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September 24, 2021 @ 3:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Scottish firm HOKO this week revealed their national and international expansion plans along with a new £500,000 crowdfunding campaign. Their goals include 30 new studios as part of plan to be UK’s largest homeowner architect. Not too long ago, Hoko raised £400k from individual investors… Read More

September 15, 2021 @ 1:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Plum, a money management app, says it is returning to crowdfunding with a forthcoming securities offering on Crowdcube, according to a company release. Back in 2019, Plum raised £2.47 million at a pre-money valuation of £14.5 million on Seedrs. In 2018, Plum raised £1 million… Read More

August 25, 2021 @ 11:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Small Robot Company (SRC) has raised £4 million in a securities offering on Crowdcube. The company has now secured  £11 million in funding to date. According to previous reports, SRC was raising capital at a pre-money valuation of £15,000,000  or an 18.63% equity stake at… Read More

August 22, 2021 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stratiphy, which automatically suggests your “next investment move” using sustainable investment strategies, has raised £282,035 or 141% of its £200,000 target from 328 investors (at the time of writing) via Crowdcube. Startiphy’s management notes that they intend “to simplify the process of analyzing the stock… Read More

August 15, 2021 @ 12:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Small Robot Company, which intends to bring PerPlant farming to the world’s largest crops with a “unique” level of intelligence and “precision” to a $240 billion/year sector, has secured £3,434,851 of its £2,000,000 target (at the time of writing) from 1974 investors via Crowdcube. Small… Read More

August 2, 2021 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Big Exchange, which is an impact investing platform & a money management app, with a marketplace for fairer products coming, has secured ££283,916 of its £150,000 target from 242 investors through Crowdcube (at the time of writing). The Big Exchange team notes that they… Read More

July 29, 2021 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crowdcube, the European marketplace for shares in private firms, and Crunchbase, an established data platform, have partnered in order to power the “most comprehensive” and transparent platform for private company investment in Europe. Cubex, which officially goes live today (July 28, 2021), will feature “rich”… Read More

July 25, 2021 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Magnetto, which aims to challenge the traditional retail model by automating the checkout process, has raised £179,651 of its £150,000 target from 157 investors via Crowdcube. Magnetto reports a £2,367,720 pre-money valuation, a 7.05% equity, and a £0.90 share price. The company… Read More

July 15, 2021 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Prominent digital bank Revolut has finalized a massive $800 million round that now values the loss-making Fintech at $33 billion. Revolut‘s latest investment round brings on board two key investors, the SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tiger Global Management. The capital injection will be channeled… Read More

July 13, 2021 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, a top European investment crowdfunding platform, has hired a new Chief Technology Officer as the launch of its new Community IPO nears According to a post on BusinessCloud, former CIO of Moneysupermarket David Halsey will help develop the tech stack at Crowdcube as the… Read More

June 23, 2021 @ 9:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crowdcube has partnered with Seccl, the Octopus-owned custodian and investment tech firm, to offer clients seamless, API-enabled access to public markets as it introduces its Community IPO product later in 2021. As noted in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider, the integration with Seccl’s suite… Read More

June 20, 2021 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Clim8, a digital investment platform that’s focused on a firm having a “positive impact” on climate change, has raised £1,630,460 from 885 investors via Crowdcube, at the time of writing. There are now 21 days remaining for this offer with the platform already surpassing its… Read More

June 18, 2021 @ 11:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday it was reported that Nutmeg, a digital investment manager operating in the UK, had been acquired by JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM). The Fintech had already partnered with the bank and JPM apparently decided to utilize Nutmeg’s tech as a step to launch a digital-only bank,… Read More

June 3, 2021 @ 9:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  BitcoinPoint, a UK-based Bitcoin buying platform, has successfully secured more than £300,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The funding round, which launched last month, quickly surpassed its initial £100,000 and has attracted nearly 940 Crowdcube investors. As previously reported, BitcoinPoint stated that its in-house software… Read More

May 30, 2021 @ 10:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Curve, a banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and even smarter app, closed its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube with nearly £10m in funding from 11,795 investors. Curve also claimed it was the fastest ever company on Crowdcube to raise… Read More

May 25, 2021 @ 2:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Curve, a banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and even smarter app, has officially launched its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The funding round, which was announced earlier this month, has already secured more than £6.8 million from… Read More

May 20, 2021 @ 1:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Curve, a banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and even smarter app, announced on Thursday its upcoming equity crowdfunding campaign is set to go live on Crowdcube with 35,000 sign-ups (21,000 were signed up within the first 24-hours). As previously reported, Curve is… Read More

May 19, 2021 @ 11:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) in the UK has long intermediated disagreements within the financial services sector including investment crowdfunding. A recent decision by the FOS has caused some concern amongst industry insiders as it may challenge the entire crowdfunding model based on the liability… Read More

May 18, 2021 @ 4:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

    ikigai, a banking and Wealthtech company, has successfully secured nearly 1.7 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The funding round, which originally sought to raise £1.2 million has attracted more than 1260 Crowdcube investors so far. As previously reported, ikigai is on a… Read More

May 11, 2021 @ 2:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

    Curve, a banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and even smarter app, announced on Tuesday it is planning to launch an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube.  As previously reported, Curve is on a mission to simplify the… Read More