Introduction
BankToTheFuture.com, co-founded in 2012 by former Investment banker Simon Dixon and former Banker Bliss Dixon, offers start-ups and mature businesses a means to secure crowdfunding, crowdinvesting, and crowdloans.
As an investor, BankToTheFuture.com offers two investment options to buy shares and to lend money to private companies:
BankToTheFuture.com is a hybrid crowd funding platform which offers the opportunity to contribute and invest in startup and mature businesses. It comprises:
1. Crowdinvesting - giving investors the opportunity to secure equity in a business in exchange for their investment
2. Crowdfinance – which is most like the crowdfunding model that people currently understand where people donate money in exchange for rewards. However BF allows people to contribute and invest at the same time, or independently.
3. Crowdloans - allowing creditworthy businesses to borrow money for their company from the crowd, rather than a bank, paying the interest directly to investors
In the first 6 months from the launch, BankToTheFuture.com helped to secure more than £250,000 for businesses pitching for investment. In order to prove the concept BanktotheFuture.com secured its own funding on its own platform and successfully launched on that basis.
Potential investors can read a business plan, view a video from the business and can begin managing an online portfolio of investments from as little as £10.00.
BankToTheFuture.com won British Innovation of The Year 2012 and has been enthusiastically endorsed by Sir Richard Branson. The company works with businesses and investors across a wide variety of industries.
Businesses wishing to pitch for investment using BankToTheFuture.com go through a three-stage process. Each process begins with an online questionnaire outlining the business model and the investment they are looking for. Stage two offers training and risk assessment to businesses to ensure they are in the best position to pitch to investors. The third and final stage of the process sees the pitch going live on the BankToTheFuture.com website. From here, businesses can pitch online or offline to secure the investment they need.
Visitors to BankToTheFuture.com looking to invest simply register their details, log on and search for suitable available pitches.
Simon Dixon, CEO of BankToTheFuture.com says, “We are democratising investing where businesses secure funding not because banks say “yes†or only rich people say “yesâ€, but because every day people are deciding who gets the money. We’ve taken the best practices which have previously only been used to raise finance for large companies and stripped out the cost and turned it online, so that small and medium businesses can raise the sums they need without the upfront fees.â€
Simon Dixon first qualified as an Economist with a degree in business economics from Kingston University, and went on to gain a Masters degree Economics from the University of Manchester in 2004. Simon then joined the ranks of TD Waterhouse as a stock broker, then KBC as a trader and investment banker.
Simon believes that banking can be transformed by alternative investment, educating the general public on sustainable banking and winning the political argument for banking reform.
As an investor, BankToTheFuture.com offers two investment options to buy shares and to lend money to private companies:
BankToTheFuture.com is a hybrid crowd funding platform which offers the opportunity to contribute and invest in startup and mature businesses. It comprises:
1. Crowdinvesting - giving investors the opportunity to secure equity in a business in exchange for their investment
2. Crowdfinance – which is most like the crowdfunding model that people currently understand where people donate money in exchange for rewards. However BF allows people to contribute and invest at the same time, or independently.
3. Crowdloans - allowing creditworthy businesses to borrow money for their company from the crowd, rather than a bank, paying the interest directly to investors
In the first 6 months from the launch, BankToTheFuture.com helped to secure more than £250,000 for businesses pitching for investment. In order to prove the concept BanktotheFuture.com secured its own funding on its own platform and successfully launched on that basis.
Potential investors can read a business plan, view a video from the business and can begin managing an online portfolio of investments from as little as £10.00.
BankToTheFuture.com won British Innovation of The Year 2012 and has been enthusiastically endorsed by Sir Richard Branson. The company works with businesses and investors across a wide variety of industries.
Businesses wishing to pitch for investment using BankToTheFuture.com go through a three-stage process. Each process begins with an online questionnaire outlining the business model and the investment they are looking for. Stage two offers training and risk assessment to businesses to ensure they are in the best position to pitch to investors. The third and final stage of the process sees the pitch going live on the BankToTheFuture.com website. From here, businesses can pitch online or offline to secure the investment they need.
Visitors to BankToTheFuture.com looking to invest simply register their details, log on and search for suitable available pitches.
Simon Dixon, CEO of BankToTheFuture.com says, “We are democratising investing where businesses secure funding not because banks say “yes†or only rich people say “yesâ€, but because every day people are deciding who gets the money. We’ve taken the best practices which have previously only been used to raise finance for large companies and stripped out the cost and turned it online, so that small and medium businesses can raise the sums they need without the upfront fees.â€
Simon Dixon first qualified as an Economist with a degree in business economics from Kingston University, and went on to gain a Masters degree Economics from the University of Manchester in 2004. Simon then joined the ranks of TD Waterhouse as a stock broker, then KBC as a trader and investment banker.
Simon believes that banking can be transformed by alternative investment, educating the general public on sustainable banking and winning the political argument for banking reform.
Contact Info
Address:
88-90 Hatton Garden
London
EC1N 8PN
United Kingdom
London
EC1N 8PN
United Kingdom
Tel:
Website:
http://www.banktothefuture.com
Offering
- Crowdfunding
- Crowdinvesting
- Crowdloans
Hours of operation
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