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| 16.09.2026 | It’s time savers benefited from Britain’s scale-up success | Growth in every postcode won’t help Brits if the proceeds are invested abroad, says Saul Klein
As a serial entrepreneur, operator and investor I’ve noticed that Britain has a habit of talking itself down, even when the evidence tells a diff... |
| 16.09.2026 | Motorway eyes first profit as Premier League deal grows customer base | Motorway is on the cusp of turning its first profit a decade after launch, as the used car marketplace looks to the Premier League to expand its customer base.
The tech firm’s co-founder and chief executive, Tom Leathes, said he expects to ... |
| 19.02.2026 | Enterprise finance platform Stacks raises €19 million to streamline reporting and month-end workflows | “We started with the most manual and foundational workflows in finance: accounting and the close,” says Albert Malikov, Founder and CEO of Stacks. “From day one, we focused on solving the core problem: fragmented data. By building an AI-rea... |
| 05.01.2026 | Used car marketplace Motorway takes out £25m loan after losses widen | Motorway has agreed a fresh £25m loan after the online car marketplace reported widening losses.
The London-based tech firm, which hit a valuation of over $1bn in a 2021 funding round, said it secured the loan one day before Christmas Eve, ... |
| 19.12.2025 | Ankar Secures $20M to Revolutionize Global Patent Management with AI | Ankar, the AI-powered patent operating system, announces a significant $20 million Series A funding round. This capital accelerates its mission to transform global intellectual property management. The UK-founded firm unifies fragmented pat... |
| 17.12.2025 | Ankar raises $20M to expand AI-powered patent operating system
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Founded in 2023 in the U.K., Ankar has built an AI-pow... |
| 24.11.2025 | Budget: Rachel Reeves told to make ‘simple fix’ to ‘badly outdated’ shares scheme | Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been told to make “simple fixes” in the Budget this week to hand hundreds of millions of pounds in tax incentives to small businesses.
It was first reported last month that proposals had been drawn up to lift th... |
| 14.08.2025 | ‘I was told to hide my age so clients would trust me’: Motorway CFO Liz Kistruck | Each week, we dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good. Today, Liz Kistruck, CFO at Motorway and former exec at Expedia, takes us through her career in Square Mile and Me
I had a Saturday job at a local dry cleaners in secondar... |
| 25.06.2025 | Could Motorway be set for a blockbuster London IPO? | The chief executive and co-founder of UK technology unicorn Motorway has spoken out about whether his company will choose London for a possible future initial public offering (IPO).
Speaking on the latest episode of City AM‘s Boardroom Unco... |
| 20.06.2025 | The Race for Tech Unicorns: London’s Call to Action | London stands at a crossroads. The tech landscape is shifting, and the city must adapt or risk being left behind. The call for the next tech unicorn is loud and clear. The urgency is palpable. If the UK wants to foster a new wave of innovat... |
| 19.06.2025 | ‘We need the next Nikolay Storonsky’: Labour urged to act now to create next tech unicorn | The UK needs to attract the next Nikolay Storonsky to its shores if it wants a new technology revolution to be built here, the CEO of tech unicorn Motorway has said.
Tom Leathes, speaking on an up-coming episode of City AM’s Boardroom Uncov... |
| 16.06.2025 | Motorway CEO: How I built my $1bn empire after a huge failure | The co-founder and chief executive of used car marketplace Motorway has opened up about how he helped to build a $1bn empire from scratch following the biggest failure of his career.
On an up-coming episode of City AM’s Boardroom Uncovered ... |
| 29.04.2022 | Hitting The Milestone: A Newly-Minted U.K. Unicorn Reflects On The Road To $1 Billion Status | Tom Leathes, chief executive, of newly annointed U.K. unicorn, Motorway Motorway |
| 29.11.2021 | Axie Infinity is a sexy new blockchain-based model of gaming—but it’s facing the same old crypto pitfalls | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Hello Term Sheet readers, from my flight some 36,000 feet up in the air en route to San Francisco... |
| 29.11.2021 | Motorway hits unicorn status with $190m Series C | CEO and co-founder of Motorway Tom Leathes
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Motorway, the UK’s fastest growing used car marketplace, has today achieved unicorn status with a valuation of over $1bn following a $190m Series C funding round.
