Barclays and Santander back fintech SME lender MarketInvoice

Market Invoice co-founders Ilya Kondrashov, left, and Anil Stocker, right.

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Market Invoice co-founders Ilya Kondrashov, left, and Anil Stocker, right.

British lending start-up MarketInvoice said Monday that it secured £56 million ($72 million) in a mix of equity and debt funding from investors.

The London-based financial technology firm lets small-to-medium enterprises sell their unpaid invoices through an online platform to gain access to working capital loans.

MarketInvoice said the investment consisted of a £26 million funding round led by British bank and the venture capital arm of Spanish lender , as well as a £30 million debt facility from Viola Credit, the lending fund of Israeli private equity firm Viola Group.

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The debt funding will go towards the firm’s business loan offering. Viola Credit and European venture capital firm Northzone also participated in the equity fundraising, MarketInvoice said.

Barclays last year bought a significant minority stake in the firm, as part of a strategic partnership that will see the bank’s business clients gain access to MarketInvoice’s invoice finance solutions.

Anil Stocker, co-founder and chief executive of MarketInvoice, said the new capital would be used to boost its business in the U.K. and help it forge more partnerships with banks — with a particular focus on cross-border tie-ups.

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“We’re using this money to scale the business here in the U.K., which means delivering on the strategic partnership that we have with Barclays and investing more in tech and data,” he told CNBC in a phone interview.

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