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ARA Venn

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ARA Venn is a specialist real estate debt investment manager partnering with StrideUp.

Portfolio

1

companies

By category

  • FinTech£280M

By location

  • London£280M

Portfolio companies

StrideUp

StrideUp

StrideUp provides alternative shared ownership mortgage plans for first-time buyers.


Team

Gary McKenzie-Smith

Gary McKenzie-Smith

Managing Partner

Gary is the managing partner at Venn. He previously held roles at Nomura and Goldman Sachs.

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Recent investments

Debt
£280M

The debt funding deal from ARA Venn will support the nationwide rollout of StrideUp and its shared ownership mortgage product.

"We are excited to bring an innovative, scalable product to market solving a hard real-world problem for an entire generation that is priced out of home ownership. We believe this funding is an early step in making a material dent in the challenges facing first time buyers realise their aspirations."
— Rohan Trivedi, Co-founder