| Website | 40billion.com | c-crowd.com | capangel.com | cofundit.com | crowdcube.com | direct-lending.net | financeutile.com | fondatio.com | growVC.com | happy-capital.com | innovestment.de | investiere.ch | microventures.com | mynewstartup.com | particeep.com | partizipa.com | | seedmatch.de | seedrs.com | seedups.com | siamosoci.com | smartangels.fr/... | spreds.com/en | sprowd.com | symbid.com | vencorps.com | venturebonsai.com | vidensbanken.com | wiseed.com | wweeddoo.com |
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| Launch date | | | | Jun. 1st 2010 (SWLD) | Jan. 1st 2011 (UK) | Nov. 11th 2010 | 2009 | | 2008 | | Nov. 1st 2011 | | | Nov. 29th 2013 | | | | Aug. 1st 2011 | Jul. 6th 2012 | Feb. 1st 2011 | Oct. 7th 2011 | | Nov. 1st 2011 (BE) | | Apr. 14th 2011 | 2008 | Jan. 1st 2011 (Finland) | | Jan. 1st 2010 (FR) | |
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| Description | 40Billion.com is the social funding network for entrepreneurs,
where members can leverage their social networks to raise capital
for a business, fund a business, or find resources to build a
business. | c-crowd ist die führende Schweizer Internetplattform auf der
Projekte und Kapital zusammengeführt werden. Auf c-crowd.com
können: Unternehmen oder Start-up’s Charity Projekte Campus
Projekte sich einer breiten Masse (crowd) von möglichen
Kapitalgebern vorzustellen, und: Privatpersonen Investoren
Stiftungen Business Angels können bereits mit beschränktem
Kapitaleinsatz Zugang zu professionell aufbereiteten Projekten
erhalten, die bislang nur einem exklusiven Kreis von Personen offen
standen. | CapAngel helps to raise love money from friends, family,
networks... | Cofundit leverages the power of the Crowd to provide funding
opportunities for innovative and unique ideas for both established
Small & Medium Sized Enterprises, as well as Growth companies.
Through the combination of its unique internet platform and
targeted local events, Cofundit puts Entrepreneurs in touch with
Investors. Entrepreneurs with funding requirements, seeking funds
to develop their business, have an opportunity to present their
project. Investors ready to lend money to Entrepreneurs and looking
for high returns, have a place where they can see several
investment opportunities at once. | Crowdcube gives the UK's best entrepreneurs and business pioneers a
newfangled way to raise business finance by tapping into a 'crowd'
of like minded trendsetters willing to invest smaller amounts of
cash in exchange for rewards and a stake in their business. | Direct-Lending.net is a business platform which allows in a simple
and direct manner to match seekers and lenders for direct loans.
The seekers and lenders are matched and can negociate and discuss
directly with each other. The loans are intended for businesses,
real estate and education. Direct-Lending.net is not working in the
area of consumer credit. | Finance Utile is a platform to finance startups and small business
in France | | Grow Venture Community (Grow VC) is the first global, transparent,
community-based platform dedicated to entrepreneurs and investors.
