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Crowdcube
Finance and Risk Capital
Impact for scaleups
1011
UK companies backed
31%
Follow-on investments
49%
Investments outside of London
500
Growth-stage investments
Key sectors
Crowdcube, with offices in Exeter and London, provides equity investment to UK companies and plays an established role in the funding landscape for seed, early-stage and scaling businesses. As online equity crowdfunding has matured, it has increasingly bridged the gap between early friends-and-family rounds and later-stage institutional finance. The platform reflects the growing institutionalisation of crowdfunding, with venture capital firms, professional and retail investors now regularly co-investing alongside one another.
While the average amount raised on Crowdcube is £670,000, with funding available as equity investment or mini-bonds, Crowdcube facilitates larger investment rounds to support the scaling ambitions of growth-stage businesses. Since January 2017, there have been 593 growth stage investments made into UK companies – more than half of all the companies that have used the platform for fundraising.
Between 2018 and June 2025, the fund participated in 1,470 fundraisings for 1,011 UK-based companies. Their average turnover was £28.9m with an average of 27 employees.
Crowdcube has continued to invest in scaleups in 2025. Gozney a firm that manufactures and sells ovens received £2.39 million from Crowdcube in June 2025 while Blok a firm that operates a number of exercise studios received £791k from Crowdcube in May 2025
Crowdcube’s most significant UK update in 2025 is a landmark partnership with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to give individual retail investors greater access to later-stage, high-growth private companies. This collaboration will utilize the LSE’s new Private Securities Market and Crowdcube’s platform, allowing eligible Crowdcube investors to buy shares in these private firms on similar terms to institutional investors, helping to democratize access to an asset class that was previously restricted and making the UK a more attractive place for companies to scale and find fresh liquidity.
