Tagged: retail

April 9, 2014 @ 8:08 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The successful UK-based wine and events company Humble Grape surpassed its goal raising £250,500 in its Seedrs equity crowdfunding campaign. Continued overfunding aims to raise the £450,000-£500,000 needed for piloting a wine bar in the Shoreditch area of London, then opening four additional sites in… Read More

March 30, 2014 @ 3:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Abe’s Market, an all natural online retailer, raised funding on OurCrowd back in early 2013.  At that time they were doing a $5 million funding round with a portion of that via crowdfunding.  Recently they raised another $10 million as they size up to compete… Read More

March 12, 2014 @ 12:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on equity platform Seedrs, SHAREIGHT has generated a new record for the platform for amount raised  and speed to funding.  Outside of the Seedrs self-crowdfunding campaign which took place late last year, the campaign, that is now at  £463,430, is the largest amount ever… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 10:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Worth Foundation crowdfunding campaign to raise funds on Seedrs as part of a competition to find the best young retail / e-commerce business in the United Kingdom now stands at just under £300,000.  The original target of raising £200,o00 was easily beaten in the first… 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 10, 2013 @ 9:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Based on a farmer’s market that specializes in offering high quality, locally-sourced artisan produce Sourced Market has announced it is expanding due to unprecedented demand. Launched in 2007, Sourced Market  opened its first permanent site at St Pancras International station in 2009.  The company is… Read More

October 1, 2013 @ 11:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Space Qube, an innovator in the temporary or “pop-up” shopping space for premium shopping locations is looking to crowdfund capital and they are going to Seedrs to facilitate the equity offering. Launching today the Southhampton based company is looking to offer 35% equity in the… Read More

June 26, 2013 @ 10:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s a bad PR day for Kickstarter darling OUYA. Yesterday the Android-powered gaming console hit store shelves and quickly sold out on Amazon and at GameStop locations. It was a clear signs that OUYA fans were hungry for the console. However, some backers still haven’t… Read More

May 17, 2013 @ 11:30 am By RetailTimes.co.uk  |  

Despite the current economic climate, there is no shortage of retail entrepreneurs. However, getting a new operation off the ground and competing with brands takes capital, and that is hard to come by… or is it? Luke Lang, co-founder of crowdfunding website Crowdcube, takes a… Read More

February 5, 2013 @ 5:09 pm By ReadWrite  |  

Remember the humble Ouya game console? Maybe it was never that humble, but considering its indie roots, the Kickstarted experiment in Android-powered gaming just scored some surprisingly huge distribution partnerships for its release later this year. Founder and CEO Julie Uhrman tells The Wall Street Journal that the console will be available through… Read More