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# Lanistar
- URL: https://entrepreneurplus.co.uk/graveyard/lanistar/
- Published: 2026-10-28T15:46:37.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-31T05:28:11.000Z
- Description: Influencer-marketed payment card; wound up by the High Court on a landlord's petition, Apr 2025
- Author: Editorial Desk
- Tags: #ep-grave

✝ Startup · Compulsory liquidation · 2 April 2025 

Influencer-marketed payment card; wound up by the High Court on a landlord's petition, Apr 2025

Companies House

[12091938](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12091938?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk) · Liquidation

How it ended

Compulsory liquidation

Ended

2 April 2025

Founded

2019

Sector

Fintech

Based in

London

Funding raised

Undisclosed

Last known website

[lanistar.com](https://lanistar.com/?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)

Last checked

26 October 2026

## What happened

Lanistar Limited was incorporated in July 2019 by Gurhan Kiziloz and marketed a 'polymorphic' payment card and app through a heavy influencer campaign before it had a product or regulatory permissions. The FCA issued a public warning in late 2020, which was later withdrawn, and the company struggled to launch in the UK, eventually offering services only in Brazil. It reported a £4.1M loss for its latest filed year. In September 2024 its Hammersmith landlord, 361 Hammersmith Ltd, petitioned to wind the company up over unpaid rent and chief executive Jeremy Baber left the board. After a further petition filed on 17 February 2025, the High Court made a winding-up order on 2 April 2025 and the Official Receiver became liquidator. Companies House shows the company in liquidation.

## Why

- Governance / credibility

## What happened to the assets, customers and team

Compulsory winding-up order made by the High Court on 2 April 2025 (case 001028 of 2025) with the Official Receiver (D Postles) as liquidator; the UK business never launched at scale and services had been limited to Brazil.

## Sources

1. [find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12091938?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)
2. [thegazette.co.uk](https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4860749?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)
3. [tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2024/10/21/lanistar-faces-liquidation-verdict-this-week/?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)
4. [businesscloud.co.uk](https://businesscloud.co.uk/news/ceo-former-minister-leave-crisis-fintech-lanistar/?ref=entrepreneurplus.co.uk)

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