The House Crowd reaches half a century 

The House Crowd has bought its 50th crowd funded property with money raised from investors each investing as little as £1000.  Set up in 2012, The House Crowd has raised £3.3million to date and has grown at over 152% in year 2. This unique model, the first in the world, uses no borrowings meaning that properties are free of any mortgages and therefore the risk is substantially reduced.

Launched as a website www.thehousecrowd.com, The House Crowd encourages investors to 'crowd' together, each providing a small amount of money to purchase a property.   This ability to invest as little as £1000 and gain greater returns than most savings accounts and pensions has been central to take-up among investors.

BeerBods funds in 36 hours to become Crowdcube's fastest pitch

Online beer lovers' club raises £150k, mostly from customers.   BeerBods is an online beer club and subscription service, based in Worcestershire. They have just become the fastest pitch to fund on Crowdcube, the world's first (and largest) equity crowdfunding platform. 101 investors put in £150,000 in 36 hours, overfunding the pitch by 150%. Of these, many were existing subscribers passionate about the product. They include a senior executive at innocent drinks and a former vice-president from Morgan Stanley.

BeerBods was started in September 2012 by Matt Lane (now 28). "My aim is simply to get more people drinking better beer" he says. Matt does this via an online club where members pay £36 every quarter to receive a case of 12 different craft beers. Subscribers drink the same beer (just one) every week and come together to talk about it online. "The power of the internet and a bit of clever logistics means our subscribers are discovering, learning about and enjoying each beer together" explains Matt. The community grew to 1,000 subscribers in a year and now has over 1,500 members.

UK's m-commerce shopping app SHAREIGHT gets major boost from investors with record breaking £600,000 Seedrs round 

Investors get serious about mobile commerce with a £600,000 injection to grow SHAREIGHT's smartphone shopping app · SHAREIGHT reached their target amount (£350,000) in less than 17 hours. They reached their second target in 24 hours · SHAREIGHT has a pre-money valuation of £3 million · Partners include Superdry, John Lewis, Clarks, Topman, PC World, New Look and B&Q

London start-up SHAREIGHT has highlighted the growing importance of mobile commerce as an investment opportunity by raising £600,000 in 24 hours from over 240 investors through the equity crowd funding platform Seedrs. The round is currently in an overfunding period and is expected to exceed£600,000 (US $1,000,000) today. SHAREIGHT has set new records for the speed and amount raised on the platform - excluding Seedrs's own campaign in 2013.

From outsider to key player in just six months - next generation Crowdfunding Platform wins FCA authorisation in double quick time 

FCA accolade catapults the SyndicateRoom equity crowdfunding platform into an elite few · Only the third platform of its kind to be directly authorised by the regulator · Recognition comes after it has successfully helped UK firms raising £4m of investment.  Just over six months since it launched, the equity crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom has become only the third of its kind to be directly authorised by the FCA.

The authorisation is a recognition of the platform's exceptionally high standards of service and transparency, and the explosive growth that SyndicateRoom has enjoyed so far appears to show that there are a large number of sophisticated investors out there looking to invest in angel investment opportunities.