| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.02.2026 | The EU-Startups Podcast | Interview with Tessa Clarke, Co-founder and CEO of Olio |
This week on the EU-Startups Podcast, we sit down with Tessa Clarke, Co-founder and CEO of Olio, a community-powered platform built to redistribute surplus food and household items at scale.
Founded in 2015, Olio connects neighbours and lo... |
| 05.11.2024 | The Evolution of Startups: From Whimsy to Seriousness | In the vibrant world of startups, names once danced with creativity. They were playful, quirky, and memorable. Think of Apple, a fruit that revolutionized technology. Or Google, a name that sounds like a child's giggle yet transformed how w... |
| 04.11.2024 | How Startups Stopped Being Fun | 13 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Some of the most famous startup success stories feature companies adept at being both serious and ridiculous.
Take two of the four most-valuable American companies: Apple and Google. The first named... |
| 06.09.2018 | Wonga: A Post Mortem | Wonga enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame. The company achieved £300 million of revenue in 2012, just six years after it was founded. Managing growth of this nature is enormously challenging and one doesn’t need to look far to spot similar issu... |
| 30.08.2018 | Update: Cash-strapped Wonga goes into administration in the UK | Update: That’s it for Wonga’s UK business. The beleaguered payday loans company has just confirmed it’s gone into administration. Although it says its overseas businesses are continuing to trade — at least for now.
A spokeswoman for the com... |
| 30.08.2018 | Online PayDay Lender Wonga Goes Into Administration | UK online lender Wonga has entered into the process of administration.
According to a note provided by the Financial Conduct Authority, Wonga and its affiliates have decided to pursue bankruptcy proceedings and have enlisted the assistance ... |
| 13.08.2018 | Payday Lender Wonga Reportedly Raises £10M | Wonga, a London, UK-based payday lender, reportedly raised £10m in funding.
Backers include Accel Partners and Balderton Capital.
According to news outlets, the “emergency” deal valued the company at only £23m.
Led by Tara Kneafsey, chief ... |
| 07.08.2018 | Wonga raises $13m in new funding | Accel Partners and Balderton Capital have pitched in to help UK-based payday lender Wonga with a cash infusion of nearly $13 million (£10 million). The capital will be used to help Wonga satisfy what the company’s spokesperson called a “mar... |
| 05.08.2018 | Wonga investors inject £10M so cash-strapped payday lender can fund claims | If you were at Disrupt London four years ago you may remember more than a little awkwardness during an investor panel when two VCs that had invested in European payday loans firm Wonga declined to comment on what had gone wrong at their por... |
| 10.04.2017 | Wonga tells 270,000 customers no need to change passwords after data breach | Enlarge
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| 10.04.2017 | Payday loan firm Wonga suffers data breach affecting up to 270,000 | Payday loan firm Wonga has suffered a data breach affecting up to 245,000 customers in the U.K. A further 25,000 customers in Poland may also be affected, according to the BBC.
A notification on Wonga’s U.K. website currently warns of “ille... |
| 06.02.2017 | Klarna to acquire German payments company BillPay for reported £60 million | Swedish e-commerce payments company Klarna is acquiring Germany’s BillPay. Sky News is reporting the deal is worth £60 million.
The UK’s Wonga had owned BillPay, another online payments company which operated in Austria, Germany, Switzerlan... |
| 06.02.2017 | Klarna buys BillPay, the PayPal of Germany, for $75M from Wonga | Some chopping and changing is afoot in the world of payments in Europe. Today, Klarna, the startup out of Sweden that works with online merchants to enable flexible payment options, confirmed that it has acquired BillPay, a payments company... |
| 24.02.2015 | Disgraced Payday Lender Wonga Sells SMB Business To Orange Money, Cuts 325 Jobs | More unravelling for Wonga, the UK-based online lender that last year had to write down £220 million ($340 million) in unpaid loans. The company announced today that it would lay off 325 staff, and it has also sold Everline, its small-busin... |
| 04.10.2014 | Are we in a fintech bubble? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The financial technology sector is not just hot, ... |
| 04.10.2014 | Are we in a fintech bubble? | The financial technology sector is not just hot, it’s smoking hot.
