Santander Consumer Finance
86 Station Road, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1SR, United Kingdom
Overview
Santander Consumer Finance is a financial services company. They provide automotive finance and consumer finance services. Their financial products are designed for the purchase of personal and business vehicles. Their finance and related products are distributed through dealers and also through partnerships with car and motorcycle manufacturers.
- Total investments
- 3
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 1
Sector focus
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Lending
Investment portfolio
- Mundimoto
Participated · Debt Financing · Mar 2025
Mundimoto operates a motorcycle trading and rental platform offering a wide range of vehicles through a transparent acquisition and support process. Led by CEO and founder Pepe Talavera, the company combines sales and a growing rental business. It has sold more than 50,000 motorcycles to date. The recent financing will fund international expansion, including operations in Italy, and support growth of its rental inventory. The company uses bank financing to expand stock dedicated to renting while equity capital underpins operational and expansion efforts. Mundimoto’s model emphasizes accessibility and cross-support between trading and rental services. Mundimoto operates an online marketplace for buying and selling motorcycles across Europe. The company has expanded its catalog to include new electric motorcycles and recently launched a subscription service for private and corporate customers. In 2023 it began internationalization by launching its platform in Italy. Mundimoto closed 2022 with €60 million in revenue, roughly quadrupling the prior year, and expects to exceed that figure in the current year. To support growth it has secured new financing and debt facilities to back expansion and product/service rollouts. Mundimoto operates an online marketplace for buying and selling motorcycles and has expanded its catalog to include new electric motorcycles. The company offers services such as a subscription service for individuals and companies, and plans to add vehicle leasing and a marketplace for spare and second-hand parts. Mundimoto has begun internationalization with a launch in Italy and aims to consolidate its position in the Italian market within 24 months. The business reported a turnover of €60 million in 2022, having quadrupled results from the previous year, and expects to exceed that figure in the current year. The company has over 2,500 vehicles in its catalog, expects to exceed 25,000 vehicles sold by 2023, and employs around 250 people. Mundimoto is headquartered in Barcelona and also has offices in Madrid and Milan. Mundimoto operates a one-stop online marketplace for used motorcycles and mopeds, offering valuation, secure payment, at-home pickup, reconditioning, delivery, financing and insurance. The company purchases roughly 1,000 vehicles per month and has sold 4,000 vehicles since its 2019 founding. Revenue grew from €1 million in 2019 to €15 million in 2021, and about 15% of sales are already international; within Spain 30% of national sales come from Catalonia and 70% from the rest of the country. Mundimoto plans to expand beyond Spain into Europe, starting with Italy and Holland, and will hire 50 engineers plus 250 other employees to advance its product and support international growth. The product and operations target a fragmented two-wheeler retail market dominated by tiny dealerships and hard-to-navigate P2P classifieds by offering a more standardized, end-to-end buyer and seller experience.
- Revel
Participated · Equity · Sep 2023
Founded in 2020, Revel has built an online and app-based platform that lets consumers subscribe to a new car in roughly the same time it takes to sign up for a streaming service, with delivery occurring about a week later. The core product is a 12-month, all-inclusive lease that allows subscribers to swap among a range of vehicle models while paying a fixed monthly fee covering insurance, maintenance, and carbon offsets. Revel never purchases vehicles outright, instead relying on undisclosed sourcing arrangements it labels as proprietary 'secret sauce.' After three years of testing multiple subscription models on just €750,000 of seed capital, the company believes it has identified a sweet spot that is shorter and more economical than traditional three- to four-year leases. Management positions the service as a bridge between outright ownership and short-term rental, and as a future channel for accessing increasingly expensive next-generation and autonomous vehicles. No revenue, user, or fleet size metrics were disclosed in the article.
- Vizolution
Participated · Equity · Nov 2018
Vizolution is a UK-based SaaS company offering an omni-channel digital suite that replicates face-to-face interactions in remote channels, allowing customers and agents to share, display, verify and sign documents without downloads. Its end-to-end platform targets complex customer journeys across financial services, telecoms and utilities and is used by 30 global enterprises, including HSBC, Santander, RBS and O2. The company reports typical outcomes of over 40% increases in sales conversions, 50% reductions in transaction times and Net Promoter Scores above 80%; it has also helped clients unlock operational savings such as removing nearly 7m pieces of paper per year. RBS used Vizolution to introduce a paperless mortgage process that has facilitated approximately £1bn of mortgage loans per month. Launched in 2013 and headquartered in Port Talbot, Wales, Vizolution employs nearly 140 people and has opened new offices in Port Talbot, Toronto and Boston in the last year. The company says it will use the new funds to develop additional products for its award-winning suite and accelerate growth in its markets. Vizolution is a Port Talbot- and London, UK-based Software as a Service company offering omni-channel digital solutions that streamline customer journeys for large contact centres. Its platform enables businesses to interact with customers and to send, receive and sign documents in real time. The product suite includes vScreen (screen sharing that replicates face-to-face interactions and supports electronic signatures), vDoc (a secure portal for signing, downloading and uploading documents via any browser or device), vChat (an advanced web chat with support for images, signatures, calculators and document exchange) and vVid (an integrated video and telephony solution). Led by CEO Bill Safran, Vizolution received external financing to support growth. The company said the funds will be used to accelerate international expansion and to strengthen its development team. Vizolution has developed vScreen, a product that enables call-centre staff and advisers to remotely demonstrate mortgages, insurance and other protection products on a client's desktop. The product has been piloted with several large financial services companies in the UK. The company launches vScreen this week, initially targeting large banks and insurance companies, before expanding to intermediaries and advisers. Vizolution is founded and led by CEO Bill Safran and is based in Port Talbot, Wales. The company has raised over £750k in funding to finance its UK market launch. Backers include Finance Wales, Notion Capital, the company's management team and angel investor Peter Birch.
Team
Wido Riezebos
Director of Software Development
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