Investments
We’ve continued to make it easy for people to invest in businesses they believe in and share in their success.
Investors from 75 countries made over 38,000 investments totalling more than £64 million.
- £1,700 Average investment amount
- 8,000+ Questions asked by investors to entrepreneurs
- 189 Average investors per deal (496 avg. in the top 10 deals)
Investors
Seedrs investors have continued to back exciting growth-focused businesses
The average portfolio has 7 investments —the largest being 245!
Quotes
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"Seedrs is a great platform for early-stage investment opportunities as they provide access to an extremely broad range of different proposals which is impossible to have as a private investor. And they host amazing events to socialise with other investors and the entrepreneurs behind the campaigning businesses."
Benno, Financial Services
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"Of course the investment risks are high, but by investing through Seedrs I can be more confident that some of the procedural risks associated with building and maintaining exposure to such a portfolio are contained, and professionally managed."
Jag, Digital Innovator
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"Seedrs keeps the administrative process of investing as simple as possible. I particularly like that investment through Seedrs is for shares with full voting rights."
Derek, Civil Servant
Campaign Stats
And we’ve helped many entrepreneurs raise capital efficiently with our full service offering.
More than 340 businesses from 24 countries campaigned on Seedrs this year.
Most popular industries for investment
- Ecommerce
- Technology
- Retail
- Food & Drink
- Finance
Stages of funded businesses (percentages by amount raised)

On average it took four weeks for a deal to be funded.
Campaigns
A few of the funded businesses stood out in 2015
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Tossed
The high street healthy eating brand raised £1.23m from 661 customers and suppliers in a purely “crowd” funded round.
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Oppo Ice Cream
Only Oppo could raise £300K in just 2 days - in the middle of winter.
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Sell my Livestock
We fell in love with the concept of an online animal marketplace, and so did 226 investors.
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MyMiniFactory
My Mini Factory become the first 3D printing community to raise equity crowdfunding.
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Den
Founder Yasser was just 19 years old when his Seedrs campaign raised 624% of its investment target.
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FreeAgent
The accounting software boasting over 40k users raised over £1 million from 701 customers and network.
Series A
We raised a £10m Series A round, led by Woodford Patient Capital Trust and Augmentum Capital, and joined by hundreds of our crowd investors.
This was the largest institutional investment into a European equity crowdfunding platform to date.
Team
Our team has grown rapidly over the year
We had three world-class Advisory Board members join us
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Andy Murray
Tennis Champion and Investor
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Logan Green
CEO and Co-Founder, Lyft
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Dave Morin
Co-Founder, Path and Managing Partner, Slow Ventures
And we now have 40 team members from 8 countries spread across 3 offices.
Partnerships
We’ve also worked with:
Thank you
Here’s to 2016!
Thanks to all of the investors, entrepreneurs and partners who’ve made 2015 so brilliant. We can’t wait to see what great things happen in 2016!
To learn more about equity crowdfunding, discover great opportunities and invest, visit seedrs.com
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