Businesses

The leading marketplace for Europe’s high-growth businesses

We’re the experts in helping Europe's best high-growth businesses to raise investment, realise returns for their shareholders and drive engagement, loyalty and advocacy from their community and ours.

Europe’s most active investor

With over £1 billion invested with Crowdcube to date and more than 70 businesses funded in Q1 2021 alone, we’re the largest equity marketplace for private companies in Europe.

Your lifetime funding partner

We can support your ambition from Seed through to IPO.

Be a hero. Enable liquidity with Crowdcube Secondaries.

Give your employees, early investors and founders the opportunity to realise paper returns without waiting for an exit.

We offer a flexible approach to secondaries to help support your business objectives; whether that's to privately offer liquidity to your shareholders or to engage and build your community through a public secondary offering. We can also facilitate primary and secondary rounds simultaneously to provide existing shareholders with liquidity while raising capital.

Expert guidance without compromise

We’ll take the stress out of raising investment by advising you on every aspect of your fundraise, from overall strategy, to marketing communications and the legal details of the transaction.

Trusted partner

We work with Europe’s best high-growth businesses and have co-funded rounds with leading VCs. We’re proud to have been independently named the most active investor in 2020 by Beauhurst.

Track record of success

We’re a proven source of capital for businesses across sectors, stages and countries.

Comprehensive shareholder management

With our lifetime nominee, you’ll only have one shareholder on your cap table. Streamlining ongoing investor relations, our comprehensive nominee is managed by our in-house team of legal and compliance experts.

Consultative partnership

You’ll benefit from a decade of funding experience with honest, consultative advice from a dedicated campaign manager, with support from our team of legal, compliance and marketing experts.

Experts at converting interest to investment

Maximising the success of your raise with us is our priority; we’ve honed our support, product and marketing activity to optimise the conversion of interest to investment.

Benefits beyond funds

A raise with us is about much more than investment. This is your most important and effective marketing campaign.

An experience your customers will love

Like you, we obsess over our customers’ experience; that’s why we’re rated Excellent on Trustpilot.

Funded Community benefits

Our Post Funding Team will help fuel your long-term growth and help strengthen your relationship with investors.

Engage your community

Building an engaged community is the norm for forward-thinking businesses. We’ll give you best practice advice on how to turn your customers into shareholders who’ll be your best brand advocates, most loyal customers and biggest spenders.

A brand you can trust

Like you, we obsess over our customers’ experience, that’s why we’re rated ‘Excellent’ on TrustPilot. Our world-class tech is geared up to ensure your customers always have a great experience even if your shares sell out like Glastonbury or El Clásico.

Trust is important for investors, so we clearly explain the risks and the due diligence we do before approving a pitch for investment.

Supporting our community

As a member of the Crowdcube Funded Community, we've built a selection of exclusive services to help spur your company's growth. These exclusive offerings have been built with our partners and are based on pain points we know high-growth companies face.

We've helped our community save between £20,000-£30,000 per provider from well-known brands including Stripe, AWS, Microsoft and JCDecaux.

With you for the long term

We have all the resources, knowledge and a network of experts to guide you along the way.

Frequently asked questions

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Investing in start-ups and early-stage businesses involves risks, including illiquidity, lack of dividends, loss of investment and dilution, and it should be done only as part of a diversified portfolio. Crowdcube is targeted exclusively at investors who are sufficiently sophisticated to understand these risks and make their own investment decisions. You will only be able to invest via Crowdcube once you are registered as sufficiently sophisticated. Please click here to read the full Risk Warning.

Crowdcube Capital is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) . This page has been approved by Crowdcube. Pitches for investment are not offers to the public and investments can only be made by members of crowdcube.com on the basis of information provided in the pitches by the companies concerned. Further restrictions and Crowdcube's limitation of liability are set out in the Investor Terms and Conditions.

Investment opportunities are not offers to the public and investors must be eligible Crowdcube members. Please seek independent advice as required as Crowdcube does not give investment or tax advice.