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What types of business funding are available on Alternative Business Funding?

Asset Finance

Business Loans

Commercial Property

Other Types of Funding

How it works

Choosing the right funding for your business couldn’t be simpler

Search

Tell us a little bit about your business and your requirements by answering some simple questions. The whole process takes a couple of minutes.

Match

Our unique Funder Finder engine matches your business with the most suitable funders and appropriate products.

Select

Choose who you would like to contact or select ‘Quick Submit’ and let our experienced service team choose on your behalf.

Find funding now

Simple, Safe, Efficient, Free and Fair

Simple

Search our database in under 5 minutes

You provide some really straightforward information to get started. This is the type of information that you will have to hand; you don't have to find a bunch stuff to get going.

Safe

Customer data is protected at all times

State-of-the-art encryption protects your information while ABF allows you to search for available finance from multiple funders.

Efficient

One place to search, one place to find

With a deep and broad selection of funders represented on ABF you can be certain that you are giving yourself the best chance to find the right finance.

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Free

ABF is free for SMEs to use

Searching for finance with ABF is free and your finance will cost you no more than if you went to the funder direct.

Fair

Funders don’t pay us for their listings

We use our Funder Finder algorithm to sort through the information you give us and match it to our database. The ABF Fairness Guarantee ensures this and sets us apart from all other sources of funding.