One product group. Business finance.
We don’t also do mortgages or motor finance on the side. Start Up Loans, growth finance, acquisition finance: that’s the whole list. Depth over breadth.
Focus since 2012
About bizbritain · est. March 2012
Specialists in first-time business finance.
We help entrepreneurs across the UK start, grow, and buy businesses. We are particularly good at helping first-time applicants: people seeking business finance for the first time.
- Accreditation
- British Business Bank · Business Support Partner
- Regulator
- FCA authorised · ref. 727207
- Reviews
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Excellent
1,985 reviews
Why we specialise
Most brokers treat first-time applicants as the hard cases. We built the firm around them.
Commercial finance is built for people who’ve done it before. Forms assume a track record. Terminology assumes you already know the terminology. We spend our days translating, and it turns out we’re good at it.
Plain English, always.
Every policy, every form, every phone call is written for someone hearing the language of commercial credit for the first time. We rewrite until our grandparents would understand.
Practice, not a campaign
FCA authorised since 2016.
Fully FCA-authorised commercial finance brokerage (firm ref. 727207). British Business Bank business support partner operating nationwide. The boring credentials that matter.
Continuous since 2016
The short version
How we got here.
Thirteen years, three decisions that mattered, and the same founders all the way through.
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2012
Origin · March
Matt Gubba founds bizbritain as a resource to help people start their own business, after seeing growing demand for support and guidance amongst new business owners.
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2013
Partnership
Matt teams up with Gary Lennon; bizbritain becomes a national business support partner of the government-backed Start Up Loans scheme, initiated by Lord Young, and since lending more than £1bn to UK startups.
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2016
Authorisation
Becomes a fully FCA-authorised commercial finance brokerage, broadening beyond start-up lending into growth and acquisition finance.
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Today
April 2026
10,000+ businesses directly funded and £125M+ facilitated. Still a British Business Bank business support partner. Still specialists in first-time applicants.
Founders · still running bizbritain
Matt Gubba
Founder · entrepreneur · launched 2012
Gary Lennon
Co-founder · entrepreneur · joined 2013
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