UK Crowdfunding Year in Review
The 15 biggest crowdfunding projects in the UK for 2015 included: ToxiMet (food safety) raising £1,596,040; Pod Point (electric car charging) £1,677,620; Diabetic Boot Company: £1,764,493; Pavegen...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Site Defends Its Diligence Process
In 2015, UK company Rebus raised “£816,790 via crowdfunding platform Crowdcube last year to fund an expansion that aimed to deliver investor returns of up to 10 times within three years,” per the...
View ArticleFunding Portal’s Diligence Questioned
Under new Regulation Crowdfunding, a funding portal is required to deny access to its website if it has a “reasonable basis for believing that the issuer or the offering present the potential for...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Portal Raises £8 Million
Walking the walk…United Kingdom crowdfunding web portal CrowdCube has raised over GBP8 Million from 3,700 crowd investors, including venture capital firm Balderton Capital, more than 2X the previous...
View ArticleValuation A Concern In Crowdfunding
Ms. Sam Smith, CEO of finnCap, a United Kingdom stockbroker, likes crowdfunding but is concerned that companies are being over valued, putting early investors at risk of losing value to later, more...
View ArticleIs Crowdfunding Worth It?
Now that crowdfunding has become an international institution, folks are starting to focus on results from crowdfunded companies. Is crowdfunding a worthwhile investment or a waste? AltFi issued their...
View ArticleUK Crowdfunding Outperforms Private Equity
United Kingdom research company Beauhurst reports that crowdfunding outperformed private equity in 2016 with investment into non-listed high growth companies in the UK. While venture capitalists...
View ArticleInstitutional Investors Trending In Crowdfunding Campaigns
The newest trend in crowdfunding appears to be the more aggressive participation of institutional investors swooping in to take large pieces of campaigns. The United Kingdom’s leading equity...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Critic Claims Industry Too Immature For Investors
Crowdfunding’s biggest critic in the United Kingdom is Rob Murray-Brown who blogs about the problems in the “industry.” Recently interviewed, RMB says that the problem is that investors get locked in...
View ArticleEquity Crowdfunding Is A Good Business
The United Kingdom’s equity crowdfunding site Seedrs received a vote of confidence as Woodford Investment Management invested another £4 million bringing its total to £10 million. Helping people raise...
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