List of highest-funded equity crowdfunding projects

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This is a list of the highest-funded equity crowdfunding projects.

RankProjectCategorySumPlatformInvestorsnotesReferences
1 BrewDog Brewery £72,754,050Proprietary/Crowdcube 117,917 [1]
2CoinMetro Crypto-Exchange €12,026,735CoinMetro7032[ citation needed ]
3Paradox Interactive Video game industry $11,800,000Pepins2,517 [2]
4Crowdcube Crowdfunding £6,565,000+Crowdcube3,000 [3]
5Ameria Advertising €5,000,000 Companisto 2,989 [4] [5] [6]
6 WEISSENHAUS Real estate €7,500,000 Companisto 1,679 [7] [8] [9]
7EtergoElectric Mobility€3,225,567 Seedrs [10]
8 Gohenry Finance £3,999,000Crowdcube2209 [11]
9Chapel Down Group plc Wine £3,953,819 Seedrs 1,390 [12] [13]
10JustParkTravel£3,514,110Crowdcube2,702 [14]
11SugruManufacturing£3,388,150Crowdcube2,374 [15]
12ChilangoFood and drink£3,370,000Crowdcube1432 [16]
13Plant Growth Net Zero Aqualife Shrimp farm $4,575,550 crowdfunder [17]
141RebelHealth and fitness£2,916,020Crowdcube433 [18]
15Crowdestor Equity Campaign Crowdfunding €1,600,000Crowdestor477
16eMoovEstate agency£2,622,360Crowdcube765 [19]
17Witt EnergyEnergy£2,386,030Crowdcube1567 [20]
18Gritpit FixingsManufacturing£4,100,000Crowdcube1941 [21]
19 PodPoint Renewable energy£3,713,450Crowdcube1748 [22] [23]
20Seedrs Crowdfunding £2,580,000 Seedrs 909 [24]
21Protonet Hardware €3,000,000 Seedmatch 1,827 [25] [26] [27]
22Urbanara Home AG Homewares €3,000,000 Bergfürst ≈1,000 [28] [29] [30]
23Train Alliance ABReal estate$4,400,000Pepins600 [31]
24ingogo Pty Ltd Taxi booking & payments $4,200,000 VentureCrowd 65 [32]
25Kronfönster Group ABRetail & manufacturing$3,796,095Pepins1232 [33]
26Hab Housing Limited Real estate £1,972,560Crowdcube640 [34] [35]
27Parcel Genie Gift delivery £1,800,000 Angels Den 51 [36] [37]
28Lovespace Storage £1,562,960Crowdcube257 [38] [39]
29Hotel Kaiserlei Real estate €2,400,000 Zinsland 1056 [40]
30Feldbrunnenstrasse Real estate €2,116,200 Exporo 440 [41]
31Bostäder för unga vuxna Real estate €2,111,000Tessin179 [42]
32 Companisto Crowdfunding €2,100,000Companisto2461 [43] [44]
33BaristaCoffe shop$2,400,000Pepins1682 [45]
34NaavaHealth Tech$2,368,000Pepins1257 [46] [47]
35UB-Holding Crowdfunding €2,000,000 Rendity 357 [48]
36Alvestaglass ABFood$1,944,152Pepins900 [49]
37 Sion Electric solar car€1,815,000Seedrs1,078 [50]
38 Panono Hardware€1,615,745Companisto1,804 [51]
39Freygeist E-Bike €1,500,000Companisto1,110 [52]
40SawadeFood€1,350,000Companisto1098 [53]
41Domaine d´EscapatWineyard$1,240,540Pepins760 [54]
42 Uniti Electric city car €1,227,990 FundedByMe 570 [55] [56] [57]
43Nordic OilCannabis Company€1,167,591Seedrs694 [58]
44Dynamic CodeHealth tech$1,138,700Pepins287 [59]
45PickawoodFurniture€1,010,000Seedmatch795 [60]
46AoTerra Waste heat recovery€1,000,000Seedmatch883 [61] [62]
47FoodistFood€1,000,000Companisto1,980Exit, 192% ROI [63] [64] [65] [66]
48 I'll Be Next Door for Christmas Movie$1,070,000StartEngine and Wefunder 893First movie to use equity crowdfunding in the U.S. [67] [68] [69]

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Seed money, sometimes known as seed funding or seed capital, is a form of securities offering in which an investor invests capital in a startup company in exchange for an equity stake or convertible note stake in the company. The term seed suggests that this is a very early investment, meant to support the business until it can generate cash of its own, or until it is ready for further investments. Seed money options include friends and family funding, seed venture capital funds, angel funding, and crowdfunding.

Social venture capital is a form of investment funding that is usually funded by a group of social venture capitalists or an impact investor to provide seed-funding investment, usually in a for-profit social enterprise, in return to achieve an outsized gain in financial return while delivering social impact to the world. There are various organizations, such as Venture Philanthropy (VP) companies and nonprofit organizations, that deploy a simple venture capital strategy model to fund nonprofit events, social enterprises, or activities that deliver a high social impact or a strong social causes for their existence. There are also regionally focused organizations that target a specific region of the world, to help build and support the local community in a social cause.