Last year global private fintech companies raised nearly $3 billion, that’s more than triple the $930 million invested into fintech companies in 2008. There’s some speculati... |
| 02.10.2014 | Wonga Writes Off 330,000 Debts To People It Should Never Have Lent Money To | The unpleasant and unethical excesses of the U.K.’s payday loans party are unravelling, as new regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), gets to grips with the sector.
The latest being forced to make redress to wronged customers is ... |
| 19.07.2014 | How Smart Lending Dumbed Down | Julia Kukiewicz Contributor
Editor’s note: Julia Kukiewicz edits UK-based Choose.net, a price comparison service that provides guides, product reviews and comparison tables for consumers.
Between 2008 and 2010, Wonga was doing something min... |
| 18.10.2013 | E-Loan Specialist Wonga Buys BillPay, The PayPal Of Germany, To Move Deeper Into Payments | Wonga is a UK-based startup best known for its online payday loan services, but today the company made a move that could see it not only extending across to other markets in Europe but also into other services like payments: the company tod... |
| 22.04.2013 | Credit Scorer Kreditech Raises ‘Around $3.5M’ From Samwers And Others | Last month Oliver and Marc Samwer — founders of the Rocket Internet startup incubator — launched Global Founders Capital, a new €150 million ($194 million) fund aimed at any and all startups worldwide. This month one of the first startups t... |
| 13.02.2013 | After Declining Wonga Offers, On Deck Lands $42M From IVP, SAP & First Round To Bring Online Lending To Main Street | Not all small businesses and startups are lucky enough to raise venture capital. When Main Street business owners, like your local tailor, barber or florist find themselves in need of capital to help grow their businesses, they typically ar... |
| 30.07.2012 | It’s High Time There Was A Tech IPO Market In London – Let’s Do This. | The recent results of Zynga, Groupon, and even the mighty Facebook on the public markets in the U.S. have served to highlight a couple of major issues for European startups. One is a little jealously: there remain few viable IPO markets in ... |
| 07.05.2012 | Wonga Extends Its Payday Loans To Small Businesses In UK | Wonga.com, the successful but controversial payday loans provider, is extending its credit service to small businesses in the UK. The move is a smart one given the current economic climate. Banks have been lambasted for not lending to small... |
| 17.12.2011 | Five European Startups To Watch | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Amit Shafrir is president of Badoo, a social network for meeting new people based in London with 130 million users.
Silicon Valley is famously, and rightly, proud of its place as the spiritual home for start... |
| 14.12.2011 | Duedil secures a second round of Angel investment | Duedil, which is building out free database around company financials in the UK and Ireland, has today announced a second round investment from Jonty Hurwitz, the founding CTO of Wonga. Terms were undisclosed. The startup previously raised ... |
| 05.04.2011 | TechCrunch Europe and The Telegraph release the Startup100 | TechCrunch Europe occasionally partners with other media outlets in Europe in order to support the European ecosystem. Last December we agreed to link up with the London Telegraph newspaper, which planned to put some time and resources into... |
| 17.02.2011 | Wonga raises £73 million | The British site issues small, short-term loans, and gets backing from big names
Wonga.com, a UK-based service that issues small, short-term loans online, announced Wednesday that it has raised £73 million, or $117 million, in an equity rou... |
| 17.02.2011 | Wonga Completes £73M Funding Round | Wonga, a London, UK-based online lender, has completed a £73m round of funding.
