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As you’ll have noticed, we’re celebrating 10 years of Seedrs — and with it some incredible stats. £2 billion raised and we now have now given buyers from 90 nations the chance to put money into companies doing unbelievable work.
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The Seedrs Workforce Select Their Favorite Campaigns
Whereas we will’t spotlight all 1,722 offers, we wished to examine in with the Seedrs workforce to share a few of their favourites, from essentially the most inventive to the largest impression:
Nominated by Holly, on our investments workforce, and her reasoning is straightforward — what a video!
The Bloody Drinks marketing campaign was an actual pleasure to work on.
Their video was hilarious and Will and Harry took all the things of their stride, fundraising might be tremendous disturbing for entrepreneurs however they managed to search out the enjoyable – it was nice working with them and I can’t wait to observe what they do subsequent!
DAI is one among two campaigns nominated by Katherine on our buyers workforce that shine a lightweight on unbelievable feminine founders.
DAI is a enterprise constructed by ladies, for girls, and now owned by ladies too. I cherished that their buyer neighborhood and our feminine buyers actually obtained behind this increase. It set information for Seedrs, most notably that over 60% of the quantity invested by the gang got here from feminine figuring out buyers!
Myles on our funding workforce picked Blacokay Ballad:
I cherished working with the Black Ballad workforce. From a goal of £250k they overfunded with nearly 1,400 buyers, which is extremely uncommon for a crowdfunding marketing campaign of that measurement. It was the proper instance of a neighborhood increase and buyers rallying behind an necessary enterprise the place Black feminine founders have traditionally obtained such a tiny proportion of VC funding.
Charlie on our finance workforce cherished our work collaborating with the federal government’s Future Fund:
What we did to facilitate elevating for a authorities backed scheme throughout covid was some of the genuinely impactful issues we’ve achieved in our historical past.
Seedrs’ Chief Funding Officer Kirsty is a fan of the workforce at Hectare:
I’ve to decide on Hectare (beforehand Promote My Livestock), for his or her constant success on the platform via all of the years during which they’ve run a marketing campaign. That features 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and…2022
As you may see, 2021 was a boring 12 months for the Hectare followers.
Josh picks out this one which modified the sport within the soccer business:
AFC Wimbledon had been the primary membership within the historical past {of professional} soccer to run a mainstream fairness crowdfunding marketing campaign for his or her followers. Seedrs allowed them to democratise possession in a sport the place followers and communities are too usually exploited by rich homeowners. Seeing over 5,000 followers and buyers get entangled — a Seedrs report — was sensible.
Jasmine on our campaigns workforce reckons Oddbox and their wonky produce revolution are the proper illustration of what’s nice about seed investing:
Oddbox not solely takes care of the the atmosphere via decreasing meals waste and fostering aware consumerism, however takes care of their investor neighborhood. They first raised on Seedrs at a £1.6m valuation in 2018 and are actually a £100m+ enterprise. Of their Collection B spherical, they gave their neighborhood and early buyers the chance to understand a portion of their funding in a secondary sale which noticed buyers receiving returns of as much as 31x (earlier than tax advantages)!
Louise on our investor relations workforce nominated this groundbreaking marketing campaign:
My favorite funding thus far has been into Ardour Capital’s third Fund. It was the primary time a non-public European VC fund opened publicly to particular person excessive internet price and complicated buyers.
Historically, particular person buyers might solely be LPs in enterprise capital funds with £100k tickets. Utilizing Seedrs as an LP meant that buyers might make investments as little as £50. It was actually pioneering that I might put my little funding into an business main funding fund.
This one comes by way of Katie on the Seedrs advertising workforce:
I like what Cheeky Panda do — and so they have persistently raised cash from their neighborhood utilizing Seedrs. 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022… they’ve now raised over £14.6m with us and are a scorching property on the Seedrs Secondary Market.
Nothing says neighborhood like a bunch of rock music followers getting behind their favorite music station reckons Scott, one among our portfolio managers:
“I cherished it when 850 rock and metalheads funded a £150k SEIS marketing campaign on their very own, getting behind Primordial Radio. It was the proper SEIS neighborhood increase. Additionally, for bonus factors, somebody breathed fireplace of their tremendously produced video.”
Onwards.
We’re solely simply at the start of our journey, there are various extra milestones to come back. Be sure you try our 10 12 months celebration put up for a few of the different superb milestones we’ve handed alongside the best way.
Right here’s to the subsequent ten years!
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