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Your capital is at risk Please #investaware Read more the grind bond: more than 90% raised so far. earn 8% interest p.a. capital at risk. Read more Invest in innovative British businesses Crowdcube is the world’s leading investment crowdfunding platform. We enable anyone to invest alongside professional investors in start-up, early stage and growth businesses through equity, debt and investment fund options. Join the 180,000-strong crowd looking for more interesting investments - it’s free, quick and has no obligations. £89,327,783 successfully funded 187,361 registered investors 262 businesses successfully funded Risk Warning Please #investaware. Investments of this nature carry risks to your capital as well as potential rewards. Please read our risk warning and disclaimer before deciding to invest. Investment Opportunities View All 34 Pitches Mini Bonds NW England & Scotland Bertram Bond NW England & Scotland Founded in 2002, Bertram Nursery Group is currently the 8th largest operator of day nurseries in the UK, with an annual turnover in excess of £14m. We are raising funds to acquire additional nurseries and make improvements to our existing facilities. Read full pitch 24% funded £243,500 invested £1,000,000 target 106 Investors 8% interest rate 12 days left Mini-bonds are a way for you to get a regular return on your savings by lending money to more established brands over a set period. #investaware Popular Equity Pitches Hethel, Norfolk EIS Investor: ClearlySo raise capital for businesses & funds focused on impact. They also run their own impact investing network. Extremis Technology Hethel, Norfolk EIS Investor: ClearlySo raise capital for businesses & funds focused on impact. They also run their own impact investing network. Backed by the ClearlySo Angel syndicate, Extremis designs and develops emergency shelters for the disaster relief market, which is estimated to be worth several billion dollars. Having already secured investment from the Low Carbon Innovation Fund, Extremis has developed a number of key partnerships including FMN international who specialise in distribution for commercial and humanitarian sectors and two charities, Shelterbox and Techo. Read full pitch 77% funded £201,550 invested £260,000 target 206 Investors 12.45% equity 8 days left Marsh Barton, Exeter, Devon EIS Poundshop.com Marsh Barton, Exeter, Devon EIS Featured on BBC1's Pound Shop Wars and launched in partnership with Poundland founder, Steve Smith, Poundshop.com aims to disrupt the single price retail market. The company, which launched in February 2014, offers access to pound shop bargains with the convenience of home delivery and has had over £500,000 in sales. Read full pitch 88% funded £154,810 invested £175,000 target 162 Investors 8.00% equity 13 days left City of Westminster, London EIS Workabode City of Westminster, London EIS Workabode - aiming to be the AirBnB & TripAdvisor of workplaces is looking to lead the disruption of the $11bn and rapidly growing “workplace as a service” market. Backed by internet entrepreneur Richard Coundley, Workabode is an aggregator that allows you to work anytime, anyplace and anywhere, paying only for what you use, rating the places you work in, and connecting you with other like-minded workers. Read full pitch 108% funded £162,060 invested £150,000 target 132 Investors 5.00% equity 19 days left Lambeth, London EIS Partner: It’s estimated by Beauhurst that half of all seed-stage equity deals will involve crowdfunding platforms. And with Crowdcube being the leading platform for seed-stage investment by a factor of three, you have a far greater choice with us. arc-on Lambeth, London EIS Partner: It’s estimated by Beauhurst that half of all seed-stage equity deals will involve crowdfunding platforms. And with Crowdcube being the leading platform for seed-stage investment by a factor of three, you have a far greater choice with us. arc-on is an established, award-winning, British motorcycle clothing company. Their range has won the RiDE magazine and Fast Bikes ‘Best Buy’ awards and has been worn by 21 British Superbike riders and journalists such as Al Fagan of Fast Bikes. arc-on is raising investment to bring to market an innovative new glove, designed to be the first in the world to be constructed with pieces of Forcefield body armour. Read full pitch 81% funded £53,210 invested £65,000 target 50 Investors 20.00% equity 20 days left New Sheffield, South Yorkshire SEIS Investor & Partner: The Yorkshire Post & Deliciouslyorkshire Taste Awards in association with Asda It’s estimated by Beauhurst that half of all seed-stage equity deals will involve crowdfunding platforms. And with Crowdcube being the leading platform for seed-stage investment by a factor of three, you have a far greater choice with us. Savvy Foods Sheffield, South Yorkshire SEIS Investor & Partner: The Yorkshire Post & Deliciouslyorkshire Taste Awards in association with Asda It’s estimated by Beauhurst that half of all seed-stage equity deals will involve crowdfunding platforms. And with Crowdcube being the leading platform for seed-stage investment by a factor of three, you have a far greater choice with us. Savvy is an innovative sweet spread and dip range created from tahini and carob syrup. Savvy is stocked in independent stores across the UK and abroad. The range has won a taste-award and has proven appeal to the specialist food sectors including diabetics, free-from and the aged population. Read full pitch 1% funded £150 invested £50,000 target 4 Investors 10.00% equity 44 days left View Our New Investment Opportunities Risk Warning Please #investaware. Investments of this nature carry risks to your capital as well as potential rewards. Please read our risk warning and disclaimer before deciding to invest. 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This means that if the Issuer becomes insolvent, investors could lose some or all of their money. Lack of liquidity Liquidity is the ease with which you can sell your investments to a third party after you have purchased them. Mini-bonds purchased from Issuers pitching through Crowdcube may be transferrable if specified in the Bond Instrument, however they will not be listed on any formal investment exchange or secondary trading market such as the LSE ORB and so it may be difficult or impossible to find a buyer to purchase them. Please refer to the individual mini-bond documentation for full details of transferability. Investments in mini-bonds through Crowdcube should be viewed as a long term and illiquid investment. Restricted redemption rights Issuers of the mini-bonds set the terms for redeeming your capital. 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Your investment may be materially curtailed because of this. Lower in the pecking order on winding up If an Issuer falls into financial difficulty and goes out of business, other creditors and debt holders with seniority – including fixed charge holders, administrators, employees who are owed wages, banks, and secured debtors - will be compensated first. This means it is unlikely mini-bond investors, whose unsecured investment sits below all of the previously mentioned in the pecking order, will have their initial investment or outstanding interest payments returned to them after higher ranked creditors are compensated. Interest rate and inflation risks Mini-bonds pay interest at a fixed rate rather than by reference to an underlying index. Accordingly you should note that a rise in interest rates may adversely affect the relative returns that mini-bonds offer. Further, inflation may reduce the real value of the returns over time. Close Risk Warning 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. This page is approved as a financial promotion by Crowdcube Capital Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. 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. Crowdcube takes no responsibility for this information or for any recommendations or opinions made by the companies. 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