We began developing our product. With only a small team, we made great strides very quickly over the next year.
May 2017
We grew our team. Andrew moved fully from his position at Swarm Online to Soar as our CEO and we welcomed Eva Luckhiram as our Chief Product Officer and Paul Theurer as our Chief Technology Officer.
October 2018
We announced our partnership with the UK’s largest credit union: Glasgow Credit Union.
December 2018
We hosted our first Soar event, Credit Union Connect with a full guest list.
February 2019
We announced the Soar rebrand! We worked with the award-winning branding agency, Made Brave, to make it all happen.
March 2019
We announced our £450,000 Research and Development grant from Scottish Enterprise with a visit to our offices from Kate Forbes MSP.
May 2019
We were awarded £75,000 from Scottish Edge.
June 2019
We won the Social Impact and Rising Star Award at the Scottish Financial Technology Awards.
September 2019
Our CEO won the Glasgow Scale-up Entrepreneur of the YearAward at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards.
We also moved our offices to Glasgow City Centre.
October 2019
We were awarded a finalist spot in Nesta’s Affordable Credit Challenge.
November 2019
We announced the £200,000 prize we won in the Affordable Credit Challenge with our partners, Capital Credit Union and Nivo.
March 2020
We announced our partnership with payment provider, Modulr.
June 2020
We launched our new Soar Lite package and our partnership with Experian.
October 2020
We welcomed Aidan Skinner as our Chief Technology Officer.
February 2021
We partnered with Signable and integrated eSignatures into our Banking Platform.
March 2021
We partnered with Inbest & integrated benefit calculators into our Platform Hub.
April 2021
We partnered with Truelayer to expand our services and integrate Open Banking.
May 2021
We implemented Direct Debit and Faster Payments on our platform.
June 2021
Full Back Office Launched
September 2022
