Seedrs participated in 21 equity campaigns, secondary campaigns and private deal room deals¹, in rounds totalling over £28 million in November. 

Seedrs - Europe's leading private investment platform - has released its 2023 Portfolio Report, one of the most comprehensive examinations of the European equity crowdfunding sector ever produced.

Seedrs, Europe's leading private investment platform - is now officially licensed under the new EU regulation for equity crowdfunding providers. Seedrs will be authorised in Ireland, where its EU headquarters are and, to begin with, will additionally focus on the Nordics, Iberia and the Netherlands. 

Splint Invest has partnered with the innovative, UK-based automotive investment platform TheCarCrowd. This new strategic partnership sees Splint Invest customers able to purchase “Splints” in classic cars and iconic supercars selected by TheCarCrowd’s expert panel. The first offering, a striking manual Ferrari 348 TB - one of just 2,894 ever made, funded in just 71 minutes.

Money.co.uk Business Loans research into UK Kickstarter campaigns for the past five years has revealed that women are more successful at hitting their crowdfunding targets. They are 16% more likely to succeed at raising the capital they need to start a business in comparison to their male counterparts. 

There is still money out there, but less appetite for risk and greater demand for faster returns, says Sarra Mander, CMO of Small Robot Company (SRC), talking about the climate for agri-tech funding.

Hedgehog, the fractional investing app making real-world investments accessible to a wider audience, has completed its crowdfunding round on Seedrs ahead of schedule. The round overfunded by more than 50% to hit a total of £1.56 million from close to 400 individual investors, including a number of angel investors, from 27 different countries, with the majority of capital coming from those working within private markets.

Republic, the U.S. based private investment firm which operates the Republic investment platform, has announced the successful completion of the acquisition of Seedrs, Europe’s leading online private investment platform.

In part 3, our five investors share what they have learned about risk and reward approach, use of funds and asset allocation.  Knowing your limitations – whether they are financial, sector knowledge or regional preference - can be as important to crowdfunding success as picking the best opportunities out there.

In the second part in our series about what makes crowdfunding investors tick, our five investors reveal more about their investment strategies, including the platforms they prefer to use when making investments, the sectors they favour and the attributes they look for in the teams they are backing. 

Beanstalk, the family app that invests for your kids, has exceeded its crowdfunding target with new investments taking the company into overfunding ahead of the funding round closing on 29 June 2022. Beanstalk has raised over £650,000 via the Seedrs equity crowdfunding platform, with new direct investors including the former CEO of one of the leading fintech investment platforms sitting behind a number of stock trading apps / advisers. The funds raised will help get Beanstalk to even more families so that they can start building a nest egg for their children.

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.