ShareIn

Based in Edinburgh, ShareIn is a website that connects individual investors to companies which need equity funding. Uniquely, ShareIn enables innovative companies to "embed" the crowdfunding platform in their own website and then individuals can buy shares in their company. You can find out more here. *Equity crowdfunding helps people with a great business idea to ask the general public for the funding they need to set up or expand. The unlisted company (a company that is not listed on a stock market) sets a target for the money it wants to raise, sets the terms of investment, and explains what it will use the money for. People can then invest in the company's future by buying shares. Crowdfunding greatly widens the pool of potential investors.