20 VC 020: Revolutionising Investing with Luke Lang, Co-Founder of Crowdcube

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🗓️ 16 March 2015

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Luke Lang is Co-Founder and CMO of Crowdcube, the world's leading investment Crowdfunding platform. Crowdcube enables anyone the opportunity to invest alongside professional investors in start-up, early-stage and growth businesses. They have raised over £67m for an incredible 207 companies and have an amazing 150,000 registered investors

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What you will learn in today's episode:

How Luke got into the technology industry and really came to be Co-Founder to the world's 1st quit Crowdfunding platform in the world?
Other than capital what else will Balderton bring to you to aid your growth and development?
Does Luke believe Crowdfunding is a competing finance model to the traditional VC model?
Having seen 207 companies experience successful Crowdfunding campaigns, Luke describes what he believes the formula to be for a successful campaign?
For businesses thinking about Crowdfunding, what are the biggest benefits to businesses of raising seed capital through the Crowd?
With the increasing number of Crowdfunding sites, how does Crowdcube treat the competitive threat?
Is there an opportunity to attract more institutional style money to Crowdcube through retail bonds, which might appeal to income funds.

As the interview comes to a close we engage in a quick fire round where we hear Luke's views on the hardest obstacle Luke has faced in building Crowdcube? Where Luke sees Crowdcube in 5 years time? 3 companies funded by Crowdcube that Luke is most excited about?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 20 of the 20 minute VC with Harry Stebbings.
0:04.7	Now, on today's show, I'm so excited to welcome Luke Lang, co-founder of CrowdCube.
0:10.1	The world's leading investment crowdfunding platform,
0:13.2	enabling anyone to invest alongside professional investors in startup, early stage and growth businesses.
0:20.0	CrowdCube have raised over 67 million for 207 companies
0:24.8	and have an incredible 150,000 registered investors. But I've done enough talking for today. So without
0:32.0	further ado, let's jump into the interview with Luke. Three, two, one, zero.
0:39.9	You have now arrived at your destination.
0:42.7	Can you start by sharing a little about how you got into the technology industry and then
0:47.9	how you really progressed with the early concept at the time of equity crowdfunding?
0:52.5	Yeah, I mean, sure.
0:54.4	I mean, hello everyone to begin with, and hello to you, Harron.
0:58.1	Thanks for having me.
0:59.4	I guess you're kind of quote of the day, the Apple think different commercial.
1:06.0	Here's the crazy ones.
1:07.5	There was actually a really nice kind of link to my background in technology,
1:13.2	actually, because my brother at the moment who has that link to the YouTube adverts from
1:19.6	Steve Jobs on his, on his email today.
1:22.9	As do I.
1:23.9	Really?
1:24.7	Yeah.
1:25.5	So that's where, you know, I first worked for, you know, my brother, Mark, who started an ISP internet service provider 20 years ago.
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