Seedrs is an online equity crowdfunding company, headquartered in East London's Tech City, founded in 2009 and launched by Jeff Lynn and Carlos Silva in 2012. Since 2022 it has been a subsidiary of American crowdfunding company Republic.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Seedups</span> Equity crowdfunding website

SeedUps is an equity crowdfunding platform for seed investment to launch and focuses on startup companies. It was founded by Michael Faulkner and Gavin Gallagher in 2010 and is aimed at tech startups in the USA, Ireland and the UK. Since launch over 2200 tech businesses have registered. It is only available to accredited or sophisticated investors. The platform is headquartered in Republic of Ireland with offices in the UK, US and Canada. Each funding project on SeedUps lasts for the same duration, namely 180 days.

Crowdcube is a British investment crowdfunding platform, established by Darren Westlake and Luke Lang in 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Companisto</span> Equity-based crowdfunding website

Companisto is an international equity-based crowdfunding website. It was founded by the lawyers David Rhotert and Tamo Zwinge in June 2012, in Berlin. Companisto allows investors to invest in startups. In return, they become shareholders and are entitled to a share of any profits, as well as potentially benefiting from an exit. Companisto has over 130.000 investors from 92 countries. It is Germany's largest network for investments in start-ups and growth companies.

Wefunder is a crowdfunding service which connects startups with investors online. Wefunder uses a provision in the 2012 JOBS Act which allows unaccredited investors to purchase equity in early stage private companies.

Circle is a peer-to-peer payments technology company. It was founded by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville in October 2013. Circle is the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, with US$55 billion in circulation as of August 2022.

Junction is a San Francisco-based online investment platform that allows accredited investors to purchase limited partnership interests in funds that invest in major motion pictures. It differs from donation-based crowdfunding for film as members of Junction receive investments indirectly in the film projects rather than gifts, and the projects listed on Junction are already fully financed. Investors become limited partners in a fund that has economic exposure to the project through an investment agreement with one of the film's financiers.

SyndicateRoom is a UK venture capital fund, headquartered in Cambridge, founded by Gonçalo de Vasconcelos and Tom Britton in September 2013. The company is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Equity crowdfunding is the online offering of private company securities to a group of people for investment and therefore it is a part of the capital markets. Because equity crowdfunding involves investment into a commercial enterprise, it is often subject to securities and financial regulation. Equity crowdfunding is also referred to as crowdinvesting, investment crowdfunding, or crowd equity.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The House Crowd</span>

The House Crowd was a UK peer to peer lending and crowdfunding platform that allowed people to invest in bridging loans and property development loans from £1,000. In 2018, the business achieved authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority and launched their Innovative Finance ISA. As of January 2019, The House Crowd had funded 368 properties, raised over £93 million and paid investors returns in excess of £38 million. The House Crowd was placed into administration on 24 February 2021.

LOVESPACE offers by-the-box storage and storage unit services with collection and delivery in the United Kingdom. The company also provides packing and shipping services as well as operational and logistical support to small businesses by transporting equipment, storing archival documents and storing surplus stock.

A simple agreement for future equity (SAFE) is an agreement between an investor and a company that provides rights to the investor for future equity in the company similar to a warrant, except without determining a specific price per share at the time of the initial investment. The SAFE investor receives the future shares when a priced round of investment or liquidity event occurs. SAFEs are intended to provide a simpler mechanism for startups to seek initial funding other than convertible notes.

Housers.com is a real estate crowdfunding company. It was founded on April 27, 2015, in Spain, by Alvaro Luna of Madrid and Tono Brusola of Valencia. Through its online platform, investors choose where, when, and how much to invest into Spanish real estate opportunities recommended by experts.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pod Point</span> Electric vehicle charging provider

Pod Point is a UK provider of electric vehicle charging station. It provides charging units for home, business and public use. Since forming in 2009, Pod Point has manufactured and sold over 137,000 charging points. It has also developed one of the UK's largest public networks, connecting EV drivers with hundreds of charging stations nationwide at locations such as Tesco, Lidl, Sainsbury's, Center Parcs and Southern Rail. Since 2014, when it signed a partnership with automaker Nissan, it also operates in Norway.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Solstar</span>

Solstar Space Co., also known as Solstar, is an American company that provides commercial wireless internet services to space travelers and Internet of Things in space. It also provides a two-way internet link connecting people on earth to things in space. Based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the company was founded in March 2017.

Beesfund is a Polish equity crowdfunding platform based in Warsaw, Poland. Managed by its eponymous company founded in 2012 by entrepreneur Arkadiusz Regiec, it is one of the first crowdfunding platforms in Poland, and Central and Eastern Europe. As of May 2020, 74 public offerings (issuances) were carried out on the platform, for a total amount of PLN 47M, collected by over 48,000 registered investors.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Artmo</span> Art dedicated app

Artmo.com is an online social media platform based in Hamburg, Germany. It works as a platform to promote art and connect those who are interested in selling, buying, or merely discussing art. The website also works as a social media featuring direct communication between artists, galleries and universities. The company is a start-up that has been funded by Companisto since 2020.

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