On Tuesday, Crowdcube announced the winners of the 2017 Funded Club Awards. This event celebrates businesses that have successfully secured their minimum funding targets through the UK-based equity crowdfunding platform. While sharing details about the Funded Club awards, the Crowdcube team stated:
“We celebrated our 6th birthday with some of our shareholders, friends and Funded Club businesses last week and we’re delighted to announce the winners, which were voted for by the crowd.”
The categories were the following (winners are in bold):
Best Crowdfunding Campaign of 2016:
- Monzo
- Zing Zing
- The Cheese Truck
- Graphene Composites
- goHenry
Entrepreneur of the Year:
- Erik Fairbairn – POD Point
- Tom Blomfield – Monzo
- Emily Bendell – Bluebella
- Alex Zivoder – goHenry
- Jordan Daykin – GripIt Fixings
Industry Innovator for 2016:
- Molecular Warehouse
- Revolut
- goHenry
- Monzo
- HealthUnlocked
Funded Business of the Year:
- goHenry
- BrewDog
- Sugru
- Monzo
- Wave