A Chat With Katherine Chan, CEO at E-Commerce Funding Solution: Juice

Tell us about Juice

 

Juice offers tailored non-dilutive financing solutions adapted to the unique needs of e-commerce businesses, providing them with the financial agility, strategic insights and support to nourish their growing business.

Juice provides an AI-driven platform that harnesses real-time datasets alongside the traditional to offer quicker application processes and overall faster access to capital through the analysis of multiple alternative datasets in its proprietary risk engine, enabling business owners to get on with running their business with the peace of mind they have a reliable, trusted funding partner by their side.

 

 

What do you think makes the company unique?

 

Juice is not just a funding solution – it is a network of founders and experts who appreciate the challenges of scaling a business. It believes that a funding partner needs to be more than just a source of capital – rather, a provider of data and insights to empower founders to make key financial decisions with confidence, armed with the knowledge of how these decisions will drive growth and impact bottom-line profitability.

This is why Juice offers Smart Growth Capital.

Beyond the funding, Juice offers its clients with an Insights dashboard so that founders can track in real time the impact of their funding and marketing activities.  providing peace of mind that their decisions are taken to drive maximum ROI. Juice’s Insights-driven lending solution means its clients can borrow with confidence.

Juice also runs the Growth Hub – a community for like-minded founders to network, share and learn in an agenda-free environment. Members of the Growth Hub are invited to Juice’s monthly networking breakfasts and expert-led workshops.

Juice is a funder that is in it for the long-term, providing funding, Insights and community support to its clients. It offers the most flexible form of non-dilutive funding option in the e-commerce marketing where it believes the data, Insights and control should be put back in the hands of founders.

 

 

How has the company evolved over the years?

 

Juice was conceived to address the need for an alternative form of growth capital – one that is non-dilutive to founders. It started out its journey as the lending arm of an equity platform, designed to support its portfolio companies. Over the course of the past 4 years, Juice has grown to support the demand in the wider digital economy, and now supports a wide spectrum of digital-first companies in the UK.

Juice is a strong supporter of empowering founders to make the best decisions around their capital stack through education, de-mystification and data. It is a firm advocate of fair, transparent funding to SMEs. Juice has evolved from being a debt capital provider, to a being a long-term partner of its companies. It shares its own data and insights with its companies, through Smart Growth Capital, putting control back in the hands of founders, who are able to make well informed, responsible and sustainable funding decisions.

 

What can we hope to see from Juice in the future?

 

Juice will be providing even more value-added insights to its companies in future by adding a financial management dashboard to its data panel for founders to log into and draw better understanding of their company’s finances. Juice will be taking its predictive insights even further by providing founders with detailed profitability predictions on SKU level, leveraging marketing, sales and open banking data, accounting for seasonality and historical to make recommendations for inventory management in addition to marketing data.

Juice will also be investing more it its Community Growth Hub to bring even more ambitious founders together to build one of the largest e-commerce hubs in the UK.