“The biggest thing is strengthening our balance sheet so we can access traditional debt funding to grow our loan book,” Lulalend’s CEO Trevor Gosling told TechCrunch on a call. The company added on its Twitter page that: “We can’t wait to put this investment to work supporting SA SMEs & helping close the significant funding gap that exists”. The new funding will help Lulalend scale in response to South Africa’s significant funding gap for SMEs.