Tagged: uk

November 8, 2013 @ 11:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The solutions for crowdfunding initiatives grow more numerous by the day. One that is just hitting our radar is SendOwl, an e-commerce solution that UK indie developer Introversion Software has used in a crowdfunding effort for their new game, Prison Architect. The game has raised over… Read More

November 8, 2013 @ 11:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Small HDMI screens are expensive. Native HD ones are astronomical. We want to drive the price down “Raspberry Pi” style. When Alex Eames of RasPi.tv wanted to solve a pain point for Raspberry Pi owners, he decided to turn to Kickstarter to seek funding for… Read More

November 5, 2013 @ 10:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Sleeping Room is a “supernatural gothic horror film” from the same producers that made the film Panic Button, which received 5.2/10 stars on IMDb on an estimated budget of £300,000. The film is now offering a 10.42% equity stake to investors on UK crowdfunding platform… Read More

November 4, 2013 @ 9:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It is almost hard to believe that Kickstarter has already been operating in the UK for a year already. Believe it; Kickstarter launched in the UK on Halloween 2012. From that first year, Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler has gleaned a handful of statistics. Those stats… Read More

November 3, 2013 @ 10:49 am By Charles Luzar  |  

British investment fund manager Nicola Horlick is planning to launch a lending-based crowdfunding portal in the UK market. Called Money&Co, the company aims to take on stalwart UK crowdfunding platforms like Crowdcube and Seedrs for a share of the growing crowdfinance market. Yes, Crowdcube and… Read More

November 2, 2013 @ 1:42 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

In an interview with CNBC’s The Business Class, Crowdcube CEO Darren Westlake divulges that his equity crowdfunding platform, which currently operates in the UK, will be looking to expand internationally in the coming months. He says that Crowdcube is bringing in revenue but is far… Read More

October 31, 2013 @ 11:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Barry James is founding editor at The Crowdfunding Centre and the founder and director of The Social Foundation, an organization that aims toward “providing leadership towards the new open social economy via research, education and policy development.” We recently caught up with James to discuss… Read More

October 29, 2013 @ 12:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Now in its tenth year, the StartUps Awards recognizes some of the United Kingdom’s most innovative and ambitious enterprises.  Operated by Startups – the UK’s “number 1 service for starting a business”, the awards has become a rather prestigious event.  Many recognized businesses have gone… Read More

October 28, 2013 @ 9:49 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Cambridge-based stem cell research tool provider Cell Guidance Systems has successfully crowdfunded over £242,000 on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. The raise represents a £2,000,000 valuation. The funds come for a 12.14% equity stake dispersed among the crowd. CGS was originally seeking $100,000 in funding for… Read More

October 19, 2013 @ 2:57 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

VentureBeat: WePay’s API pays off, handles 648% more crowdfunding volume than last year The headline says it all… WePay is seeing some pretty impressive traction providing payment services to crowdfunding campaigns, but they’re quickly moving toward robust solutions for platforms as well. A provided API has… Read More

October 19, 2013 @ 11:29 am By Charles Luzar  |  

UK Crowdfunding Day is coming up, scheduled for November 1st at the Royal Geographical Society in London. Their home page lists “Prominent UK Crowdfunding Organisations and Supporters,” of which various industry participants are listed. At one point Kickstarter was included on that list. Not anymore…. Read More

October 4, 2013 @ 10:46 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The FCA takes responsibility for regulating consumer credit markets starting in April of 2014. This responsibility includes the peer-to-peer lending space. The FCA has announced plans to release guidance on lending-based crowdfunding and regulatory compliance later this month. In a recent release, the FCA detailed… Read More

October 2, 2013 @ 4:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

With the rapid growth of CrowdFunding in the UK, and the industry predicted to surpass $5.1B raised in 2013, crowdfunding is definitively a gamechanger for fundraising.  As part of their expansion into the United Kingdom and Europe, Fundrazr has put together an Infographic on where… Read More

September 30, 2013 @ 12:14 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

UK-based Abundance Generation is a platform with an innovative spin on crowdfunding that focuses on renewable energy projects. In short, investors contribute as little as £5 in order to secure a portion of the long-term returns on a green energy installation. In practice, investors are buying debentures,… Read More

September 21, 2013 @ 2:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Funding Empire, a UK based online crowdlending platform, has scheduled the formal release of their borrower application process to facilitate debt crowdfunding in the United Kingdom.  Scheduled for release on Monday, September 23rd, this follows their successful launch of their lender registration process. The objective… Read More

September 20, 2013 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdsourcing Week has scheduled a one day gathering to be held in London on October 3, 2013.  The event targets management executives and business owners to introduce crowdsourcing practices which will help grow the long term viability of their organizations. The agenda currently includes a… Read More

September 18, 2013 @ 6:11 am By Julia Groves, Chair UKCFA  |  

Crowdfunding, and in particular crowdinvesting, is the result of deep dissatisfaction, anger even, at where our financial services industry has delivered us today. The financial crisis brought people onto the streets in protest at the behaviour and lack of contrition from our mega financial institutions…. Read More

September 17, 2013 @ 4:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Anyone interested in hearing about how equity crowdfunding may benefit your business has the opportunity to hear investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube share their wisdom next week 3PM to 5PM on Thursday, September 26th in London. Co-Founder Luke Lang and Investment Manager Michael Wilkinson will be… Read More

September 17, 2013 @ 6:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Based on a Roman design from AD 100, this “tongue cleanser” was originally sold 20 years ago when it captured some success while retailing at Harrods.  Now Amano is re-launching this oral hygiene device and they are raising equity on Seedrs. The company hopes to… Read More

September 16, 2013 @ 2:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

As reported earlier this month, Exeter based CrowdCanDo – a crowdfunding platform for events of all types – is crowdfunding on Seedrs.  The raise was for 10% equity for the crowdfunding platform.    The organizers were seeking £22,000 and they have hit their goal. The… Read More