Category: Get Funded

Venture capital backed equity crowdfunding platform is now open to savvy investors and ambitious start ups

The Northwest Business Angels network has reported a rise of 200 per cent in the number of Business Angels now actively working with its portfolio of investment ready companies – jumping from 60 in June 2012 to 180 in June 2013.

Ingenious Ventures, the venture capital division of investment group Ingenious, today launches the first Ingenious Seed Investment Programme to make seed investments totalling at least £2.25 million into 15 of the country’s most promising media and creative industries start-ups.

Crowdfunding is taking off as an alternative source of finance for British entrepreneurs judging by the acceleration in funding the initial equity-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube, is experiencing as in the first five months of 2013 it raised £4,400,000 for 20 businesses compared with £840,000 for 11 pitches in the equivalent period of 2012.

If you’ve ever wanted to pitch on Dragons’ Den – but can only spare about six seconds – then you are in luck.

The world’s first flat-packed vehicle, a low-cost, two-tonne light truck called OX, designed for the most arduous conditions of the developing world, has been unveiled by the British entrepreneur, Sir Torquil Norman. He plans to sell production versions on a non-profit basis throughout the developing world.

The wide-ranging applications of bioscientific developments will feature at Venturefest Oxford 2013, the business event attracting investors, innovators and entrepreneurs taking place this year at the Saïd Business School, Oxford.

A student from London’s Kingston University has created concepts for a range of clothing for disabled women which combines sophisticated style with practicality and comfort.

The co-founder of PayPal, who made more than a billion dollars by making a $500,000 gamble on an unknown website called Facebook in 2004, has made his first European investment.