Seedrs Offers Opportunity to Invest in “Big App Fund” with Worth Capital

Seedrs Europe

“The Big App 2014” pan-European competition is run by Worth Capital in partnership with Facebook.

worth-capitalEuropean equity crowdfunding platform Seedrstoday opens investment into Worth Capital’s ‘Big App Fund’, which will invest in up to four winners of a pan-European competition, supported by Facebook, to find the very best new Apps in retail and e-commerce.

The Big App Fund, run by Worth Capital, is seeking to raise £350,000 on Seedrs, offering each investor a share of the fund’s holdings. The Fund will invest up to £150,000 in the winner, and up to £100,000 in each of the runners up, securing 10% to 30% equity in each business, dependent on each business’s current performance and potential. The minimum investment per investor is £100. Worth launched its first competition in January 2014, with Metro Newspaper. Our search to find the next big retail business resulted in nearly 1,000 entries competing for £300K of investment.

Paul SoanesPaul Soanes, Managing Partner of Worth Capital, said:

“After the extraordinary success of our first fund on Seedrs, Worth Capital is delighted to announce the launch of our next project – the Big App Fund. The Big App is a European-wide business competition to search for the best new mobile app entrepreneur. Our search will be supported by our new partner Facebook, who will provide huge exposure to entrepreneurs across Europe. Based on the record breaking success of our first fund, Worth is raising a fund of £350k on Seedrs to invest in the winner and up to three runners up.”

The competition will be heavily promoted by Facebook to aid in recruiting top contestants.  This is a unique opportunity to find the best young UK or European retail or e-commerce App businesses.  The competition launches today with the best 100 entrants expected to attend a Pitch Day at Facebook’s London HQ on October 27th with the aim of progressing to the finals. The best 10 applications will enter the final judging event to be held on 17th November at Facebook’s HQ. All judging will be carried out by an impressive panel of experts.

Deborah Hale, Business Marketing Director at Facebook EMEA, said:

“We’re very excited to help power the search for Europe’s next young entrepreneurs. The Big App Fund is a great opportunity for entrants looking for the funding and mentorship they need to get off the ground. Fostering innovation on mobile is central to Facebook’s role in helping businesses of all sizes grow and be successful and so we’re really happy to lend the programme our full support. For the investors, the fund represents a very attractive opportunity as the competition is the ultimate filtering process.”

The Mobile App market is one of the world’s fastest growing sectors, riding on the back of the huge uptake of smartphones and other mobile devices across the world. Last year, 1.25 devices were sold, and Portio Research (2013) predicts there will be more than 4.4 billion Mobile App users by 2017. Notably, 80% of consumers’ time on mobile devices is spent using apps, equating to 160 billion minutes per month globally. Not surprisingly, the investment market is following the money. Venture capital firms invested $3.5 billion in Mobile App business in 2013.

Jeff Lynn on BloombergJeff Lynn, CEO of Seedrs, said:

“This is a very exciting competition and investment opportunity. The Big App Fund offers private investors an ideal way to gain a slice of the action in this hugely expanding market. The added value of an expert panel picking the best companies to invest in, the mentoring these companies will get and of course Facebook’s support in recruiting entrants and the promotion of the winners makes this a genuinely unique opportunity for investors.”


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