Tagged: uk

August 14, 2014 @ 1:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Assetz Capital, a UK based peer to peer (P2P) lending platform, has shared their approach to pricing their loans.  Assetz has raised over £40 million since their launch back in 2013.  Assetz Capital is part of the Assetz group of property and financial services companies that… Read More

August 14, 2014 @ 11:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle is having a birthday today. The peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform is turning 4 years old.  We would love to share some cake and sing some songs in celebration but unfortunately a few thousand kilometers separate us from the festivities that most certainly are… Read More

August 13, 2014 @ 2:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

We are a young industry, but fast moving, and with more than 9 million members across all the different crowdfunding platforms in the UK, and more than 600,000 projects and businesses already successfully funded, between us we have already learnt a lot about what works… Read More

August 13, 2014 @ 11:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Funding Circle, a peer to peer lending platform that strives to operate a highly transparent lending business, recently shared some insight into their defaults and recovery side of their company.  Just like any other investment, lending on a P2P platform entails risk.  Investors mitigate risk… Read More

August 13, 2014 @ 9:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Caddington-based Water-to-Go Ltd surpassed its crowdfunding target of £125,000 (US$ 210,000) on Crowdcube and closed to £167,000 with more than three weeks left for further investment. This was after major high street banks refused to lend against property assets valued at several multiples of the requested… Read More

August 12, 2014 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Eric Partaker, co-founder of UK restaurant chain Chulango, recently hit the studios of SkyNews to chat up their “Burrito Bond” offer listing on Crowdcube.  Chilango was the first ever “mini-bond” offer on the crowdfunding platform paving the way for other companies to leverage the internet… Read More

August 12, 2014 @ 11:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

British cloud accounting software company, Clear Books, is aiming to raise £3.3 million on its own equity crowdfunding offering.  This follows its first oversubscribed crowdfunding offer from last year. The company is offering 275,000 shares at a subscription price of £12 per share. Whereas its competitors… Read More

August 11, 2014 @ 12:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority has just released their guidance consultation on social media use within the financial industry and some crowdfunding industry followers remain concerned about the direction the document is taking. Sharon Flaherty, founder of boutique content marketing consultancy BrandContent, shared her opinion on… Read More

August 11, 2014 @ 9:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Announced just this past week, Innovate Finance is a new industry body for the fast grow tin UK FinTech industry. The representative group was backed by over 50 financial industry participants including big names in the crowdfunding industry such as Crowdcube & SyndicateRoom.  Peer to… Read More

August 11, 2014 @ 8:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Devon-based tech start-up, Powered Now has successfully concluded its investment pitch on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. Initially aiming to raise £350,000 from the crowd, Powered Now smashed its original target, overfunding by 167% to secure £585,580 within five weeks of listing. Powered Now is a… Read More

August 8, 2014 @ 3:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With back to school season officially underway, students from University of Cambridge in the UK have taken a different approach of getting funds for their education. According to the Cambridge News, A growing number of prospective students are trying the crowdfunding platform, GoFundMe to run… Read More

August 7, 2014 @ 2:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

It managed to raise well over its initial £30,000 crowdfunding goal on Kickstarter, unfortunately, the new metal festival, Alt-Fest, has been cancelled due to lack of funds. Last year, the event’s organizers launched a campaign on the crowdfunding giant’s platform and described the event as… Read More

August 6, 2014 @ 1:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hilarious web series Simon’s Cat has had huge success on the crowdfunding giant Indiegogo over the past few weeks. The YouTube channel launched campaign on July 8th for its new video Off to the Vet. Originally seeking only £275,850, Simon’s Cat has raised £304,937 from 9,963 backers. Not only has it… Read More

August 6, 2014 @ 3:22 am By JD Alois  |  

 Let’s Own The News’ is a crowdfunding campaign that has been launch to purchase The Times and The Sunday Times from media baron Rupert Murdoch.  The initiative is being supported by The Young Foundation,  a group that seeks to “harness the power of social innovation to tackle the root causes… Read More

August 2, 2014 @ 12:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a note posted on the UK Business Angels Association, it was shared that Angels Den has successfully funded 29 businesses for all of 2014.  The UKBAA also highlighted two of the funding platform’s recent successes:  MuscleGenes, the world’s fastest growing fitness genetic testing company,… Read More

July 29, 2014 @ 2:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Over a third of the UK didn’t vote in the last general election, for young people it was over a half. Worse still, almost two-thirds didn’t vote in the recent European elections.London-based online voting support service, Vote for Policies, is crowdfunding to change these stats. Vote… Read More

July 27, 2014 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Peer to Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) in the UK have just published the data for the first 6 months of 2014 showing impressive growth in the P2P lending industry.  The rate of flow of funds through p2p platforms has doubled over the last 6… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Nicola Horlick is a well known name in the halls of finance in the United Kingdom.  Nicola captured the title of City “Superwoman” as she balanced on the high wire act of an elite career in finance while simultaneously raising six children. After starting at… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube offered shares in their own company this past week and quickly (as in don’t blink) raised £1.2 million.  While I am not certain if they expected to raise funds at lightening speed – I was certainly impressed with the velocity in which investors rushed… Read More

July 23, 2014 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

FarmDrop launched their equity crowdfunding project just a few weeks back but the online farmers market has not had any problems finding investors.  Raising capital on Crowdcube, FarmDrop was hoping to raise £400,000 for 17% equity in the young company.  FarmDrop has quickly passed that… Read More