Tag Archives: Crowdcube

Body Rocket raises over £200,000 in first 24 hours of public crowdfunding

UK start-up Body Rocket has raised over £200,000 in the first 24 hours of its public crowdfunding launch. Its ‘Equity for Aero’ crowdfunding campaign invites members of the public to invest in the company ahead of its planned launch in early 2023. Body Rocket is a commercial on-bike device capable …

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Electric bike designer Cowboy launches second crowdfunding campaign

Electric bike designer Cowboy has announced its second crowdfunding campaign to further engage its community of fans and riders. The initial goal of €1,000,000 was met within a couple of hours during the private opening to past and pre-registered investors. The public phase will be open through to 23rd March. …

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Bike Rental Manager moves closer to B2C goal following crowdfunding campaign

Creators of bike rental software Bike Rental Manager (BRM) has surpassed its crowdfunding target, raising 123% of the initial £250,000 goal. The team has started to implement its plans for growth by hiring two sales consultants and a customer success manager, who, along with recently appointed marketing agency Digital Ethos, …

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HumanForest launches £1 million crowdfunding campaign

HumanForest has launched a £1 million crowdfunding campaign with Crowdcube. Capital raised through the campaign will be used to buy more e-bikes, allowing the company to open in ten London boroughs next spring with 1,000 e-bikes, before adding five more boroughs and 500 e-bikes by July 2021. After London, the …

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Bike.Rent launches Crowdcube campaign

Bike.Rent has launched a Crowdcube campaign with a target of £250,000. Bike.Rent says it is “on a mission to become the world’s best bike rental platform”. It already has over 350 bike stores across 18 countries, and each year connects hundreds of thousands of bike renters to tens of thousands …

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HUUB launches crowdfunding campaign, sees cycling sales rise by 681%

Derby-based HUUB has launched a Crowdcube campaign. It is looking to raise a minimum of £250,000 to accelerate growth into new territories and through category expansion and extension. Olympic medallist triathletes and long-term HUUB athletes, brothers Alistair and Jonny Brownlee, have kickstarted the raise which will enable HUUB to continue …

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Cycling tech start-up Body Rocket raises over £255,000 in crowdfunding

Body Rocket has successfully raised £255,424 in its first investment round on Crowdcube. The Brighton-based sports tech start-up set out looking to raise a minimum of £80,000 but surpassed this figure in just 24 hours on Crowdcube, following input from private investors. The team, who’ve developed the “world’s first” Direct Force …

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Cycling tech start-up Body Rocket partners with HotChillee

Body Rocket has partnered with cycling holiday agency HotChillee to offer top investors an exclusive training weekend. The start-up is heading into its final days on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube already overfunding, aiming to raise capital to take its current prototype device to MVP enabling testing with professional cycling teams and …

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Body Rocket hits funding goal hours ahead of campaign launch

Brighton-based sports tech start-up Body Rocket has hit its funding goal hours ahead of its campaign launch. The campaign, which initially sought to raise £80,000, opened early to a select group of private investors on 15th March 2020 and was fully-funded just a few hours later. Now open for public …

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