The round is led ... |
| 15.06.2021 | London's Motorway picks up £48M Series B | Index Ventures has led a £48 million investment in Motorway. The startup provides an online auction platform that connects car dealers with consumers looking to sell their vehicles. The funds will be used in part to expand its product and e... |
| 14.06.2021 | BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke : i Ventures Invests in Motorway, a UK-based Used Car Marketplace. | Mountain View, CA (June 14, 2021)… BMW i Ventures announced today that it has joined a new investment round in UK-based used car marketplace Motorway. Motorway will use the new capital to accelerate growth and expand its innovative vehicle ... |
| 14.06.2021 | Motorway raises £48m as pandemic boosts used car market | After UK used car dealer Cazoo became one of the fastest growing European tech companies ever to reach unicorn status, investors are still betting that there’s room for other players to emerge as the pandemic boosts the overall market for u... |
| 14.06.2021 | The broader implications of Lordstown’s failures | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
The boom in special purpose acquisition companies has helped some new-generation vehicle makers t... |
| 13.06.2021 | Motorway’s auction platform for second-hand cars raises $67.7M Series B led by Index Ventures | Motorway, is a UK startup that allows professional car dealers to bid in an auction for privately-owned cars for sale. The startup has had rapid success by removing a lot of friction in the process. It’s now raised £48m / $67.7m in a Series... |
| 06.12.2019 | Motorway – Startup Interview | 3 shares
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Motorway is the UK’s fastest-growing used car marketplace. It connects people selling their cars directly with its network of more than 5,000 verified car dealers, matching each se... |
| 28.10.2019 | 3i European Operational Projects Fund invests €70m in AGESA, a Spanish Motorway PPP | 3i Group plc (“3i”) today announces that the 3i European Operational Projects Fund (“3i EOPF” or “the Fund”), has agreed to invest €70 million for the acquisition of an 80% stake in Sociedad Concesionaría Autovía Gerediaga Elorrio, S.A. (“A... |
| 26.06.2019 | London-based Motorway raises €12.3M: 5 interesting things to know about the used car online marketplace startup | Motorway is a London-based next-generation used car marketplace that connects consumer sellers and professional car buyers via its price comparison website and apps. It was founded in 2017 by Tom Leathes, Alex Buttle and Harry Jones and has... |
| 25.06.2019 | Daily funding roundup - June 25th, 2019 | Booster raised $56M; Button closed $30M; Chief secured $22M; Corinth MedTech landed $12M
Join: Join optimizes product and material selection and usage, based on the project's unique characteristics. Join has raised $4 million in seed fundin... |
| 25.06.2019 | Longtime Analyst Mark Mahaney: ‘The Bar Is Higher In the Public Markets:’ Term Sheet | ‘THE BAR IS HIGHER IN THE PUBLIC MARKETS’
We’re already halfway through the year, and a number of tech startups finally made their public market debut — Uber, Lyft, Zoom, Pinterest, PagerDuty, Beyond Meat, CrowdStrike, and most recently, Sl... |
| 25.06.2019 | Motorway Raises £11m in Series A Funding | Motorway, a London, UK-based used car marketplace, raised £11m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Marchmont Ventures, which is managed by Hugo Burge and Alan Martin (the former CEO and CFO of Momondo Group), along with participation ... |
| 25.06.2019 | Used car marketplace Motorway picks up £11M Series A | Motorway, the U.K. used car marketplace, has raised £11 million in Series A funding. Leading the round is Marchmont Ventures, the fund managed by Hugo Burge and Alan Martin (the former CEO and CFO of Momondo Group, respectively), along with... |
| 05.07.2018 | Startup profile: Motorway | 0 shares
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Company name: Motorway
Founders: Tom Leathes, Harry Jones and Alex Buttle
Sum up the business: Motorway helps drivers to compare different offers for their car almost instantaneously, enabling them t... |
| 05.06.2018 | Motorway raises £2.75M seed funding to help you sell your car | If you thought price comparison type online marketplaces were a done deal, you’re clearly mistaken. Motorway, a new startup from the team behind Top10 — the mobile and broadband comparison site that exited to uSwitch in 2011 — are back agai... |
| 05.06.2018 | Motorway Raises £2.75M in Seed Funding | Motorway, a London, UK-based price comparison website for selling a car, secured £2.75m in seed funding.
The round was co-led by LocalGlobe and Marchmont Ventures, with participation from Alex Chesterman (Zoopla founder and CEO), Duncan Jen... |
| - | London’s pre-loved vehicle seller/dealer connector Motorway revs up with £48 million in Series B round | London-based pre-loved car sales platform Motorway has raised £48 million in a Series B round led by Index Ventures. New investors BMW i Ventures and Unbound have also let out the clutch and now join existing investors Latitude and Marchmon... |
| - | Get the led out! London’s pre-loved auto marketplace Motorway raises $190 million at $1 billion valuation | Not satisfied with simply drafting to a second-place finish, London’s Motorway pulls into pit lane to fuel up with 94 octane in a $190 million in Series C round. As the company rejoins the field, crew chief Tom Leathes slaps the unicorn sti... |
| - | Motorway | “Sell your car the more money way. Fast, free and with 7,500+ dealers ready to buy. Get free home collection with fast payment, no hassle.” |
