Crowdz is the Invoice Auction & Exchange for Trade Finance.

One of the most pressing issues in global commerce today—and, in particular, in global supply chains—is the financial viability of the small and midsize enterprises, or SMEs, that account for 70% of all supply-chain participants. These SMEs typically have to wait for 90 days or more to be paid for the products they sell, yet they lack access to affordable ways of accelerating their cashflow.

As a result, at best, they limp along, unable to purchase the inputs for new products until their invoices get paid. At worst, they simply go out of business, as half of SMEs do within their first five years.

Crowdz solves this problem by launching a revolution in the $9 trillion dollar trade-finance market. Unlike traditional invoice-buying entities, Crowdz has created an entire supply-chain ecosystem, which makes it possible, for the first time, to extend trade finance to all supply-chain finance participants even while driving down its costs.

And, with Crowdz’s 3-Click Funding, nothing could be easier. Companies need only:

• First, sell their products within Crowdz’s product marketplaces, which automatically generates digitized, risk-rated invoices pre-configured for investor financing.

• Second, post their invoices on Crowdz’s automated invoice auction exchange, which is designed to become the large aggregator of invoice-buying investors.

• And third, accept the most favorable bid from the field of investors.

Crowdz has partnered with Barclaycard and others to deliver our 3-Click Funding solution to supply-chain participants throughout the world. To learn more, check Demo Day video from the Barclays London Techstars Accelerator program @