Grow VC enables great ideas and great teams to get visibility with
the right investing audience, funding and support earlier. Grow VC
is more than crowd funding, it’s a nurturing ecosystem where
entrepreneurs can connect with experts, funders, team members, new
customers and partners to realize their ideas. Grow VC can help
startups companies secure initial funding of up to 1M USD. | | INNOVESTMENT is a platform for the crowdfunding of promising
business ideas and innovative startups. Our unique auction
mechanism ensures that the conditions of financing are
market-driven, which is fair, transparent, efficient and
beneficial for both companies and investors. Investors obtain
access to a brand-new form of investment opportunity. Companies
profit from a market-adjusted company valuation, as well as
financing at optimal conditions. Our vision is to help
entrepreneurs realize their creative visions and business dreams by
matching their financial needs with informed investors. | investiere facilitates direct investments by private investors in
non-listed Swiss companies. Verve Capital Partners, a Swiss AG
based in Zug, Switzerland was founded in 2007. With the goal to
develop and implement innovative financing concepts, in February
2010, the team at Verve Capital Partners launched investiere
(www.investiere.ch) and opened a previously insulated and elusive
market of innovative Swiss start-ups to the general public via an
online platform. In contrast to crowdfunding companies, investiere
is a hybrid model that combines the established practices of
traditional venture capital with elements of e-finance and social
media. All start-ups featured on the site go through a rigorous due
diligence process and investors are able to choose the start-up
that sparks their unique interest. | Bringing small businesses and investors together in an innovative
way, MicroVentures Marketplace will review start-ups in a process
similar to that of other Venture Capital companies. MicroVenture
Marketplace will screen all prospective applications and will
select companies that fit a profile which includes an evaluation of
suitable risk, likelihood of profitability, and willingness to give
up an equity stake. | | | Spanish startup Partizipa.com does p2c (person to company) lending
instead of p2p lending. Individual investors can lend money
together to fund a company. Currently a solar power plant in
Andalucia is listed for funding. The amount to be raised is 285,000
Euro. Minimum individual investment is 5,000 Euro. The project
advertises 13.85% ROI. | | Seedmatch is an online platform that offers crowdfunding for
startups. Everybody is invited to invest even small amounts of
money and to become one of many “mini business angels” who together
help realising the innovative and promising startup projects that
are introduced on the platform. Each investor can choose
individually which projects he wants to support. Our vision is to
make exciting ideas happen and to encourage entrepreneurship. | Seedrs makes investing in startups simple and rewarding and is the
first platform in the world to be authorised by a financial
regulator. It is an online platform for investing seed capital:
- Invest from £10 in the shares of startups you choose.
- Raise up to £150,000 capital for your startup from friends,
family and the crowds.
| Seedups is a crowdfunding matching engine for seed stage
entrepreneurs and tech savvy investors. It’s free to register your
business, and simple to complete the profile. Once it’s uploaded,
investors can ask questions and evaluate businesses before making
investments of up to £10,000 per company. Seedups was formed to
help companies get that all important early stage funding. Seedups
facilitates tech-savvy High Net Worth and Sophisticated Investors
linking up with the most innovative start-ups. Using the
crowd-funding ethos of companies such as Kickstarter and applying
it to equity stakes in companies. | SiamoSoci is a marketplace that allows Investors to search through
innovative Startups and fund them in exchange for a stake in the
companies. The Entrepreneurs needing capital and in some cases
competencies to boost their growth have all the tools they need to
present their projects in an effective and guided way. SiamoSoci
uses the equity-crowdfunding technique to gather the capital from
different investors who join their forces to cover the funding
round. SiamoSoci is a great opportunity for Entrepreneurs with
funding needs and for Investors looking for fast growing companies
as a high return investment. | | Spreds is the market place where you can invest in companies
that you like! You invest alongside professional investors from €
100 under the same financial conditions. By doing so, we aim to
give anyone an access to venture capital quality investment
opportunities having a more transparent and meaningful
investment.
+11,000 active members, +EUR3,000,000 raised and invested in
companies | | Symbid is the first online investment platform where investors,
with €20 a part, directly invest in the shareholder’s equity of a
start-up or existing company! This makes investors partial owners
of the fully financed (new founded) company. Entrepreneurs use
Symbid as a quick, simple and fun new way to obtain start or growth
capital via all Symbid users and among their personal network
though private invites. Additionally, an entrepreneur has the
luxury to interact with his investor community within a closed
online collaboration workspace! | VenCorps™ is a community of interested individuals focused on
startup success. We peer review startups, help them solve problems,
and decide who should get funding in regular challenges. | Venture Bonsai enables entrepreneurs to get traction and feedback
for their product in the community, build trust with the potential
investors as well as attract investors when running an investment
round. | | WiSEED is a crowdfunding platform dedicated to high innovative
european startups. Specialized in seed investment. Open for people
investors from 100 €. | wweeddoo dispose d'une cagnotte en ligne sans frais pour les
porteurs de projet de 13 à 30 ans (crowdfunding). La
plateforme collaborative permet également d'accéder à la communauté
de soutiens et partenaires ainsi que de participer aux appels à
projets en ligne. |
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| Price |
- Gifts &Contributions: It's FREE for a limited time
(regularly $49.99) to start a Raise for gifts and donations, and
after the first month there is a small extension fee of $9.99 per
month if the entrepreneur wishes to extend the Raise for up to six
more months.
