Tagged: uk

September 26, 2014 @ 11:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bristol-based Rollasole launched a Crowdcube equity crowdfunding campaign earlier this month to raise £150,000 for the expansion of its shoe company. Within a few weeks, the campaign reached well over its initial goal and has raised over £174,000 thanks to 87 investors. Rollasole is dubbed… Read More

September 26, 2014 @ 11:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few weeks after Foo Fighters, took to the stage at their crowdfunded concert in Richmond, Virginia, a group of UK fans are taking matters into their own hands to bring the hit rock band across the pond. A crowdfunding campaign was launched on… Read More

September 24, 2014 @ 1:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Setting out to expand its franchise, Edinburgh-based company SuperJam turned to Crowdcube for its £250,000 crowdfunding campaign. The company is said to be known for its delicious jams and popularity in the UK region. Funds from the project will help SuperJam make its way into other… Read More

September 24, 2014 @ 12:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nearly two weeks ago, Crowdfunder UK, hosted an online crowdfunding event at the Eden Project for three foodie start-ups. They each battled it out to gain support and funding from the crowd, which were both live audience and online viewers. And now, the winner of… Read More

September 24, 2014 @ 10:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Hale, UK based crowdfunding property investment company, The House Crowd, has announced it has fundraised more than £5 million from investors over a two year period. Since it started operations, the company has bought and refurbished 78 properties in and around the Manchester area, totalling more… Read More

September 23, 2014 @ 8:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Chapel Down Group plc, a publicly traded company [EPIC:CDGP], has updated their new share subscription to reflect the success of their equity crowdfunding offer on Seedrs.  In a public filing  Chapel Down stated they had raised an additional £0.57 million via the subscription of 2,035,714… Read More

September 22, 2014 @ 4:48 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to expand its frozen yogurt business, UK-based company Samba Swirl launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £285,000. Samba Swirl, a trading name of Obal Solutions, Ltd., reportedly opened the first ever self-serve frozen yogurt shop in the UK in 2010. With much… Read More

September 22, 2014 @ 11:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Australia-based company, Rimbal Ltd., has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise £60,000 to fund technology and business growth. According to its campaign page, Rimbal is an online financial advisory platform that automates investment advice and allocation for retail clients. It is scheduled to… Read More

September 19, 2014 @ 10:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Escape the City was an early equity crowdfunding success on Crowdcube. The team at Crowdcube acknowledged their unique success, of quickly raising £600,000 in just 14 days, by crowning Escape the City “Pitch of the Year” in 2012.  Escape the city is a a website that… Read More

September 18, 2014 @ 11:49 am By JD Alois  |  

The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec)  published earlier this month “The Startup Manifesto” outlining their vision of a UK economy powered by innovation and technology.  Founded by tech entrepreneurial types, Coadec wants the UK to be the best place in the world to launch and… Read More

September 17, 2014 @ 4:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Herbal tea entrepreneur and founder of Charbrew, Adam Soliman has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise £150,000 for expansion. The company is known as a specialist hot beverage brand that is “revolutionizing” the UK tea market. According to its campaign website, Charbrew has introduced… Read More

September 17, 2014 @ 12:29 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

The peer-to-peer lending platform rebuildingsociety has joined the rapidly-expanding Alternative Business Funding (ABF) portal – to support SMEs requiring non-bank finance solutions. “Accounting for over 85% of the UK’s alternative business funding market, ABF continues to receive widespread backing from industry bodies including the British… Read More

September 17, 2014 @ 7:55 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based peer to peer (P2P) lending platform CrowdProperty has announced its first two property developments live on the site and ready to be financed. Investors may participate starting at £500 and up pledged towards the projects and receive either 5% or 10% gross returns. CrowdProperty,… Read More

September 16, 2014 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

So the team over at Crowd for Angels has cooked up an infographic explaining the intriguing realm of Crypto Currencies.  Unless you have been on the Moon for the past few years (and without the internet) you are well aware of Bitcoin and other competing… Read More

September 16, 2014 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Hybrid investment crowdfunding platform  Crowd of Angels has announced an opportunity to invest in a crypto-currency.  LXCCoin is described as the “worlds first asset based crypto-currency.  The company states it has “both 100% real asset value and inbuilt profitability”,  The expected annual rate of return is predicted to be 12%-15%.  LXCCoin… Read More

September 15, 2014 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding record label MusicRaiser.com is now offering selected projects on their site free promotional services. According to a release the music crowdfunding platform will offer the service only to bands who the site’s music specialists believe have genuine potential for either signed and unsigned bands…. Read More

September 15, 2014 @ 9:53 am By JD Alois  |  

How To Guarantee You Get Funded The questions about funding that you were afraid to ask but need to know. As you know Angels Den is Europe and Asia’s largest angel network having successfully raised £16m in investment. We operate across 12 countries, see 140… Read More

September 15, 2014 @ 7:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Chapel Down, the first publicly traded company to raise capital via equity crowdfunding, has filed a brief announcing an additional share placement in the amount of £0.44 million.  This additional amount was in conduction with the placing of over 1.5 million ordinary shares, at 28… Read More

September 13, 2014 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

For followers of the peer to peer lending industry this should come as no surprise.  P2P lending in the UK has no passed the £2 billion mark as it continues to surge forward as more consumers, and more investors, take advantage of the more effective… Read More

September 13, 2014 @ 7:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Offering up a new way to create art, London-based Poligon has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for its self-titled sculptures. The foldable metal sculptures are known to be inspired by the animal kingdom. Explaining the cool art kit, the Poligon team noted, “We’ve created a… Read More