Tagged: sir richard branson

April 30, 2018 @ 2:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  On Monday, Virgin Media announced the judges who will be joining Sir Richard Branson for Voom 2018. The judges will decide which entrepreneurs win a share of £1million in prizes after pitching their big ideas live. Virgin reported that Founder of Innocent drinks Richard Reed, serial… Read More

January 16, 2018 @ 11:43 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Financial technology investment platform BnkToTheFuture claims that the platforms has raised an initial $30 million for its tokenized equity market and due diligence platform in the first three days of BnkToTheFuture’s token private pre-sale open solely to institutional investors. BnkToTheFuture reportedly offers the largest online… Read More

May 2, 2017 @ 9:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Crowdfunder UK announced it was teaming up with Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Media Business for this year’s Voom Pitch, the UK and Ireland’s biggest pitching competition. The trio revealed that for the first time since the competition’s launch in 2011, it will take… Read More

March 28, 2017 @ 3:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than three years after securing £374,213 through its Indiegogo campaign, Tens, the creator of real life photo filtering sunglasses, has launched a reward-based crowdfund campaign through Indiegogo’s competitor, Kickstarter. Originally seeking £10,000, the company’s initiative has already secured its funding target and is nearing £30,000. The… Read More

November 19, 2016 @ 7:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, Crowdfunder UK’s Jess Ratty sat down with What A Melon’s Olly Bolton to discuss the company’s success at Virgin Media Business’ VOOM 2016. The Crowdfunder UK alum and beverage brand won £112,000 during the big event. As previously reported, What a Melon was… Read More

July 7, 2016 @ 11:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Two years after successfully securing £374,213 through its Indiegogo campaign, Tens, the real life photo filtering sunglasses, has reportedly received a significant investment from famous entrepreneur and Virgin Group’s Sir Richard Branson. Tens, which was founded by Kris Reid, Marty Bell, and Tom Welsh,  offers sunglasses that lend an… Read More

June 28, 2016 @ 9:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Crowdfunder UK announced What a Melon was named winner of the 2016 Crowdfunder Award. This award was offered during the UK and Ireland’s pitch competition,  VOOM 2016. According to Virgin Media Business, the competition gives entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized businesses the opportunity to… Read More

June 7, 2016 @ 12:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the announcement that it has broken the Guinness World Record for the longest business pitch marathon, Virgin Media Business has announced the #Voom 2016 semi finalist and Pitchathon champs, which consists of 40 businesses. Earlier this year, Virgin Media Business teamed up with reward-based crowdfunding platform… Read More

June 6, 2016 @ 12:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, Virgin Media Business was named the new holder of the Guinness World Records’ longest business pitch marathon. This was done through the company’s current competition, VOOM 2016, which has 158 businesses pitching back-to-back to a panel of judges over the course of 28 hour,… Read More

May 12, 2016 @ 10:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Rob Love, chairman of Crowdfunder UK, sat down with Nick Ferrari from LBC Radio this week to discuss the reward-based crowdfunding platform’s involvement with Virgin Media Business’ Voom 2016 competition. The competition gives entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized businesses the opportunity to pitch their ideas to Sir… Read More

April 27, 2016 @ 9:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, reward-based crowdfunding portal Crowdfunder UK announced some of Britain and Ireland’s entrepreneurs gathered in London celebrate the nations’ business creativity with Virgin Media Business VOOM 2016. As previously reported, Virgin Media Business launched its search for the most innovative and exciting businesses with the UK and Ireland’s pitch competition… Read More

March 22, 2016 @ 8:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Virgin Media Business launched its search for the most innovative and exciting businesses with the UK and Ireland’s pitch competition called VOOM 2016. It was revealed that Crowdfunder UK will be partnering with Virgin by powering the contest. According to Virgin Media Business, the… Read More

March 7, 2016 @ 10:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder UK announced it has formed a new partnership with Virgin Startup to reportedly enable start-ups to raise finance, validate new concepts, pre-sell products, grow customer bases and market ideas. The portal shared: “Over the last few years there’s been a revolution… Read More

January 13, 2016 @ 12:00 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Nearly one third of Americans will be using a technology company for financial services such as loans, mortgages and payments in five years, reports global P2P platform TransferWise Almost one third of Americans are likely to be using a technology provider and not a bank for… Read More

January 5, 2016 @ 4:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Virgin StartUp, Sir Richard Branson’s not-for-profit company providing funding and support for entrepreneurs, announce three of the winners of 2015’s  Virgin StartUp Foodpreneur competition are now on track to see their British products launch to the U.S. market. Cauli Rice, Double Dutch Drinks,… Read More

June 15, 2015 @ 9:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an effort to help startups get off the ground, Rob Love of UK’s reward-based crowdfunding platform, CrowdfunderUK has teamed up with Virgin’s founder, Sir Richard Branson, Julie Deane of the Cambridge Satchel Company and Rapha’s Tom Wood to offer up tips on how to be successful in the business world…. Read More

June 10, 2015 @ 11:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, UK equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube announced that three of its funded club businesses have been selected as Pitch to Rich 2015 finalists. The platform declared: “We are delighted to announce that three of our #FundedClub businesses have reached the semi-finals of Richard Branson’s Pitch… Read More

June 4, 2015 @ 9:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Three UK entrepreneurs, who launched their business thanks to funding from Virgin StartUp, are celebrating after winning the opportunity of a lifetime to develop their business growth strategy in the sky with Sir Richard Branson. They will also gain further financial advice from Rob Love,… Read More

October 14, 2013 @ 2:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding site BankToTheFuture, which prominently lists Sir Richard Branson as a champion of the platform, has decided to do a pivot of sorts.  They want to become the the first crowdfunded investment bank. The company is crowdfunding itself to help accomplish this goal and is… Read More

June 30, 2013 @ 10:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Now in the Top 25 Kickstarter Campaigns Ever. The ARKYD Space Telescope which crowdfunded an amazing $325,000 on their first day, has closed their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter with well over their initial $1,000,000 target.  The project called “the first space telescope for everyone” had… Read More