networks

Short Description: Networks of experienced entrepreneurs who acquire shares in early stage businesses using their own funds.

Crowd Funding

Short Description: Online platforms where businesses can sell shares to the public.

Private Equity

Short Description: Funds that acquire established businesses to help accelerate growth.

Public Equity

Short Description: Raising funds via public equity markets.

Venture Capital

Short Description: Funds that buy shares in young businesses to help make them profitable.

Debt Finance

Asset Finance

Short Description: Investing in assets via a lease, making it easier on cashflow.

Business Credit Cards

Short Description: Flexible, short-termed funding, often with interest free periods if the card is paid in full every month.

Cash Advances

Short Description: Unsecured loans that are repaid by deducting a fixed percentage off the borrower's revenues.

Commercial Mortgages

Short Description: Raising finance via a security on business property.

Early Stage and Development Loans

Short Description: Secured loans requiring some or all of a business' assets as security.

Invoice Factoring

Short Description: Raising funds based on the outstanding invoices to business customers.

Larger Business Loans

Short Description: Unsecured loans assessed on the basis of a company's forecast cash flow.

Mini-Bonds

Short Description: Raising debt funding from individual lenders, usually a business' customers.

P2P Loans

Short Description: Platforms that arrange loans from groups of individuals or organisations to business borrowers.

Pension Backed Loans

Short Description: Using a business owner's pension to obtain a commercial loan.

Single Invoice Finance

Short Description: Using selected invoices, rather than the whole sales ledger, to raise finance.

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