Built for SA’s business owners
Business Funding without the Guesswork
Browse and Learn. Then Apply.
Tell Frank about your business and see what business funding you qualify for. Then apply to the lenders you choose, on the answers you have already given.
- About a minute
- Zero credit check
How much do you need?
Lenders on Frank’s panel
- Bridgement
- Geddes Capital
- Lula
- Merchant Capital
- Pollen Finance
The problem
Every lender has its own rules.
We put every lender’s rules in one place and check them against your business, so you can see what fits in about a minute instead of spending a week finding out.
Cash Flow Facility
Lula
- Registered SA business
- Required
- Turnover
- R40k a month
- Trading for
- 12 months+
Revolving credit facility
WELL by Merchant Capital
Merchant Capital
- Registered SA business
- Required
- Turnover
- R50k a month
- Trading for
- 8 months+
Short- to medium-term funding for medical practices, advanced against predictable medical-aid income.
Revenue Advance Facility
Bridgement
- Registered SA business
- Required
- Turnover
- R100k a month
- Trading for
- 6 months+
Flexible working capital facility
Minimums start around R40k a month and 6 months trading. All want a registered SA business.
What Frank promises.
No credit check. Comparing published rules is not an enquiry, so it leaves no mark on your record.
Nothing reaches a lender until you ask. Your details stay with Frank until you ask for an introduction.
Free for business owners. You are never charged. When you are funded through Frank, the lender pays the referral fee.
No lender can pay to rank higher. The fee is the same whichever lender you choose, so it never changes the rate you are offered.
Message from the founder
Small businesses need funding.
But none of them know where to start.
The number of lenders serving SMEs in South Africa is growing rapidly. What is missing is a way to find out which ones suit your business and your funding need. Every lender keeps its own rules, in its own words, in its own corner of the internet.
So you either apply blind and hope, or lose a week to working it out. Most business owners don’t have that kind of time to waste.
I decided to put the rules in one place. Tell us about your business once, and see what you qualify for — in real time — and what might need to change first. Browse, learn, apply.
Lynette du Plessis
Founder · Meet Frank (Pty) Ltd
Questions
What people ask before they trust a funding site.
If there is something we have not answered here, email support@meetfrank.ai.
No. Frank does not lend money and does not hold your application. Frank checks your business against each lender’s published rules and shows what fits; if you choose to apply, Frank sends the answers you have already given to that lender, and they take it from there.
Your name and email save your results and bring up your matched lenders. Your phone number is only asked for when you choose to apply with a specific lender. Nothing goes to a lender until you tell us to send it.
No. Frank’s check is a comparison of your answers against each lender’s published rules. It is not a credit enquiry. A lender may ask for your consent to run one later, if you apply.
No. Frank shows the funding types and lenders that are likely to fit, based on what you told us and what each lender has told us about their criteria. The decision is the lender’s.
Then Frank says so, and shows which routes are less likely right now and what tends to change that. If the panel doesn’t fit yet, the honest next stops are your bank’s overdraft and the development-finance route through SEDFA, and Frank will point you there rather than pretend.
About a minute, and the results are immediate. Once you apply, lender response times vary from a day to a few weeks depending on the product.
Frank was built by Lynette, who started it because finding business funding in South Africa is still far too confusing: every lender has different rules, and most business owners only find that out after they’ve applied. Frank checks the rules first.
Frank is free for business owners, and you are never charged for using it. If you are funded through a lender you found on Frank, that lender pays Frank a referral fee. Frank is not paid for showing you an option, only for funding that actually lands. The fee is the same whichever lender you choose, so it never changes the rate you are offered.
All the answers in one place
Know where you stand.
See the funding options you have. Learn about them. Then apply to the lenders you choose, on the answers you have already given.
See my funding options