About Paragon Business Funds
A paragon is the one the others are measured against.
Paragon Business Funds helps owners compare funding offers against a fixed standard, instead of against whichever offer arrived first.
Why a standard
We are not a lender. Your application goes to our funding partner, which works with a network of lenders and funding providers who make the offers. Our part is the measure: the same five questions asked of every offer, so the cheapest-looking one and the best one are not mistaken for each other.
The word was first used of a flawless diamond — a stone over a hundred carats, cut so well that jewellers judged other stones by it. Funding is less romantic than that, but the idea carries. Without a standard, every offer looks reasonable on its own.
We work only with businesses. There is no call centre to queue for: the application is the way in, and a specialist comes back to you.
What does not bend
Four things that stay the same for every applicant
A standard only means something if it holds when it is inconvenient. These four do.
- No cost to apply
- Applying, being matched and reading your offers cost the business nothing.
- No obligation
- Nothing is agreed until you accept an offer, and you are free to accept none.
- Businesses only
- Paragon arranges funding for businesses. It never arranges personal or consumer loans.
- Named recipients
- Who receives your application is written in our Privacy Policy, by name, not as “partners”.
The application
Begin the application
A couple of minutes: the amount, how to reach you and a few questions about the business. It costs nothing, and nothing is agreed until you accept an offer.
The application is the way in, and it takes about two minutes.
