Crowdfunding made simple with Seedrs

07/07/2020 32 min Temporada 1 Episodio 71
Crowdfunding made simple with Seedrs

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Jeff Lynn is Executive Chairman and co-founder at Seedrs, an equity crowdfunding platform headquartered in London, UK.We talk about:Why and how Jeff and his classmate, Carlos Silva, turned their classroom project at Said Business School (University of Oxford) into a very successful businessHow does it work? Seedrs is based in London and Lisbon and around EuropeIs the same idea as the outset, or did they pivot?What kind of start-ups can raise funds at the platform (pre or post-revenue, UK based or pan-European)?What sort of due diligence do start-ups go through?FinTechs the most significant sector on the platformA secondary market for your investments in start-ups, how does it function?Start-ups who took a chance on Seedrs when it was an early-stage start-up itselfHow vital were partnerships for the growth of the platform: from Andy Murray to the British PE and VC association An impact of the pandemic on Seedrs business and thoughts on the fundraising prospects for start-ups this yearMoney raised and how fees work.My Trip to the Start-Up World, aka Voice of FinTech Season 1 book is out! This book is a collection of Voice of FinTech podcast highlights, recaps and additional resources, explained and woven together by Rudolf Falat. You can now get it on Amazon near you as a paperback or an e-book (for Kindle), for example, in Switzerland/Germany, the UK, or the United States and elsewhere on Amazon. See more also here.

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