Borro, a UK-based personal asset lender, closed a $112m financing with Victory Park Capital, an asset management firm that provides debt and equity financing to middle-market companies.
The company will use the funding line to expand operations.
Launched in the UK in 2009 and in the US in 2012 by CEO Paul Aitken, Borro has created a liquidity marketplace for luxury personal assets. It focuses on providing liquidity to individuals, entrepreneurs and business owners who use luxury personal assets such as watches, jewelry, supercars, fine art, antiques and high-end handbags as collateral for loans.
The service can be completed online, or in-person and Borro will lend $1k to $2m depending on the asset. It has an average loan value of $12k.
FinSMEs
04/03/2014
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