Tagged: europe

November 18, 2013 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Inspired by a family history for entrepreneurialism and with fresh ideas on micro-financing from his time at Business School, Alessandro Rovati and two childhood friends, Francesco Fumagalli and Francesco Gatti, developed an idea for an e-commerce app that allowed users to invest in pre-production product… Read More

November 8, 2013 @ 8:12 am By JD Alois  |  

Organized by  Loft Solutions, European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) , La finance participative or “crowdfunding” will be discussed by industry authorities at an event to be held at the Intercontinental, Paris on November 19th.  The gathering is specifically to… Read More

November 6, 2013 @ 10:53 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Urbanara is an “online brand for high-quality home furnishings” that recently turned to upstart German equity crowdfunding platform Bergfürst. It was the first company to be listed on the platform. They have just closed their round, having raised just short of €3 million. The team behind… Read More

October 30, 2013 @ 7:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Invesdor is a successful crowdfunding platform founded by the necessity of budding entrepreneurs and their search for startup capital.  The story is unfortunately a rather common one.  Great idea hits the wall of no funds.  At the time in 2011 six friends, Lasse, Miikka, Petteri,… Read More

October 8, 2013 @ 12:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stuanch crowdfunding advocates the European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) is hosting their 2nd CrowdCon crowdfunding conference in Berlin on October 19, 2013.  The event is coinciding with a trade fair for retail stock market investors which expects to see over 4000 attendees creating a unique opportunity… Read More

October 3, 2013 @ 10:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

From today until the last day of 2013, the European Commission is seeking public comment on how the EU can facilitate crowdfunding in Europe. Anyone with an opinion on crowdfunding is invited to fill in the questionnaire. People who might contribute to, or launch, a… Read More

October 2, 2013 @ 4:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

With the rapid growth of CrowdFunding in the UK, and the industry predicted to surpass $5.1B raised in 2013, crowdfunding is definitively a gamechanger for fundraising.  As part of their expansion into the United Kingdom and Europe, Fundrazr has put together an Infographic on where… Read More

October 2, 2013 @ 3:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Canadian platform FundRazr wants to be known as the easy to use crowdfunding platform for everyone.  They have been doing a pretty fantastic job of achieving this goal.  Recently they were tapped for a new television show about crowdfunding.  Earlier this year, Fundrazr announced having… Read More

September 23, 2013 @ 11:50 am By JD Alois  |  

The company claims the amount raised in such a short time is a crowdfunding record. Windcentrale, a Netherlands based crowdfunding platform for wind power, has raised €1.3 Million in just 13 hours by selling 6,648 shares in a wind turbine sold to 1700 Dutch households…. Read More

September 18, 2013 @ 6:11 am By Julia Groves, Chair UKCFA  |  

Crowdfunding, and in particular crowdinvesting, is the result of deep dissatisfaction, anger even, at where our financial services industry has delivered us today. The financial crisis brought people onto the streets in protest at the behaviour and lack of contrition from our mega financial institutions…. Read More

September 11, 2013 @ 2:30 am By Dominique Litmaath River  |  

Symbid is one of the first investment crowdfunding platforms to launch live in Europe. The Rotterdam based company was co- founded in the Netherlands by Korstiaan Zandvliet in 2011.  The idea was born of a concept while Korstiaan was attending business school at ERASMUS.  The… Read More

August 13, 2013 @ 9:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Ronald Kleverlaan is the CEO of WEBclusive, a crowdfunding solutions provider based in Amsterdam. He is also the co-founder of the European Crowdfunding Network, which has been a great resource both for us here at Crowdfund Insider and for the industry as a whole. He was… Read More

July 6, 2013 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

The United Kingdom’s largest peer to peer lending site Zopa has announced they expect to be offering business loans soon.  Presently their platform is designed to support peer to peer personal consumer loans matching borrowers to investors. Zopa has been in business for over 8… Read More

July 4, 2013 @ 6:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Symbid has announced new features associated with their crowdfunding platform.  The new features are designed to enhance the investment crowdfunding experience for both investors and entrepreneurs offering shares in their company. The first new feature has been labeled “Groups” which is effectively… Read More

July 4, 2013 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

With the announcement that Quantock Brewery had surpassed their equity crowdfunding goal of 20% by raising £120,000 from 129 individuals, crowdfunding site Crowdcube noted the popularity for investors to support the food and drink category.  Specifically the beverage portion. Out of 56 funded offerings 18… Read More

July 2, 2013 @ 9:01 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) have announced their short list of award nominees for 2013.  Both Seedrs and Crowdcube, UK based platforms which offer equity crowdfunding, have  made the list.  Crowdcube just announced joining the group earlier this year. The two are competing for… Read More

June 28, 2013 @ 10:50 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A. Brian Dengler of CfIRA posted a comprehensive breakdown of a paper released by two professors of economics and management at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Crowdfunding, as an innovative capital formation strategy and investment possibility, has both supporters and skeptics. In order to investigate and… Read More

June 28, 2013 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Below is a brief video from Fleur Emery from Green & Pleasant, brewers of all-natural, craft-brewed lager and lemon shandy.  Fleur shares here experience with crowdfunding on Crowdcube.  Earlier this year the campaign raised over £122,000 in equity on the investment crowdfunding platform. The crowdfunding campaign raised… Read More

June 25, 2013 @ 8:18 am By JD Alois  |  

BrewDog Brewery which has launched a crowdfunded equity offering on their web site attempting to raise £4 Million in new equity has been reported to have raised £1 Million in the first 24 hours of the campaign.  The offering, titled “Equity for Punks” is scheduled… Read More

June 24, 2013 @ 5:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

 Earlier this month a workshop on crowdfunding was held at the European Commission.  Many different crowdfunding leaders participated in this event including executives from Seedrs, Babyloan, Ulule and others.  President of the European Crowdfunding Network, Oliver Gajda, was also present participating in a panel on… Read More