10 Years of Seedrs. 1722 Offers. £2 Billion.

This 12 months is an enormous one for us at Seedrs. We’re celebrating our tenth birthday in enterprise.  

However that’s not the one milestone we’re passing. This month we additionally handed £2 billion — yep, £2,000,000,000 — recorded on our platform throughout 1,722 offers.

Our first £1B raised took us eight years. To be celebrating the second two years later is testomony to the power of our group of buyers and entrepreneurs (and all that in a pandemic!)

We’ve got now given buyers from 90 international locations the chance to spend money on companies doing unbelievable work — and it’s these companies that we wish to have fun in the present day. 

Whereas we will’t spotlight all 1,722 offers, there are some improbable campaigns that we’d like to share with you. We’ve highlighted a number of beneath – however we additionally requested our staff for his or her favorite campaigns, from probably the most artistic to the most important impression, that you’ll find right here:

10 Standout Campaigns As Chosen By The Seedrs Workforce ›

THIS are the quickest rising plant-based meat model within the UK — rising 333% YoY.

They’re disrupting the meals trade at a scale and tempo that’s unrivalled, and we’re so excited to be on that journey with them. 

With a wise co-branding technique in eating places and 10,000 distribution factors throughout the UK they’re effectively positioned to proceed to develop their model with the assistance of almost 3,000 Seedrs buyers.

English glowing wine is on the rise with Chapel Down — cheers to that! 

Chapel Down’s relentless give attention to their product and model places them on the forefront of the UK fizz revolution, and the Seedrs group agrees. They raised over £6.9 million in June 2021, after beforehand elevating in 2014, bringing their complete to £10 million in backing. 

That cash app you may need heard about. 

Revolut are main the UK fintech scene with their digital banking providing. It’s turn into the app to handle your funds, with all the things from crypto to journey perks to investments. 

It’s at all times in demand on our secondary market — want we are saying extra?

The expansion of the secondary market

The Seedrs secondary market continues to go from power to power. Since launching in 2017 we’ve got facilitated 50,000 transactions value £21M. 

There have been over 700 corporations traded on the secondary market thus far, with over 200 at the moment traded every month.

Discover out extra in regards to the Seedrs secondary market right here ›

Opening up entry to VC Funds

In 2021, we launched enterprise fund LP alternatives onto the platform, beginning with a partnership with Ardour Capital for its third fund. 

This transfer was a real step change for the trade, permitting retail buyers to again VC funds for the primary time. Seedrs buyers hit the £1M goal in simply 20 minutes, displaying the pent up demand for entry to those funding automobiles beforehand out of attain to on a regular basis buyers.

After the success of their first spherical, we’ve simply launched the SuperSeed Fund II on the platform for Excessive Internet Price and Subtle buyers. Discover out extra about how one can get entangled on their fundraising web page.

A thanks from the Jeffs, our Co-Founder and our CEO

We wouldn’t have reached these milestones with out nice management – first our co-founder (and now government chairman) Jeff Lynn, after which our CEO (for 5 years and counting) Jeff Kelisky. Once we shared the graph above, as soon as they made us double verify the numbers to make sure we hadn’t made them up, they shared their pleasure for not solely these achievements however what’s subsequent. 

Once we had the concept for Seedrs over a decade in the past, we wished to democratise non-public capital and take away the obstacles that had lengthy saved companies from having the ability to maximise their fundraising potential in addition to deliver funding alternatives beforehand off limits to retail buyers. It’s a testomony to the power of our group that 10 years on entrepreneurs and buyers have thrived on Seedrs.

Jeff Lynn

These previous few years have been thrilling for us and with outcomes to point out for it, it validates all that tough work. One other large occasion this 12 months was asserting Republic’s acquisition of Seedrs, constructing a very world non-public funding platform. It truly is probably the most revolutionary time for Seedrs and I can’t look forward to our subsequent chapter.

Jeff Kelisky

Onwards.

We’re solely simply firstly of our journey, there are lots of extra milestones to come back. 

Right here’s to the following ten years!