Seedrs Pitch - Campaign to open Seedrs to New Shareholders

I suspect they have relaxed the rules in terms of becoming Leedrs this week, obviously in order to drum up internal interest for their campaign.

I got the nod earlier today, but have only invested small amounts in the past month....so no, not a particularly exclusive club.

I shall certainly do a bit of research and take a look at 9am on Friday, though.

The equity crowd-funding area does have whiffs of dot-com about it, it seems to me, but Seedrs might be worth a small punt.

In Edit: this gives some brief background from previous rounds of fund-raising (and includes the present £10M).

www.crunchbase.com/organization/seedrs

I also got the invitation as a Leedrs club member, although the only investment I've made was in AC. I'd have a punt on any P2P/crowdfunding, but £10m seems excessive at their stage. I'm worried they are spending it on miserable Murray.

Thanks, pepperpot.

Well, that was entertaining - into overfunding after about 20mins or so.  Overfunding is not being accepted except where there is capacity due to non-payment from those who got in prior to 100% of the £2.5M being raised.  And if so, strictly first come first served.

As you predicted - EIS is available for the £2.5M.

(As an aside: there was an obvious spike in traffic at 9am on the Seedrs site - but it seemed to cope pretty well).

www.cityam.com/271346/neil-woodford-invests-another-gbp4m-into-crowdfunding

Further funding for Seedrs.

Anyone any thoughts?  Any shareholders considering exercising pre-emption rights?  I could really do with a bit more transparency in terms of the books TBH, but clearly they're commercially sensitive, so I don't see that being terribly forthcoming.