Crowd Capital Ventures

Crowdcube is an equity crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs of start-ups and growing businesses. Crowdcube enables individuals to invest or loan in small companies in return for equity or an annual return. As an investment crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube enables entrepreneurs to raise finance with the added benefit of being backed by the crowd. For investors, Crowdcube provides a way to handpick a stake in an innovative business that traditionally would have been restricted to corporate investors. Since Crowdcube first pioneered equity crowdfunding in 2011, a total of £300m has been invested through the platform from a crowd of over 390,000 investors, with more than £230m successfully invested in 520 raises. Businesses like the challenger bank Monzo, which raised £1 million in a record-breaking 96 seconds, as well as household brand names such as River Cottage and the Eden Project along with venture capital-backed businesses such as JustPark, eMoov, Sugru and Chip have all successfully raised growth funding from the crowd.

FinMkt provides best-in-class, customizable point of sale financing and online financial marketplace technologies for the global financial services industry. They provide a comprehensive point of sale financing solution to financial institutions and merchant and distribution partners which includes sourcing quality borrowers, consumer and merchant underwriting and UX, loan document presentation and e-signing and payment delivery systems for disbursement of loan funds. Focused initially on the home improvement and medical industry verticals, FinMkt's leading solution makes it easy and cost efficient for financial institutions and other lenders to access point of sale lending. For merchants and providers, FinMkt offers unparalleled access to multiple lenders with plans and programs tailored to their specific needs and customer constituencies all across the credit spectrum. FinMkt's system allows its users to automate all aspects of loan generation, underwriting and delivery on a seamless and flexible technology platform. FinMkt solutions allow many types of organizations to rapidly deploy point of sale financing and marketplace solutions in a timely, cost-efficient manner while ensuring the highest quality technology and client support. From customer acquisition to product matching to tracking and reporting, FinMkt's secure, patent-pending technology solutions are the gold standard of the financial marketplace ecosystem.

OfferBoard is an equity securities private placement platform for small and emerging companies that leverages the experience, history and reputation of the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB), a small securities offerings platform established in 2005. OfferBoard represents emerging growth businesses raising capital as well as sophisticated investors seeking to diversify their investments by establishing credible positions in the private securities marketplace. OfferBoard connects premium investors directly to premium securities offerings providing each a direct line to growth.