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What is Seedrs?
Republic has agreed to terms to acquire Seedrs. Similar to Republic, Seedrs provides access to startup investing through their online platform. Headquartered in the UK, Seedrs is Europe’s leading equity investment platform. You can read more about it in our recent press release, here.
Seedrs allows investors to buy and sell shares in private companies and provides ambitious entrepreneurs ways to raise capital for their company while building community in the process. Since its launch in 2012, Seedrs has funded over 1,400 deals, with nearly £1.5 billion invested on the platform to date. Businesses that have successfully raised funds with Seedrs include Revolut, Perkbox, Wealthify (sold to Aviva), Tandem, FreeAgent (sold to RBS), Allplants, Stamplay (sold to Apple), Chapel Down, Assetz Capital, Courier (sold to Mailchimp), THIS, Humble Grape, JAJA Finance and Urban Massage.
Seedrs is backed by leading European institutional investors as well as over 4,600 of its own customers. For additional information visit Seedrs.com or @seedrs on Twitter.