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1st July 2022
Anatomy of a crowdfunding investor: Part 1
More and more people are turning their hand to crowdfunding these days. Some do it for fun, some see it as an important part of their overall investment portfolio and others see it as a good way to access earlier stage, potentially high growth investments, by investing through platforms who provide access to a range of diversified opportunities with high potential for scale. These opportunities were once only available to Venture Capitalists and High Net Worth Investors, but now are open to all with minimum investments as low as £10. We talked to 5 serial crowdfunding investors to find out more about their different investment strategies, their experiences in the world of crowdfunding, their successes (and disappointments!) and their views on what comes next for the sector....
1st July 2022
Torsion raises £1.1m to expand data access governance software
Data Access Governance software firm Torsion Information Security has closed a £1.1 million funding round co-led by Bayes Entrepreneurship Fund, Juno Capital and The FSE Group, alongside investors from several prestigious Cambridge angel networks....
1st July 2022
BBI backs SFC Capital with extra £5m to invest in regional start ups
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Invest in the future of British design and manufacturing
11th May 2022
The British Design Fund, which is dedicated to supporting, mentoring and investing exclusive...
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12th April 2022
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15th March 2022
WAPG is seeking £3 million - £6 million for its Pionee...
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Ingenion Medical seeks £2 million
8th March 2022
Ingenion Medical Limited is seeking investment of up to £2 million to support its ongo...
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6th May 2022
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SFC Capital calls for reform to outdated aspects of SEIS
29th April 2022
SFC Capital is calling for urgent action to reinvigorate seed-stage investment and help secure th...
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29th April 2022
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Magical Mushroom Company raises £3m to remove plastic packaging
1st July 2022
Magical Mushroom Company, the sustainable packaging challenger harnessing the magic of mushrooms,...
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BBI backs SFC Capital with extra £5m to invest in regional start ups
1st July 2022
SFC Capital, the UK’s most active seed-stage investor, has received a further £5 mill...
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£20m for Praetura Ventures following Regional Angels Programme success
1st July 2022
Manchester based early-stage investor Praetura Ventures has announced an additional £5m fun...
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Bristol's Blue Earth Summit aims to raise £10m+ for impact businesses
1st July 2022
Entrepreneurs, founders and adventurers are being given the chance to live pitc...
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Investment competition launched for UK startups
24th June 2022
Startups across the UK are being invited to enter a competition to practice their pitching skills...
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Catalyst Co-Founders supports 10 NI start-ups with £10k proof of concept grants
10th June 2022
Ten start-ups from Northern Ireland have each won £10,000 proof of concept grants to furthe...
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African entrepreneurs 'set for take off'
10th June 2022
African business leaders are expecting the entrepreneurial spirit to take off across the continen...
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British Business Bank appoints Louis Taylor as its new CEO
10th June 2022
Louis Taylor has been appointed CEO of the British Business Bank, the UK’s economic develop...
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Equity investment into smaller UK businesses rose by 88% in 2021
24th June 2022
Equity investment in the UK’s smaller businesses increased by 88% in 2021 to £18.1bn ...
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Top sectors for UK startups in 2022
17th June 2022
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Record deals show innovation in agri-finance models
6th May 2022
A record £1.3bn value in UK agri-tech deals was reached in 2021*, showing...
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14th April 2022
Since 1994, Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) have been an important tool in the investors&...
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Family investment app Beanstalk exceeds £650k crowdfunding target
1st July 2022
Beanstalk, the family app that invests for your kids, has exceeded its crowdfun...
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REAP Bikes raises £300,000 funding for expansion
17th June 2022
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20th May 2022
James Murdoch reviews how his investments have fared in the last 12 months....
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Bristol's Blue Earth Summit aims to raise £10m+ for impact businesses
1st July 2022
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AI decarbonisation platform Ecolibrium launches in the UK with angel backing
17th June 2022
Machine learning-led decarbonisation platform Ecolibrium has today launched its revolutionary sus...
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Green Angel Syndicate invests in aerosol tech company Salvalco
20th May 2022
Green Angel Syndicate has backed a £2.5m funding raising in Salford Valve Company Ltd...
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Green Angel Syndicate welcomes £10m from British Business Investments
13th May 2022
Green Angel Syndicate has received a further £5m commitment from British Business Investmen...
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Journee lands £1.75m from Depop's founders and Fuel Ventures
24th June 2022
Journee, the online tour operator that matches people with experiential trips to mystery destinat...
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Next-gen automated market maker SithSwap raises $2.65m
24th June 2022
SithSwap, a next-generation automated market maker (AMM) on StarkNet, has successfully raised $2....
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Hiphops raises $650K in pre-seed funding round
17th June 2022
Hiphops, which automates the complex business of releasing code, has raised a $3.5 million pre-se...
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Sharesy receives investment from Henley Business Angels
17th June 2022
Sharesy, an organisation revolutionising the venue-hire marketplace platform for community spaces...
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Calculus invests in Jude Law’s Riff Raff Entertainment
24th June 2022
Calculus has invested in Riff Raff Entertainment (RRE), co-founded by BAFTA Award-winning an...
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Gaming Company Backbone Announces $40M Series A
25th February 2022
Backbone, a platform powering game streaming and core...
