Presenter – Darren Westlake, Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder of crowdcube will present on: “Everything you want to know about Crowd funding but are too scared to ask!” Equity-based crowd funding platform crowdcube (www.crowdcube.com) launched in February 2011. Dedicated to backing UK-based businesses, crowdcube enables entrepreneurs to showcase their business's investment potential online and raise finance from a nation of 'armchair dragons' - ordinary people being able to invest from the comfort of their own home - in return for shares. To date the crowdcube website has secured over £5,187,000 for over 30 UK businesses in a variety of industries, and now has over 30,000 registered investors investing from £10 to £100,000.

1. Darren Westlake
IGNITE your…. 2013

2. The Status Quo
A wealth of entrepreneurial talent
• UK has lots of great ideas
• Need to cultivate ideas into the next
Google/Twitter/GroupOn Google says searches for
• Often stifled by access to Money "business plan UK" have
increased by 60% over the
past year and searches for
"small business loan" are up
by 34%

3. The Status Quo
The Status Quo
• Venture capital difficult to find for smaller
requirements
• Debt finance hard to come by
• Business angels – limited investments
• Typically a syndicate each investing £10k - £100k
• What if there was a way to have say 5000 angels
each investing £10?
• What if anyone could become a business angel?

4. Crowdcube and Crowdfunding
What is Crowdcube?
• Crowdcube provides a 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:
• for entrepreneurs to source funding more accessibly than
conventional routes
• for smaller investors to have the opportunity to invest in exciting high-
potential businesses
“$100 invested in Microsoft at their IPO would now be
worth approximately $35k.”

5. Crowdfunding
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 donations
• 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

6. Crowdfunding

7. How it works

8. How it works

9. How it works

10. Benefits
Benefits

11. Business model
Success so far…
Deals successfully funded
£5.1 million 35
funded so far…
£100,000 >30,000
largest single investment members
£2,547 £1 million
av. investment FSA Authorised
biggest deal

12. Thanks
Questions?
www.crowdcube.com