Written by Lynn Hamerlinck on 25 September 2022
Microfinance institution U&I is the newest addition to the Lendahand portfolio and focuses on empowering many underserved groups, such as female entrepreneurs, by offering them much-needed loans.
The Netherlands was one of the earliest adopters of crowdfunding in all of Europe. With platforms ranging from startup equity crowdfunding to real estate debt investments, there is plenty to offer the potential Dutch crowdfunder.
Sustainable investing and crowdfunding are not generally two topics you hear about together. Both have become much more popular in the past decade for different reasons. But when you consider unique opportunities that come from the crossover of these two ideas, the opportunities for investors are exciting.
All the results of 8 years of Lendahand are featured in the first Impact Report. We've listed five of the most surprising insights from the report.
The new license has arrived! Lendahand is the first Dutch crowdfunding platform to receive the new European Crowdfunding Service Provider license from the Dutch Authority for Financial Markets (AFM).
Entrepreneurs Dinora and Eduardo are both clients from Creze, a financial institution in Mexico. We recently had the chance to meet them and learn how Creze has helped them grow their business.
Last year, Lendahand received a grant to help finance more women-owned SMEs. How are we doing so far?
The newest addition on Lendahand is Café Perú, a corporation that helps rural smallholder coffee farmers in Peru grow and better their working and living conditions.
Getting a business loan can be a long and complex process for SME entrepreneurs. Validus, the newest company raising funds on Lendahand, changes that narrative with their digital lending platform.
In Buddhism there are no Ten Commandments. No simple list of dos and don’ts that ensure you are “right”. Instead, you’re encouraged to examine the morality of each decision itself, based on its own context and consequences...
Today we are pleased to announce that we have acquired the French social impact microcredit crowdfunding platform Babyloan.
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