P2P Lending Company Prosper.com has High Q3 Loss
Prosper Marketplace, Inc. the company running the p2p lending site Prosper.com had a net loss of 2,238,138 US$ in the third quarter of 2009. Furthermore Prosper’s cash reserve is low. As of September 30th, 2009 Prosper had 2,079,624 US$ cash and cash equivalents left from an initial VC funding of 40 million US$. Even accounting for the recent 1 million US$ investment of a banker, at the current burn rate Prosper will need new funding soon.
However the timing and circumstances make chances for a new VC round look less than ideal.
Prosper reopened the site for new loans after completing the SEC registration process in July 2009, but still struggles to reach growth rates the marketplace had in 2007 and 2008.
(Chart Source: Ericscc.com)
Tags: funding, growth, Prosper, prosper.com, vc
November 18th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Paging Mr. Wiseclerk…
There is a question being asked regarding whether or not you have a content-sharing agreement with American Banking News – or whether the not-quite-ready-for-primetime owner of that other site is basically just plagiarzing your work?
http://www.prospers.org/forum/plagiarism_by_american_banking_news-t17313.0.html
November 19th, 2009 at 2:58 am
[...] Lösung dürfte im Falle von Prosper.com nicht mehr allzu lange gut gehen, schaut man sich etwa hier auf der Plattform P2P-Banking die von einer ziemlich großen strategischen Schieflage geprägten [...]
November 19th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Hi,
there is no relationship between Wiseclerk/P2P-Banking.com and the website you mention