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We’re a multi-award winning digital mortgage broker and fintech, focussed on making home happen against the odds. A small, highly-motivated team, with ambitions to shake up the home-buying experience for the thousands of prospective buyers currently priced out of the UK housing market and homeowners struggling to remortgage.
We’ve already helped thousands discover how they could overcome the affordability gap using a range of innovative mortgage products and buying schemes through our Brokering, CS and SaaS solutions.
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Tembo is a mission-led company, working to help the next generation of home buyers overcome the growing affordability gap. Why? Because young adults today are stuck in a ‘delayed adulthood’: living at home for longer, delaying big life events, and ultimately paying off someone else’s mortgage instead of investing in their own future. While those that already own are struggling to remortgage due to higher rates and stricter lending criteria.
At Tembo, we’re helping buyers, movers and remortgagers buy sooner or move onto a new deal through a range of affordability-boosting mortgage schemes - from innovative family-supported options to shared ownership. So we can democratise access to homeownership for the next generation.
Plus, our market-leading savings solutions help first-time buyers save their deposit faster, with the help of annual government bonuses.
<aside> 💡 Values are the foundation of our culture. They guide how we think, feel and behave when we are at work. They ensure that our customers have a consistent experience, whether they are meeting our CEO, working with our engineers or using our live chat. Every decision should be made with these in mind, because embodying them gets us closer to achieving our mission. Here are ours.
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Tembo was founded in the summer of 2020, and came out of Founders Factory - an accelerator that connects new innovative companies and founders with large corporations. Tembo CEO and Co-Founder Richard had been CFO at Founders Factory, where he had spotted that despite huge advances in other sectors, the rate of homeownership was in decline. In September 2020, Richard left to run Tembo full-time, with initial funding of £250k from Founders Factory & Aviva.
Eddie and Geoff were recruited to join as co-founders in October 2020, and Polly signed on the dotted line in December to form a stellar founding team to kick off the new year 💪
Discover why Richard founded Tembo, straight from the horse’s mouth in this short video.