Time to shake up the short-term lending market. Welcome to the short-term peer2peer lending platform.
Business overview
Location | London, United Kingdom |
---|---|
Social media | |
Website | www.welendus.com |
Sectors | Finance & Payments Digital B2C |
Company number | 09550128 |
Incorporation date | 20 Apr 2015 |
Idea
Introduction
We believe that short-term borrowers in the UK do not get good service from their lenders. This, along with bad practice in the sector and widespread customer mistreatment, has led to a market decline since the peak in 2012. However, more and more people are actually in need of short-term loans.
Welendus aim to re-define the short-term lending market by introducing a peer-to-peer short-term lending platform. Our aim is to help people in short-term financial needs borrow directly from other people at a much cheaper rate with no hidden costs or charges.
Welendus will offer ethical, affordable and flexible short-term loans through a clear, simple, easy to use platform to provide short-term borrowers with the good service they deserve.
For investors, Welendus aims to enable them to invest in short-term loans together with short-term investment flexibility.

Intended impact
The short-term lending market is a market that is let down by many existing players. Welendus is aiming to disrupt this let down market by offering short-term borrowers affordable, ethical and flexible short-term loans. In addition, Welendus will operate as a peer-to-peer lender, meaning borrowers will be borrowing directly from other individuals.
Summary of features for borrowers;
* Our payday APR at 172%, in comparison with up to 1,294% from many current payday lenders for the equivalent loan and duration.
* No hidden costs or charges and no penalty fees.
* No fake legal letters and no customer harassment, as is the norm with current payday lenders.
* No banking penalty fees.
* No early repayment fees.
For investors, Welendus aims to enable them to invest in short-term loans, offering higher protected returns as well as short-term investment flexibility. We intend for investors to be able to choose their own return from 5% p.a. to 15% p.a. and they will be automatically matched with suitable borrowers. Welendus will also offer a guarantee account to protect the investor in the event of borrower's default as well as an auto-diversity feature.

Substantial accomplishments to date
After nearly 2 years in development, we have come a long way and accomplished some significant milestones. Here is a short summary to name a few:
* Built a strong team.
* Platform fully developed in-house and ready to launch.
* Fully adaptive platform for web and mobile use ready to launch.
* Members of Level39, Europe's largest FinTech incubator.
* Startup sponsors for Lendit Europe 2016.
* FCA application submitted in 2015 and we anticipate getting our full authorisation in 2017.
We are not yet authorised by the FCA, but we are ready to have our soft-launch early in 2017 pending FCA authorisation.
In addition to our web and adaptive mobile platform, we are planning to have our iOS and Android apps ready by Q2 2017.
Monetisation strategy
Welendus plans to operate on a simple and easy to use structure offering borrowers one single interest rate on their loans. This single interest rate will include our operational fees, risk factor and the investor's return.

Use of proceeds
The raised funds will be spent on;
1. Team: 65% - adding new operational team members in preparation to launch.
2. Marketing: 13% - targeting marketing online as well as all new outside the box approach.
3. Technology: 15% - continued development to add functionality and the latest tech to stay ahead of the game.
4. Guarantee Account: 5% - initial sum committed for the guarantee account in preparation to launch.
5. Services and IP: 2%- more IP applications as well as other services.
Market
Target market

Welendus will have two target markets:
1. Savers & Lenders seeking higher returns on their investments.
Welendus will provide savers and investors easy access to the short-term lending market. We plan for lenders to be able to earn a higher return of up to 15% p.a. with the guarantee account protection together with the short-term investment flexibility. To our knowledge, this is a recipe not currently existent in the market.
2. Short-term loan borrowers.
Thanks to our all new and innovative approach, Welendus will bring affordable short-term lending to the people. We are looking to change the short-term lending from being a transaction to a relationship.
Characteristics of target market

Since Welendus will be reaching out to two markets:
1. Short-term lending market:
* Peak Market Size: £2.8 billion p.a.
* Market status: lower than its peak in 2012 possibly due to the wide spread bad customer treatment practiced by many existing institutional short-term lenders.
* Potential: Welendus is looking to revive this market by combining affordable and ethical loans with the flexibility of the peer-to-peer element. We believe this will help bring confidence back in the market and will help it to return, if not exceed, its 2012 levels.
2. Peer-to-peer lending market:
* UK Market Size: US$7 billion (2016) and up to US$24.1 billion (2020 estimate).
* Market status: Booming market with very promising growth rate.
* Potential: Introduce a peer-to-peer short-term lending platform.
Marketing strategy
We are aiming to soft-launch with our mobile adaptive web platform in Q2 2017. This will allow us to test our systems as well as our marketing channels with moderate marketing budget and to make early adjustments where required.
Following the soft-launch, we will increase our marketing budget and plan to release our native iOS and Android apps. During the full launch we plan to release a very exciting new product that we believe will accelerate our customer acquisition and will lower our customer acquisition cost.
Our routes to market are as follow:
* Targeted Marketing through paid Ads (including search engine and display).
* Promotional Partnerships.
* Innovative above the line customer acquisition product (from Q2 2017).
* Network effects.
* Virality.
* Additional online marketing.
* SEO- organic.
* Price comparison.
Competition strategy

At Welendus we are all about technology, creativity and innovation. We are using some state of the art technologies in the background which will allow us to calculate the risks as well as offer a fully automated fast service to the borrowers. With technology in our DNA we believe we are a highly scalable business model and are looking to rapidly reach a market leading position in the UK which will follow with international expansion.
Welendus aims to bring all new products to the peer-to-peer and the short-term lending markets. We believe that through our all new fully automated platform together with our innovative marketing approach, Welendus will have a head start not only with technology but also with customer acquisition and market share.
In addition, we have focused heavily on compliance and regulations. With the ever-increasing tougher regulations, we believe the long and difficult regulatory processes will create another strong barrier to entry following Welendus launch.
Competing with existing short-term lenders, we consider Welendus to have the following advantages:
* Cheaper and more affordable short-term loans.
* Ethical, friendly and flexible short-term loans.
* Peer-to-peer lending meaning borrowers can borrow from other individuals.
* Offering a clear, simple and easy to use platform.
* Fair customer treatment.
Competing with existing peer-to-peer lenders, Welendus aims to offer new features that will be hard to match by existing players:
* Access to the short-term lending market.
* No ties or long term commitment.
* Higher returns with the account protection and no minimum terms.
* New bonus payment system, auto-diversity and auto-match features to name a few.
Open an account to get access to the team members of Welendus
Already have an account? Log in
To comply with financial regulations, we can only show full campaign details to registered users.
Only shareholders can access this page
If you successfully purchase a share lot of this business, you will be granted access.
Buy sharesOnly shareholders can access this page
If you successfully purchase a share lot of this business, you will be granted access.
Buy sharesOnly shareholders can access this page
If you successfully purchase a share lot of this business, you will be granted access.
Buy sharesOnly shareholders can access this page
If you successfully purchase a share lot of this business, you will be granted access.
Buy shares