Crowdcube
VC Fund
Exeter, United Kingdom
Crowdcube is an equity crowdfunding platform for entrepreneurs of start-ups and growing businesses. Crowdcube enables individuals to invest or loan in small companies in return for equity or an annual return. As an investment crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube enables entrepreneurs to raise finance with the added benefit of being backed by the crowd. For investors, Crowdcube provides a way to handpick a stake in an innovative business that traditionally would have been restricted to corporate investors. Since Crowdcube first pioneered equity crowdfunding in 2011, a total of £300m has been invested through the platform from a crowd of over 390,000 investors, with more than £230m successfully invested in 520 raises. Businesses like the challenger bank Monzo, which raised £1 million in a record-breaking 96 seconds, as well as household brand names such as River Cottage and the Eden Project along with venture capital-backed businesses such as JustPark, eMoov, Sugru and Chip have all successfully raised growth funding from the crowd.
- Total investments:
- 1058
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 4%
- Fund size:
- $8.3M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Crowdcube invests in
Stages Crowdcube invests in
Countries Crowdcube invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 11 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $376k–$4.9M
- Convertible Note
- $246k–$3.8M
- Equity Crowdfunding
- $109k–$2.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Food and Beverage 135 (13%)
- E-Commerce 81 (8%)
- Software 76 (7%)
- Health Care 76 (7%)
- FinTech 72 (7%)
Stage
- Equity Crowdfunding 767 (72%)
- Convertible Note 54 (5%)
- Seed 20 (2%)
- Pre-Seed 12 (1%)
- Series A 7 (1%)
Country
- United Kingdom 645 (61%)
- Spain 72 (7%)
- France 29 (3%)
- United States 24 (2%)
- Ireland 12 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Colin MacLaughlin
Head of Finance & Business Intelligence
|
Head of Finance & Business Intelligence | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Adrian T.
Investor
|
Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Azahara Espejo
Head of Business Development
|
Head of Business Development | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Bill Simmons
COO, CFO and Director
|
COO, CFO and Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Darren Westlake
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
| See all 11 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emerald is a preventive health membership with local screenings, all your data in one place, and an action plan unique to your biology. | $850K / Angel / Apr 30, 2025 | ||
| ROLEY’S is a beverage company that produces vitamin-enriched lager. Its drinks are formulated with B-vitamins such as B3, B5, B6, and B9 and contain minimal sugar and carbohydrates. The company aims to offer an alternative beer option that aligns with modern nutrition and wellness preferences. | $1.3M / Equity Crowdfunding / Apr 01, 2025 | ||
| While in Rome is a pioneer in the decarbonization of the wine sector, providing Italian craft wines in eco-friendly alternative packaging. While in Rome is a maker of alternative format wine. | $416.9K / Equity Crowdfunding / Mar 18, 2025 | ||
| Vancubic is a company that specializes in developing innovative modular products for van conversions, enabling easy and efficient customization for individuals and businesses. | $518.2K / Venture - Series Unknown / Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| Mosa Meat produces slaughter-free hamburgers. The burger is harvested from cow cells, rather than raising and slaughtering a whole animal. By growing meat naturally from cells, Mosa Meat strives to accelerate the transition to a truly sustainable global food system. | $3.8M / Equity Crowdfunding / Feb 04, 2025 | ||
| KAEX® basic is a nutritional supplement that reloads the body with vital elements after intense training or social drinking, thereby improving regeneration and mitigating mental and physical fatigue the next day. After partying, i.e., excessive alcohol consumption, KAEX® basic reduces damages to the body by preventing nutritional deficiencies andcan be complemented with KAEX® dolo - an OTC pharmaceutical that gives symptomatic relief to hangover symptoms - making it the safest and efficacious hangover treatment ever to be developed. In sports, KAEX® basic is increasingly being used by professional athletes. | $1.4M / Equity Crowdfunding / Jan 28, 2025 | ||
| Tribe is the UK's running community. The company curates nutrition ;plans tailored for your race training to help you train stronger. | $2.9M / Jan 13, 2025 | ||
| Mintos is a platform that provides retail investors with an accessible way to build wealth through loan-based investments. Through their platform retail investors can invest in a diversified way in income-producing assets to build wealth in the long term. They implement environmental, social, and employee matters, respect for human rights,anti‐corruption, and anti‐bribery matters within their remuneration policy practices and other internal company documents. | $3.4M / Equity Crowdfunding / Aug 06, 2024 | ||
| Rematch is a video editing application that allows users to edit, record, and share videos and highlights of the game. | $1.6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 25, 2024 | ||
| ThinkSono is a company at the cutting edge of medicine and technology. | $2.8M / Mar 14, 2024 | ||
| See all 1058 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Crowdcube invest in?
Crowdcube invests primarily in Food and Beverage, E-Commerce and Software startups, most often at Equity Crowdfunding and Convertible Note stage. Most of the 1,058 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Crowdcube invest in?
Crowdcube typically joins rounds of $376k–$4.9M at Seed, $246k–$3.8M at Convertible Note and $109k–$2.3M at Equity Crowdfunding. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Crowdcube's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Crowdcube took part in.
How do I contact Crowdcube?
Public channels for Crowdcube include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.
Who are the partners at Crowdcube?
The team at Crowdcube includes Colin MacLaughlin (Head of Finance & Business Intelligence), Adrian T. (Investor) and Azahara Espejo (Head of Business Development), among 11 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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