10 Standout Crowdfunding Campaigns — As Chosen By The Seedrs Group

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As you should have noticed, we’re celebrating 10 years of Seedrs — and with it some incredible stats. £2 billion raised and we’ve now given 150,000 traders from 90 international locations the chance to put money into companies doing unbelievable work.

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The Seedrs Group Select Their Favorite Campaigns

Whereas we are able to’t spotlight all 1,722 offers, we wished to test in with the Seedrs staff to share a few of their favourites, from probably the most artistic to the most important affect: 

Nominated by Holly, on our investments staff, and her reasoning is easy — what a video!

The Bloody Drinks marketing campaign was an actual pleasure to work on.

Their video was hilarious and Will and Harry took every little thing of their stride, fundraising will be tremendous irritating for entrepreneurs however they managed to seek out the enjoyable – it was nice working with them and I can’t wait to observe what they do subsequent!

DAI is one in all two campaigns nominated by Katherine on our traders staff that shine a light-weight on unbelievable feminine founders. 

DAI is a enterprise constructed by girls, for ladies, and now owned by girls too. I liked that their buyer group and our feminine traders actually obtained behind this increase. It set data for Seedrs, most notably that over 60% of the quantity invested by the group got here from feminine figuring out traders!

Myles on our funding staff picked Blacokay Ballad:

I liked working with the Black Ballad staff. From a goal of £250okay they overfunded with virtually 1,400 traders, which is extremely uncommon for a crowdfunding marketing campaign of that measurement. It was the proper instance of a group increase and traders rallying behind an essential enterprise the place Black feminine founders have traditionally acquired such a tiny proportion of VC funding.

Charlie on our finance staff liked our work collaborating with the federal government’s Future Fund: 

What we did to facilitate elevating for a authorities backed scheme throughout covid was probably the most genuinely impactful issues we’ve accomplished in our historical past.

Seedrs’ Chief Funding Officer Kirsty is a fan of the staff at Hectare: 

I’ve to decide on Hectare (beforehand Promote My Livestock), for his or her constant success on the platform by way of all of the years by which they’ve run a marketing campaign. That features 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and…2022

As you may see, 2021 was a boring 12 months for the Hectare followers.

Josh picks out this one which modified the sport within the soccer business: 

AFC Wimbledon have been the primary membership within the historical past {of professional} soccer to run a mainstream fairness crowdfunding marketing campaign for his or her followers. Seedrs allowed them to democratise possession in a sport the place followers and communities are too typically exploited by rich house owners. Seeing over 5,000 followers and traders become involved — a Seedrs file — was sensible.

Jasmine on our campaigns staff reckons Oddbox and their wonky produce revolution are the proper illustration of what’s nice about seed investing: 

Oddbox not solely takes care of the the surroundings by way of lowering meals waste and fostering aware consumerism, however takes care of their investor group. They first raised on Seedrs at a £1.6m valuation in 2018 and are actually a £100m+ enterprise. Of their Sequence B spherical, they gave their group and early traders the chance to grasp a portion of their funding in a secondary sale which noticed traders receiving returns of as much as 31x (earlier than tax advantages)!

 Louise on our investor relations staff nominated this groundbreaking marketing campaign: 

My favorite funding up to now has been into Ardour Capital’s third Fund. It was the primary time a non-public European VC fund opened publicly to particular person excessive web price and complex traders.

Historically, particular person traders may solely be LPs in enterprise capital funds with £100okay tickets. Utilizing Seedrs as an LP meant that traders may make investments as little as £50. It was really pioneering that I may put my little funding into an business main funding fund.

This one comes through Katie on the Seedrs advertising staff: 

I really like what Cheeky Panda do — and so they have persistently raised cash from their group utilizing Seedrs. 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022… they’ve now raised over £14.6m with us and are a sizzling property on the Seedrs Secondary Market.

Nothing says group like a gaggle of rock music followers getting behind their favorite music station reckons Scott, one in all our portfolio managers: 

“I liked it when 850 rock and metalheads funded a £150okay SEIS marketing campaign on their very own, getting behind Primordial Radio. It was the proper SEIS group increase. Additionally, for bonus factors, somebody breathed fireplace of their tremendously produced video.”

Onwards.

We’re solely simply firstly of our journey, there are a lot of extra milestones to come back. Be sure you try our 10 12 months celebration submit for a few of the different wonderful milestones we’ve handed alongside the way in which. 

Right here’s to the subsequent ten years! 

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