By Simon Brooke
Only one in ten of us own shares, according to figures from the Share Centre. Ruzbeh Bacha believes that one reason for this relatively small number is a lack of timely and accessible information for private investors – which prompted him to set up CityFALCON.
Craft beer subscription brand HonestBrew has tapped into the lucrative food and beverage crowdfunding space by raising over £400,000, and now has its sights set on scaling quickly while still maintaining a small company feel.
Corporate risk appetite and sentiment have faded in the face of weakness in emerging economies and global equity markets, suggested Deloitte’s latest CFO survey.
Relying on amateur investors does not mean your business idea is ready to fly.
When business schools students study the evolution of equity crowdfunding in our country, they will see that the last week of July 2015 was a watershed.
At the University of Edinburgh’s Corporate Finance Conference, Andrew Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England, suggested that the public company model is increasingly being questioned.
By Will Gibbs
Will Gibbs, a member of the ventures team at Octopus Investments, provides behind the scenes tips on the best way to first approach, and then secure investment from, a venture capital firm.
The first quarter of 2015 will go down as the richest first quarter for mergers and acquisitions since Q1 2007. However, DAV Management MD Charlie Mayes is convinced that investors will be taking far less risks.
By David Craik
We’ve seen a huge £100m investment in Funding Circle, the launch of new site Emerging Crowd targeted at SMEs in developing markets and the creation of SyndicateRoom’s “Investors’ Academy”.
Equity crowdfunding has helped make angel investing to a wider range of people, creating hundreds of thousands of new investors and greater opportunity for startups.
