Offerings

July 28, 2017 @ 4:17 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based real estate agency, Doorsteps, has successfully secured more than £500,000 as it enters the final week on equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube.  As previously reported, Doorsteps was founded by Akshay Ruparelia, who notably has started and exited two online businesses. The company reports that during its… Read More

July 28, 2017 @ 3:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With its equity crowdfunding campaign set to close on Seedrs next week, fintech company CityFALCON is nearing 500,000 thanks to 360 investors. The initiative was launched last month, seeking £150,000. As previously reported, CityFALCON has received awards from Twitter, Ontario, UBS, SB. The company stated… Read More

July 28, 2017 @ 2:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission published a report this week that rattled the hot Initial Coin Offering (ICO) sector is still being ingested by both platforms and companies looking to offer bespoke tokens. But as the SEC fired shots across the bow of the ICO… Read More

July 28, 2017 @ 1:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Phenomenon One Communications (PH1) is a fast growing and profitable web-based telecommunications company. In order to expand its operations, the company is now looking to raise up to £250,000 via a secured crowd bond on the Crowd for Angels crowdfunding platform. The 1-year bond will… Read More

July 27, 2017 @ 4:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  MedAnswers, a digital health app that at first connects infertility patients to experts for on-demand questions and answers, announced on Thursday the launch of its Reg CF campaign. The funding round was revealed by founder and CEO of MedAnswers, Alice Crisci. As a cancer… Read More

July 27, 2017 @ 10:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a month after launching its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, German coffee start-up Bonaverde has surpassed £1 million. The company originally sought to raise £750,000 and quickly secured the initial funding target. Speaking about the Seedrs success, Bonaverde founder and CEO Hans Stier, stated: “We’re certainly celebrating here. Crowdfunding has… Read More

July 27, 2017 @ 10:26 am By Erin Hobey  |  

UK Online investment platform SyndicateRoom has offered members the opportunity to take part in a retail bond offer for LendInvest, the leading marketplace for property lending and investing. To recap, under the offer, LendInvest proposes the issue of sterling-denominated 5.25% fixed-rate retail bond notes, which… Read More

July 27, 2017 @ 10:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cool Cold Brew, a UK-based healthier chilled coffee drinks brand, is gearing up to launch an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. Cool Cold Brew stated that founder, Joe Devereux-Kelly, launched the company after originally discovering cold brew coffee in the U.S. in 2010 and later… Read More

July 27, 2017 @ 9:34 am By JD Alois  |  

The Downing Crowd platform has announced the launch of new “Regular Access Crowd Bonds” designed to offer attractive returns with a certain level of liquidity for investors. Unlike existing Crowd Bonds, investors in Regular Access Bonds will not have to invest their money for a… Read More

July 27, 2017 @ 8:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ezylet, a property platform that’s based in the UK, has successfully secured its initial £500,000 Invesdor crowdfunding target. The funding round was launched earlier this month and is now closing in on £600,000 thanks to nearly 60 investors. As previously reported, Ezylet was founded by landlord and… Read More

July 27, 2017 @ 8:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Abundance Investment, a UK based peer to peer lending platform in the renewable energy sector, has just topped £50 million in investment, according to a company report. Management said the “huge” popularity of its IFISA and three highly popular renewable projects from tidal, geothermal and… Read More

July 26, 2017 @ 5:04 pm By Cole Lyons  |  

Draper Espirit (LSE:GROW), an AIM listed venture capital firm backing promising digital technology companies, has announced their results for the end of the year, the 31st of March. Simon Cook, the CEO Draper Esprit, commented: “At the time of the IPO in June 2016, we… Read More

July 26, 2017 @ 2:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kickstarter announced on Tuesday over 100,000 independent creators have funded their projects through its reward-based crowdfunding platform. The funding portal revealed: “Those creators come from every corner of the creative universe. They are documentary filmmakers, tabletop game developers, fashion designers, and open-source hardware tinkerers. They come… Read More

July 26, 2017 @ 12:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding in Germany is expected to experience rapid growth this year. Following a precarious moment where regulators were considering blocking real estate from the crowdfunding space, we are seeing a growing number of property deals come accross our desk. Zinsbaustein.de, luanched in 2016,… Read More

July 26, 2017 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Maniv Mobility has announced the close of the first mobility-only fund in Israel. The $40 million fund includes several high profile names including Valeo, InMotion Ventures (part of Jaguar Land Rover) and leading global crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. The intent of the fund is to act… Read More

July 26, 2017 @ 9:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Paul Tyrell and Ryan Caplan, attorneys of San Diego law firm Procopio, announced they are seeking an injunction in order to save the fact-checking website, Snopes. As previously reported, Snopes explained that it contracted with an outside vendor to provide certain services for its website. Although… Read More

July 25, 2017 @ 5:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an investigative report on the fast-growing Initial Coin Offering (ICO) market that will squelch the ICO market, at least in the US. The report, embedded below, was specifically directed at the DAO or Decentralized Autonomous Organization that launched… Read More

July 25, 2017 @ 4:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With its Crowdcube campaign set to close later this evening, sports retailing brand WIT Fitness has secured more than £1.25 million from over 400 investors. The initiative was launched earlier this month and raised its initial £840,000 funding target within a matter of days. As previously… Read More

July 25, 2017 @ 1:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Snopes.com, a website that describes itself as the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation, launched a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe to stop legal woes from causing it to shut down for good. Launched in 1994 by founder David Mikkelson,… Read More

July 25, 2017 @ 12:42 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Seed&Spark has made its niche within film industry crowdfunding, raising over $7M for film projects since launching in 2012 under the helm of CEO & Founder Emily Best. The platform is currently hosting a crowdfunding rally for national filmmakers in partnership with Mark Duplass.  The… Read More