Tembo is an award-winning digital savings and mortgage platform

Tembo is an award-winning digital savings and mortgage platform – offering a range of products to help customers find the best way to buy or refinance their home. Tembo combines technology and exceptional customer service to help consumers save for and buy their first home sooner. The brainchild of finance and technology expert Richard Dana, Tembo is backed with investment from Aviva. The Tembo Lifetime ISA was awarded “Best Lifetime ISA” at the Good Money Guide Awards 2023 and “Best Experience Design” at the 11:FS Awards 2023 and voted the UK’s Best Mortgage Broker by its customers at the British Bank Awards four years running (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025).

Investment rationale

The new funding will be used to expand its app and end-to-end homebuying platform. Tembo is on track to have 20% market share of the UK first-time buyer market within two years.

 

Investment Team

Rohit Mathur

Investment Partner

Rohit focusses on venture capital investments at late Seed / Series A stages and beyond with a specific focus on Fintech, SaaS, and AI-first technology companies. Previous investments include Adsum Technologies, Refyne Technologies, Honest Bank, WealthKernel, Penfold Pensions, and many others. He has a global network having worked / invested in the UK, EU, India, ME and SEA.

Before Gresham, Rohit was an Investment Partner at Digital Horizon VC and led their fintech investments globally, and before that spent 10+ years at Barclays Bank London in various roles including as the Lead for the Barclays VC unit. He has significant operational, commercial and leadership experience having worked with start-ups in Commercial roles and built and launched the wealth management and private banking mobile app for Barclays. He was a Management Consultant with EY and started his career as a Software Engineer with Infosys Technologies.

Rohit is passionate about diversity causes and has held various NED roles with start-ups and education institutions including being on the Global Alumni Board of Manchester Business School.

Rohit has an MBA (Director’s List and AT Kearney Scholar) from Manchester Business School, UK, and a B.Eng. (Honour’s) from Agra University, India.

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Hamza Rafiq

Associate Director

Hamza is an Associate Director at Gresham House Ventures, having joined in February 2023.

He brings three years of venture and growth investment experience across Europe and the US, including as an Associate at Columbia Lake Partners. He began his career in assurance at EY, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (ACA), and holds a BSc in Accounting and Finance from the University of Bristol.

Outside of work, Hamza enjoys spending time with his family, travelling, and staying active.

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