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The process

Three steps, and the specialist walks them with you

Short to send. The legwork of finding the lenders who fund your stage is ours.

Start my application

Two owners going through the figures on a tablet, a calculator between them.

Step 01

Say where you stand

How much you need, how to reach you, how long you have been trading and roughly what you take in a month. No documents to dig out first.

  • A couple of minutes
  • Nothing to pay
  • Nothing to sign yet
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Step 02

Matched to lenders who fund your stage

A specialist reads the application the way a lender will, then takes it to the lenders in the network that fund businesses at your point on the climb.

  • Time in business read first
  • One application, many lenders
  • Offers brought back together
Two owners going through the figures on a tablet, a calculator between them.

Step 03

Pick your route, then go

You see each offer's amount, term and what it costs in total, and you choose. Once approved, the money can land in as little as 24 hours.

  • Total cost laid out
  • You choose, or walk away
  • Funds in as little as 24 hours once approved
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The network's figures

The network this application reaches

80+lenders in the network
25,000businesses funded
24 hrsto funding once approved

These figures belong to the lending network Highland Business Funding works through, not to Highland on its own.

Firm footing

A few things that hold at every stage

Whatever stretch you are on, the way we deal with you does not change.

Asked the right questions
A business in its first year is not judged by a ten-year yardstick. We start from where you actually are.
No route forced on you
If the offers on the table do not suit the plan, you can say no and nothing follows.
The whole cost, up front
Every offer is set out with what it costs over its full term before anything is signed.
Free from start to finish
There is no fee to apply and no charge for seeing what you qualify for.

The application

Start your application

About two minutes: the amount, your details, how long you have been trading and a rough monthly figure. Free to send, and nothing is agreed until you accept.

The application is the way in, and it takes about two minutes.