Tagged: united kingdom

August 23, 2020 @ 10:17 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

FETCH, a UK-based mobile food and drink ordering and payment app, has raised nearly £275,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. The funding round was launched earlier this month, originally seeking £150,000. It has attracted more than 400 Seedrs investors. Founded earlier this year,… Read More

August 23, 2020 @ 5:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based British Pearl, a directly FCA authorized property investment platform that’s listed in the top 100 UK Fintech firms by Her Majesty’s Treasury, will be expanding its business into other jurisdictions, instead of just focusing on the local markets. British Pearl specializes in fractionalized property… Read More

August 22, 2020 @ 3:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Folk2Folk, a peer to peer lender supporting local and rural businesses, says that service providers in the UK should consider diversifying or branching out into new areas in order to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic. Folk2Folk notes that companies have been negatively affected because many… Read More

August 22, 2020 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stuart Law, CEO at Assetz Capital, a peer to peer lender providing secured loans to businesses, argues that residential property in the UK will be the primary beneficiary from COVID-19’s negative impact on the nation’s retail industry. As reported by Peer2Peer Finance, there’s an improvement… Read More

August 21, 2020 @ 4:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Billon Group Ltd. has raised £2 million supported by the Future Fund scheme, a COVID support program designed to help struggling early stage UK firms. According to the company, Billon secured investment commitments from angel investors and VCs of £1 million matched by the UK… Read More

August 21, 2020 @ 8:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  UK cleantech Polysolar is set to close its latest equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube with nearly £900,000 in funding raised. The funding round was launched earlier this month, just a little over two years after the company raised £1.3 million through its first Crowdcube… Read More

August 21, 2020 @ 7:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK banking group NatWest announced on Thursday it is launching “Banking My Way” service, which will allow customers to request how they want to be served. NatWest reported that through the services, customers may make specific requests which could include requesting a quiet space when… Read More

August 20, 2020 @ 10:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Farmstand, a UK-based plant-powered cloud caterer, has successfully raised its £750,000 equity crowdfunding target through its Seedrs campaign. Founded in 2016, Farmstand stated it is on a mission to feed the world plants. The company wants to reinvent the way people eat in canteens and… Read More

August 20, 2020 @ 9:41 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Offr, a UK-based prop-tech platform digitizing the buying, selling and leasing process for real estate agents and buyers, today announced it has raised £2.7 million through its latest seed funding round, which was led by Barclays with participation from Delta Partners on behalf of Bank… Read More

August 20, 2020 @ 9:03 am By JD Alois  |  

  Crowdcube, the largest crowdfunding platform by volume in the UK that is also active in continental Europe, has announced a secondary offering platform labeled the Direct Community Offer (DCO). According to Crowdcube, the secondary trading platform seeks to “reward early investors with the opportunity… Read More

August 19, 2020 @ 4:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Selina Finance, a UK-based online lender that provides secured home equity loans at competitive rates, announced on Wednesday it has relaunched its business loan proposition by doubling its maximum loan term to 10 years. This news comes less than a month after Selina Finance… Read More

August 19, 2020 @ 2:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Thalamos, a UK-based startup that creates digital enablers for mental health, has successfully secured its initial £250,000 equity crowdfunding target on Seedrs. Founded in 2018, Thalamos stated its mission is to empower health and social care professionals with technology to improve mental health outcomes. “From… Read More

August 19, 2020 @ 8:42 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based property finance platform LendInvest has introduced “Appetite Statements” for landlords seeking a pre-agreed financing offer for future projects. LendInvest explains that an Appetite Statement is a pre-agreed limit of what LendInvest would be willing to lend to the borrower based on defined parameters,… Read More

August 19, 2020 @ 8:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lender Assetz Capital has announced a partnership with Aros Kapital to assist with lending under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS). Assetz Capital was approved for accreditation as a CBILS lender in May. Gustav Rocklinger, CEO at Aros Kapital Limited, stated:… Read More

August 19, 2020 @ 7:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital bank Revolut has launched a new feature called “Group Bills” described as a way to track, split and settle up expenses in a centralised place.  Group Bills seeks to make group expenses easier to manage. Rather than splitting one bill at a time, Group… Read More

August 19, 2020 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The COVID-19 pandemic has “completely disrupted” young Americans’ financial stability, according to an update shared with Crowdfund Insider. The economic uncertainty due to the Coronavirus crisis has forced Millennials (people born around 1980 to 1996) to rethink or re-evaluate their retirement strategies, if they even… Read More

August 18, 2020 @ 6:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based StepChange, a leading debt advice charity, reportedly helps more than 600,000 consumers by offering free-of-cost, “impartial” debt advice every year. The company claims that it sees first hand how talking openly about money management problems can help people, which is why the team at… Read More

August 18, 2020 @ 2:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

CatchApp, a smart productivity software designed to be the one-stop solution for the growing scheduling needs of professionals, SMEs, and Enterprise users, has successfully secured its initial £500,000 equity crowdfunding target on Crowdcube. Founded in 2016, CatchApp was notably created built to be the ultimate… Read More

August 18, 2020 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Fintech and stealth bank Transferwise reveals how Alternative Airlines has reportedly saved more than £75K in just the past 9 months when using the firm’s money transfer services. The TransferWise team notes that Alternative Airlines has been recognized as one of the UK’s leading… Read More

August 18, 2020 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hammock, a neobank that has been introduced specifically for landlords, has acquired £1 million through a seed funding round from Ascension Ventures and Fuel Ventures. The capital raised by Hammock should help the bank with its upcoming launch of its current accounts – which should… Read More