- Direct Loans: a setup fee of $29.99 for a limited time
(regularly $99.99) to activate a Raise for direct loans, and after
the first month there is a small extension fee of $9.99 per month
if the entrepreneur wishes to extend the Raise for up to six more
months.
- Commercial Paper: a setup fee of $99.99 - $199.99 for a
limited time (regularly $499.99 - $999.99) to activate a Raise for
commercial paper, and after the first month there is a small
extension fee of $49.99 per month if the entrepreneur wishes to
extend the Raise for up to six more months.
| 10% for company projects, 5% for charity and campus |
- 6% of the offering amount (3% fo investisors and 3% for
entrepreneurs) after the fundraising.
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- Experts and Members don't pay anything.
- Investors pay an annual membership fee of $(USD)100 to access
the Cofundit portfolio of investment
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- It is currently free to register as an Entrepreneur and add a
Pitch to Crowdcube. For a limited period we are waiving our £250
listing fee.
- When an Entrepreneur successfully raises their Target amount
Crowdcube will deduct a success fee of 5% of the target
amount.
- We also pass on legal fees of £1750 for completion of each
company investment. Again, this is only charged if the target
amount is raised.
| 0.3-1% per year |
- 5% HT (6% TTC) is taken from investisors in order to manage the
holding during 5 years in average.
- No management and exit fees during invesment period.
- No exit fees after 5 years, but 1% of fees in case of
individual sale before 5 years
- 22% of tax deduction (maximum: 40 000 euros for a married
couple)
- 50% of ISF deduction (maximum: 45 000 euros according to 2011
Finance Law)
| Fee 2,5% of successfull funds raised for companies projects and Fee
5% for other projects | Free to join. | Fee 5% excluded tax of investment for investors |
- Free registration and use of the platform.
- A fee of 5-8% upon successful funding (Dependent on the amount
of raised capital)
| Fees are charged only to the funded start-ups and have two
components ("5% + 5%" formula): Cash: 5% of the total amount raised
on our platform Equity: 5% of the raised capital on our platform |
- $100 to complete a preliminary application and submit a
business plan
- + $250 if approved for a second additional screening
- + 10% of the offering amount
| | Fee of 1% of funds | | |
- Registration and use of the platform are free.
- When a funding is successful, Seedmatch charges a success fee
of 5%-10% of the target amount (depending on the total amount of
money raised).
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- Startups - There is no pay to pitch. You only pay 7.5% if you
reach your target. That's it.
- Investors - The only fee you pay is 7.5% of any profits you
make from your investments. That's it.
| Free to register, with 2% of successful funds raised to be paid by
both parties on completion of successful deals. | Free for start-ups and investors. Fee 5% of succesful funds raised
to be paid by start-ups only | Fee of 0,5% up to 5% of investment for investors. | 2% management fee per year and a 20% performance fee only if the
internal rate of return is up to 10% (per year) see: | | Free for start-ups, existing companies pay an additional fee of 250
Euro For investors: mark-up of 3% (including VAT and transaction
costs) on any investment Success-fee if target funding is reached
5% | |
- Free for startups and investors.
