Tagged: renewable

October 15, 2020 @ 3:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Renewable investment platform Abundance has now raised nearly £620,000 in funding through its latest Seedrs campaign. The funding round, which has so far attracted more than 475 Seedrs investors, launched last month and quickly raised its initial £350,000 funding target.  As previously reported, Abundance… Read More

October 7, 2020 @ 2:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Less than two years after securing more than £1.5 million through its previous crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, renewable investment platform Abundance has returned to the funding portal and quickly surpassed its £350,000 funding target and is now nearing £535,000.  As previously reported, Abundance launched… Read More

December 16, 2018 @ 11:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Abundance, a renewable crowdfunding platform that allows investors the opportunity to earn money while making the world a better place, has successfully secured more than £1.5 million through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. The round was launched in October, originally seeking £1.2 million, with the platform reporting… Read More

November 11, 2018 @ 9:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Abundance, a renewable crowdfunding platform that allows investors the opportunity to earn money while making the world a better place, has surpassed £1.3 million through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. The round, which recently launched, quickly raised its initial £1.2 million funding target and has attracted… Read More

June 16, 2018 @ 2:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Neoen, an independent green energy producer, and WiSEED, a European crowdfunding platform, have  inked an agreement to partner on funding of renewable energy projects in France. The very first offering is to raise money for a solar energy project located at a former coal mining… Read More

October 25, 2016 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Downing Crowd has successfully raised £1.25 million to fund its first ever “Hydro Bond” for a newly opened ‘run-of-river’ power station developed by Nightjar Sustainable Power Limited in Argyll, Scotland. Downing Crowd is an offshoot of Downing LLP, an investment manager founded in 1986. Downing… Read More

August 24, 2016 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Solar Mosaic, usually just referred to as Mosaic, has raised over $40 million for working capital purposes according to a filing with the SEC.  The equity offer in Mosaic saw its first sale on August 4th with the sales managed by Guggenheim Securities in Manhattan…. Read More

December 14, 2015 @ 12:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pavegen has partnered with Shell and Akon in its biggest project yet: Africa’s first people & solar powered football pitch (soccer field for the yanks). The field incorporated 96 energy tiles beneath the turf. The switch was flipped this past Friday representing another successful implementation of… Read More

December 14, 2015 @ 10:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lender Abundance has just paid investors, an bi-annual event with one payment occuring towards the end of each year. The renewable energy funding platform states it paid £312,000 to 1700 investors in 6 of 15 projects financed to date. This brings the… Read More

November 28, 2015 @ 5:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

As revealed in a tweet by Abundance, the renewable energy platform has raised £1 million in just 24 hours for on offer. A first for the crowdfunding site.   And it’s done! First project to reach £1m in its first 24 hours. As always, thanks to… Read More

September 24, 2015 @ 4:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Join the first and the only Renewable Energy Crowdfunding Conference in the world (2nd edition). Network with 150+ attendees: investors, financiers, project developers, crowdfunding platforms and solar stakeholders Meet C-level execs and decision makers from 20 countries in the world Learn from international speakers and… Read More

May 30, 2015 @ 8:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

SolarPVExchange is the newest entry into the renewable energy crowdfunding space.  Launched on May 28th, the company just held its “Sunvest” launch party in Singapore this past week.  The platform is a crowdsource / crowdfunding hybrid and claims first in the region.  The site allows… Read More

February 23, 2015 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Renewable energy financing platform SunFunder has stated that since its launch in July of 2012 the crowdfunding site has financed $1.75 million in loans for 39 different projects.  Of those 39, 19 loans have been fully repaid for a total of $421,000. SunFunder is a… Read More

February 17, 2015 @ 4:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

GridShare, a new renewable energy crowdfunding platform, has just launched and they are targeting all aspects of clean tech by facilitating debt, equity and donations based funding.  There is growing interest in renewable energy crowdfunding. Investments that package a social good with a return on… Read More

February 15, 2015 @ 7:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Uvest Solar, a “mission driven” solar energy crowdfunding startups, is taking pace in Google for Entrepreneurs program Startup Next.  Later this month Richmond, VA based founder Blue Crump will share his concept alongside 14 other young companies at the AT&T Palo Alto Foundry. The one… Read More

December 10, 2014 @ 7:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Renewable energy crowdfunding platform Abundance is offering an end of the year special for investors participating in their largest crowdfunded solar investment ever.  All new and existing investors will receive a “2% uplift” to any investment between now and the end of the year.   The… Read More

September 4, 2014 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

In a bit of a coup, solar energy peer to peer financing platform Mosaic has announced that Lisa Gansky will be joining its board of directors. Lisa is a noted entrepreneur and author of the book Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing which… Read More

September 3, 2014 @ 11:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Famed fashion designer and environment advocate Vivienne Westwood has invested £1 million into renewable energy crowdfunding platform Trillion Fund.  According to reports she will not only be a significant investor in the site but an “active ambassador” for the company. As reported in the Telegraph,… Read More

August 19, 2014 @ 8:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Democratization of energy and finance now go hand in hand, thanks to crowdfunding.  A growing number of platforms from all over the world are enabling people to contribute towards the environment themselves, while making returns that beat any saving account. For renewable energy project developers… Read More