Crowdfunding made simple with Seedrs

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefflynn/">Jeff Lynn</a> is Executive Chairman and co-founder at <a href="https://www.seedrs.com/">Seedrs</a>, an equity crowdfunding platform headquartered in London, UK.</p><p>We talk about:</p><ul> <li>Why and how Jeff and his classmate, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cmsilva/">Carlos Silva</a>, turned their classroom project at <a href="https://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/">Said Business School (University of Oxford)</a> into a very successful business</li> <li>How does it work? Seedrs is based in London and Lisbon and around Europe</li> <li>Is the same idea as the outset, or did they pivot?</li> <li>What kind of start-ups can raise funds at the platform (pre or post-revenue, UK based or pan-European)?</li> <li>What sort of due diligence do start-ups go through?</li> <li>FinTechs the most significant sector on the platform</li> <li>A secondary market for your investments in start-ups, how does it function?</li> <li>Start-ups who took a chance on Seedrs when it was an early-stage start-up itself</li> <li>How vital were partnerships for the growth of the platform: from <a href="https://www.instagram.com/andymurray/">Andy Murray</a> to the <a href="https://www.bvca.co.uk/">British PE and VC association</a> </li> <li>An impact of the pandemic on Seedrs business and thoughts on the fundraising prospects for start-ups this year</li> <li>Money raised and how fees work.</li> </ul><p><em>My Trip to the Start-Up World, aka Voice of FinTech Season 1 </em>book is out! This book is a collection of Voice of FinTech podcast highlights, recaps and additional resources, explained and woven together by <a href="https://www.rudolffalat.com/">Rudolf Falat</a>. You can now get it on Amazon near you as a paperback or an e-book (for Kindle), for example, in <a href="https://amzn.to/2B5Baew">Switzerland/Germany</a>, the <a href="https://amzn.to/3cQyiPR">UK</a>, or the <a href="https://amzn.to/2zvoRro">United States</a> and <a href="https://mybook.to/VoiceofFinTech">elsewhere </a>on Amazon.