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Google Takes Minority Interest in Lending Club
May 02, 2013
Investment part of a $125 million secondary round.
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2013 Press Releases
2012 Press Releases
- 12/13/2012
- Lending Club Names Lawrence H. Summers to Board of Directors
- 12/06/2012
- Lending Club Debuts Low-Interest, Fixed-Rate Personal Loan Platform to Indiana Residents
- 11/05/2012
- Lending Club Exceeds $1 Billion in Personal Loans
- 08/05/2012
- Former E*TRADE General Counsel Joins Lending Club
- 07/31/2012
- Lending Club Taps Former Visa and Morgan Stanley Executive as Chief Technology Officer
- 07/19/2012
- Lending Club Announces Additional Investment in LC Advisors Fund from Peter Thomson
- 07/10/2012
- Lending Club Wins Third Consecutive AlwaysOn Global 250 Award
- 06/06/2012
- Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Invests in Lending Club
- 04/12/2012
- Lending Club Appoints John Mack as Director
- 04/10/2012
- Lending Club Commences $1 Billion Note Offering
- 02/02/2012
- Lending Club Surpasses $500 Million in Personal Loans
2011 Press Releases
- 12/02/2011
- Lending Club Named to Forbes’ America’s Most Promising Companies List
- 11/03/2011
- Lending Club Originates $400 Million in Personal Loans
- 10/19/2011
- Jefferies Senior Vice President Joins Lending Club
- 09/29/2011
- Angelo Gordon Partner Joins Lending Club
- 09/08/2011
- Peter Thomson and Thomvest Make Strategic Investments in Lending Club
- 09/01/2011
- Lending Club Wins Prestigious World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer Award
- 08/03/2011
- Lending Club Announces $25 Million Round led by Union Square Ventures
- 07/28/2011
- Lending Club Selected as AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner
- 07/14/2011
- Lending Club Sets Record with $20 Million in Personal Loans Issued in June
- 06/02/2011
- JP Morgan Chase Card Services Credit Executive Joins Lending Club
- 05/05/2011
- Lending Club Passes the Quarter-Billion Dollar Mark in Personal Loan Originations
- 05/02/2011
- Distributor to Invest Up to $2 Million in Personal Loans through Lending Club to Spur Sales
- 01/19/2011
- Lending Club Passes $200 Million in Personal Loan Originations
- 01/12/2011
- Better Loan Resolution for 2011: Credit Sesame and Lending Club Partner to Save People Money
- 01/03/2011
- Lending Club and PerkStreet Financial Encourage Consumers to Quit Credit Cards for Good, Launch "Shred Your Credit Card" Contest
2010 Press Releases
- 11/16/2010
- Personal Loan News: Lending Club Appoints Former Citigroup Head of Global Consumer Group Risk Management to Board of Directors
- 10/28/2010
- Personal Loans from Lending Club Now Available in North Carolina
- 10/22/2010
- Personal Loans from Lending Club Now Available in Kansas
- 10/18/2010
- Personal Loan Performance Drives Lending Club to Decrease Starting APR to 6.78% - Nearly Half the Average Starting Credit Card APR of 13.15% Available to Similar Borrowers
- 09/28/2010
- Former Managing Principal of Hilspen Capital Management Joins Lending Club as Managing Director
- 08/19/2010
- Former Charles Schwab Executive Joins Lending Club As New Chief Financial Officer
- 07/22/2010
- Lending Club Turns Three, Captures 80 Percent of U.S. Peer Lending Market
- 06/30/2010
- Lending Club Selected as Mint.com Goals Launch Partner to Help Consumers Pay Off Credit Card Debt, Keep More of Their Money
- 06/24/2010
- Personal Financial Knowledge Has Gone Up, but Americans Still Aren’t Making the Right Financial Moves, According to Lending Club Survey
- 06/03/2010
- Lending Club Surpasses $10 Million in Monthly Loan Fundings for May
- 04/14/2010
- Lending Club Announces $24.5 Million in Series C Funding
- 03/25/2010
- Average Net Annual Returns on Self-Directed IRAs over 10%
- 01/19/2010
- Researchers at Columbia Business School Find Lending Club to be a Rational Alternative to Mainstream Investments
- 01/06/2010
- Lending Club Expands to Redwood City
2009 Press Releases
- 12/22/2009
- Lending Club Announces The DebtBuster Challenge
- 3/25/2009
- Lending Club Introduces the First Self-Directed IRA to Enable Investments in Peer Lending
- 3/19/2009
- Lending Club Closes Series B Financing Round
- 1/22/2009
- Recent Javelin Analysis Reviews Social Lending Investments with Lending Club
2007 Press Releases
- 12/13/2007
- Lending Club Available Nationwide: Affinity-Based People-to-People Lending Service Expands Its Network Across All 50 States
- 10/31/2007
- Lending Club Partners with Top University Alumni Associations to Promote Affinity-Based Lending
- 9/13/2007
- People’s Response to the Credit Crunch: Lending Club Members Issue $1 Million in Loans and Company Launches New Community Website
- 8/17/2007
- Lending Club Announces Winners of User Generated Video Ad Contest
- 8/23/2007
- Lending Club, Newly Launched P2P Lending Success Story, Secures $10.26 Million in Series A Financing
- 5/24/2007
- Facebook’s case study on Lending Club (PDF, 806kb)
- 5/24/2007
- Lending Club® Launches on Facebook® Platform
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