Tagged: united kingdom

January 23, 2014 @ 4:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Worth Foundation has partnered with equity crowdfunding site Seedrs to create a fund to invest the United Kingdom’s best young retail / e-commerce business.  The project was created in partnership with Metro Newspapers.  The investment sought was £200,000 but that was not quite enough as… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 8:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Earwig Academic Raises 128% of Goal at £180,000. Investors quickly backed Earwig software raising equity on the Crowdcube platform. The company had set a goal of raising £140,o00 but 71 investors have participated to push that amount higher.  This represented an 18% stake in the… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 8:19 am By JD Alois  |  

PSonar closed fully crowdfunded on SyndicateRoom having raised just over £200,000 representing 9.16% equity in the small company.  The “pay as you play” service is looking to compete with other well known music streaming services such as Spotify, Deezer and Rdio.  A cloud based service,… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 3:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hybrid Crowdfunding Campaign Easily Hits Crowdfunding Goal. The UK’s fastest growing craft beer club, Beer52, has raised £100k from the crowd to grow their online community to 10,000 members in 2014.  The Edinburgh-based startup launched on the Angels Den crowdfunding platform in December 2013 and… Read More

January 19, 2014 @ 10:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Smarta, an advice and networking service in the United Kingdom that targets anyone starting or operating a small business has created an interesting info graphic on job creation in the UK.  As they say people start a business for “freedom, money and creativity”.  Well in… Read More

January 19, 2014 @ 4:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrowdBox TV is a multi-platform service, the concept gives entrepreneurs a chance to promote themselves and their crowdfunding projects across web, mobile and television. There will be a weekly campaign video pitch on Sky Broadcast. Today’s 30-minute show is the first in a monthly series… Read More

January 18, 2014 @ 8:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Posted on Friday via the Crowdcube Twitter account, the UK equity crowdfunding platform ended the week on a high note sharing that £372,000 (Over $600,000) had been invested in businesses listed in their platform in just two days.  While two days do not make a… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 11:12 am By JD Alois  |  

From Seedrs official Twitter account the equity platform shared some exiting information regarding site momentum.  The platform has captured 86 investments for a total of £138,200 during the past day.  Average amount invested stands at £1,611.63.   Over the past day @Seedrs has had 86… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity Crowdfunding Offer Set to Close Sunday.  Pay-as-you-play streaming music service PSonar is raising capital on SyndicateRoom. The equity crowdfunding offering is looking to raise £200,000 for 9.16% equity in the small company.  The offer is nearly complete and has already captured over £180,000 from… Read More

January 16, 2014 @ 9:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Health and technology equity crowdfunding platform ShareIn, launched in Beta this past December.  In a brief report to supporters ShareIn communicated they had received £96,000 of pledges during their first month of operations and have experienced 6000 site visitors.  The portal currently has 5 equity… Read More

January 15, 2014 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

In a note to followers, founder Karen Darby shared a brief update on the progress of CrowdMission,  “the world’s first equity-based crowdfunding platform for social and environmental businesses”.   Her mantra is that businesses can do social good while turning a profit. Equity investment and ethics can… Read More

January 14, 2014 @ 11:09 am By JD Alois  |  

CEO of Assetz Capital Peer-to-Peer Crowdfunding Platform Expects Their Platform to Hit £100 Million in 2014. The alternative finance industry has now lent more than £1bn to UK businesses and individuals, according to the Liberium AltFi Index. The latest batch of research shows that Peer-to-Peer… Read More

January 14, 2014 @ 11:01 am By JD Alois  |  

In a report filed earlier this week from the Liberum AltFi Index, the crowdfunding industry including both debt and equity, has surpassed the £1 billion “milestone”.  The alternative finance sector categorized as P2P,  equity crowdfunding and invoice lending was quoted at £,028,340,769 as of December… Read More

January 9, 2014 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Social network for gaming gamesGRABR  has successfully closed its crowdfunding campaign, quickly achieving its £150,000 target and ending with nearly 20% of over funding. Investment in the growing gaming social network proved popular with the target amount being achieved in just 5 weeks. All 178 investors now… Read More

January 8, 2014 @ 10:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding innovator BrewDog was recently interviewed on BBC about their “Equity for Punks” campaign.  The brief recording is interesting in the fact that co-founder James Watt adroitly explains the challenge.  They could not find money to grow their business. Necessity being the mother of… Read More

January 8, 2014 @ 7:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Privately owned Great British Banjo Company, based in Norwich, Norfolk, UK, which crowdfunded on Kickstarter last year has announced their successful crowdfunding campaign has led to the creation of several new jobs.  The company claims to be the “first affordable banjo to be manufactured in Britain… Read More

January 7, 2014 @ 2:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, a leading equity crowdfunding site, has announced their awards for 2013.  As one could imagine the competition was challenging as so many cool startups were crowdfunded on the UK based platform during 2013.  There  was one recognition chosen by visitors to the site:  “The… Read More

January 6, 2014 @ 11:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, a UK based equity crowdfunding platform leader, closed 2013 having raised £12.2 million on their portal for 54 UK based business.  According to co-founder Luke  Lang, this represents an over 500% growth versus 2012. The fast growing company, which boasts over 55,000 registered investors,… Read More

January 3, 2014 @ 11:09 am By JD Alois  |  

The London Distillery Company (TLDC), a boutique artisanal spirits manufacturer, offered up 45% equity in their company for £250,000 on Crowdcube in March 2012.   Recently the company, founded by CEO Darren Rook, was featured on CNN Money as TLDC brings back the art of whisky… Read More

January 3, 2014 @ 9:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer-to-Peer commercial property lender Relendex is going after a third round of funding and they are crowdfunding now on Angels Den.  Relendex has already raised £1.6 Million in equity and management is looking to raise another £150,000.  The Relendex team states they have built their… Read More