Lenkie
Lenkie provides fast and flexible funding to help high growth businesses achieve their ambitions. From credit facilities to analytics dashboards, Lenkie provides the tools businesses need to effortlessly manage their cashflow.
SMEs operate in a highly dynamic environment, and their creditworthiness is closely tied to their business stage. They are often denied funding at their most promising growth stage due to credit models that penalize, rather than reward, businesses for growth. This funding gap is more than £20 billion in the UK alone.
Lenkie provides dynamic lending products through a powerful payments and analytics ecosystem, and has built the financial operating system of choice for fast-growth SMEs.
Founders
Sanjeev Jeyakumar
CEO
Sanjeev was a credit trader at Citigroup and previously structured $2+ billion of lending in emerging markets. He has held leadership roles scaling both marketplace and fintech startups. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford.
Nnaemeka Obodoekwe
CTO
Nnaemeka graduated from the University of Johannesburg with a First Class Degree in Computer Science. He won a scholarship to attend Cambridge University, where he achieved a First Class Master’s in Advanced Computer Science. He worked as a software engineer for Standard Bank in South Africa before joining Microsoft to work on machine learning models.
Milestones
Founded at Entrepreneur First
Seed ($1.6 million) led by Ground Up Ventures