Tagged: crowdcube

February 4, 2013 @ 8:17 pm By StartUps UK  |  

Righteous Ltd is seeking a second round of funding through Crowdcube. The healthy salad dressing producer, named Home-based or Freelance Business of the Year at the Startups Awards 2012, has today launched a £150,000 crowdfunding campaign. The pitch follows the success of Righteous’ Crowdcube campaign last year, which… Read More

February 4, 2013 @ 7:50 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has finally become authorised and regulated by the British Financial Services Association (FSA).  The original application for authorization was submitted in 2011. This event makes Crowdcube the first authorized crowdfunding platform to allow investors to become direct shareholders in UK… Read More

February 1, 2013 @ 1:12 am By HuffingtonPost  |  

Now here is the 1 percent that you do want to hear about! The world is on the precipice of creating a trillion-dollar crowdfunding market. In Australia, the ASSOB has offered a crowdfunding investment portal since 2005. In the U.K., equity crowdfunding is already in progress, with… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 7:43 am By Real Business  |  

Banks are never keen to lend money to a business that is just an idea. But without money, how to get a great idea off the ground? Together with co-founder Luke Lang, Darren Westlake found a way around that barrier. Watching Dragons’ Den reminded the… Read More

January 21, 2013 @ 6:59 am By RealBusiness  |  

Employee numbers: We currently have nine employees, of which more than half work in customer-facing roles. We are also enthusiastically growing our software development team to ensure that Crowdcube continues to be the leading crowdfunding platform on the planet. Growth forecast for the next three… Read More

January 18, 2013 @ 4:03 am By Real Business  |  

Start-ups and early stage businesses have usually been the territory of the three f’s: friends, family and fools. Typically, when the f’s have been exhausted, the projects that survived and still show promise would turn to institutional providers – banks, debt providers and venture capitalists…. Read More

January 11, 2013 @ 7:14 pm By Business Review Europe  |  

2012 was a tough year for SMEs. The Eurozone crisis rumbled on, economies stagnated or contracted and the banks failed to lend the sums needed to help pull Europe out of the abyss. Government initiatives such as the Funding For Lending (FLS) scheme in the… Read More

January 7, 2013 @ 7:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coming from the pages of the Financial Times is an article today regarding the desire by some of the burgeoning group of Crowdfunding platforms.  Some of these new financial platforms have been requesting regulation by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). In lieu of uncertain or… Read More

January 5, 2013 @ 7:30 am By JD Alois  |  

In recognition of the growth and success of 2012, UK Crowdfunding site Crowdcube has announced a group of Award Winners for the year.  Listed below, in no particular order, are the award winners for 2012: Pitch of the Year: Escape the City Escape the City, a… Read More

December 28, 2012 @ 2:32 pm By Kimberley Brown, Leverage PR  |  

With the passage of crowdfunding earlier this year, a whole new realm of capital formation for entrepreneurs and investors was realized. And now that sections of the JOBS Act will be passing in January of 2013, the first equity-based crowdfunding offer will soon be hitting… Read More

December 25, 2012 @ 10:05 am By VentureBeat  |  

Now here is the one percent you do want to hear about! The world is on the precipice of creating a trillion-dollar crowdfunding market. In Australia, the ASSOB has offered a crowdfunding investment portal since 2005. In the UK, equity crowdfunding is already in progress, with investment platforms such as Crowdcube and Seedups. And… Read More

December 14, 2012 @ 12:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

See the entire letter submitted to Policy Makers from the recent Peer to Peer Finance industry summit held in the UK earlier this month.  Supporters include a wide range of crowdfunding industry participants. [scribd id=116841493 key=key-1qqbc1h72zp82zdy0ukj mode=scroll]

December 13, 2012 @ 11:36 am By iBusinessAngel  |  

I spoke with Darren Westlake, CEO of Crowdcube about their experience of the first 18 months of raising funds for equity stakes via crowdfunding. Our conversation revealed much about what works and what doesn’t work in the world of equity crowdfunding and what the future… Read More

December 3, 2012 @ 5:34 pm By Harvard Business Review  |  

If you tell experienced investors you’re planning to crowd-fund your business idea, you’re likely to hear that you’re walking into a minefield: You’ll be relying on naïve individuals who expect to make a killing and are crushed every time they lose a dollar. But a… Read More

November 27, 2012 @ 4:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Technicity 2012 will be held in Toronto later this week on November 29th. Topics of discussion will focus on how should Equity Crowdfunding be legalized in Ontario. Discover how over $113M of capital has been raised in over 21 crowdfunding portals, with a growth outlook… Read More

November 26, 2012 @ 7:03 am By Bdaily  |  

It’s finance week on Bdaily and we are looking at the landscape of funding and investment, from both sides of the table. Here, Bdaily asks Luke Lang, co-founder of crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, about this new form of financing that’s making headlines. A lot of people… Read More

November 20, 2012 @ 3:56 am By JD Alois  |  

An article in the Financial Times regarding the shortfall of financing for small businesses, mentions the growing opportunity this plight has created for  alternative forms of financing.  The number forwarded by the FT is an incredible gap of £60 Billion by 2016.  A significant sum. An… Read More

November 20, 2012 @ 3:50 am By HemelToday  |  

A company that makes construction materials out of waste is aiming to raise £300,000 in 60 days from small investors to develop its products. Econovate, in Greenway, Hemel Hempstead, is working to put together a demonstration plant to prove its technology and start selling the… Read More