Tagged: united kingdom

September 6, 2014 @ 4:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Nesta, an “innovation charity” that also produces some pretty interesting research reports, recently published a document addressing the UK collaborative economy.  Of course the document encompasses a good part of crowdfunding because crowdfunding is all about collaboration.  Nesta publishes some pretty solid data and perspective…. Read More

September 5, 2014 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

The Investment  and Wealth Management Awards are looking for votes. The annual event seeks to acknowledge leaders in the UK finance industry.  The initiative is organized by the FT and Investors Chronical.  They are looking to identify the very best in Brokers, Managers, Forex providers… Read More

September 5, 2014 @ 10:16 am By JD Alois  |  

GamCrowd, the UK-based equity crowdfunding platform for the gaming industry, has announced that it has closed its initial equity crowdfunding round after successfully ‘self-funding’ on its own platform, GamCrowd.com. The company overfunded by 15% and CEO Chris North is pleased to have successfully completed the… Read More

September 3, 2014 @ 2:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Vote for Policies, an innovative online voter support service, has crowdfunded £23,551 on Crowdfunder to pay for a state-of-the-art new website to help the British public decide who to vote for in the 2015 UK general election. Initially launched shortly before the 2010 UK general election… Read More

September 3, 2014 @ 11:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Famed fashion designer and environment advocate Vivienne Westwood has invested £1 million into renewable energy crowdfunding platform Trillion Fund.  According to reports she will not only be a significant investor in the site but an “active ambassador” for the company. As reported in the Telegraph,… Read More

September 2, 2014 @ 3:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Phundee has publicly announced the launch of their hybrid crowdfunding platform.  The site has a mission to help fund creative arts, film and the entertainment business with a rewards and equity platform.  While the rewards portion is operational now the site still  shows “coming soon”… Read More

September 2, 2014 @ 2:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Making P2P a successful part of your investment portfolio The UK alternative finance market grew by 91 per cent from £492 million in 2012 to £939 million in 2013 and is predicted to grow to £1.6 billion in 2014. The peer to peer finance industry… Read More

September 2, 2014 @ 2:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

SyndicateRoom, an equity crowdfunding platform that pairs professional Angel investors with retail investors to raise equity for startups and small companies has announced they have topped £10 million in total funding raised.  The funding via their platform has been for 18 different UK based businesses…. Read More

September 2, 2014 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Fuel 3D Scanner found crowdfunding success on global platform Kickstarter.  In September of 2013, Fuel 3D raised over $325,000 for its handheld scanner device.  Fuel 3D went on to raise additional funding in an early stage round led by London based Chimera Partners.  Ben Gill… Read More

September 1, 2014 @ 2:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Financial research group Beauhurst, a company that has been tracking the boom in UK equity investments has noted that the credit crunch of past is no longer holding back growing companies. To quote the company, growth companies are seeing a “massive surge in popularity among investors… Read More

September 1, 2014 @ 10:02 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based fitness startup 1Rebel has successfully raised £1,559,370 on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube.  The offer was launched this past July and quickly jumped towards their final goal.  A single investor contributed £575,000 in the funding round giving it a substantial boost. The round closed… Read More

September 1, 2014 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

As we reported last week, Growth Capital Ventures was planning to raise capital via an equity crowdfunding campaign on their own platform “GrowthFunder”.  Well the pitch went live and pretty much immediately funded transitioning into over-funding mode.  The initial target was to raise £150,000 but… Read More

September 1, 2014 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

For UK readers this video by Ed Bowsher from MoneyWeek gives a quick overview of investing in startups and SMEs via crowdfunding.  This is a good primer for anyone interested in investment crowdfunding. Ed touches on reward based, debt based and equity crowdfunding.  He admits… Read More

September 1, 2014 @ 3:01 am By JD Alois  |  

“The Big App 2014” pan-European competition is run by Worth Capital in partnership with Facebook. European equity crowdfunding platform Seedrstoday opens investment into Worth Capital’s ‘Big App Fund’, which will invest in up to four winners of a pan-European competition, supported by Facebook, to find… Read More

August 31, 2014 @ 3:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube is now accepting applicants for its accelerator program.  The program is looking for companies that expect to raise capital in the next few months.  Selected companies will get assistance in prepping their business to become investment ready – and of course… Read More

August 30, 2014 @ 2:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

European equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs received a nice accolade from Design Good.  The digital community has designated Seedrs as one of the Top 9 Places in the World to Raise Investment Capital. Design Good is an online community of people, brands and groups using creativity… Read More

August 29, 2014 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

RateSetter CEO and founder Rhydian Lewis recently posted his views on the status of London in the emerging world of financial innovation.  RateSetter is one of the fastest growing P2P platforms in the UK and is expanding into Australia. First it must be acknowledged that… Read More

August 28, 2014 @ 4:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

North East UK company Growth Capital Ventures announced the upcoming launch of its crowdfunding campaign on its own platform GrowthFunders to raise £150,000 to continue to build and introduce new features on its already existing website. Growth Capital Ventures launched the equity crowdfunding and co-investment… Read More

August 28, 2014 @ 7:44 am By JD Alois  |  

The Bank of England has released data on the UK Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS), a governmental program created to boost lending. According to the report on 2014 Q2 data, “net lending by FLS Extension participants to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) was slightly negative… Read More

August 28, 2014 @ 7:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Odyssey Airlines, a UK based airlines that will offer business class only, transatlantic flights, has passed the £1 million mark crowdfunding on Crowdcube.  This represents 104% of their targeted raise on Crowdcube.  As of today the amount stood at £1,049,230 for over 5% equity in… Read More