After 3 years of research and development, Bristol based engineer Curtis Dorrington has developed Quick Caps, a tiny padlock that helps prevent the theft of quick release wheels, saving cyclists a lot of time, money and effort. It simply snaps into place around the quick release (QR) leaver, making it extremely difficult for the wheel to be removed.
Savers will be able to dodge the taxman by lending to entrepreneurs in further moves by the government to replace stalled mainstream lending market.
British website will now sit within Warner Music Group’s WEA division, as record labels get serious about playlists
Successful mini-bond offers investors six per cent per year for four years and then money back
YourParkingSpace.co.uk, the online parking and garage marketplace, has announced it has signed a 15-month partnership with leading UK car parking business, National Car Parks (NCP).
The success of last year’s UK Crowdfunding Day has prompted organisers to extend the one day event even further.
The creators of Magic Whiteboard have turned to the crowd to launch the notebook that never runs out.
Shaw Gibbs Corporate Finance has just completed on a £1.2 million investment into the award-winning company DFx Technology Limited. Shaw Gibbs helped to secure the funding from venture capital provider Percipient Capital.
The internationally acclaimed visitor destination and world’s largest “rainforest in captivity”, Eden Project, is now seeking investment on Crowdcube. The Eden Project Bond, which offers investors 6% interest p.a., is seeking to raise £1 million to help develop a new ‘educational village’ in the heart of Eden.
A big increase in the number of people starting their own business in Scotland has led to increased demand for alternative financing and in particular for crowdfunding.
An IBM Global entrepreneur with a family history in bicycles spanning almost 40 years has used a leading equity crowdfunding platform to raise £235,000 in order to further develop his product and is hoping to raise a grand total of £390,000.
easyProperty, the latest venture from easyGroup, has turned to crowdfunding to help raise funds and change the face of the traditional estate agency market.
As a Scotsman I can say this objectively, there are no investors in the country and therefore new business will be severely hit and stifled by a separation.
A broader range of businesses than ever before is being helped to get off the ground thanks to a new breed of democratic crowdfunding platform, Funding Tree.
Partnership with Silicon Valley Bank Helps Innovation Companies Scale; Inaugural London course in October to help address startup skills gap in UK capital
