Tagged: freetrade

March 1, 2020 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adam Dodds, CEO and founder at Freetrade, a UK-based Fintech firm that offers a free-to-use investment app that makes it simpler to invest, confirmed on February 29 that the company had rebuilt its infrastructure for investing. Instant orders can be placed on Freetrade’s platform without… Read More

November 5, 2019 @ 9:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Freetrade, a challenger stockbroker that provides free share trading in smartphones, recently closed a €13.4 million (appr. $14.9 million) series A funding round in which it received investments from its first capital investor. This past summer, Freetrade closed a crowdfunding round on Crowdcube raising… Read More

July 10, 2019 @ 11:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Freetrade closed their crowdfunding round on Crowdcube yesterday raising £4,031,500 from 5039 investors. This is the 5th time Freetrade has crowdfunded on Crowdcube having raised £3.1 million in 2018. Freetrade is an FCA regulated digital stockbroker. Available in the UK, Freetrade will be expanding… Read More

July 2, 2019 @ 12:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than two weeks after launching its latest equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, challenger stockbroker app Freetrade is now nearing £3.5 million in funding from more than 4250 investors. The latest campaign comes a little over a year after the company raised £3.1 million through… Read More

June 25, 2019 @ 9:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, Crowdfund Insider previewed Freetrade’s crowdfunding round on Crowdcube. Today, the offer is live and out of private mode so we wanted to provide an update. As it stands now, Freetrade has easily topped its low-end hurdle of £1 million as it seeks to raise… Read More

June 24, 2019 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Challenger stockbroker app Freetrade is returning to the pages of Crowdcube to raise capital once again. The highly popular company topped their £500,000 crowdfunding goal in May in about 12 minutes. Back in April, Freetrade attempted to launch an offering but Crowdcube’s servers struggled with… Read More

May 3, 2019 @ 2:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Too much of a good thing? Perhaps. Crowdcube listed a crowdfunding offering for Freetrade on April 25, 2019. Soon after the offer went live, the Crowdcube site went down. According to a post by Crowdcube CTO Rich Pearce, Freetrade generated the highest number of investments… Read More

May 22, 2018 @ 12:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Freetrade, a next-generation investment app providing users with free stock trading has secured an additional £3.1 million in funding through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The London-based startup, which was founded in 2016 by Adam Dodds who previously worked in finance at KPMG, and… Read More

November 22, 2017 @ 11:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global fintech firm InvestCloud announced on Wednesday it has named Freetrade as the first firm to enter its UK Innovation Center. The UK startup is using the space to bring its app-only stockbroker to market. According to Investcloud, Freetrade was founded by former KPMG accountant Adam… Read More

March 9, 2017 @ 7:33 am By JD Alois  |  

  Leading investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has now crowdfunded 50 deals of £1 million or more. Cauli Rice, a company that has used Crowdcube to raise capital in the past, closed its funding round at £1.4 million backed by 1038 investors.  Crowdcube pointed out that… Read More

February 27, 2017 @ 1:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Freetrade, a platform designed to let users invest in stock markets around the world, has successfully secured its initial £300,000 funding target and is now nearing £560,000 through its second equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. Freetrade describes itself as a mobile app that’s designed to let… Read More

February 10, 2017 @ 8:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based Octopus Labs announced it celebrated the five fintech startups that participated in twelve-week accelerator program at The Gherkin in London. Nearly 200 fintech investors and financial advisers reportedly gathered to celebrate the program on Wednesday.  The twelve-week accelerator program, which was launched last year, saw Octopus support five… Read More