UK Fairness Crowdfunding Platform Crowdcube Celebrates Tenth Birthday

UK-based fairness crowdfunding platform Crowdcube celebrated its tenth birthday on Tuesday.  As beforehand reported, Crowdcube describes itself as a number one fairness crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs of startups and rising companies to attach with potential buyers. The portal notably is devoted to serving to UK entrepreneurs increase funds to begin or develop their companies. 

Co-Founder and CMO at Crowdcube, Luke Lang,  celebrated the platform’s newest milestone by reflecting on the previous ten years.

“That eureka second got here one lazy Sunday night when Darren received pissed off watching nice concepts fail to get funding on Dragons’ Den. BOOM the concept behind Crowdcube was born. You don’t know what you began James Caan, Deborah Meaden, Theo Paphitis, Peter Jones & Duncan Bannatyne! Our first workplace was so chilly Darren and I wanted fingerless gloves and lengthy johns to maintain heat. However after years of arduous work, Crowdcube lastly launched on 15th Feb 2011. The Telegraph was the primary of many to put in writing about our mission to gas the subsequent era of companies and democratize funding. It’s honest to say that Darren was a tad nervous earlier than his name with James Hurley

Lang additionally famous that It took 5 and a half months earlier than Bubble & Balm grew to become the primary profitable marketing campaign on the platform, elevating £75,000 from 81 individuals.

“It was all the time our plan to boost cash for Crowdcube, on Crowdcube, and provides our neighborhood the possibility to affix us. In December 2011, 163 individuals invested in our imaginative and prescient for the primary time. We wouldn’t be the place we’re at this time with out our 6,760 shareholders. We salute you.”

See all of Crowdcube’s achievements beneath.