Equity Crowdfunding

Nextfin is the UK’s first regulated alternative finance marketplace attracting 60,000 visitors a month. Nextfin rate and compare equity & P2P investments. It has tracked and researched £7.8bn of P2P funding and 4679 equity crowdfunding pitches, helping investors make more of their money and entrepreneurs raise finance. As part of its strategic growth it has acquired Crowdrating and is looking to expand its rating service and increase its visitor traffic.

Bookbarn International Group Ltd is one of the largest sellers of second-hand, pre-loved, and antiquarian books, selling both online and offline worldwide. They have a B2C and B2B business model, and 80% of the revenue is generated through online activity, while the remaining 20% comes from the shops, the cafe, and the wholesale business. The company sells books globally through 20 e-commerce portals, and their largest markets are in the UK and US, and over 40% of sales are exported. In the last 12 months, BBIG has sold 196,137 books online and a further 145,644 through BBIG’s two shops plus 45 pallets (roughly 1,000 books each) of wholesale books for the Books by the Yard operation. The investment amount will be deployed as expansion finance on software and systems development, marketing, sales, and profit growth through franchising and further aggregation.