CrowdRating has revealed the findings of research which shows that 96% of the companies whose crowdfunding campaigns closed at least a year ago and received a Gold Investment rating from CrowdRating, are showing demonstrable progress with positive ‘signs of life’.

Gooseberry Planet and Dem Dx seek £750K via the platform.

Go Banana, the UK’s first marketplace for building supplies, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign via the Seedrs platform. Having already raised 34% of its £250k target, it is looking for those with a passion for the building industry to invest in its innovative online PropTech platform, one of the first of its kind worldwide.

Plum, the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered Facebook chatbot that helps consumers manage their personal finances today announces an equity crowdfunding raise on Seedrs to fund aggressive growth and expansion plans. 

OurCrowd has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with LetsVenture, India’s largest marketplace for startup funding.  As part of this partnership, OurCrowd will offer curated deals to Indian investor syndicates managed by LetsVenture, as well as showcase Indian startups on OurCrowd’s platform, giving selected Indian startups access to accredited investors globally and to business development opportunities.

OurCrowd, a global leader in equity crowdfunding, today announced the launch of OurNetwork - a new collaboration program leveraging OurCrowd’s global network, providing multinationals with the ability to stay ahead of the latest innovation trends globally by providing access to Israel’s bustling tech startup community.

The owner of a brand new data centre in Birmingham, GTP3 LLP, is raising £2.8m through crowdfunding platform, Downing Crowd, as the site enters its next phase of development.

Online investment platform SyndicateRoom today announces the closure of two lift rounds, for Peptinnovate and Alert Technology. Pekama closed its round in overfunding over the weekend. Peptinnovate raised £2.7 million, Alert achieved £1 million and Pekama secured £600,000. Funds from all three rounds bring the total value of all three raises to £4.3 million.

Seedrs  has closed its first secondary market trading window and announces impressive returns for some of the investors who took part.

• 138 share lots were listed from 80 different businesses in the first trading window on Seedrs
• 57 share lots have already been sold and 40 different businesses have had shares purchased

Who needs sophisticated investors anyway? Raising money over the internet – once the domain of sketchy wire transfers to exotic princes – has been revolutionised by crowdfunding into a legitimate $35bn per annum industry. It can lift any captivating business idea from a flashy video to a profit-making venture.

OurCrowd, a global leader in equity crowdfunding, today announced a partnership with Motorola Solutions, Reliance Industries and Yissum, to operate an innovation technology incubator to support growth of early stage startups in Jerusalem.

Seedrs has joined a handful of leading alternative finance firms as the sole equity finance provider in an exclusive partnership with a new NatWest  programme for British SMEs called Capital Connections.