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Blog posts tagged with: Future Fund

Rishi Sunak the Happy Hour Chancellor's new Future Fund is Flawed at birth.

Smiling and making soothing noises is not going to help our start ups. Yet again Sunak has produced a non workable solution that sounds good.

Sex Sells. Killing Kitten's Future Fund bid puts us way through the bottom of the barrel - we are now in the sewer proper.

Seedrs have backed Killing Kittens in a JV round with you, me and Rishi, the smiling assassin, UK taxpayers all - we will own 1.6% of a sex industry start up. Boris's World Class UKplc - see you...

The final bell sounds for a Crowdcube powered favourite.

Against the Covid19 backdrop, this 4 times funded Footsie100 linked, loss making, start up, pleas for one final round. Cry Wolf again?

Government hides British Business Bank advice on Covid business loans.

British Business Bank raised serious concerns with Government about all of their Covid 19 Business loans schemes in April and then May 2020. What did the Government do? Hid the letter until now.

It feels like Easy is getting harder everyday.

Easy Property which was, back in 2015, on Crowdcube is now struggling to complete its Seedrs round as the NewCo Easy Property. We can see why! Apologies to Iris Dement for borrowing the title of...

Oval Money Round Ball Square Hole and the usual it's not our fault Gov.

The collapse of yet another Wonder in the world of equity crowdfunding proves one thing - As Crowdcube and Seedrs run it, it does not work. When will the Government wake up?

Bad boys of Goodbox help themselves as yet again The British Business Bank has no one at home and the door left wide open.

White and Co have questions to answer. But as it's an offshore deal and our systems allow and even encourage this type of thing, we wont get any answers.

British Business Bank has used £1.14bn of UK taxpayers cash to supposedly support UK Business via The Future Fund. So why are they hiding the names of 670 companies supported?

Two companies we know of have used the FF - Zapaygo has already gone bust and the other, Mettrr, is a pitiful mess. Together they have taken £7.5m from the FF.

From ZAP to ZERO. We ask why did British Business Bank use our money to fund two complete and obvious flops in Zapaygo and Zero Carbon Farms.

We have asked the BBB but had no response. The public is entitled to know how this flagrant waste of millions came about. We do after all 100% own the BBB.

Hardman and Co’s Brian Moretta in conversation with ECF Buzz Founder Rob Murray Brown on start up investing, equity crowdfunding and what’s a good read.