November 11, 2018 @ 8:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based current accounting and tax platform Coconut has successfully secured more than £1 million in funding from over 1,000 investors through its equity crowdfunding round on Crowdcube. The campaign was launched earlier this month and quickly raised its initial £500,000 funding target.  As previously reported, Coconut describes… Read More

November 6, 2018 @ 3:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based current accounting and tax platform Coconut has quickly secured its initial £500,000 funding target through equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. Founded in 2016, Coconut describes itself as a current account that takes care of a user’s accounting and tax. The platform is designed specifically for freelancers,… Read More

June 17, 2018 @ 2:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than three years after raising £139,828 through its first Seedrs campaign, Senta, a cloud-based application that aids accounting firms, has returned to the equity crowdfunding platform and already securing its initial £390,000 funding target from more than 100 investors. Founded in 2014, The Senta platform is described as a service that… Read More

June 7, 2016 @ 11:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online lender to SMEs, OnDeck (NYSE:ONDK), announced on Tuesday it is expanding its Accountant Advisor Program after hiring of new accountant relationship managers in three locations: Louisville, Kentucky, Miami, Florida and Mobile, Alabama. According to OnDeck, the Accountant Advisor Program is a state-of-the-art referral platform helping accounting… Read More

March 3, 2016 @ 12:01 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Bond Street, an online lending platform for small businesses, and ICB, the world’s largest bookkeeping membership organization, today announced a partnership to offer ICB USA members a “fast and affordable financing solution” for their clients, according to the release. The collaboration will enable ICB bookkeepers to… Read More

October 7, 2015 @ 1:56 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

CPA.com today announced a marketing partnership with Biz2Credit, a leading small business lending marketplace. Biz2Credit’s cloud-based platform gives entrepreneurs and small business owners access to a network of more than 1,300 prescreened lenders. Financing, which ranges from $5,000 to $5 million, can be arranged in as little… Read More

August 3, 2015 @ 3:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Back in May, Edinburgh-based cloud accounting provider, FreeAgent, took to equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs with a mission to raise funds for its vision of “Democratising Accounting.” Since its launch in 2007, FreeAgent has grown into an established, highly-regarded technology innovator, with customers in 100 countries and… Read More

May 21, 2015 @ 10:11 am By Erin Hobey  |  

FreeAgent, the multi-award winning cloud accounting provider, today launched a £1M crowdfunding round with Seedrs to accelerate its vision of “Democratising Accounting” for UK micro-businesses and freelancers. The cloud accounting pioneer will use funding to to accelerate development of its  product and introduce more micro-businesses and freelancers to… Read More

February 24, 2015 @ 8:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Technology SMEs are planning to expand in 2015, with a third (32%) of small IT companies planning to apply for funding in the new financial year to meet growth plans, finds a new survey from online bookkeeping service Crunch Traditional funding methods remain the most popular… Read More

August 12, 2014 @ 11:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

British cloud accounting software company, Clear Books, is aiming to raise £3.3 million on its own equity crowdfunding offering.  This follows its first oversubscribed crowdfunding offer from last year. The company is offering 275,000 shares at a subscription price of £12 per share. Whereas its competitors… Read More