Offerings

April 19, 2016 @ 2:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Haughton Honey, a distributor of English honey, has recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube with a mission to raise £80,000 as it prepares to expand its third party distribution and new flavors development. The company is currently offering 18.60% in equity. The business, which has… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 12:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, creators of Kickstarter alum Armello, League of Geeks, announced that the game is set to hit Xbox One later this year.  The description of the game reads,“The King, once Armello’s wise and benevolent ruler, has fallen ill to a dark and mysterious force known only as… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 11:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digitzs, a modern and disruptive global payments API, announced on Tuesday that it has teamed up with Shark Tank alum, Kevin Harrington, to launch an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdfunder. The company is now seeking to raise $750,000. As previously reported, Digitzs’ product was “developed by pros from Visa,… Read More

April 19, 2016 @ 10:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the closing of its successful Seedrs initiative, the crew at UK-based Friction Free Shaving discussed the crowdfunding experience with Business Quarters. The company, which was founded by Des McManus and Aidan Burley, offers a monthly subscription service that is  designed exclusively for women. Friction… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 4:48 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Success! Last week, UK-based craft brewery, Brewgooder, smashed its initial £50,000 Indiegogo goal. The company launched the initiative last month so that it could provide clean water to the masses. Co-founders of the startup, Alan Mahon and Josh Littlejohn, revealed that they created the concept… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 4:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Pocket App, a UK-based independent app developer, announced last week that it has been shortlisted as a finalist in the Best Use of Mobile Payment category of 2016’s The Drum Marketing on Mobile Awards (MOMAs). The company launched the campaign on Seedrs last month to raise  £750,000 in funding… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 1:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

If you think equity / debt crowdfunding is just for early stage companies. Think again. The UK has always been a trailblazer in the sector of internet finance. The rest of the world gets to watch and cross our fingers that our own ecosystem evolves… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 12:48 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Last week, creator of Jibo, Cynthia Breazeal, uploaded a video of her testing out the sound location of the Indiegogo project’s prototypes. Breazeal and her team shared: “One of Jibo’s most useful capabilities is that he can listen for a speaker and turn to face them,… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 11:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

London-based restaurant, Steakout, recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £400,000 as it prepares to open new locations throughout the UK. Steakout, which was founded in 2008, serves celebrity-endorsed steaks from its 8 franchised restaurants around in London, Slough, Woking, Leicester, Southall, and Harrow…. Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 10:51 am By JD Alois  |  

XY Findables (formerly known just as XY Find It) ran a successful rewards-based crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter back in 2014. On a goal of $45,000 over 4000 supporters purchased the Bluetooth tracker tag. Now the company wants to scale and they are heading online once… Read More

April 18, 2016 @ 10:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just before the premiere of the Kickstarter-success Leonard Nimoy film, For the Love of Spock, at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival  the Star Trek actor’s son, Adam Nimoy, sat down with the Hollywood Reporter to discuss the film and legacy his father left. Last year, before Leonard’s passing, he and Adam approached… Read More

April 15, 2016 @ 2:52 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

In early March Witt Energy launched a Crowdcube campaign to secure £750,000 for its patented fully scalable innovative energy harvesting system. During its first week on the equity crowdfunding platform, the UK tech company scored £500,000.  Now, in the campaign’s final hours the amount raised for 7.08% equity has surpassed the… Read More

April 14, 2016 @ 6:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

The ongoing Fundrise eREIT continues to raise capital, and add properties, on a rolling basis on the real estate crowdfunding platform. The eREIT strategy, according the offer page, is to focus primarily on debt investments but incorporates some equity, in commercial real estate. The eREIT… Read More

April 14, 2016 @ 6:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Following a “Testing the Waters” (TTW) campaign where DSTLD generated indications of interest to purchase equity in the company from over 2100 individuals totalling $13.27 million, the company has decided to move forward and raise capital under Reg A+ equity crowdfunding. DSTLD is a fashion… Read More

April 14, 2016 @ 11:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, the University of Akron in Ohio announced that it was launching a Kickstarter campaign to establish the National Museum of Psychology. The initiative is looking to raise $250,000, which will cover the cost of developing and placing the museum into the Drs. Nicholas and… Read More

April 14, 2016 @ 11:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

With the confidence of 43 private investors, the Spanish energy tech firm Vagalume Energy secured 228,620€ on Crowdcube with an average investment of 5,316€.  Grupo Innoven Inversiones, led by Raúl Guerrero Gómez, a business angel of RedInvest,  as well as other investments from other professionals from the energy sector endorsed… Read More

April 14, 2016 @ 10:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just three days after Cryptozoic Entertainment and Sony Pictures Consumer Products launched Ghostbusters: The Board Game II on Kickstarter, backers have secured half a million for the new game. The initiative originally sought to raise $250,000 and achieved the goal within just two hours. Ghostbusters:The Board Game II features… Read More

April 14, 2016 @ 8:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than two weeks until Billy Franks’ crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube comes to an end, it was revealed that former Virgin Galactic president, Will Whitehorn has backed the artisan jerky company’s initiative. The company, which Mail on Sunday Magazine named “The Aston Martin of Jerky,” is… Read More

April 13, 2016 @ 4:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

North South, a sustainable lifestyle brand for adventurous urbanites and young professionals, recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £100,000 as it continues to develop its products. The company revealed that it is aiming to provide high-quality, stylish clothing by using sustainably… Read More

April 13, 2016 @ 3:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a week after launching its highly anticipated crowdfunding campaign on Fig, Interdimensional Games has successfully secured the initial $300,000 goal for its upcoming game, CONSORTIUM: THE TOWER. CONSORTIUM: The Tower is described as  a single-player, first-person sci-fi simulation built upon the Unreal 4 Engine. Its story reads:… Read More