Tagged: growthfunders

November 24, 2021 @ 9:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Bank North, previously operating as B-North, is looking to raise £1 million in growth capital on GrowthFunders. UK-based Bank North was granted a banking license (Authorised with Restrictions or ‘AWR’) by the UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) this past August. Around the same time, the… Read More

May 4, 2021 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

B-North, the Manchester-based Fintech building an SME lending bank for the UK, has topped its £500,000 target on GrowthFunders. As it stands today, B-North has raised £560,598 backed by 48 online investors as well as 27 professional investors. The Series A “bridge stub round” is… Read More

March 19, 2020 @ 5:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

After less than a week of COVID-19 fueled lockdown, it seems like the world has been turned upside down as a new reality has set in due to “social distancing” and “shelter in place” demands. In the US, the National Guard is not yet patrolling… Read More

November 24, 2017 @ 7:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Many people are still sorting through the various proposals announced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond during the Autumn Budget statement from the past week. Parsing through the nuances of the many policy pronouncements is an annual affair. So what is in the Budget… Read More

October 9, 2017 @ 9:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Intelligence Fusions, a software-as-a-service business, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. This news comes just after the company secured £166,400 through its funding round on GrowthFunders, with reportedly £66,400 from the G Ventures Network of Professional investors and £100,000 from the Finance Durham Fund. Backed… Read More

May 17, 2017 @ 3:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Growth Capital Ventures (GCV) says it is ready to help fuel early stage companies in the North with a £57.5 million investment fund. GCV said it is working with Maven Capital Partners to help fund promising businesses. In late 2016, Maven invested £1.1 million in… Read More

December 15, 2016 @ 9:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Maven Capital Partners (Maven), a UK-based private equity firm, announced on Thursday it completed a £1.1 million investment in developer and operator of specialist online investment and capital crowdfunding platforms, Growth Capital Ventures (GCV), which was funded through its managed Venture Capital Trusts. According to… Read More

September 2, 2015 @ 2:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Visualsoft, an award-winning UK eCommerce agency, has launched a campaign on equity crowdfunding platform Growthfunders to raise£150,000 for its new tech startup, Hive. Originally designed for use within the Visualsoft office, Hive is a cloud-based software solution which measures employee engagement and has been developed… Read More

May 22, 2015 @ 3:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

GrowthFunders, part of Growth Capital Ventures, has just received official approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to operate their investment crowdfunding platform.  GrowthFunders has been operating since March 0f 2014 using a provisionary status in association with Linear Investments. The process took GrowthFunders approximately… Read More

October 11, 2014 @ 11:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform GrowthFunders  (Growth Capital Ventures) is scheduled to close their self-crowdfunding round tomorrow (Sunday, October 12, 2014) having beat their £150,000 initial goal.  Organizers state they raised the £150,000 in just ten minutes.  The equity crowdfunding campaign stands at £222,700 raised to date… Read More

September 1, 2014 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

As we reported last week, Growth Capital Ventures was planning to raise capital via an equity crowdfunding campaign on their own platform “GrowthFunder”.  Well the pitch went live and pretty much immediately funded transitioning into over-funding mode.  The initial target was to raise £150,000 but… Read More

August 28, 2014 @ 4:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

North East UK company Growth Capital Ventures announced the upcoming launch of its crowdfunding campaign on its own platform GrowthFunders to raise £150,000 to continue to build and introduce new features on its already existing website. Growth Capital Ventures launched the equity crowdfunding and co-investment… Read More

May 15, 2014 @ 10:54 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based crowdfunding platform GrowthFunders has recently done a site makeover.  The investment site has added a bit of polish to their platform as they continue to grow in 2014.  But not only have they freshened up the site – they are now offering up… Read More

March 5, 2013 @ 9:34 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

This infographic explains the process of an equity crowdfunding raise from start to finish on Growthfunders. Hat tip to Growthfunders.

December 23, 2012 @ 9:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Growthfunders the UK Based Equity crowdfunding portal launched an E-petition this week to push Her Majesty’s Government to help kickstart the UK economy. The entire text of the missive is below:   We need to fill the void in the capital market with an innovative… Read More