Tagged: crowdcube

March 23, 2015 @ 3:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In celebration of JustPark’s successful and record breaking equity crowdfunding campaign, which captured over £3.7 million from 2,900 investors, Crowdcube has unveiled a new infographic that shows off the parking innovator’s exciting funding progress. As previously reported, JustPark, formerly Parkatmyhouse.com, is a website and app that allows… Read More

March 17, 2015 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Parking innovator JustPark has closed its highly successful equity crowdfunding round on Crowdcube having raised £3.7 million from 2916 investors purchasing 15.61% equity in the firm in 34 days.  According to Crowdcube, investors came from around the world including Hong Kong, Costa Rica and Monaco…. Read More

March 15, 2015 @ 4:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Switzerland based Investiere has published as list of the top 5 investment crowdfunding platforms based on total funding volume.  The rankings were released earlier this month.  Investiere only included platforms that publicly publish data on their site so platforms like Seedrs and SyndicateRoom, two leading… Read More

March 13, 2015 @ 10:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

DiamondGeezer, a jewelry manufacture, has launched an equity crowdfunding project on Crowdcube to raise £250,000 for growth and expansion. Diamond Geezer, which appeared on Dragons’ Den back in 2008, offers customers access to the world’s diamond. They are able to match their diamond with designer… Read More

March 10, 2015 @ 8:14 am By JD Alois  |  

The CEO of JustPark, Alex Stephany, and Crowdcube co-founder Luke Lang teamed up yesterday to talk about crowdfunding and the sharing economy. JustPark is raising capital on Crowdcube right now and their funding round has hit it out of the park. JustPark connects drivers in need… Read More

March 9, 2015 @ 10:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Pocket, a new type of property developer, is seeking a raise of £1.5 million on Crowdcube offering investors the ability to earn 7.5% gross interest rate starting at £500.  The “Pocket Bond” is set for a 4 year term at which time investors may choose… Read More

March 5, 2015 @ 12:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday (March 5th), media outlet City A.M. announced it has partnered with Crowdnetic to launch a new website, CityAmCrowdwatch, which is dedicated to UK crowd finance data. According to City A.M., CityAMCrowdwatch features information on private UK-based companies that are publicly raising capital online… Read More

March 5, 2015 @ 11:13 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has shared they experienced the best month ever for number of registered users.  For the month of February over 15,000 joined the funding portal.  This jump in users has now boosted their “investor community” to over 145,000 individuals. While… Read More

March 4, 2015 @ 9:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Menswear retailer The Idle Man quickly jumped out of the gate topping £500,000 in just two days of equity crowdfunding on Crowdcube.  The funding round benefited from a single private equity group that committed £449,990.  The balance was invested by 73 individual investors.  New investors… Read More

February 27, 2015 @ 10:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday Crowdfund Insider announced that Symbid has partnered with Ben & Jerry’s Join Our Core 2015 competition.  Now several UK crowdfunding platforms have revealed a similar partnership in the hunt for the “brightest social entrepreneurs in Europe”. As noted on the Join Our Core page; Seedrs,… Read More

February 26, 2015 @ 7:07 am By JD Alois  |  

JustPark has broken a funding record on Crowdcube. The App company has captured over 2400 investors attracting 3x more backers than any other offer in Crowdcube’s history. JustPark, a company that already lists BMW and Index Ventures as early investors, had sought a funding round… Read More

February 23, 2015 @ 4:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, London’s fourth largest brewery, Camden Town Brewery launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £1.5 million for its booming business. Within nearly three weeks, the project has successfully captured over £855,000 thanks to nearly 860 investors. As previously reported, Camden Town Brewery… Read More

February 17, 2015 @ 8:21 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based Crowdcube has announced  two new hires as part of its strategic expansion of its senior team. According to a report from the crowdfunding platform, Dean Mayer has been appointed as Head of Debt and Stuart Nicol as Growth Director. Dean will develop Crowdcube’s new… Read More

February 16, 2015 @ 5:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Last week Crowdfund Insider published a write up on the regulatory review completed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the United Kingdom. At that time Crowdfund Insider quoted the FCA document that summed things up: “We have seen the crowdfunding market continue to grow rapidly. We recognise that it is… Read More

February 15, 2015 @ 8:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Enclothed, a bespoke shopping service that just closed its equity crowdfunding round on Crowdcube, raised £800,000 from 378 investors following a popular pitch on Dragons Den. The company initially intended on raising £400,000 but investor demand propelled the offer into overfunding boosted by the visit… Read More

February 13, 2015 @ 3:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

London-based JustPark, formerly known as ParkatmyHouse.com, is seeking to raise £1 million during its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The project launched earlier this month and has already captured over half of the initial goal thanks to nearly 1,200 investors. JustPark is apparently leading the disruption of… Read More

February 12, 2015 @ 2:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, London-based Enclothed, launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £400,000. The website is considered a virtual “personal shopper” to men that are looking to avoid busy department stores and crazy clothing prices. Sharing details about the website, the Enclothed team stated, “Here… Read More

February 11, 2015 @ 8:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

investUP (known as UP), the crowdfunding supermarket, launches its platform at Finovate Europe. UP brings the P2B (P2P and equity coming soon) crowdfunding market together in one place, enabling users to invest via one centralised portfolio. It allows investors to search for deals from all their… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 1:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cell Therapy, British biotech company co-founded by Nobel Prize winner Sir Martin Evans, announced that it has raised £689,246 through crowdfunding platform Crowdcube to help cell-based regeneration medicine for heart trauma get to the market. The project’s description reads,”Cell Therapy Limited (CTL) has developed a breakthrough… Read More

February 6, 2015 @ 1:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last November, Caterham Formula One racing team took to crowdfunding platform Crowdcube to raise £2.3 million to get to the season finale in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The project became super popular and even raised 1.1 million during its first three days on the platform. Unfortunately, Reuters reported… Read More