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Bolt launches crowdfunding campaign to cut global traffic emissions

Bolt launches £1.36 million equity crowdfunding round today to get its 'design your own' scooters to market in 2018.

Alternative Finance for Business

Food tech start-up fresh-range raises £300k in 24 hours

Bristol-based start-up, fresh-range has raised over £300,000 via crowdfunding to make ethical buying from local producers as convenient as from mass retailers.

Growth Planning

Millions of future jobs at risk from poor business advice

Millions of jobs in the coming years now depend on modernising the advice given by business advisers and mentors to fledgling entrepreneurs and school leavers.

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CanDo: A new crowdfunding platform to support war-torn Syria

Following the huge support for the hospital project from people all over the world, CanDo is now launching a crowdfunded platform.

Alternative Finance for Business

Crowdfunding: Caveat emptor or easy money?

While crowdfunding is often hailed as a more democratic form of financing, it is not just a matter of issuing shares. Benjamin James, a partner in the commercial team at McCarthy Denning, outlines what SMEs should watch out for when raising finance through crowdfunding.

Alternative Finance for Business

Seedrs launches secondary market for investors to buy and sell shares

In response to huge investor demand, equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs plans to launch a secondary market.

Alternative Finance for Business

Reinventing traditional equity crowdfunding

Traditional equity crowdfunding is not without its imperfections. Current Capital's Kris Bolton writes.

Alternative Finance for Business

The world’s first crowdfunded hospital set to open in Aleppo

Hope Hospital is the first of its kind to be funded by people from all over the world, and is set to open tomorrow to treat the children of Aleppo.

Alternative Finance for Business

New invention aims to replace the unsanitary toilet brush (and is crowdfunding)

Gloucestershire-based inventor Kam Mistry is hoping to raise millions of pounds for charity if he reaches his Kickstarter funding target for the Shiffter, a new invention which aims to make cleaning toilets ‘considerably less disgusting’ than using a toilet brush.

Alternative Finance for Business

Yasser Khattak, the teen entrepreneur behind Den turns to crowdfunding to go global

From hiring his hero to modelling himself after business greats like Jobs, Dyson and Sugar, teen entrepreneur Yasser Khattak is all grown up. He now plans to take his start-up, Den, worldwide.

Alternative Finance for Business

Green start-up MacRebur turns to the crowd for funding push

Virgin Voom winner MacRebur launches new Seedrs campaign to take its recycled plastic road fix global.

Alternative Finance for Business

Crowd Investment in 2017 and beyond

In 2016 crowdfunding changed from being an occasional source of cash for small businesses and private individuals and instead started to become a method of choice for many enterprises.

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