Our Story

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With 10 years’ experience funding the energy efficiency industry, (during which we funded over £200m to some 100 installers) we launched Energy Advance. Energy Advance is a bespoke embedded finance product designed for qualified SME installers, leading retrofit programmes, crucial to achieving the UK’s 2050 Net Zero targets. Stay with us to see what's next! 

Traditional banks, still recovering from the financial crisis, focused on funding larger organisations, leaving SMEs under-served.  So, three friends, experts respectively in Finance, Business Management and Supply Chain Management technology, converged to help entrepreneurial companies. They got to work creating a plan and TradeBridge, and its software platform was born. 

Their vision, to utilise creative thinking, data, and tech to re-invent supply chain finance, resulted in us signing our first client, a fish farm in Scotland! The year saw the building of both the team and the technology platform to serve our corporate clients, across the energy efficiency, construction and manufacturing sectors. 

2015 saw a breakthrough moment, the launch of our innovative, embedded eCommerce finance solution for online marketplaces, in partnership with a (now famous) luxury fashion marketplace. The embedded funding solution we developed for their online sellers, marked the start of our commitment to funding eCommerce. 

We launched RxBridge, finance for the independent pharmacy sector, having recognised they faced similar challenges to our existing client base. Today, we support hundreds of independent pharmacies, providing them with working capital and additional funds to invest in growth strategies. As a result, ABN AMRO, expanded our funding from £15 million to £40 million. 

After three years of impressive growth across: eCommerce, pharmacy and corporate businesses, we focused on scalability. We refined our business processes and tapped into London's highly skilled and diverse talent pool. As our global client base grew, we began exploring options for opening TradeBridge's first offshore office. 

This year, we chose to expand into Singapore, because of its position as the strategic gateway to the APAC region, a stepping-stone to growing our global client base. Our multi-lingual, multi-cultural team help clients with international supply chains. Whilst in the UK, the team moved to Bloomsbury, an area recognised as the “intellectual heart” of London. 

Early in 2019, we smashed a significant milestone and broke through the $1b funding mark, meaning these funds were supporting hundreds of SME businesses worldwide. The continued success of RxBridge, led us to extend the functionality of this innovative, embedded finance solution, to expand into the UK dental sector. 

COVID-19 placed the UK’s pharmacies, under significant additional pressure. As the UK government rolled out financial support, our platform was leveraged to deliver and manage vital, emergency funding to pharmacies. Furthermore, with unflinching commitment, we achieved the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan accreditation, enabling UK SMEs to receive this government funding. 

Just two years after surpassing the $1b mark, we reached the $2b funding milestone. This achievement reflected both the loyalty and growth of our client base, and the quality of our product portfolio. This year also secured an additional $100m facility to fuel growth. This marked a significant step in our global expansion. 

Our global ambitions advanced as we opened a new office in Australia. Two of our UK team, with deep industry knowledge and experience, were deployed to Sydney to establish and lead the new office. Synergies between Australia’s PBS health service and the NHS, made our pharmacy solution a natural first offering for this market. 

This year presented a unique growth opportunity for entrepreneurial pharmacists when LloydsPharmacy revealed plans to sell off 1,294 of it's pharmacies. RxBridge supported the acquisition of one third of the divested portfolio, with pharmacists able to secure acquisitions ranging from a single site, to adding 100 new locations to their portfolio.

Working in Partnership

With offices throughout the world, TradeBridge ensures that key local insights and market knowledge are on demand. Our experts service a diverse range of business sectors from offices in London, Singapore and Sydney. We act as your trusted partner in working capital, ensuring that sector specific, financial expertise is available at the vital times for your business.
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Sector knowledge, long-term relationships

TradeBridge understand the value of leading-edge technology and automation - the agility and confidence it gives us ensures we deliver fast and efficient support to our clients. But we also believe in knowledge and experience, and in real people, building real relationships. 

Of course, our experts will know your market but they will also be keen to understand how your business operates, because each is different. They learn by listening, asking questions and considering information and throughout the course, become your trusted financial partner, there to support you at pivotal moments. 

“If you want the confidence to grow and the freedom to be able to move at pace, an RxBridge facility is the way forward.”
Mahyar Nickkho-Amiry, Managing Director, Dears Pharmacy
“I’d absolutely recommend TradeBridge to eCommerce businesses. When we come up against a new pain point, they go above and beyond to be flexible and support our goals.”
Chris Slodyczka, Marketing Director, Joolca
“With RxBridge’s support, I grew my business from one tiny chemist to anetwork of four. I’m still on the acquisition trail and I’ll continue to use their facility for start-up cashflow.”
Ram Parami, Owner, J Anderson Ltd and Echo Healthcare Services Ltd

Taking care of our own ecosystem

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Drawing from the rich pool of talent in London, our UK office is a genuinely multi-cultural and diverse place to work. You are as likely to hear Chinese, Italian or Portuguese spoken, as French, Hindi or Bengali. But a diverse workforce doesn’t happen by itself, we constantly examine our individual and institutional biases, to ensure we employ the best person for the role, regardless of their faith, ethnicity, sexuality or age.

We also work hard to make our offices inclusive places that bring our teams together – healthy breakfasts, sports clubs and regular socials are all on offer. We joyously celebrate Eid, Black History Month, Pride - and Christmas.

“We raise money to support local charities such as Ella’s, but we err on active employee participation – because we know it is beneficial to both our teams and the communities we support.”
Olivier Bonavero, TradeBridge
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Our fundamental belief is that the best way to create positive change is to act locally. As we’ve grown and sought to provide our clients and stakeholders with greater transparency on our values, we formalised the 4 pillars of our ESG policy (governance, planet, people and prosperity), into our strategic business objectives. This has given us both the means to measure our impact, and the license to up our game.

 

Our Youth Engagement Project ensures we offer internship opportunities to disadvantaged teens, encouraging them to aim higher, reach farther and aspire for more. And whilst for years we have refused to fund palm oil for the sake of the Orangutans, we now advocate for the environment even further through formal credit processes that root out prospective clients who don’t align with our core beliefs and values. 

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