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06.09.2018 | Wonga: A Post Mortem | Wonga enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame. The company achieved £300 million of revenue in 2012, just si... | crowdfundi... |
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... | crowdfundi... |
30.08.2018 | Update: Cash-strapped Wonga goes into administration in the ... | Update: That’s it for Wonga’s UK business. The beleaguered payday loans company has just confirmed i... | techcrunch... |
13.08.2018 | Payday Lender Wonga Reportedly Raises £10M | Wonga, a London, UK-based payday lender, reportedly raised £10m in funding.
Backers include Accel P... | finsmes.co... |
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 cas... | fintechfut... |
05.08.2018 | Wonga investors inject £10M so cash-strapped payday lender c... | If you were at Disrupt London four years ago you may remember more than a little awkwardness during ... | techcrunch... |
10.04.2017 | Wonga tells 270,000 customers no need to change passwords af... | Enlarge
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10.04.2017 | Payday loan firm Wonga suffers data breach affecting up to 2... | Payday loan firm Wonga has suffered a data breach affecting up to 245,000 customers in the U.K. A fu... | techcrunch... |
06.02.2017 | Klarna to acquire German payments company BillPay for report... | Swedish e-commerce payments company Klarna is acquiring Germany’s BillPay. Sky News is reporting the... | tech.eu/br... |
06.02.2017 | Klarna buys BillPay, the PayPal of Germany, for $75M from Wo... | Some chopping and changing is afoot in the world of payments in Europe. Today, Klarna, the startup o... | techcrunch... |
24.02.2015 | Disgraced Payday Lender Wonga Sells SMB Business To Orange M... | More unravelling for Wonga, the UK-based online lender that last year had to write down £220 million... | techcrunch... |
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 an... | venturebea... |
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... | venturebea... |
02.10.2014 | Wonga Writes Off 330,000 Debts To People It Should Never Hav... | The unpleasant and unethical excesses of the U.K.’s payday loans party are unravelling, as new regul... | techcrunch... |
19.07.2014 | How Smart Lending Dumbed Down | Julia Kukiewicz Contributor
Editor’s note: Julia Kukiewicz edits UK-based Choose.net, a price compa... | techcrunch... |
18.10.2013 | E-Loan Specialist Wonga Buys BillPay, The PayPal Of Germany,... | Wonga is a UK-based startup best known for its online payday loan services, but today the company ma... | techcrunch... |
22.04.2013 | Credit Scorer Kreditech Raises ‘Around $3.5M’ From Samwers A... | Last month Oliver and Marc Samwer — founders of the Rocket Internet startup incubator — launched Glo... | techcrunch... |
13.02.2013 | After Declining Wonga Offers, On Deck Lands $42M From IVP, S... | Not all small businesses and startups are lucky enough to raise venture capital. When Main Street bu... | techcrunch... |
30.07.2012 | It’s High Time There Was A Tech IPO Market In London – Let’s... | The recent results of Zynga, Groupon, and even the mighty Facebook on the public markets in the U.S.... | techcrunch... |
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 t... | techcrunch... |
17.12.2011 | Five European Startups To Watch | Editor’s note: Guest contributor Amit Shafrir is president of Badoo, a social network for meeting ne... | techcrunch... |
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 tod... | techcrunch... |
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 E... | techcrunch... |
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-ba... | vator.tv/n... |
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 expa... | eu-startup... |
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 b... | finsmes.co... |
16.02.2011 | Wonga raises £73m in Series C funding to double-down on mass... | Wonga, the short-loans company which uses a realtime platform to assess users applications instead o... | techcrunch... |
16.02.2011 | Wonga Raises £73m In Series C Funding To Double-Down On Mass... | Wonga, the short-loans company which uses a realtime platform to assess users’ applications instead ... | techcrunch... |
21.01.2011 | Congratulations Crunchies Winners! Twitter Takes Best Startu... | This year’s fourth annual Crunchies Awards have just concluded, and we’re happy to say that it was a... | techcrunch... |
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 al... | techcrunch... |
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 th... | techcrunch... |
14.01.2010 | Is the Internet Finally Robbing the Greedy Financier’s Gravy... | The most amazing thing about the Internet is how many industries it’s wrecked. File sharing and iTun... | techcrunch... |
21.09.2009 | SeedcampWeek09: Founders talk about "the first 100 days... | TechCrunch Europe is hanging around at Seedcamp Week in London this week. We’ll be wrapping up the c... | techcrunch... |
13.07.2009 | I'm calling a 'time of death' for London's media industry – ... | Episode 36: Someone has to say it – London media is dead. And I say it.
Ok, Ok. So that’s a slightl... | techcrunch... |
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, ... | vator.tv/n... |
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 clos... | techcrunch... |
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 clos... | techcrunch... |
22.08.2007 | Lending Club raises $10.26M for social lending — joins crowd... | Lending Club, the Sunnyvale, Calif. lending service where people borrow and lend money among each ot... | venturebea... |
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 ... | venturebea... |