Tagged: uk

February 28, 2014 @ 10:10 am By Barry E. James  |  

Tens of thousands of new UK jobs and many millions in new investment are riding on UK regulators’ ability to come to grips with a changing economy. With regulators in the US and around the world increasingly coordinating their activities, deadlines and announcements, the implications… Read More

February 26, 2014 @ 5:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hubbub.net (formerly Sponsorcraft), a crowdfunding network for education, believes that free crowdfunding is inevitable, and that the new wave of crowdfunding platforms will need to explore alternative revenue models. In light of this they have taken the bold decision to lead the way and drop their… Read More

February 21, 2014 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding company Crowdcube will be closing their first foray into offering a Fund of Crowdfunded Investments.  Venture Fund will close on Wednesday, February 26, 2014. Launched on January 28, 2014, Crowdcube has experienced significant demand for the product.  The investment vehicle allows individuals to… Read More

February 20, 2014 @ 12:52 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Abundance Generation is claiming a record for a crowdfunding campaign in the green energy space after a recent project raised £214,000 in just four days according to BusinessGreen. Renewable Energy Generation launched the project, dubbed REG High Down. The wind installation comprised of a single… Read More

February 12, 2014 @ 10:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Could you imagine being able to visualize the sheer size of Wikipedia’s English articles? The free online encyclopedia has been in the works for well over a decade now, and – according to itself, ironically – it now nets 500 million unique visitors and 18… Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform for technology and health moves from Beta to Full Launch. Edinburgh, Scotland based ShareIn has migrated from beta to full public launch.  The platform is the only equity based crowdfunding site designed exclusively for British technology and health focussed companies.  ShareIn’s crowdfunding… Read More

February 1, 2014 @ 7:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

London-based peer lending platform Zopa has closed a £15 million funding round led by Arrowgrass Capital Partners. Augmentum Capital, Wellington Partners and Balderton Capital also took a stake. As part of the deal, Arrowgrass CEO Henry Kenner will receive a seat on the board. Zopa… Read More

January 25, 2014 @ 12:37 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdcube is one of a handful of global leaders in the burgeoning equity crowdfunding movement. The UK-based platform has released a video featuring early investors in companies that launched and executed successful raises on the Crowdcube platform. The video provides an interesting look at some… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 11:48 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Zopa is the UK’s largest peer-to-peer lending service, and one of the company’s co-founders has made a pretty amazing prediction about the size of the peer-to-business lending market in Ireland. In an interview with The Irish Times, Simon Deane-Johns predicted that peer-to-business lending throughput in… Read More

January 19, 2014 @ 4:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrowdBox TV is a multi-platform service, the concept gives entrepreneurs a chance to promote themselves and their crowdfunding projects across web, mobile and television. There will be a weekly campaign video pitch on Sky Broadcast. Today’s 30-minute show is the first in a monthly series… Read More

January 18, 2014 @ 8:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Posted on Friday via the Crowdcube Twitter account, the UK equity crowdfunding platform ended the week on a high note sharing that £372,000 (Over $600,000) had been invested in businesses listed in their platform in just two days.  While two days do not make a… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 11:12 am By JD Alois  |  

From Seedrs official Twitter account the equity platform shared some exiting information regarding site momentum.  The platform has captured 86 investments for a total of £138,200 during the past day.  Average amount invested stands at £1,611.63.   Over the past day @Seedrs has had 86… 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 15, 2014 @ 10:46 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdcube has teamed with Start Up Loans, an organization that focuses on lending-based funding initiatives and training for UK entrepreneurs. We are thrilled to announce that Start Up Loans has partnered with Crowdcube. The government funded scheme that provides loans and mentors for entrepreneurs is… Read More

January 15, 2014 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

In a note to followers, founder Karen Darby shared a brief update on the progress of CrowdMission,  “the world’s first equity-based crowdfunding platform for social and environmental businesses”.   Her mantra is that businesses can do social good while turning a profit. Equity investment and ethics can… Read More

January 14, 2014 @ 11:09 am By JD Alois  |  

CEO of Assetz Capital Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Platform Expects Their Platform to Hit £100 Million in 2014. The alternative finance industry has now lent more than £1bn to UK businesses and individuals, according to the Liberium AltFi Index. The latest batch of research shows that Peer-to-Peer… Read More

January 8, 2014 @ 7:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Privately owned Great British Banjo Company, based in Norwich, Norfolk, UK, which crowdfunded on Kickstarter last year has announced their successful crowdfunding campaign has led to the creation of several new jobs.  The company claims to be the “first affordable banjo to be manufactured in Britain… Read More

January 6, 2014 @ 9:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

One strategy to protect yourself against inflation in the future is to put your money in places where its future value is linked to inflation. It is in this context that renewable energy investments offer an attractive proposition. In the UK, renewable energy projects receive… Read More

January 3, 2014 @ 10:17 am By Barry E. James  |  

Crowdfunding exploded in 2013, and so revealed its massive potential in a way that’s impossible to ignore. Not least December’s ‘The Rise of Future Finance” and the World Bank Report which preceded it. These together left no doubt that crowdfunding has become an established part of the… 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