Tagged: river cottage

August 24, 2015 @ 10:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdcube is now presenting investors with output from Moody’s Analytics’ private company risk model to help them assess the bond investment opportunities listed on the site. Square Pie and Vanarama are the first to display the new Probability of Default (POD) figure that represents a probability that the business issuing the… Read More

April 16, 2015 @ 8:29 am By JD Alois  |  

The advent of min-bonds in the UK has been an interesting financial phenomena and nice option for investment crowdfunding platforms.  Investing in mini-bonds allows individuals to receive an annual return with a lower level of risk.  Crowdcube has been the leader in the mini-bond space… Read More

September 11, 2014 @ 5:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK’s reward-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdfunder UK, is hosting an online event at the Eden Project on Friday (September 12th) between 7 – 8pm. Three crowdfunding projects, all foodie start-ups, will battle it out to gain support and funding from the crowd, both in the live audience and… Read More

June 29, 2014 @ 9:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Chilango “Burrito Bond” has trotted past their £1 million funding goal in “mini-bonds” and is now over-funding.  As of this writing the debt based crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube stood at £1,073,500 funded by 318 investors.  This is the second successful mini-bond offering from the UK… Read More

June 19, 2014 @ 8:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Raising capital on Crowdcube, River Cottage, a restaurant and food business founded by Hugh Feamley-Whittingstall & Rob Love, quickly raised £1 million in min-bonds – a new type of security offering for the crowdfunding platform.  It took just 36 hours for 283 investors to scoop… Read More