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Sportening launches after raising £5.3million in seed funding
11th February 2022
A new social app built for sports fans, Sportening, has officially launched out of beta stage aft...
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BDO advises on acquisition of B2B publisher HPCi Media
18th January 2022
BDO LLP has advised on the acquisition of HPCi Media, a leading B2B publisher, specialising in co...
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Sonrai Analytics announces £2.175m ‘Seed Plus’
24th June 2022
Sonrai Analytics, an emerging global innovator in AI Cloud Data Analytics, has announced a &lsquo...
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BeamUP launches with $15 million seed investment
1st April 2022
BeamUP, Ltd, the AI platform that designs and manages enterprise building systems, has launc...
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Fox Robotics secures funding from Henley Business Angels
4th March 2022
Fox Robotics, an agritech company specialising in the development, manufacture and sale of autono...
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Brainomix closes £16m funding to expand AI-enabled platform
11th January 2022
Brainomix, the AI-powered medtech solutions company, has closed a series B financing round, raisi...
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Spirea raises £2.4m to develop antibody drug conjugates for cancer treatment
17th June 2022
Spirea Limited, a Cambridge company created to advance a new generation of antibody drug conjugat...
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Aramune Technologies raises £800k to scale and trial its first product
27th May 2022
Aramune Technologies has raised £800,000 of new equity funding to develop...
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Oxford Drug Design receives £2.2m from existing investors and angels
20th May 2022
Oxford Drug Design Limited (ODD), a biotechnology company with a proprietary computational a...
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Biotangents secures £2.2m to accelerate rapid disease detection tech
20th May 2022
Biotangents, a Scottish biotechnology business, has secured £2.2m of new ...
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CityFALCON raises $2 million on Seedrs
24th June 2022
London and Malta based fintech CityFALCON closed an equity fundraising campaign&nb...
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Kita, the world's first carbon insurer, raises £350k in pre-seed round
10th June 2022
Kita, the world’s first carbon insurer, has raised a heavily oversubscribed £350k pre...
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Kapaga raises £1.5 million angel-backed seed round
27th May 2022
Kapaga, the UK-based cross-border payment platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has a...
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£8.7m capital raise for Recognise Bank
20th May 2022
Challenger bank, Recognise Bank, will benefit from £8.7 million in new capital followi...
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Arctic Shores takes aim at global skills shortage with SVB funding
17th January 2022
Arctic Shores, the psychometric assessment pioneers, have received £1.5m in venture debt fu...
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17th December 2021
QVentures has made an investment into Alectro, a Virtual Sustainabili...
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gigl closes $1.5m round
14th December 2021
gigl, a video-based job platform on a mission to solve the UK hospitality staffing shortage, has ...
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Logistics business AP Taylor secures £750k MEIF backing
6th December 2021
AP Taylor Ltd has secured a £750,000 funding package from the Midlands Engine Investment Fu...
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One Planet Pizza impress Anglia Capital Group
6th May 2022
The One Planet Pizza team first pitched to the Anglia Capital Group Angels in January 2...
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Plant-based egg alternative Perfeggt extends round
11th March 2022
Just three months after its pre-seed round, an impressive group of Europe’s leading food te...
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Henley Business Angels members invest in ape2o
5th January 2022
ape2o, a company that is looking to eradicate bottled water waste by setting up a network of soph...
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Food brand Wild Jacks secures £250,000 growth capital from MEIF
3rd December 2021
A food & drink producer based across Lincolnshire has secured £250,00...
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ParkBee secures EUR 30m in equity funding
1st April 2022
Koolen Industries, the clean energy investor headed by Kees Koolen, has invested in ParkBee, the ...
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Sustainable success story Wild raises £5m
25th February 2022
Wild Cosmetics, a design-led personal care start-up who pioneered the UK’s first plast...
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UK’s first women’s urinal secures £250K in funding round
11th February 2022
The team behind the UK’s first female urinal have raised £250,000 in their first fund...
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REHAUS launches consumer platform with £500K pre-seed money
4th February 2022
REHAUS, a marketplace dedicated to matc...
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Press on Vinyl raises £475,000 from North Invest
17th January 2022
A Middlesborough-based vinyl pressing company, Press on Vinyl, is set to disrupt the growing...
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Wade Ceramics secures £400k MEIF capital
16th December 2021
Stoke-On-Trent business Wade Ceramics, has secured a £...
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Pallite receives £750k MEIF funding
11th November 2021
A Wellingborough-based paper honeycomb board manufacturer has secured £75...
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Land Energy secures £6 million funding from IGF
12th October 2021
Rapidly growing biomass fuel manufacturer ...
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Meet the investor: Konstantin Sidorov
11th March 2022
Konstantin Sidorov, a long-time angel investor and the Founder and Chief Exec of the London Techn...
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The Entrepreneur Ship’ getting ready to set sail
29th November 2021
Guy Rigby and David Murray will shortly attempt to become the oldest pair ever to row across any ...
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Nominations soon to close for 2022 Bold Woman Awards by Veuve Clicquot
25th November 2021
The call for public nominations will soon close for this year’s prestigious Bold Woman Awar...
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Think-Tank launches platform for retail investors who want to invest sustainably
19th November 2021
Independent think-tank, 2° Investing Initiative (2DII), has launched its re...
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