Moneybox lines up employee share sale at £800mn valuation

Moneybox is preparing a secondary share sale of up to £45 million that would value the UK digital wealth management company at £800 million, according to Finextra. The valuation would be about 45% higher than in 2024, giving long-serving employees a route to sell part of their holdings while the company remains private.

The planned transaction will take place through the London Stock Exchange’s Private Securities Market, Finextra reported. It will use the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System, known as Pisces, with Crowdcube handling the process for employee sellers and investor buyers.

A secondary sale differs from a primary fundraising because existing shareholders sell shares to new or existing investors. The company is not described as issuing new shares in the transaction. For private companies, these processes can provide liquidity to employees and early holders without requiring a public listing.

Finextra said the Moneybox transaction is the first use of the Pisces framework by a leading UK fintech. Pisces is designed to support intermittent trading in private company shares, giving firms a controlled way to match sellers and buyers outside public equity markets.

Moneybox has expanded over the past decade from an app focused on saving and investing into a broader wealth platform spanning savings, investment products, home-buying services and retirement. The company says it has more than 1.9 million customers and over £23 billion in assets under administration.

The proposed sale follows another period of reported growth at the company. Moneybox generated more than £115 million in annual revenue in 2025 and recorded its third consecutive year of profitability, according to Finextra.

The company’s growth has continued in 2026, Finextra reported. More than 390,000 customers have joined the platform so far this year, while net inflows reached £3.5 billion in the first half.

Ben Stanway, Moneybox co-founder and executive chair, linked the transaction to changes in the UK’s private markets infrastructure. “Pisces represents an important innovation for UK capital markets and we are proud to be among the first companies helping demonstrate how it can support the next generation of ambitious private business,” he said.

The deal would place Moneybox among UK private technology and financial services companies using structured secondary transactions to provide employee liquidity before any public-market exit. The reported size and valuation also give investors another marker for the pricing of scaled consumer wealth platforms in the UK private market.

This story draws on original reporting from Finextra Research.