Tagged: uk

February 18, 2013 @ 3:42 am By ThisIsMoney UK  |  

Gem Misa set up food business Righteous three years ago after giving up a career as a global brand manager with a multinational company to pursue her passion for food. Within months of launching her range of preservative-free, gluten-free salad dressings, she had secured listings… Read More

February 15, 2013 @ 1:39 pm By Cambridge News  |  

FundTheGap, a new online platform for crowd funding, co-founded by Cambridge-based Ken Ford, is kicking off with a bid to raise £200k for a stake in Babraham-based Cell Guidance Systems. The cash will buy a 12.37% share in CGS, which is involved in stem cell… Read More

February 15, 2013 @ 1:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Insider recently received a tip from one of our visitors (Thanks!  You are the best!) regarding a posting on the Veeqo blog regarding the crowdfunding experience of Matt Warren founder of both Veeqo and Jura.  Jura sells watches in the UK and around the… Read More

February 11, 2013 @ 8:15 am By Out-Law.com  |  

Earlier this month Crowdcube became the first equity crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval from the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Crowdcube is a forum that allows businesses to advertise projects they are seeking financial support for and, in return, give investors a share in the… Read More

February 11, 2013 @ 6:18 am By Develop Online  |  

Introversion’s Prison Architect has raised an impressive $1 million through crowdfunding. The title is based around the concept of building a prison while at the same time attempting to keep the inmates from running riot and escaping.  More than 30,000 people have pledged funds to… Read More

February 5, 2013 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Coming from the pages of RealBusiness in the UK, Barry James has composed an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy PM Nick Clegg.  You may read the letter in its entirety here but the gist of his premise is the time is… Read More

February 4, 2013 @ 8:17 pm By StartUps UK  |  

Righteous Ltd is seeking a second round of funding through Crowdcube. The healthy salad dressing producer, named Home-based or Freelance Business of the Year at the Startups Awards 2012, has today launched a £150,000 crowdfunding campaign. The pitch follows the success of Righteous’ Crowdcube campaign last year, which… Read More

February 4, 2013 @ 7:50 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has finally become authorised and regulated by the British Financial Services Association (FSA).  The original application for authorization was submitted in 2011. This event makes Crowdcube the first authorized crowdfunding platform to allow investors to become direct shareholders in UK… Read More

January 29, 2013 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Labeled Crowdfunding: Deep Impact, the Crowdfunding conference will be held at the University of Herfordshire Business School located North of London.  The daylong event is scheduled for Tuesday, February 26th, 2013. The event is being organized by the Social Foundation which describes themselves as “Makers… Read More

January 22, 2013 @ 1:25 am By The Telegraph  |  

Peer-to-peer lending has the potential to kickstart the economy by providing credit for small businesses Despite some encouraging signs, the UK economy remains in trouble. Growth remains weak and confidence fragile. Lending to small and medium businesses – the motor for job creation – has… Read More

January 21, 2013 @ 6:59 am By RealBusiness  |  

Employee numbers: We currently have nine employees, of which more than half work in customer-facing roles. We are also enthusiastically growing our software development team to ensure that Crowdcube continues to be the leading crowdfunding platform on the planet. Growth forecast for the next three… Read More

January 18, 2013 @ 4:03 am By Real Business  |  

Start-ups and early stage businesses have usually been the territory of the three f’s: friends, family and fools. Typically, when the f’s have been exhausted, the projects that survived and still show promise would turn to institutional providers – banks, debt providers and venture capitalists…. Read More

January 12, 2013 @ 4:24 am By Start Ups UK  |  

The world’s first crowdfunding platform for neighbourhood improvement projects has received support from global information services company Experian. Launched in March 2012 by former Sunday Times journalist Chris Gourlay, Spacehive.com aims to encourage community-improvement and independent business-boosting projects by enabling individual investors and corporates to… Read More

January 11, 2013 @ 7:14 pm By Business Review Europe  |  

2012 was a tough year for SMEs. The Eurozone crisis rumbled on, economies stagnated or contracted and the banks failed to lend the sums needed to help pull Europe out of the abyss. Government initiatives such as the Funding For Lending (FLS) scheme in the… Read More

January 9, 2013 @ 7:54 am By JD Alois  |  

London – According to a recent poll conducted by Venture Giant, an online matching service that connects vetted business investors with entrepreneurs and start-ups revealed that over 72% of its network of millionaires, angel investors and even investors from the Sunday Times Richlist believed that… Read More

January 9, 2013 @ 2:59 am By The Next Web  |  

UK accelerator Springboard is taking an unusual direction with itsforthcoming Internet of Things-focused program; crowdfunding is becoming a part of the fundraising available to startups taking part. Yes, all the teams will launch their products on Kickstarter to coincide with the traditional investor demo day. Kickstarter, which recently launched its… Read More

January 8, 2013 @ 1:44 am By JD Alois  |  

As reported in Startups UK,  the list of GQs  100 most influential men in the UK includes Crowdfunding entrepreneur  Jeff Lynn.  The Seedrs CEO finds himself in the most auspicious of company.  Surrounded by the likes of Sir Richard Branson, Jonathan Harmsworth (4th Viscount Rothermere), David Cameron… Read More

January 7, 2013 @ 7:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coming from the pages of the Financial Times is an article today regarding the desire by some of the burgeoning group of Crowdfunding platforms.  Some of these new financial platforms have been requesting regulation by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). In lieu of uncertain or… Read More

January 5, 2013 @ 7:30 am By JD Alois  |  

In recognition of the growth and success of 2012, UK Crowdfunding site Crowdcube has announced a group of Award Winners for the year.  Listed below, in no particular order, are the award winners for 2012: Pitch of the Year: Escape the City Escape the City, a… Read More

January 4, 2013 @ 7:53 am By Scotsman  |  

A YOUNG widow who published a children’s book on bereavement after her husband died in front of their son has already had orders from around world. Elke Barber, 38, wrote Is Daddy Coming Back in a Minute? in 2009 after her son Alex, then just… Read More