Crowd funding enables businesses to raise money by selling shares to the public, usually via an online platform. Investors can put in very small sums and normally benefit from tax incentives such as the Enterprise Investment Scheme and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme. In some cases businesses selling shares can control the size and pricing of the offer.
Crowd Funding
Short Description: Bnk To The Future is a global online investment platform that allows qualifying investors to invest in financial innovation including FinTech (Financial Technology) companies, funds and other new alternative financial products.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Amanda Boyle created Bloom in 2010, when she spotted an imminent funding gap for startups, early stage businesses, communities, art and culture... in fact, anything that needs the smallest amount of cash to get going. The idea is simple, harness the power of the crowd (that’s you, me and everyone around us) and, in return for financial contributions – no matter how small - claim a reward from project owners.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Buzzbnk is an on-line crowd-funding platform bringing social ventures looking for start-up or growth capital together with like-minded people keen to participate in a new way of funding social change. Social enterprises or charities can raise funding for a wide range of projects in a variety of ways, from offering fun and engaging benefits, in return for goods or services, or as a loan.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: CircleUp helps consumer entrepreneurs and investors do what they do, better.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: CoFunder comes from the same, experienced team behind SeedUps, an innovator in the emergent crowdfunding market. This platform will be aimed at quality, growth based companies who are already established and looking to expand and create jobs but who lack the necessary working capital to do so.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: The Crowdahouse® Team have a combined 80 years of experience of property investment and financial products, including insurance and risk profiling. We source projects from within the property industry and apply our knowledge and contacts to ensure that each project represents an opportunity that we feel happy to propose to our Members. We aim for full transparency, including disclosing any conflicts of interest that may apply, to give you the best possible tools to make sure you are fully aware of and understand all the risks before lending to any project. Unlike crowdfunding equity to invest in businesses, property, especially residential, is essentially an extremely broad and open market with free tools available to anyone in order to carry out due diligence. Comparable information is available from many sources and we use the same Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) valuers that all banks and lending institutions use in order to value each property being offered for lending.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: CrowdBnk is an investment crowdfunding platform that allows you to invest in UK businesses through equity and debt.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Crowdcube is the world’s leading investment crowdfunding platform. We enable anyone to invest alongside professional investors in start-up, early stage and growth businesses through equity, debt and investment fund options. Join the 125,000-strong crowd looking for more interesting investments - it’s free, quick and has no obligations.
Type: Equity
Year Established: 2011
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Crowd for Angels is the first regulated crowdfunding platform for equity and debt funding. We cater for both Private and Public companies.
Type: Equity
Year Established: 2012
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: CrowdFundMe2 offer extensive corporate finance, marketing and social media experience to gain professional access to crowdfunding for business finance and equity. We understand how to craft genuine differentiating stories to build effective pre-crowd interest and engagement before building, launching and managing highly effective and novel crowdfunding campaigns.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Energy Donwell is the place where you can raise money for a community energy project or invest in one from as little as £5.00. We are a crowd funding platform which enables individuals or groups to help the environment, build sustainable communities with the benefit of a financial reward.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: We’ve built the largest business crowdfunding platform dedicated exclusively to helping companies raise capital.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Funding Tree is the first fully regulated crowdfunding platform in the UK able to raise both loans and equity for businesses that require finance today. It is directly authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and is the only crowdfunding platform that remains with you for the life of your business.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: We are serial gambling entrepreneurs who know just how hard it is to raise funds for a start-up.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Specialists in corporate and asset finance, Global Asset Finance Limited is a progressive, innovative and experienced company providing expertise within the commercial finance industry.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Raise money easily to start your own business, or to improve your existing establishment. Once your fundraising campaign begins receiving online donations, you can easily request a withdrawal at any time. Don't worry, withdrawing money does not affect the progress meter that's displayed on your GoFundMe campaign.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Creating a fundraiser for your business or startup is a great way to quickly generate income when it’s most needed.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Growthdeck is a new equity investment platform that helps people invest in quality UK companies the right way. We are focused on providing robust, tax-efficient investment opportunities across a wide range of growth industries – all via the most thorough and transparent platform in the UK.
