Crowdcube and SeedLegals partner to make fundraising faster and easier for companies

Crowdcube and SeedLegals have partnered to provide a streamlined process for founders to get investment ready, find investors, get SEIS/EIS, raise investment and grow their businesses.

The partnership leverages Crowdcube’s market-leading investment platform with SeedLegals’ industry standard legaltech platform to provide founders a solution for each step of their fundraising journey:

• find investors
• combine public retail offers with the tools to facilitate private investments from exempt investors
• complete fundraising legals quickly and cost-effectively
• raise ahead of a round and top up an existing round
• ‘roll up’ multiple investors into a single line on the cap table

Over the coming months Crowdcube and SeedLegals will add product integrations to make it easier for companies to combine raising from Crowdcube’s investor community of 1.3 million investors with using SeedLegals for getting SEIS/EIS approval, issuing EMI share options to their teams, getting R&D cashbacks and the legal contracts for running their business.

Matt Cooper, Co-CEO of Crowdcube said: “By combining Crowdcube’s expertise in facilitating both primary and secondary investment rounds through our proprietary shareholder management tool with SeedLegals’ innovative legal technology, we are delivering a superior solution for founders and investors alike.”

Anthony Rose, CEO and co-founder of SeedLegals said: “Over the past years we’ve seen a clear trend of founders wanting to mix and match VC, angel and retail investments. We’re excited to combine SeedLegals’ legal platform with Crowdcube’s fundraising expertise to turn that into a connected experience. The partnership reflects our shared goals of simplifying fundraising and empowering entrepreneurs and investors.”

To date, Crowdcube and SeedLegals have helped more than 50,000 companies raise more than £2 billion from 1.3 million investors.

Bill Simmons, Co-CEO of Crowdcube said: “With their extensive reach and technology platform, SeedLegals is the perfect partner to provide support to private companies throughout their funding lifecycle. This partnership marks an incredibly exciting development.”