Tagged: wine

April 9, 2015 @ 10:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

2,500 Naked Wines investors have backed relatively unknown French winemaker Jean Marc Astruc – pre-ordering 30,000 bottles of wine to raise over £190,000 in under a week. For 12 years, Jean Marc was the President of his local wine co-operative. But after a tough couple of… Read More

April 6, 2015 @ 5:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last month, London wine bar, Vini Italiani, launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to capture £250,000 with an equity offering of 11.25% so that it can continue expansion to other locations throughout the UK. Vini Italiani’s owners, Matteo Berlucchi and Bruno Cernecca, noted that the UK is one… Read More

April 6, 2015 @ 1:47 am By JD Alois  |  

England’s oldest commercial vineyard, planted in 1952, is using a new form of finance to raise capital.  Hambledon Vineyard, located in Hampshire South Downs, has listed a mini-bond offer on CrowdBnk seeking £2.75 million in new funding.  The “English Fizz Mini Bond” is a 5… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 2:38 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Burgundy winery Domaine Chanzy, which was set to launch what Seedrs CEO Jeff Lynn called “the first crowdfunding campaign for a company’s IPO,” has postponed its campaign on the leading investment crowdfunding portal, according to a recent story on Harpers.co.uk. As Crowdfund Insider reported in February, the… Read More

March 31, 2015 @ 9:29 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Today, GrapeSeed Wine Fund launched as the first company to marry consumers’ desire for choice and exclusivity with winemakers’ passion for creating distinctive, small production wines. Leveraging a crowdfunding model, GrapeSeed enables members, or “Partners,” to pay a subscription fee to fund one-of-a-kind wine projects… Read More

March 30, 2015 @ 9:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, New Zealand-based Invivo Wines announced the excited news that it has raised over $2 million NZD through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Snowball Effect. The wine startup’s campaign launched and almost immediately jumped to $1 million (doubling its initial $500,000 goal). Now, Invivo’s… Read More

March 23, 2015 @ 11:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Just last week we were writing about the impressive crowdfunding success of Invivo, a winery raising capital on Snowball Effect. The campaign launched and almost immediately jumped to $1 million NZD. Now a few days later and Invivo is nearing its $2 million top limit… Read More

March 17, 2015 @ 10:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

That was fast.  No sooner had I received the notice that Invivo Wines was doing an equity crowdfunding round on Snowball Effect than it crushed its $500,000 NZD target.  As of this moment, Invivo is nearing over $1 million NZD as 170 226 investors pitched in to purchase… Read More

March 12, 2015 @ 12:14 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Luxury wine brand Yao Family Wines, founded and owned (25%)  by  retired Houston Rockets basketball star and  humanitarian Yao Ming, has raised over $2,020,000  toward its  $3 million crowdfunding goal on Crowdfunder.  Pre-money valued at $15M, Yao Family Wines develops, produces, markets and sells Napa Valley wine brands in… Read More

March 5, 2015 @ 3:32 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

If the Chinese characters on your bottle of very fine wine recall bygone basketball games, here’s to Yao Ming. Luxury wine brand Yao Family Wines, founded by Yao Ming, retired basketball star with the Houston Rockets and a global humanitarian, is now crowdfunding on Crowdfunder, with a $3 million goal…. Read More

February 2, 2015 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

  Leading investment crowdfunding portal Seedrs is claiming another “first”.  In a note to followers, CEO and co-founder Jeff Lynn stated; “I’m pleased to share that today Seedrs is launching the first-ever crowdfunding campaign for a company’s IPO.” It should be noted that SyndicateRoom claimed the… Read More

January 23, 2015 @ 1:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Vinoa, a London-based wine subscription company, recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £450,000 so it may scale the business throughout the UK. Vinoa reportedly offers its subscribers a monthly sample box of great wines that are delivered via mail. Customers are also able… Read More

October 22, 2014 @ 9:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to expand their already successful business, founders of Manchester’s Italian wine café Veeno, Nino Caruso and Andrea Zecchino, have launched a new equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £210,000 to create ten new locations. According to the campaign’s website, Veeno is an Italian… Read More

September 23, 2014 @ 8:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Chapel Down Group plc, a publicly traded company [EPIC:CDGP], has updated their new share subscription to reflect the success of their equity crowdfunding offer on Seedrs.  In a public filing  Chapel Down stated they had raised an additional £0.57 million via the subscription of 2,035,714… Read More

September 15, 2014 @ 7:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Chapel Down, the first publicly traded company to raise capital via equity crowdfunding, has filed a brief announcing an additional share placement in the amount of £0.44 million.  This additional amount was in conduction with the placing of over 1.5 million ordinary shares, at 28… Read More

September 11, 2014 @ 7:12 am By JD Alois  |  

NakedWines, the wine crowdfunding platform, recently had a rough go of things with the earthquake in Northern California.  Their Napa tasting lounge got hammered by the quake breaking bottles and making wine lovers rather sad. On a Facebook posting things appeared to be taking a… Read More

September 8, 2014 @ 8:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Offering up a new way for wineries and vineyards to get funding, Paris-based crowdfunding platform Fundovino launched last month and is on a mission to help not only wine makers, but also wine tourism, culture and art get backers easily and quickly. Fundovino, which dubbed… Read More

September 8, 2014 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity Crowdfunding Now on Seedrs Company is Seeking to Raise Over £1.67 Million Chapel Down, “the market leader in English wines”, has announced an equity crowdfunding initiative to raise £1 million.  The company stated they had raised £0.67 million and were seeking a minimum of… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 6:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

NakedWines.com, a crowdfunding platform that removes the middleman between winemakers and wine drinkers, has rolled out a same-day delivery service for wine orders from San Francisco. Wine enthusiasts who submit orders by 1 p.m. Monday through Friday can have their cases delivered the same day, making that evening’s… Read More

May 2, 2014 @ 4:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Looking to start his very own wine business, former Kendall Jackson winemarker Scott Peterson raised more than $1 million through his crowdfunding campaign on NakeWines.com. According a recent release, Mr. Peterson worked two and a half years for the California winery, which is one of… Read More