Tagged: united kingdom

December 26, 2016 @ 9:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than one month after launching its mini bond on Crowdcube, BrewDog has successfully secured £10 million from 2,756 investors. The brewery has since closed the campaign.  BrewDog has raised more than $30 million in its ongoing crowdfunding offers in the UK, called Equity For Punks. The… Read More

December 23, 2016 @ 4:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online marketplace All By Mama announced on Thursday it has decided to extend its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The campaign was launched last month, seeking £75,000 and so far it has attracted more than £72,000 from nearly 175 investors. As previously reported, All By Mama launched 2014… Read More

December 23, 2016 @ 2:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fintech platform for digital media companies, BillFront, recently announced it raised $35 million during a Series A Funding round. Investors who participated in the funding round included 4Finance, NIBC Bank, and FinLeap. BillFront, which was founded in 2015 and based in London, describes itself as… Read More

December 23, 2016 @ 1:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fintech firm Nutmeg is raising money fast. Last month (November), Nutmeg announced it had closed on £30 million Series C led by Convoy Global Holdings in Hong Kong. This week Nutmeg has revealed an additional cash injection of £12 million – this time Taipei Fubon Bank… Read More

December 23, 2016 @ 8:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than one year after raising £398,390 on Seedrs, London-based Oppo Ice Cream has returned to the equity crowdfunding platform. The company’s latest initiative has already secured its initial target of £150,000 and is now nearing £225,000 thanks to more than 200 investors. The luxury… Read More

December 22, 2016 @ 3:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

School Notices, a UK-based parent to parent noticeboard and school fundraising platform, has recently launched a campaign on equity crowdfunding Crowdcube. The website is looking to raise £700,000 and so far has already raised more than £620,000 from over 50 investors. The digital fundraising and membership… Read More

December 21, 2016 @ 10:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Zopa announced on Tuesday it was named a winner at both the AltFi Awards and F5 Awards. The peer-to-peer lender revealed it took home a number of prizes at AltFi and was dubbed Best P2P Lending Platform at the F5 awards. Sharing more details about the AltFi… Read More

December 21, 2016 @ 6:41 am By JD Alois  |  

  RateSetter, a leading UK peer to peer lending platform, has completed the sale of £2.1 million of non-performing debt. RateSetter sold the assets t 1st Credit, a debt purchaser.  Exact terms of the transaction were not revealed but RateSetter said it was the first… Read More

December 20, 2016 @ 4:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate launched its own self-running crowdfunding campaign to sue former Ukip leader Nigel Farage after he reportedly referred the organization as an extremist group that “masquerade as being lovely and peaceful but actually pursue violent and very undemocratic means” while… Read More

December 20, 2016 @ 2:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Evarae, a London-based luxury resortwear brand, is currently seeking £175,000 in expansion funds through its new equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs and is offering 11.00% in equity. The company, which was founded in 2015, is making preparation to launch in Spring/Summer 2017 and is a creation of Georgia Thompson,… Read More

December 20, 2016 @ 1:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Surrey Cook, the company behind the “Just Add Wine” product, recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube with a mission to raise £87,000 in expansion costs. Founded just one year ago, The Surrey Cook’s Just Add Wine product helps create a new way cooks… Read More

December 20, 2016 @ 1:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Online lender for short-term property finance LendInvest, will launch a new auction finance product to help brokers and borrowers prepare for the forthcoming 2017 auctions. The auction finance product is designed for borrowers that need their deals to be fast-tracked by their lender. Matthew Tooth,… Read More

December 20, 2016 @ 11:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few weeks after launching its mini bond on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, BrewDog has successfully secured nearly £6 million from more than 1850 investors. The brewery company originally sought to raise £500,000 (with a max of 10 million). As previously reported, BrewDog was founded… Read More

December 19, 2016 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Assetz Capital is reporting that it has lent approximately £105 million in 2016.   The peer to peer lender is not claiming the title of the UK’s 3rd largest P2P lender for SMEs. Founded in 2013, Assetz Capital says it is now the UK’s fastest… Read More

December 18, 2016 @ 12:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Growth Street announced last week it would now accept individual retail investors on its peer to peer lending platform. They may do this now as they are an FCA registered Appointed Representative pursuant to a partnership with another firm.  Growth Street, which was founded in 2013 by Sherwin-Smith… Read More

December 16, 2016 @ 5:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

OFF3R, an alternative investment aggregator in the UK, has put together an interesting list of the top investment crowdfunding campaigns for 2017. We have replicated the OFF3R list below (with a few adjustments). Several of these companies have raised capital crowdfunding several times. Landbay has… Read More

December 16, 2016 @ 9:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Maven Capital Partners,  a UK-based venture capital trusts (VCT) and private equity firm, announced on Friday the Maven Income and Growth VCT 6 has launched a new VCT Offer, which is limited to £6m in new subscriptions.  Maven VCTs have reportedly launched a series of successful VCT fundraisings in… Read More

December 15, 2016 @ 7:03 am By JD Alois  |  

The Money Platform has launched in the UK.  The Money Platform is a peer to peer lender that targets short term credit of 3 to 12 weeks. After participating in the FCA’s Project Innovate incubator program, the Money Platform received the FCA’s full consumer credit… Read More

December 14, 2016 @ 4:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Troubadour Goods, a London-based menswear fashion brand, is nearing its £500,000 crowdfunding campaign funding target on Seedrs. The company launched the initiative earlier this month and so far has secured more than £480,000 from nearly 80 investors. As previously reported, the brand was founded by Samuel Bail… Read More

December 14, 2016 @ 4:30 pm By Barry James  |  

The time has come for crowdfunding to mature – or die, and be reabsorbed by the body politic (or should that be that body corporate). You don’t hear people talk about “the democratisation of finance” much any more. Why is that? We’ve seen growing pains… Read More