SyndicateRoom Launches First Female Focused EIS Fund
SyndicateRoom, a UK-based online investment platform, has announced its first female founder-focused fund offering. According to the company, the Angel Academe EIS Fund I – is the UK’s first EIS fund...
View ArticleSyndicateRoom Touts 11X Increase in Valuation for Portfolio Firm
SyndicateRoom, an online investment platform that was recently acquired, has distributed an email touting a portfolio company that has experienced an 11X increase in valuation. SyndicateRoom offers...
View ArticleAI Firm Egregious Raises $1 Million in Pre-Seed Funding, Aims to Combat AI...
Egregious, an artificial intelligence (AI) firm that seeks to combat social media and other types of deception has raised $1 million in a Pre-seed round. Egregious was backed by Fuel Ventures and...
View ArticleHigher Capital Gains Taxes Compel Calculus to Launch Another Knowledge...
The Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is moving higher in the UK, and firms and individuals are adjusting their behaviour. One way to mitigate CGT is to invest in companies that qualify under the EIS/SEIS/VCT...
View ArticleRepublic Europe Highlights Labour Government Capital Gains Tax Increase and...
Last week, the Labour government outlined its budget for the forthcoming year. The Autumn Budget, delivered by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, sought to address a “black hole” of...
View ArticleSyndicateRoom Reports Access EIS Fund Growth of 44% for 2020 Vintage
SyndicateRoom, a platform that began life as a single issuer investment platform, has shared insight into its Access EIS Fund performance. The Access EIS Fund is available to smaller investors and aims...
View ArticleHaatch EIS Fund Offered on Seedrs this Month
Haatch EIS Fund is launching on Seedrs making the fund available to smaller investors. Investment in this EIS Fund is expected to be across 4-6 companies. Haatch reports that its first EIS Fund is...
View ArticleTo Simplify EIS – SEIS Tax Benefits, Crowdcube Partners with TaxScouts
The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Investment Enterprise Scheme (SEIS) provide materially important tax benefits for investors in early-stage firms in the UK. Designed to encourage the...
View ArticleSeedrs: 14,000+ Individuals Have Invested £22+ Million in SEIS Eligible Firms
In the UK, early-stage private firms are supported with innovative tax exemptions designed to make investing in risky ventures more appealing. As everyone knows, a robust entrepreneurial and startup...
View ArticleSEIS Adjustment to Help Early Stage Firms, UK Crowdfunding Platforms
Among other policy initiatives aiming to boost the UK’s flagging economy, SEIS or Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme – a pro-innovation tax exemption received an adjustment as outlined in the Chancellor...
View ArticleInsurtech: EIS Acquires Enterprise Business Solutions from Lemonade
EIS has acquired Metromile’s Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) from Lemonade (NYSE: LMND), according to a company statement. The terms of the deal were not immediately available. The all-cash...
View ArticleVenture Debt Provider Juice Ventures Leverages Modulr Payments Tech Stack to...
EIS/SEIS investment fund Velocity Capital Advisors has announced the launch of a new venture debt provider Juice Ventures, a platform that will be utilizing Modulr’s tech stack. Juice expects to...
View ArticlePerspective: Time to ignite the dry powder in the UK
I have been impressed, not only with the economic levers Rishi Sunak, has used to stimulate the economy but with the measured and calm way he has dealt with a crisis that could have been a poison...
View ArticleUK Fintech Freetrade to Return to Crowdfunding on Crowdcube on May 14, 2020
UK-based Freetrade, a Fintech firm that offers a free-to-use investment app that makes it simpler to invest, has revealed that it will again be seeking additional capital via crowdfunding, beginning...
View ArticleNextfin Adds Voice to Growing Call to Expand SEIS and EIS Programs to Offset...
Nextfin, an investment aggregation platform, is echoing the sentiment of many other platforms in the early-stage funding sector by calling on the UK government to expand both the Enterprise Investment...
View ArticleCrowd2Fund Receives Advanced Assurance From HMRC For EIS Tax Relief;...
UK-based crowdfunding platform Crowd2Fund announced on Monday it has been formally granted its Advanced Assurance from HMRC for the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) tax relief. According to...
View ArticleSyndicateRoom’s Fund Twenty8 will Re-Open to Investors
SyndicateRoom, a leading investment crowdfunding platform, has announced its intent to open up their early stage investment fund, Fund Twenty8, to new investors on September 11th. The fund enables...
View ArticleEnterprise Investment Scheme Association Schedules Series of Events to...
The Enterprise Investment Scheme Association (EISA) has scheduled a series of events around the UK to share information on two very important programs: the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed...
View ArticleKuber Ventures Announces Three New Growth Funds to EIS platform
On Tuesday, alternative investment firm Kuber Ventures announced three new growth funds on its EIS platform. The company reported that the addition of the growth funds follows last year’s budget...
View ArticleBritbots: Second Robotics – Artificial Intelligence Fund on Track to Close Soon
UK based Britbots, a investment platform dedicated to promoting robotics companies, and Sapphire Capital Partners, a specialist manager of tax-efficient funds, has shared that their second British...
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