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HumanForest raises £1.27 million in crowdfunding campaign

HumanForest has successfully completed its crowdfunding campaign, raising £1.27 million. “I would like to offer a warm welcome to HumanForest’s 523 new shareholders,” said Agustin Guilisasti, CEO and founder. “It gives me and the whole team at HumanForest great excitement to know that so many people from all around the …

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HumanForest’s crowdfunding campaign reaches £1.25 million

HumanForest has secured its target crowdfunding investment of £1.25 million. The campaign is now overfunded thanks to commitments from more than 445 investors. Capital raised will be used by HumanForest to acquire 1,500 electric bikes, expand into 15 London boroughs by summer 2021 and grow internationally in 2022. HumanForest launched its …

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Delfast sales grow to $2 million, crowdfunding campaign launched

Delfast has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Fundable with the goal to raise $3 million. The Fundable campaign plan is to construct an e-bike R&D centre to accommodate the rising demand and fulfil the requests Delfast has already received. The company experienced a 405% increase in sales in Q2, when …

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HumanForest launches £1 million crowdfunding campaign

HumanForest has launched a £1 million crowdfunding campaign with Crowdcube. Capital raised through the campaign will be used to buy more e-bikes, allowing the company to open in ten London boroughs next spring with 1,000 e-bikes, before adding five more boroughs and 500 e-bikes by July 2021. After London, the …

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Laka to aid next phase of development with Seedrs crowdfunding campaign

Laka has announced a Seedrs crowdfunding campaign. Currently, Laka is participating in the Seedrs pre-registration phase. This provides potential investors with an opportunity to register interest and enjoy priority investment access (for as little as a £10 investment) prior to the crowdfunding campaign opening publicly. The pre-registration phase closes at …

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HUUB launches crowdfunding campaign, sees cycling sales rise by 681%

Derby-based HUUB has launched a Crowdcube campaign. It is looking to raise a minimum of £250,000 to accelerate growth into new territories and through category expansion and extension. Olympic medallist triathletes and long-term HUUB athletes, brothers Alistair and Jonny Brownlee, have kickstarted the raise which will enable HUUB to continue …

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Electric Cycle Company to open “UK’s largest” e-bike shop

The Electric Cycle Company (ECC) is moving to a 4,000 square foot, carbon-neutral premises in Edinburgh. Boogie, host of Forth 1’s Breakfast Show, joined Neill Hope, MD of the Electric Cycle Company, to launch a crowdfunding campaign to renovate the building into a new store and workshop, the “biggest e-bike …

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Cycling tech start-up Body Rocket raises over £255,000 in crowdfunding

Body Rocket has successfully raised £255,424 in its first investment round on Crowdcube. The Brighton-based sports tech start-up set out looking to raise a minimum of £80,000 but surpassed this figure in just 24 hours on Crowdcube, following input from private investors. The team, who’ve developed the “world’s first” Direct Force …

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Cycling tech start-up Body Rocket partners with HotChillee

Body Rocket has partnered with cycling holiday agency HotChillee to offer top investors an exclusive training weekend. The start-up is heading into its final days on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube already overfunding, aiming to raise capital to take its current prototype device to MVP enabling testing with professional cycling teams and …

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Brompton commits up to £100,000 as part of new Wheels for Heroes campaign

Brompton Bike Hire hopes to expand its support for the NHS with the launch of a new initiative aiming to deliver over 1,000 newly-manufactured Brompton bikes to key staff. The Wheels for Heroes campaign sees Brompton Bike Hire launch a crowdfunder and commit production costs equating to an investment of …

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