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Crowdcube [2024]
Finance and Risk Capital
Impact for scaleups
945
UK companies backed
32%
Follow-on investments
49%
Investments outside of London
593
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.
In 2024, Crowdcube continues to be a dominant player in equity crowdfunding, both in the UK and across Europe. As of this year, it has facilitated over £1.17 billion in investments, supporting 1,130 UK and European businesses such as Revolut, Citymapper, and Cowboy. With a growing community of 1.2 million investors, Crowdcube is expanding further across Europe, benefitting from new regulatory frameworks that allow businesses to raise up to £10.89 million across both UK and European markets
Crowdcube provides equity investment to UK companies, with strong uptake from sectors such as food and drink, mobile apps, e-commerce and internet platforms. Notable scaleups that have raised finance on the platform include what3words, Honest Burgers and BrewDog. Businesses benefit from a campaigns team, marketing and investor relations support, and access to a founder network. In 2021, Crowdcube launched Cubex, a secondary marketplace for trading shares in high-growth private companies, and partnered with Octopus Investments to open up access to VCTs from as little as £500—reflecting the growing maturity of companies using the platform.
