Currently in UK operates around 80 Crowdfunding platforms covering all major crowdfunding types, including real estate crowdfunding, equity crowdfunding, crowdlending and peer to peer, and more.
In this article, we will review the top platforms from each of the main niches.
The UK is definitely the biggest market in Europe for Equity crowdfunding. In the UK operates two biggest European equity crowdfunding platforms Seedrs and Crowdcube.
Seedrs and Crowdcube provide startups, from around Europe, with the possibility to raise funding from Europeans, on the other hand, offering people the possibility to invest in the hottest European startups starting with 100 EUR.
Via Seedrs were raised almost 3 billion GBP to finance 2200 startups like Revolut, Republic, transferGo, and more.Seedrs also operate a secondary market allowing investors to sell their share earlier. Based on the secondary market best-performing investments have grown by 5000%, which is astonishing returns.
Crowdcube is another large player with funding volumes reaching more than 1.2 billion GBP. Most successful investments on Crowdcube provided investors with x10 returns, top campaign secured 38x returns.
Besides Seedrs and Crowdcube in the UK operate many great platforms offering people investing in start-ups in easy ways, including, Growthdeck which provides various investment options Equity, loans property. Angels Den via which 21000 investors have provided funding to 375+ startups, The Crowd Angels on which you can invest in shares and provide loans to SME’s starting with 25 GBP, and more great platforms.
But if you do not want to invest in startups you can invest in Wisky on WhiskyInvestDirect or art on ArtSquare.io, and in legal cases on AxiaFunder.
Learn more about Equity crowdfunding here.
In the UK operates 30+ real estate crowdfunding platforms offer people the possibility to invest in real estate starting from as little as 100 GBP.
CrowdProperty, is the biggest real estate crowdfunding platform in the UK with funded volumes above 800 million GBP. CrowdProperty till now has done a good job of ensuring investor losses of just around 0.1% and actual returns (minus risk costs) of 7.91%.
Proplend is another big real estate crowdfunding platform from the UK that allows investors to invest in commercial real estate. Proplend funding volumes reached 147,915,396 GBP and an actual return weighted average of 8.48%.
Kuflink allows you to invest in properties-backed loans from as little as 1000 GBP. With Kuflink you can invest in Secured loans and receive up to 12.68% gross per annum. Funding volumes on Kuflink 323,651,852 GBP.
We can find different investments in the UK, buy to let allowing you to invest in properties that will be rented out, buy to sell that offer you investments in development projects. You will find platforms that will offer you the option to buy shares in property or provide loans with fixed income.
Real estate crowdfunding offers the best way to invest in property starting with little capital.
Learn more about Real estate crowdfunding here.
In the UK many great crowdfunding platforms offer investors opportunities to invest by providing loans to private persons and businesses.
Via FOLK2FOLK, one of the largest crowdlending platforms in the UK, you can start investing in business loans with interest rates starting from 8.75% p.a. and till now 678,191,306.00 GBP has been invested.
Downing Crowd offers lending money to asset-backed businesses with interests 6-7.5% p.a. Total funding on Downing Crowd has reached more than 200 million GBP.
If you looking for investments that make the world a better place, there are many platforms like Triodos Crowdfunding and Abundance Investment that offer investments in sustainable projects. As well you can invest money by providing loans to students for education making your investments meaningful via Lendwise.
Learn more about peer-to-peer here and crowd-lending here.
Reward crowdfunding and Donation crowdfunding are not as popular in Europe as well as in the UK as it is in the USA where platforms like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and GoFundMe have tens of millions of users and raise billions per year.
But in the UK there are few great players. CrowdJustice helps people to raise money for legal protection. Crowdfunder is the most popular platform in the UK where people raise money for good projects and in return receive gifts or +1000 to karma.
Unbound and Crowdbound are a platform where writers can raise money to publish their books.
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