The UK equity investment market was worth over £12B (approx €13.2B) in 2019 and was the ‘busiest year on record’ for crowdfunding as per crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. Both the equity crowdfunding platforms – Seedrs and Crowdcube, have collectively raised £2B (approx €2.2B) in fundraising to date for 1,500 UK businesses.
Since lockdown, Freetrade, Moneybox, and what3words have all raised over £7M (approx €7.7M) from over 35,000 investors – three of the most popular campaigns of equity crowdfunding history.