2019 – A Report-Breaking Yr

We’re delighted to announce an extremely profitable 2019, with our highest ever ranges of funding, accomplished offers and investor exits!

Key Highlights

• Seedrs stories a 49% progress in funding from 2018, with a report £283M invested into pitches on the platform.
• With funding coming in from 78 completely different nations, the platform accomplished 250 offers throughout the 12 months, up from 186 in 2018.
• On the Seedrs Secondary Market, there have been 7,858 investor exits in 2019, with the all-time exits quantity now sitting at 13,671.

In 2019, Seedrs helped companies from 16 completely different nations elevate funds, and acquired funding from 78 completely different nations. 51 of the 250 accomplished offers had been fundraises of over £1 million, displaying 89% progress in bigger funding rounds from 2018. Highlights embody Scottish fintech Paysend elevating £10.7M to type their Sequence B, Seedrs’ first Danish firm LuggageHero finishing a €1.5M spherical, and AFC Wimbledon elevating £2.4M from over 5,000 buyers in one of many UK’s largest public funding rounds for a soccer membership. 

We additionally launched two extra industry-firsts in 2019. The EIS100 Fund gives buyers passive publicity to the enterprise capital asset class at scale. It started deploying capital into EIS-eligible pitches in April 2019 for 12 months. The second launch got here in November once we introduced the first-ever in-app funding alternative for an early-stage firm, via a brand new partnership with London-based agency Oval Cash. 

The Seedrs Secondary Market has additional prolonged its lead within the {industry} with many new options added and thus seen big progress over the previous twelve months. It delivered 7,858 investor exits throughout 317 completely different companies in 2019, taking the all-time whole of exits since launch to 13,671. Buyers proceed to generate extremely worthwhile returns, usually additional magnified by the beneficiant UK EIS and SEIS tax reliefs, on the Secondary Market. 

The Seedrs Anchor Investor Service, which helps choose companies find institutional capital, had one other constructive 12 months securing £9.5M in funding gives for corporations elevating on Seedrs and its portfolio companies. 

Jeff Kelisky, CEO at Seedrs, says: “It’s been an impressive 12 months for the enterprise. I’m excited to share our 2019 in numbers, asserting report ranges of funding which exhibit great progress whereas persevering with to ship true pioneering achievements over the course of final 12 months. 

Our imaginative and prescient has all the time been to create a market for all buyers in non-public corporations, and 2019 has been an actual step-change for us as we transfer in the direction of that. With extra {industry} firsts like API pushed in-app investing and the EIS100 Fund, together with additional iterations to our present improvements like AutoInvest and Secondary Market, we’re getting very near changing into the de facto normal within the {industry} on our path to reaching our imaginative and prescient. Our plans for 2020 are huge and embody quite a lot of improvements like public sale pricing on the Secondary Market. Watch this house, as a result of investing in non-public corporations simply received much more thrilling.”