Type: Equity
Year Established: 2015
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: GrowthFunders is the first platform introduced by GrowthCapitalVentures. As an online equity-based crowdfunding and co-investment platform, we match entrepreneurs, who have great ideas and potential, with investors who are looking to build strong investment portfolios. We also have professional partners who work alongside entrepreneurs to ensure that their businesses are investor-ready.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: After you have read this ‘how it works section’ and are interested in viewing potential investments, then you need to become first a registered user where you can further review the full terms and conditions to which you must agree before becoming an investor member. Investor Membership is open to all U.K. residents over the age of 18, who can certify that they are either High Net Worth Individuals or Sophisticated Investors. The name Ice Dragons (“ID”) originates from the desire to build an on-line Innovation Centre of Excellence, getting members of the Crowd (you, the Dragons) to fund entrepreneurs across the U.K.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Indiegogo is a way for people all over the world to join forces to make ideas happen. Since 2008, millions of contributors have empowered hundreds of thousands of inventors, musicians, do-gooders, filmmakers—and other game-changers—to bring big dreams to life.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Invesdor is a licenced Helsinki-based fintech company that runs a pan-European debt and equity crowdfunding service. We are the first EEA regulated crowdfunding company in Europe. UK FCA reference number 697683.
Type: Equity
Year Established: 2012
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: InvestingZone is the leading equity crowdfunding platform. Our free platform enables investors to discover high-potential early stage companies and buy shares in them, alongside established institutions and our ever-growing crowd of experienced private investors on the same terms.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Microgenius was founded by entrepreneur, Emily Mackay, in 2011 when she realised that finding opportunities to invest in community-based renewable energy projects was very difficult. It was the first ever national platform for community share offers to be easily found by investors like Emily, and it started supporting community shares projects in 2012.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Nigel Roth, the founder of Patronomy.com is a veteran of the computer industry, having joined Burroughs in 1974 with a Bachelors degree in Management Sciences from Manchester University. He was responsible for the design and development of Burroughs Financial Systems Architecture released worldwide in 1987. Since 1988 he has started and run a number of successful businesses including distribution, sales, marketing, property development and sales and online B2B. The focus at Patronomy is on reaching the audience and improving the success rate. Professional mentoring combined with network and affiliate marketing can take campaigns out to the crowd cost effectively through the Planning and Preparation stages. Post campaign support in sourcing, manufacturing, sales and logistics improves Performance and Perception.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: We are democratizing property investment. Property Moose was founded in 2013 by Andrew Gardiner.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: We let all types of investors invest in businesses they believe in and share in their success. We let all types of growth-focused businesses raise capital and business community in the process. We do all of this through a simple, highly professional, online process that protects and empowers investors while helping businesses grow and generate returns. We are equity crowdfunding done properly.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Equity crowdfunding for technology startups.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Crowdfunding From Your Website. A ShareIn Microsite enables you to raise funds from your website.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: HOW WILL CROWDFUNDING WORK IN PRACTICE THROUGH SQUAREKNOT? A business that requires funding should prepare a comprehensive business plan that will detail its background, its key objectives, its plan for achieving those objectives, and the level and type of funding that is being sought. The aim of the business plan is to attract investors and raise the required amount of funding for the business. It will therefore need to be informative, understandable and present a credible investment opportunity. For equity funding, the pitch will state the percentage of the company’s total equity that is being offered in return for the target amount of investment. The business plan should demonstrate projected yields through dividend payments to investors, based on realistically achievable profit targets. A detailed exit plan for equity investors will also make the business a more attractive investment opportunity, as the lack of marketability of shares in private limited companies can often significantly devalue any investment. For debt funding, the pitch will state the business owner’s target interest rate. The key element of the business plan will be cash flow projections that show the capacity of the business to make interest and debt principal repayments to investors within the agreed timescales. A sensitivity analysis that highlights various ‘what if’ scenarios, and their impact on the ability of the business to service its debts, will also help investors analyse the level of risk involved in making the investment. Normally, the lower the perceived risk is to investors then the lower the interest rate terms that will be offered. Once completed to the required standard, the business plan will be presented on the Squareknot website, and will then be available for our database of potential investors to review and pledge a level of investment. Investments cumulate until the pitch funding target is reached.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
Short Description: Trillion Fund was founded in 2011 by Dr. Michael Stein and Phillip Riches to open up opportunities to profit from clean energy to everyone, through crowdfunding. They had a big ambition: to help drive forward the $1 trillion of annual global investment required to reach the scale of clean energy generation needed to prevent further global warming - and to give people good returns on their investment into the bargain. The website began operating in Spring 2012 and became an appointed representative of Abundance Generation in January 2013, bringing the site under Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulation. Trillion launched an affiliate marketing platform for renewable energy projects seeking to raise money from the crowd in June 2013. It won interim permissions to operate as a peer-to-peer lending platform in March 2014 and began offering loans directly in June 2014, giving potential investors a range of options, from peer-to-peer loans, to traditional funds, to community share raises. It completed a merger with Buzzbnk, the crowdfunding platform for social businesses and projects, in November 2014. Trillion is privately-owned. Vivienne Westwood, the fashion designer and environmentalist, became a majority stakeholder in March 2013, while Albion , the creative design and marketing agency, took a stake in April 2014. The site has nearly 7,000 members.
Type: Equity
Equity Category: Crowd Funding
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