Tagged: united kingdom

August 11, 2014 @ 9:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Announced just this past week, Innovate Finance is a new industry body for the fast grow tin UK FinTech industry. The representative group was backed by over 50 financial industry participants including big names in the crowdfunding industry such as Crowdcube & SyndicateRoom.  Peer to… Read More

August 11, 2014 @ 8:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Devon-based tech start-up, Powered Now has successfully concluded its investment pitch on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. Initially aiming to raise £350,000 from the crowd, Powered Now smashed its original target, overfunding by 167% to secure £585,580 within five weeks of listing. Powered Now is a… Read More

August 9, 2014 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

The United Kingdom has focused great attention and energy on encouraging an economic environment of innovation and entrepreneurial growth.  While actions always speak louder than words from a US perspective, we sometimes look with envy at what is occurring the UK and not happening in… Read More

August 6, 2014 @ 10:48 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published their much anticipated guidance consultation on usage of social media by the financial industry.  Specifically in regards to promotion of services and offerings.  The publication is open for comments by interested parties until November 6, 2014.  The regulatory… Read More

August 6, 2014 @ 3:22 am By JD Alois  |  

 Let’s Own The News’ is a crowdfunding campaign that has been launch to purchase The Times and The Sunday Times from media baron Rupert Murdoch.  The initiative is being supported by The Young Foundation,  a group that seeks to “harness the power of social innovation to tackle the root causes… Read More

August 2, 2014 @ 12:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a note posted on the UK Business Angels Association, it was shared that Angels Den has successfully funded 29 businesses for all of 2014.  The UKBAA also highlighted two of the funding platform’s recent successes:  MuscleGenes, the world’s fastest growing fitness genetic testing company,… Read More

July 31, 2014 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

France based Mangopay, a payments solution that accommodates crowdfunding platforms, online marketplaces and collaborative consumption platforms, has announced a relationship with UK Based Currency Cloud in an effort to offer its customers fast and secure money transfers.  Mangopay has positioned their service as a global… Read More

July 31, 2014 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs has shared to users they have turned a profit for the month of July.  This is the first announcement from any of the UK based equity crowdfunding platforms to make such an announcement.  The company was launched in May of 2012… Read More

July 31, 2014 @ 9:04 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based arts charity IdeasTap has launched “ACCELERATOR”, a commission-free crowdfunding platform for creative projects. Philanthropist Peter De Haan who apparently has personally donated more than £20 million to charitable causes came up with the concept for Accelerator. In 2008, De Haan founded arts charity… Read More

July 30, 2014 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Simon West is Equity Crowdfunding £1.8 Million for Action Comedy Film Salty. Announced today, British born Simon West is raising capital for his next film on equity crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom.  British investors will have the opportunity to help fund the project with minimum investments starting… Read More

July 30, 2014 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based site will initially focus on businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and South-East Asia. New investment crowdfunding platform Emerging Crowd has announced the forthcoming launch of its UK-based equity platform aimed at unlocking the huge growth potential of strong, well-managed companies in emerging… Read More

July 29, 2014 @ 2:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Over a third of the UK didn’t vote in the last general election, for young people it was over a half. Worse still, almost two-thirds didn’t vote in the recent European elections.London-based online voting support service, Vote for Policies, is crowdfunding to change these stats. Vote… Read More

July 28, 2014 @ 8:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Former CEO of Internet Bank First Direct Sees Huge Potential in P2P Lending UK based RateSetter has announced that Alan Hughes will become the company’s first Non-Executive Chairman.  RateSetter views the appointment as another milestone for RateSetter and is indicative of the growing economic clout… Read More

July 27, 2014 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Peer to Peer Finance Association (P2PFA) in the UK have just published the data for the first 6 months of 2014 showing impressive growth in the P2P lending industry.  The rate of flow of funds through p2p platforms has doubled over the last 6… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 6:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Green Dragon House P2P Loan Facilitates 120 New Flats. UK based peer to peer lending LendInvest has stated that its world record breaking P2P loan has now been repaid.  The £4.1 million loan on a commercial building in Croydon was noted as one of the… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 5:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding has become a serious source of capital to kick-start new ventures. It is also proving to be a powerful method to quickly raise capital for renewable energy projects worldwide, be it based on a steady ROI for a multitude of investors or a community… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Nicola Horlick is a well known name in the halls of finance in the United Kingdom.  Nicola captured the title of City “Superwoman” as she balanced on the high wire act of an elite career in finance while simultaneously raising six children. After starting at… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube offered shares in their own company this past week and quickly (as in don’t blink) raised £1.2 million.  While I am not certain if they expected to raise funds at lightening speed – I was certainly impressed with the velocity in which investors rushed… Read More

July 23, 2014 @ 11:09 am By JD Alois  |  

The below infographic is from the creative crew at Funding Circle (in the UK).  Funding Circle is one of the leaders in the peer to peer (P2P) lending space.  The platform just announced a pretty huge investment to juice their global expansion.  Founded in the… Read More

July 23, 2014 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

FarmDrop launched their equity crowdfunding project just a few weeks back but the online farmers market has not had any problems finding investors.  Raising capital on Crowdcube, FarmDrop was hoping to raise £400,000 for 17% equity in the young company.  FarmDrop has quickly passed that… Read More