The round was led by Oak Investment Partners, with participation from Meritech Capital Partners, Wellcome Trust, Accel Partners, Balderton Capital, Dawn Capital... |
| 17.02.2011 | Series C funding for the short loans startup Wonga.com | Wonga, the London based short loans startup, has raised £73 million in Series C funding for its expansion. The recent funding round was led by Oak Investment Partners. With the fresh capital, the young company plans to expand even further w... |
| 16.02.2011 | Wonga raises £73m in Series C funding to double-down on massive UK growth | Wonga, the short-loans company which uses a realtime platform to assess users applications instead of people, has raised a significant £73 million ($117 million) funding round – actually a Series C – as expansion capital. Wonga plans to use... |
| 16.02.2011 | Wonga Raises £73m In Series C Funding To Double-Down On Massive UK Growth | Wonga, the short-loans company which uses a realtime platform to assess users’ applications instead of people, has raised a significant £73 million ($117 million) funding round – actually a Series C – as expansion capital. Wonga plans to us... |
| 21.01.2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startup Of 2010 | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was an overwhelming success. For those who weren’t at the event or watching our livestream, we’ve included the list of nominees and winners below... |
| 07.01.2011 | Announcing Your 2010 Crunchies Finalists | The finalists for the 2010 Crunchies Awards have been chosen. Over 243,000 votes were made across all categories and many outstanding achievements were discussed. Along with our partners GigaOm and VentureBeat, we are very proud to announce... |
| 04.02.2010 | Cognitive Match pulls in $2.5m for realtime content-matching | Everyone knows “realtime” has been a hot tech category for the last year or so but as we all know the ‘realtime problem’ is getting some kind of intelligence out of that firehose, and, crucially, eventually working out if or how it can be m... |
| 14.01.2010 | Is the Internet Finally Robbing the Greedy Financier’s Gravy Train? | The most amazing thing about the Internet is how many industries it’s wrecked. File sharing and iTunes forever changed music’s economics; blogging and other forms of online content have killed old media; and open source and software-as-a-se... |
| 21.09.2009 | SeedcampWeek09: Founders talk about "the first 100 days of your startup" | TechCrunch Europe is hanging around at Seedcamp Week in London this week. We’ll be wrapping up the companies who pitched at the end of the day. Meanwhile, here’s some coverage of the panel sessions.
In a panel featuring Turi Munthe from Dem... |
| 13.07.2009 | I'm calling a 'time of death' for London's media industry – And Paul Carr is its first victim | Episode 36: Someone has to say it – London media is dead. And I say it.
Ok, Ok. So that’s a slightly reminiscent headline, based on Guardian columnist Paul Carr‘s gentle savaging of the “London 2.0” scene after his week with The Traveling G... |
| 09.06.2009 | Wonga raises $22.25 million | Short-term loans with expensive APR seems like a good business to get into during recession
Wonga, an Online provider of short-term cash advances, has raised $22.25 million in a new round of funding led by Accel Partners and Greylock Partne... |
| 08.06.2009 | Wonga.com to expand globally following $22m financing round | Wonga.com, the startup that has started to change the face of short-term lending in the UK, has closed a $22.25m round of funding led by Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, with the support of its existing investor, Balderton Capital.
Fou... |
| 08.06.2009 | Wonga Is On Its Way After A $22m Funding | Wonga.com, the startup that has started to change the face of short-term lending in the UK, has closed a $22.25m round of funding led by Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, with the support of its existing investor, Balderton Capital. It’... |
| 22.08.2007 | Lending Club raises $10.26M for social lending — joins crowded field | Lending Club, the Sunnyvale, Calif. lending service where people borrow and lend money among each other, bypassing the banks, and theoretically getting better rates, said it has raised $10.26 million in a first round of financing.
Canaan Pa... |
| 27.06.2007 | Wonga, the fastest personal loan you can get | It’s a week until payday at your job, the rent and bills are due, and you don’t have the cash. What do you do? Wonga, which has just raised $6 million from Balderton Capital, wants you to come to them .
Based in the UK, Wonga has yet to lau... |
| - | Finam Global запустил первую микрофинансовую организацию в России | Инвестиционный фонд Finam Global запустил микрофинансовую организацию Platiza, которая специализируется на выдаче займов до зарплаты.
Platiza - это Интернет-сервис: клиент на сайте заполняет заявку и анкету — паспортные и контактные данные,... |
| - | Онлайн-сервис мгновенных займов Platiza.ru: найти инвестиции было легко | Илья Саломатов, CEO Platiza
По данным Национального бюро кредитных историй (НБКИ), на сегодняшний день 62 миллиона россиян имеют как минимум один кредит — это почти 82% экономически активного населения страны. Потребность в кредитах и в мик... |
