{"id":11995,"date":"2018-03-12T17:16:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T15:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bondora.com\/blog\/?p=11995"},"modified":"2018-03-12T17:16:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T15:16:58","slug":"start-up-to-stardom-bondora-turns-10-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/blog\/start-up-to-stardom-bondora-turns-10-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Start-up to stardom, Bondora turns 10 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><em>&#8220;Bondora began as a dorm room start-up and now has over 34,000 investors from all over the world. I&#8217;d especially like to thank all of the investors that have been with us since the beginning, we&#8217;re just getting started.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">&#8211; <em>P\u00e4rtel Tomberg, Bondora CEO and Founder <\/em>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">* * *<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11997 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog-bannersBirthday.png\" alt=\"Bondora 10 birthday\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In the height of the global financial crisis, Bondora was officially founded on 11.03.2008. While it may have seemed counter-intuitive to most to create a new financial platform at this time, there was a clear need to serve customers who had been failed by the banks and disrupt the wider financial ecosystem. As a result, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/en\/peer-to-peer-lending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">peer-to-peer lending was born<\/a> and gave power to the individuals, allowing them to essentially become the bank and gain access to the consumer credit market for the first time.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Fast forward 10 years, banks are still recovering from the financial crisis and many P2P platforms have come and gone, with only a handful able to say they have a 10 year+ history. How have they done it? 3 things; Cutting-edge technology, market leading interest rates and an unbeatable customer experience.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12021 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/achievements.png\" alt=\"Bondora achievements 10 years\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">We\u2019re not sure if Bondora can still be classed as a start-up, but even as we approach adolescence the start-up (and growth!) mind-set is more prevalent than ever before. This translates to consistently improving and perfecting what we offer to investors to become the best platform in Europe.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Thank you to everyone who is part of our investor community, here\u2019s to the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goandgrow.eu\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Invest with Bondora today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bondora began as a dorm room start-up and now has over 34,000 investors from all over the world. I&#8217;d especially like to thank all of the investors that have been with us since the beginning, we&#8217;re just getting started.&#8221; &#8211; P\u00e4rtel Tomberg, Bondora CEO and Founder &#8211; * * * In the height of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bondora-news"],"acf":[],"featured_image":null,"categories_names":["News"],"category_name":"News","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goandgrow.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}