Silicon Valley Bank UK provides commercial lending, banking solutions, and advisory services to innovative public and private companies across the UK and EMEA.
Portfolio
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companies
Liberis
Liberis provides accessible embedded finance platforms and revenue-based funding for small businesses.
Plum Fintech
Plum Fintech provides a smart money application that automates personal finance and investing.
Wise
Wise provides international money transfer and multi-currency account services for individuals and businesses.
Thomas Easterby
Managing Director of Corporate Finance
Thomas brings extensive banking experience across technology, venture, and growth sectors. He currently leads fintech, venture, and growth banking at HSBC Innovation Banking following roles at J.P. Morgan, Silicon Valley Bank, and Barclays.
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Conor Sheehy
Managing Director, Head of Warehouse Finance EMEA
Conor brings extensive experience in asset backed lending and warehouse finance across Europe. His career includes leadership roles at HSBC Innovation Banking, Silicon Valley Bank, and Neyber.
LinkedInThe London-based embedded finance platform has raised debt funding to support international expansion and multi-currency capabilities.
"We’re delighted to be working with Liberis as the team accelerates the business into new European territories and beyond. SME owners play a key role in driving the economy forward, and Liberis is supporting small businesses by giving access to reliable and sound capital to support their growth."
Silicon Valley Bank UK led the syndication with a hold level of £100m to support the company working capital needs.
"Our mission is to create money without borders – instant, convenient, transparent and eventually free. The new facility led by Silicon Valley Bank UK will offer us flexible and efficient access to working capital. This means we can continue bringing our service to as many as possible and we can keep investing in making our payments faster, cheaper and more efficient for our millions of customers around the world."
The smart money app secured the initial funding target within eight hours from over 3700 participants.
"I want to thank our 3700 investors for joining Plum in its journey with this new round of crowdfunding. I am thrilled to see that our campaign has secured such good traction in a short amount of time and I am excited for what is yet to come."