Garage Beer, a Barcelona based craft brewery, has closed their equity crowdfunding round on Crowdcube Spain having raised €500,000 with the support to 228 investors. According to information provided by Crowdcube, 90% of the investments were under €1,000 with many being current Brewer Garage customers. Investors were... Read More
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Brainlang, an innovative, large-scale Language Acquisition system that provides the brain with the necessary inputs to understand and learn a new language, has successfully secured €162,500 from a total of 79 investors during its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube Spain. Established less than a year ago by... Read More
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Crowdcube Spain has received approval by the Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), the regulatory body of the Spanish Stock Market. Management believes the approval has strengthened Crowdcube’s position in Europe following the Brexit decision for the UK to depart the EU. Crowdcube Spain... Read More
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Lendix, a top SME marketplace lending platform in France, has received regulatory approval from the CNMV and is now ready to set up shop and operate in Spain. The announcement was not unexpected as Lendix had raised € 12 million earlier this year for their international... Read More
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Continuing to establish a fecund atmosphere for alternative financial market growth, Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), the regulatory body of the Spanish Stock Market, has given authorization to MytripleA, Crowdcube and Lendix. Last week Crowdcube Spain was authorized by the CNMV as established in the Law to Promote Business... Read More
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Debt-based crowdfunding platform ECrowd! is one of the first Spanish sites to receive a formal operating license from the Comision del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), the securities regulatory agency in Spain. ECrowd!, based in Barcelona, has joined Crowdcube Spain, Lendix and MyTripleA in receiving official... Read More
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Capital Cell, an investment crowdfunding platform that describes itself as the first European crowdfunding platform for biotech projects, has recieved regulatory approval from the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV). According to a statement on their site, after ten months of audits, interviews and... Read More
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In late July, Barcelona-based Capital Cell received Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) approval to operate as a “Participatory Financing Platform.” This authorization includes the capability to select and publish financing projects and also gives Capital Cell the right to operate as an investment... Read More
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On Tuesday, Spanish startup Wave launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise 500,000 for its location smartphone app. Within just two days of its debut, the initiative scored over £375,000 from more than 100 investors. Wave is described as a free smartphone app... Read More
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The Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) in Spain has approved Arboribus to operate as a Participatory Financing Platform (PFP) joining a growing list of regulated platforms. Arboribus is an online lender providing access to capital for SMEs. A PFP is a new type of... Read More
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When Finnovista first covered Spanish fintech in 2013, the site recorded only 50 startups in the sector; now, three years later, in its first edition of Fintech Radar Spain, the site identified 207 Spanish fintech startups, indicating the sector had quadrupled in three years, stats largely in line with fintech’s global trend. Cofounded... Read More
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This month the Spanish financial regulator Securities Exchange Commission (CNMV) authorized MytripleA as a Platform for Participatory Financing, the formal name for a crowdlending platform. This is one of the first actions to implement Law 5/2015 Promotion of Corporate Financing. “Alternative financing is growing rapidly in... Read More
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In 2015 a small Spanish company named Hawkers was looking to enter the North American market for sunglasses. They decided to utilize Kickstarter to help cross the Atlantic and expand their brand. Jump forward to today and this company has just raised $56 million to... Read More
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Finstar backed peer to peer lender Viventor has released a statement saying it is experiencing 60% average monthly growth during its first year of operation. The online lender launched in October 2015. The company also shared that initial results after launch in 2015 were disappointing but said... Read More
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Barcelona-based cobblers Les Chausseurs launched their crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube Spain earlier last week and have already taken in more than 50,600€ of its 90K€ objective from over 27 investors. 20% equity is being offered. “I chose Crowdcube for several reasons; first, because its team explained the... Read More
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This Capital Cell crowfunding campaign is a unique opportunity to co-invest with an undisclosed VC firm in Era7 Bioinformatics, a Spanish company focused on the revolution of the Microbiome and providing new solutions to address the problem of antibiotic resistance. Era7 Bioinformatics uses its own algorithms... Read More
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Barcelona-based designer shoe brand, Les Chausseurs, has closed its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube Spain. The company secured over €110,000 from more than 70 investors. Les Chausseurs was founded in 2014 with a mission to distribute a limited series (comprised of 12 units) of designer shoes... Read More
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Debt-based crowdfunding platform ECrowd! announced this week it has secured €307,900 from 135 investors during its second Crowdcube Spain campaign. The funding portal raised €154,000 from 48 individual investors during its first Crowdcube Spain initiative in September 2015. Matthieu van Haperen, CEO and co-founder of ECrowd!, stated:... Read More
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ING plans to discontinue its P2P mobile payments app Twyp in the Netherlands after it failed to gain traction with customers, according to a release. Twyp CEO Mohamed de Booij indicated the decision to close down the service in the Netherlands was made following feedback from Dutch... Read More
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Era7 Bioinformatics, a Spanish company that focuses on the revolution of the Microbiome and providing new solutions to address the problem of antibiotic resistance, announced this week it closed its Capital Cell campaign, which raised nearly €600,000 in funding. As previously reported, Era7 Bioinformatics was... Read More
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