Tagged: uk

September 12, 2014 @ 7:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has created a cool infographic sharing some insight into the first mini-bond ever to be offered online.  Chilango, a hugely popular London restaurant chain, launched the mini-bond offering earlier this year to lead the way.  Dubbed the “Burrito Bond” the securities… Read More

September 10, 2014 @ 12:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Volpit, a startup investment crowdfunding platform that makes investing in startups simple, is launching a new tool that completely transforms the way startups pitch to investors, by turbo-charging the process. The fully-FCA authorized platform has debuting its  PitchBuilder this week, which enables startups to invite… Read More

September 9, 2014 @ 11:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Billionaire founder of Easy-Jet, Sir Stelios Haji-Iannou, is going the equity crowdfunding route to finance his latest venture – online real estate startup EasyProperty.  Sir Stelios has offered 1.5% ownership in the new company for a substantial £1 million.  The offer, listed earlier today on… Read More

September 9, 2014 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

For the first time ever, the most innovative companies from across the UK will open their doors to executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and future influencers during OpenCo UK. Check out the tab for your city – Birmingham, Bristol & Bath, Liverpool, London, Manchester, and Sheffield –… Read More

September 9, 2014 @ 8:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

JustGiving’s crowdfunding platform, Yimby, has raised over £1.3M for local projects since its debut last November. The website’s mission is to helps individuals and groups give funds to community projects without having to be a registered organization. According to Civil Society, Yimby, which stands for… Read More

September 8, 2014 @ 9:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The UK’s rewards-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdfunder, is one of 50 people or projects that are being celebrated for helping to change Britain for the better and named in the 2014 New Radicals list by Nesta and The Observer. New Radicals is a search led by Nesta, the UK’s innovation… Read More

September 6, 2014 @ 5:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global tax and advisory firm KPMG recently commented on the crowdfunding industry and how traditional banks are sizing up the new, innovative form of finance. As we all know the finance industry is absolutely enormous.  Crowdfunding, along with peer to peer lending, is still quite… Read More

September 6, 2014 @ 4:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Nesta, an “innovation charity” that also produces some pretty interesting research reports, recently published a document addressing the UK collaborative economy.  Of course the document encompasses a good part of crowdfunding because crowdfunding is all about collaboration.  Nesta publishes some pretty solid data and perspective…. Read More

September 5, 2014 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

The Investment  and Wealth Management Awards are looking for votes. The annual event seeks to acknowledge leaders in the UK finance industry.  The initiative is organized by the FT and Investors Chronical.  They are looking to identify the very best in Brokers, Managers, Forex providers… Read More

September 5, 2014 @ 10:16 am By JD Alois  |  

GamCrowd, the UK-based equity crowdfunding platform for the gaming industry, has announced that it has closed its initial equity crowdfunding round after successfully ‘self-funding’ on its own platform, GamCrowd.com. The company overfunded by 15% and CEO Chris North is pleased to have successfully completed the… Read More

September 3, 2014 @ 2:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Vote for Policies, an innovative online voter support service, has crowdfunded £23,551 on Crowdfunder to pay for a state-of-the-art new website to help the British public decide who to vote for in the 2015 UK general election. Initially launched shortly before the 2010 UK general election… Read More

September 3, 2014 @ 11:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Famed fashion designer and environment advocate Vivienne Westwood has invested £1 million into renewable energy crowdfunding platform Trillion Fund.  According to reports she will not only be a significant investor in the site but an “active ambassador” for the company. As reported in the Telegraph,… Read More

September 3, 2014 @ 8:37 am By JD Alois  |  

According to a report from the National Association of Commercial Finance Brokers (NACFB) small business lending via NACFB brokers has increased 20% to £12.7 billion from July 2013 to July 2014.  The data was published as part of the annual broker survey that showed the… Read More

September 2, 2014 @ 3:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Phundee has publicly announced the launch of their hybrid crowdfunding platform.  The site has a mission to help fund creative arts, film and the entertainment business with a rewards and equity platform.  While the rewards portion is operational now the site still  shows “coming soon”… Read More

September 2, 2014 @ 2:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Making P2P a successful part of your investment portfolio The UK alternative finance market grew by 91 per cent from £492 million in 2012 to £939 million in 2013 and is predicted to grow to £1.6 billion in 2014. The peer to peer finance industry… Read More

September 2, 2014 @ 2:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

SyndicateRoom, an equity crowdfunding platform that pairs professional Angel investors with retail investors to raise equity for startups and small companies has announced they have topped £10 million in total funding raised.  The funding via their platform has been for 18 different UK based businesses…. Read More

September 1, 2014 @ 2:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Financial research group Beauhurst, a company that has been tracking the boom in UK equity investments has noted that the credit crunch of past is no longer holding back growing companies. To quote the company, growth companies are seeing a “massive surge in popularity among investors… Read More

September 1, 2014 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

As we reported last week, Growth Capital Ventures was planning to raise capital via an equity crowdfunding campaign on their own platform “GrowthFunder”.  Well the pitch went live and pretty much immediately funded transitioning into over-funding mode.  The initial target was to raise £150,000 but… Read More

September 1, 2014 @ 3:01 am By JD Alois  |  

“The Big App 2014” pan-European competition is run by Worth Capital in partnership with Facebook. European equity crowdfunding platform Seedrstoday opens investment into Worth Capital’s ‘Big App Fund’, which will invest in up to four winners of a pan-European competition, supported by Facebook, to find… Read More

August 31, 2014 @ 3:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube is now accepting applicants for its accelerator program.  The program is looking for companies that expect to raise capital in the next few months.  Selected companies will get assistance in prepping their business to become investment ready – and of course… Read More