Kevin McCloud's Crowdfunding Campaign surpasses £1m target

Hab Housing has surpassed its investment target, securing over £1.4m via crowdfunding website Crowdcube to grow and expand its business. The £1.449m raised to date has been invested by more than 500 individuals pledging amounts ranging from £100 to £150,000. The company plans to invest in growth and to move into the Custom Build housing market, and aims to offer investors a 5% dividend by the end of 2016. Hab will continue to pursue funding up to a pre-set cap of £2m, extending their initial closing date from August 24th until September 29th to accommodate a surge in investor interest.

Crowdcube Is First Equity Crowdfunding Platform in the World to Pass £10 million

OVIVO overfunds to take Crowdcube's total to £10,162,060. Exeter-based Crowdcube became the first equity crowdfunding platform in the world to raise £10,162,060 for small businesses. Lending to British small businesses by over-cautious banks has shrunk since the banking crash of 2007/8, while Crowdcube has seen phenomenal growth in the amount of finance it has raised since its launch in 2011, proving that there is still a huge appetite for finance among start-up firms and other early-stage small businesses.

Crowdcube appoints Smith & Williamson as its accountancy and tax advisors

One of the world's largest equity crowdfunding platforms, Crowdcube, has appointed professional and financial services provider Smith & Williamson to be its full service accountancy and tax advisors. Founded in 2011 by Darren Westlake and Luke Lang, the London-based crowdfunding service listed in the 2012 Startups 100 offers businesses and investors an alternative means of funding and has so far helped over 60 businesses to secure in excess of £9m.

Scoopshot secures $1.2 million in new funding to take on stock photo sites with on-demand service
Scoopshot, the global crowdsourcing service for photo and video, has announced that they have secured $1.2 million in funding from the world's top-selling stock photographer, Yuri Arcurs.
Scoopshot is taking on the multi billion-dollar photo industry with a new service for crowdsourcing on-demand photography in minutes, backed by Yuri Arcurs. Offering an alternative to stale stock photo libraries and expensive agencies, Scoopshot gives all photo buyers the ability to set assignments for its global network of 280,000+ mobile photographers.