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Why not join the crowd and discover the new way to fund your growth?
An overview of UK Crowdfunding
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Alan Scrase21st March 2013
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Context
• SETsquared Partnership - the Enterprise collaboration of the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey
• Approximately 7,400 academics working at these universities are responsible for ten per cent of the UK's Higher Education research budget
• Partnership formed in 2002 led by Southampton with Bath, Bristol and Surrey (Exeter joined in 2011)
• Funded under Higher Education Innovation Funding until 2015
• Collectively supports the growth and success of new business opportunities through spin-outs (20%), spin-ins (80%), licensing, acceleration and incubation
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The SETsquared approach • SETsquared approach
– Review and apply to enter– If accepted then
• Work with Centre staff• Appoint mentor• Regular Business Review panels
• Aim to assist high-growth and innovative companies with
– business planning– management team development– Securing funding
• Grants• Banks • Investment including crowdfunding
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• UK has lots of great ideas• Need to cultivate ideas into the next
Google/Twitter/GroupOn• Often stifled by access to
UK has a wealth of entrepreneurialtalent
Google says searches for "business plan UK" have increased by 60% over the past year and searches for "small business loan" are up by 34%
Money
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• Grants complicated and time consuming• Debt finance hard to come by• Venture capital difficult to find for smaller
requirements• Business angels – limited investments
• Typically a syndicate each investing £10k - £100k
• Is there a way to have 5000 angels each investing £10?
• What if anyone could become a business angel?
The way it is…
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Crowdfunding
• Crowdfunding is an approach to raising the capital required for a new project or enterprise by appealing to large numbers of ordinary people for small amounts
• Social Media• Crowdfunding examples
• Kiva.org - $325m funding raised, >777,000 lenders, ~800,000 entrepreneurs
• Kickstarter.com – >24,000 projects funded, > $250m pledged to-date, 2m people have pledged
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• Most fundraising to date in lower gap but rapidly growing
Equity Funding Gaps
• Model has shown potential to raise larger amounts
• Participation of larger investors
£100k £1m £2m
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In 2011 453 platforms raised $1.5 billionin project and business financingSource: Crowdsourcing.org
Annual growth in the number of crowdfunding platforms worldwide
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Crowdfunding Types
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• Mix of motivations for investing
• Financial and non-financial returns
• Model’s suitability for social ventures
Risk-Reward profilewhere crowdfunding may fit
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Kickstarter Project Crowdfunding
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Kickstarter Project Crowdfunding
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Kickstarter Project Crowdfunding
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FundingCircle Loan Crowdfunding
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FundingCircle Loan Crowdfunding
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FundingCircle Loan Crowdfunding
http://www.crowdcube.com/pg/how-it-works-4
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The stages of equity crowdfunding
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• Crowdcube provides a FSA approved web-based central hub for entrepreneurs to meet micro-investors. It uses the power of Crowdfunding to provide a unique service to two types of people:
Crowdcube Equity Crowdfunding
“$100 invested in Microsoft at their IPO would now be worth approximately $35k.”
• for entrepreneurs to source equity funding more accessibly than conventional routes
• for smaller investors to have the opportunity to invest in exciting high-potential businesses
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Crowdcube Equity Crowdfunding
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Crowdcube Equity Crowdfunding
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Crowdcube Equity Crowdfunding
https://www.fundingcircle.com/how-it-works#how-it-works-video
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Equity crowdfunding benefits
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Success so far…
£5.1 millionfunded so far…
£100,000largest single investment
>30,000members
Deals successfully funded
35£1 million
biggest deal
Crowdcube to date
£2,547av. investment FSA Authorised
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Some challenges
• Regulation
• Process challenges
• Post-investment
• Getting the best participants
• Potential returns
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Regulation
• Important to ensure investors are protected
• JOBs Act is one option but not necessarily the best one
• EU looking at options
• UK FSA have started approving already
• Need for more transparency and consistency across Europe
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Process challenges
• Flexibility around valuations
• Collaboration between investors
• Investor transparency and signals
• Using online tools to aid in fraud detection and business evaluation
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Post-Investment
• Managing input from many investors
• Incentivising investors with small stakes
• Protecting investors post-investment
• Voting rights
• Exploring liquidity for investors
• Ensuring businesses remainattractive to follow-on funders
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UK Crowdfunders
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Alan Scrase
SETsquared at the University of
Southampton Incubation Centre Manager
07825 761 652