Tagged: uk

June 4, 2015 @ 5:08 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Notes, a coffee shop and wine bar with five prime London locations including Canary Wharf and the West End, is a favorite of customers who attracted by its all-day offering:  the coffee shops transform into wine bars every night. With its four successful openings in the past 12 months,… Read More

June 4, 2015 @ 10:31 am By JD Alois  |  

If you are in the content creation space you know Spundge and may be a user.  Spundge is a software application that cruises the internet and returns relevant results based on user set criteria. You may then choose how to use the content based off… Read More

June 4, 2015 @ 10:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Looking to expand its operations, North Yorkshire-based healthy eatery, Filmore & Union, recently debuted an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £500,000. Since founded in 2011, Filmore & Union has opened seven locations in the north of England that serves pure, natural and wholesome food both to eat in and… Read More

June 3, 2015 @ 4:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a highly regulated industry, such as finance, there will never be a perfect set of rules. The diversity of opinion and perspective by nature engenders a constant debate between what is right – and what is wrong.  The internet finance industry has evolved quite… Read More

June 3, 2015 @ 8:32 am By JD Alois  |  

  Sugru may not be the sexiest of products but it has been popular with investors. The “first” mouldable glue company surged past £1 million in equity crowdfunding on Crowdcube in just 4 days.  Investors topped 1500, each contributing from £10 to £40,000. The offer… Read More

June 1, 2015 @ 9:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle is pushing further into the real estate lending space by offering a new short term bridge loan tagging property developers.  According to the peer to peer lender, over the last 12 months Funding Circle has lent over £60 million for property loans creating… Read More

May 29, 2015 @ 7:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform Seedrs has offered the opportunity for smaller investors to join a prominent VC fund – something usually exclusive only to the very wealthy or very connected. Mark Pearsons has launched his own £30 million fund and a £500,0000 portion is being made available… Read More

May 28, 2015 @ 9:36 am By JD Alois  |  

The Bank of England has published the quarterly update on the Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) for Q1 of 2015.  According to the report, net lending by FLS Extension participants to SMEs was £0.6bn in the first quarter of 2015. This compares with quarterly net… Read More

May 28, 2015 @ 8:52 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Fit Gurus is one of the first start-ups in the UK to receive investment from AngelList, securing £100,000 of backing from 37 investors. An additional £100,000 was invested into the company through the Finance for Business North East Proof of Concept Fund, managed by Northstar Ventures,… Read More

May 28, 2015 @ 8:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Fresh from celebrating its two year birthday, Assetz Capital made another announcement: Assetz Capital, a British peer-to-peer lending platform exceeded its fundraising target of £2 million by raising funds from 731 investors through investment crowdfunding platform Seedrs. The firm, which specializes in providing loans to SMEs… Read More

May 28, 2015 @ 6:06 am By JD Alois  |  

London based startup Cake launched an £ 800,000  Series A crowdfunding round on Crowdcube and they are off to a solid start having topped £300,000 in the first 24 hours. As of today, 21 investors have funded the round with the largest committing £100,000. The offer… Read More

May 27, 2015 @ 12:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

According to a report published by Beauhurst, companies that utilize equity crowdfunding end up selling a smaller stake in their company to shareholders. The document compared equity crowdfunding platforms in the UK to their counterpart Angel and VC groups.  The difference between traditional finance and… Read More

May 27, 2015 @ 10:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to bring its products to consumers everywhere, London-based mouldable glue company, Sugru has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £1M for complete global expansion. Surge is described as mouldable glue that makes fixing things easy. Simply stick it, shape it and it turns… Read More

May 26, 2015 @ 4:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to help those who are less unfortunate (and the organizations that support them), former UK glamour model, mother of two,and full-time blogger, Tracy Kiss, launched crowdfunding campaigns on GoFundMe and YouCaring to raise £10,000 for 10 amazing charities before her 28th birthday this October. Unfortunately, Kiss has… Read More

May 26, 2015 @ 2:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

As Crowdfund Insider covered recently, the FT wrote up an article that inferred that “Cherry Picking” of peer to peer loans presently posed an issue in allowing a level playing field between retail and institutional investors. Following the article, we had an enlightening conversation with representatives of… Read More

May 26, 2015 @ 1:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Turning to the crowd for the second time, Good & Proper Tea recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £140,000 for expansion. The UK startup first appeared on rewards-based platform Kickstarter back in October 2012 and took home £14,682. This amount has helped the company create… Read More

May 26, 2015 @ 10:16 am By JD Alois  |  

While banks remain slow to provide new loans for many types of businesses, sporting clubs may be a perfect match for crowdfunding.  The affinity between fans and supporters for their favorite club may provide a very viable avenue for raising capital in times of need. According to… Read More

May 25, 2015 @ 10:37 pm By Midori Yoshimura  |  

2015 may be the year of the great British cherry, according to the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, but the trade body overseeing the UK peer-to-peer lending industry is getting ready to introduce a rule against allowing institutions to “cherry-pick” the most desirable loans at the expense… Read More

May 24, 2015 @ 11:34 am By JD Alois  |  

We all want to be able to charge our smartphones faster so when I saw the crowdfunding campaign for ChargeDoubler I thought this was a pretty cool campaign. The “original accelerator” claims up to 2X charging speeds for your iPhone or Android phone by allowing a… 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