Amazon Now Among The Top Online Small Business Lenders in The United States
Amazon has joined PayPal, OnDeck, Kabbage, and Square as being among the largest online small business lenders. On Tuesday, Amazon revealed that it had made more than $1 billion in small business loans to US-based merchants in 2018. Amazon says the capital is used to build inventory and support their Amazon stores.
By selling on Amazon, “SMBs do not need to invest in a physical store or the costs of customer discovery, acquisition, and driving customer traffic to their branded websites,” the company says. Small and medium-sized businesses selling in Amazon’s stores now account for 58 percent of Amazon’s sales. More than 200,000 SMBs exceeded $100,000 in sales on Amazon in 2018 and more than 25,000 surpassed $1 million.
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| Company Name | 2018 Originations | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | |
| PayPal | $4,000,000,000* | $750,000,000* | ||||
| OnDeck | $2,484,000,000 | $2,114,663,000 | $2,400,000,000 | $1,900,000,000 | $1,200,000,000 | |
| Kabbage | $2,000,000,000 | $1,500,000,000 | $1,220,000,000 | $900,000,000 | $350,000,000 | |
| Square Capital | $1,600,000,000 | $1,177,000,000 | $798,000,000 | $400,000,000 | $100,000,000 | |
| Amazon | $1,000,000,000 | |||||
| Funding Circle (USA only) | $792,000,000 | $514,000,000 | $281,000,000 | |||
| BlueVine | $500,000,000* | $200,000,000* | ||||
| National Funding | $494,000,000 | $427,000,000 | $350,000,000 | $293,000,000 | ||
| Kapitus | $393,000,000 | $375,000,000 | $375,000,000 | $280,000,000 | ||
| BFS Capital | $300,000,000 | $300,000,000 | $300,000,000 | |||
| RapidFinance | $260,000,000 | $280,000,000 | $195,000,000 | |||
| Credibly | $290,000,000 | $180,000,000 | $150,000,000 | $95,000,000 | $55,000,000 | |
| Shopify | $277,100,000 | $140,000,000 | ||||
| Forward Financing | $210,000,000 | $125,000,000 | ||||
| IOU Financial | $125,000,000 | $91,300,000 | $107,600,000 | $146,400,000 | $100,000,000 | |
| Yalber | $65,000,000 |
