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Business funding

Business funding from $5,000 to $1 million at every stage

Wherever you are on the climb, one short application reaches 80+ lenders. No application fee, and no obligation.

  • No application fee
  • No obligation
  • Same-day funding
  • No collateral required

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

Where you are on the climb

Know your footing before you pick a route.

Time in business is the first thing a lender reads. Here is what each stretch of the climb tends to look like from their side, and what usually opens up there.

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1Under 1 Year
21-2 years
33-5 years
46-9 years
510+ years
  1. A young owner at her laptop in a greenhouse, her first season under glass.

    Under 1 Year

    Base camp

    There is not much history yet, so a lender leans on what there is: the deposits going through the account, card takings, and the owner's own credit.

    • Recent bank deposits
    • Card sales so far
    • The owner's personal credit

    Most often opens up

  2. A young café owner standing behind his counter, arms folded.

    1-2 years

    The first ridge

    A full year of statements changes the conversation. Lenders can see a seasonal pattern instead of guessing at one, and more doors open.

    • Twelve months of statements
    • Whether revenue is steady or climbing
    • How existing debt is being paid

    Most often opens up

  3. A workshop team gathered at a bench around the day's job.

    3-5 years

    Open ground

    The business has been through a few seasons and come out the other side. A facility that sits ready, rather than one lump sum, becomes a realistic ask.

    • Several seasons of revenue
    • Business credit, not just personal
    • Margins over time

    Most often opens up

  4. An owner in the restaurant he has run for years, smiling at the door.

    6-9 years

    High ground

    A long record is the strongest thing an application can carry. It is usually the stretch where a sizeable term loan for a second site or a large contract makes sense.

    • A long repayment record
    • Assets the business owns
    • What the money will build

    Most often opens up

  5. Two generations reading a plan together at the workshop bench.

    10+ years

    The long view

    Established businesses are generally looked at for all six programmes, and for amounts toward the top of each range. The question becomes which shape suits the plan.

    • Decade-long financials
    • Ownership and succession
    • The plan for the next stretch

    Most often opens up

These are tendencies, not rules. Lenders decide, and a strong run of sales can count for more than a long history. A business of any age can apply.

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.

How it works

Three steps, and the specialist walks them with you

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

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
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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 six

Six routes up

Each one suits a different stretch and a different kind of need. The figures are the network's published ranges for each.

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Term Loan

The classic way to fund a bigger move.

Loan amount
$20K – $1M
Funding speed
Within 24 hours
Loan term
1–2 years
Interest rate
As low as 6%

Where term loan fits →

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 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.

Ready when you are

Wherever you are on the climb, start from there.

The application asks how long you have been trading for a reason. Answer it honestly and the offers that come back will fit the ground you are on.

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