- 5% success fee when round is completed
| | 10% of offering amount, after the fundraising for company only. | |
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| Languages | English | German | English, French | English | English | German, English | French | French | English | French | German | English | English | French | French | Spanish | English | German | English | English | Italian, English | French | English - Français - Neederlands | English | Dutch, English version anticipated 22-06-2011 | | English | Danish | French | Français |
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| Country of origin | USA | Switzerland | France | Switzerland | UK | Switzerland | France | France | Finland | France | Germany | Switzerland | USA | France | France | Spain | | Germany | UK | USA, offices in Ireland and the UK | Italy | France | Belgium | Netherlands | | | Finland | Denmark | France | France |
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| Fundraising | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| Maximum amount of fundraising | | | | | No, however any member wishing to invest over £5000 must register
as either a High Net Worth individual or a Sophisticated Investor | open | | No limits | 1M USD | | 100'000€ (without financial prospect)
500'000+€ (with financial prospect) | | | | | | | at the moment up to 100 000 € for fundings >100.000 € prospectus
needed | Raise up to £150,000 in equity capital for your startup. | $/€/£ 250,000 | No limits | | from €75,000 to + €1,000,000 | | 20.000 Euro up to 2.5 million Euro | | 1 000 000 € | | 100 000 € to 500 000 € | |
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| Fundraising campaign duration | | | 30 days | 4 weeks | 180 days | open | | to be defined (in general between 1 and 3 months) and could be
renewed once. | depending on startup/project | between 30 and 120 days | Auction of 30 days | | | | | | | 60 days | 3 months | 6 months | defined by the startup | | 1 to 3 months | | No time constrains | | defined by the startup | | 3 months after campaign launch | |
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| Who can raise money? | You need an idea for a US-based business, whether you are an
experienced entrepreneur or just starting out. You must be at least
18 years old with a valid US address. | - Enterprises or start-up’s - Charity projects - Campus projects | For business located in France. | | | businesses and everything that is not consumer credit | | | Startups/Entrepreneurs | | Innovative businesses based in Germany with:
- a functioning prototype and/or a market-ready product
- an impressive and skilled team
- a scalable and intelligent business model
- clear USPs
We welcome all types of business, but have clear expertise in
and focus on technology companies. | | | | | | |
- innovative businesses based in Germany
- complementary team
- market-ready product
- visionary, scalable, viable and mature business model
- clear USP
- a product or service that benefits from support of a crowd
- focus: b2c, cleantech, social businesses
| Membership is free and open to all UK residents aged 18 or older. | Innovative start up companies based in the USA, Ireland and the UK
at the moment. | Start-ups and existing companies spin-offs | | Seed (about to be launched) Early Stage (launched) Growth
(Expanding) | | Start-ups and existing companies | | Companies founded within the EU | | For business located in Europe, only for young innovative companies | |
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| Minimum investment | | | | | £10 | depends on project CHF 500 recommended | 800 € | | $20/month | 1000€ | +/- 1000€ | | | | 1000 € | | | 250€ | £10 | €250/£250/$250 | 5000€ unless differently set by start-ups | 1000€ | €100 | | 20 Euro | | 5 000€ | | 100€ | |
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| Who can invest ? | You must be at least 18 years old with a valid US address. | | | | Anyone who is a UK resident and over 18 years old can invest
through crowdcube. | anyone | | | Depending on country. The Global Grow VC Network is available to
all private investors, entrepreneurs, individuals who want to join
startups and others that want to see more innovation off the
ground. In some countries, due to legal restrictions, the service
the service is limited to qualified users (e.g. accredited
investors). Experts (auditors, lawyers, investment bankers,
technology professionals etc.) can make work investments to
startups, investing their working time instead of capital. | | Anyone 18+, registered and certified on the site. Our focus is on
serious, informed investors, who understand the business potential,
as well as the risks and who could become valuable contacts for the
company. | | | | | The only prerequisite to become a member of the community is to
have a bank account in Spain under his/her name. | | anyone (>18 years old) | Membership is free and open to all UK residents aged 18 or older. | US Accredited Investors UK and Irish high net worth individuals. | Private investors such as Entrepreneurs, Managers, Professionals or
anyone interested in being a Business Angel. But also VCs and BA
associations | | Anyone +18 years old | | Anyone (>18 years old) | |
- Residents of the EU
- U.S. Accredited investors
| | anyone (>18 years old) in Europe and the rest of the World | |
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