Tagged: scotland

December 22, 2014 @ 3:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With only a week and half until the world rings in the new year, UK-based platform Crowdfunder presented its Top 12 British Crowdfunding Projects of 2014. Sharing details about the successful campaigns, the platform’s staff stated, “In the last 12 months we’ve seen some amazing… Read More

November 6, 2014 @ 1:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

One of the most challenging aspects of rewards based crowdfunding are the all too frequent delays in product deliver.  There is a blurry line where backers, frustrated by extended delays and potentially lost funds, assume fraud versus a struggling young company attempting to hit unrealistic… Read More

October 10, 2014 @ 10:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube announced this week the launch of its new office in Scotland. According to the Herald Scotland, the website revealed it has made opened the new location to support existing clients. Crowdcube noted the decision to move north came after it noticed a… Read More

October 10, 2014 @ 9:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Consumers who’ve always wished that they could see the world through real-life photo filters will now have their wishes granted, thanks to Tens sunglasses. Just a few months after its Indiegogo campaign became a huge hit, the crowdfunding-success company has now reached South East Asia… Read More

September 8, 2014 @ 11:04 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Aiming to raise £1M in return for 20% equity stake in The Monzie Hotel Ltd, a subsidiary of Corryard holdings Ltd which won the Scottish Homes Award for Renovation of the Year, The Monzie Hotel has listed on Crowdcube.  The funds will be used to… Read More

July 3, 2014 @ 10:38 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Scotland-based RunRev Ltd. announced on Wednesday the launch of its crowdfunding campaign to raise $395,000 so it can bring beauty and clarity of the LiveCode language to the web. Adding the ability to deploy LiveCode apps straight to HTML5 ensure that no area of app creation… Read More

May 2, 2014 @ 8:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding innovators are gathering today in Edinburgh, Scotland at the Innovation Foundation event to share their insight into how Scotland may maximize the potential of this new form of finance.  Crowdfunding is booming in the UK and around the world.  In 2013 over £200 million… Read More

March 15, 2014 @ 7:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

ShareIn, an equity crowdfunding platform that targets UK technology and health companies, has new offices. They have moved into Codebase, the newest technology incubator in Scotland in the center of Edinburgh. The Scottish government is looking to boost innovation and the local economy and recently… Read More

January 16, 2014 @ 9:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Health and technology equity crowdfunding platform ShareIn, launched in Beta this past December.  In a brief report to supporters ShareIn communicated they had received £96,000 of pledges during their first month of operations and have experienced 6000 site visitors.  The portal currently has 5 equity… Read More

January 8, 2014 @ 10:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding innovator BrewDog was recently interviewed on BBC about their “Equity for Punks” campaign.  The brief recording is interesting in the fact that co-founder James Watt adroitly explains the challenge.  They could not find money to grow their business. Necessity being the mother of… Read More

December 30, 2013 @ 10:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

An Ontario couple has a crowdfunding campaign live on GoFundMe now. It seeks a goal of $7,000 to help fund the couple’s planned move to Scotland. Thus far they’ve raised just over $400 to put toward that goal. Recently a piece on the campaign ran… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 12:04 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Like furbies and turtles toys before them, our #EquityForPunks shares sold out the week before Christmas. To all our new punks – welcome! — BrewDog (@brewdog) December 21, 2013 Our own JD Alois wasn’t kidding when he said last call. Less than 48 hours later… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 9:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

BrewDog is in the midst of an extremely aggressive period of growth now that the Scottish brewery has managed to raise millions of euros via equity crowdfunding raises. The latest expansion project for the brewery is a BrewDog bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo,… Read More

November 27, 2013 @ 8:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Harper Macleod and Crowdcube help Scottish businesses embrace Equity Crowdfunding. Harper Macleod, Scotland’s leading legal advisers on crowdfunding, has joined forces with Crowdcube, the UKs leading equity crowdfunding platform, to hold a special free event in Glasgow on 4 December. Crowdcube CEO and co-founder Darren… Read More

November 16, 2013 @ 10:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

BrewDog may have started a trend among Scottish breweries. Arran Brewery is now planning an equity crowdfunding raise to launch sometime this month. Arran Brewery wants to turn to the crowd to raise capital in order to fund a push that would include a hotel,… Read More

November 7, 2013 @ 11:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Scottish beer craftsmen at Brewdog Brewery are currently in the midst of a £4 million equity crowdfunding campaign, offering 3.6% equity in exchange for funding from the crowd. The brewery recently announced that they have raised £3.7 million of that and the campaign is on it’s… Read More

October 24, 2013 @ 12:44 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ve been reporting on BrewDog brewery ever since the Scottish brewery startup launched a hybrid equity/rewards crowdfunding effort in June of this year. That effort, entitled “Equity for Punks,” netted BrewDog over £1 million in capital in 24 hours. If you’re a clever canine and… Read More

August 21, 2013 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Squareknot Looks to plug funding gap vacated by UK banks. A group of determined Scottish entrepreneurs have launched a crowdfunding platform which offers a combination of equity, loan and reward based crowdfunding.  Squareknot’s  site hopes to kick-start business funding for both start-ups as well as established… Read More

August 21, 2013 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

New Scottish crowdfunding platform Squareknot launches with high profile crowdfunding campaign on site.  Satellite broadband provider Internet Anywhere has launched a funding round to raise £125,000.  The funding round represents 10% equity  in the company. Internet Anywhere is the largest Scottish reseller for Eutelsat, one… Read More

June 30, 2013 @ 10:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Harlaw Hydro Ltd., located outside of Edinburgh, Scotland, has hit their crowdfunding goal of £313,000 to finance a hydro electric energy plant in a unique twist in community crowdfunding.  The goal was reached via community participation in just 12 weeks. Back in the Spring of… Read More