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Reaching for a million: Vestiaire Collective launches crowdfunding

Vestiaire Collective has launched a crowdfunding campaign with the goal to raise at least one million euros. In return, investors will receive shares, the French resale platform announced on Tuesday. Company shares were already issued to employees a year ago. "Thanks to our continued success, 2024 will be a decisive year," said Maximilian...

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Nursem launches crowdfunding campaign to expand globally

Nursem, the therapeutic hand and body care brand founded by NHS nurse Antonia Philp and her husband Jonny, is looking to raise 600,000 pounds via crowdfunding platform Crowdcube to help accelerate growth. The brand targets those with sensitive and damaged skin, such as dry, cracked, or bleeding hands and is looking to secure investment to...

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Female-founded skincare brand Faace to launch crowdfunding campaign

Female-founded company Faace has announced it is set to launch its first crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs in a bid to support its global expansion plans and “help tackle investing inequality”. This month, the Faace team said they were looking to raise upward of 150,000 pounds ahead of the new year, in which the company is planning to launch four...

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Resale platform HEWI launches crowdfunding campaign

Luxury resale platform Hardly Ever Worn It (HEWI) has launched a crowdfunding campaign offering investment opportunities to its customers to aid in its “mission to lead the change in how the world shops luxury”. A message sent to HEWI’s customers from the platform’s CEO, Tatiana Wolter-Ferguson, outlined its “exciting” activations over the last...

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Sneaker start-up Rens looking to raise 1 million US dollars

Finnish sustainable sneaker start-up Rens, which makes shoes made from coffee grounds, is looking to raise 1 million US dollars with a Kickstarter campaign to fund the manufacture of its new Nomad shoe, which represents a revolution in eco-design. The company’s founders, Jesse Tran and Son Chuis are pioneering the use of recycled materials in...

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The Sports Edit launches crowdfunding campaign

Premium activewear e-tailer, The Sports Edit, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to further accelerate its growth. The campaign follows 2020 marking the company’s “best year yet,” growing online revenues by 145 percent, despite global economic uncertainty, and the company reported some of its best months in April and May during lockdown. “The...

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Atterley launches crowdfunding campaign to grow internationally

Online marketplace for independent fashion retailers, Atterley has launched a crowdfunding campaign to grow its international presence, after experienced year-on-year sales growth of 200 percent during the Covid-19 crisis. The company, which is used by more than 250 independent boutiques and has around 2,800 brands live on the site, is looking...

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Handbag Clinic launches second capital raise

Handbag Clinic, the luxury bag restoration and resale business, is seeking 2 million pound investment, after embarking on its second capital-raising campaign to help support its global expansion plan. The handbag restorer is hoping to raise more funds to expand in core business areas - brand building, streamlining systems and recruitment of...

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Labfresh reaches crowdfunding goal in less than 2 hours

Amsterdam-based clothing company, Labfresh, known for treating its products with dirt-repellent, antibacterial and innovative textile technologies, has successfully crowdfunded for its stain repellent trousers in less than two hours to surpass its 13,000-pound goal. The Kickstarter campaign marked the fash-tech label’s fourth crowdfunding...

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Lone Design Club launches crowdfunding campaign

Lone Design Club, which champions small independent designers, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise 150,000 pounds to help accelerate its growth. The initial crowdfunding campaign is open to current designers and customers, ahead of a public launch, and the investment target of 150,000 pounds will provide finance for...

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How to succeed in crowdfunding, according to the maker of the world’s most crowdfunded shoe

For most people, work is the last thing they want to think about while on vacation. For Alberto Espinos, however, a trip to Thailand with some friends in 2016 generated a business idea that flipped his career upside down. After hiking hundreds of hours carrying heavy backpacks, he and his friends realized each one of them had brought at least...

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The Baukjen Group crowdfund for US expansion

British retailer The Baukjen Group, which owns contemporary womenswear brand Baukjen and premium maternity label Isabella Oliver, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to support the retailer’s expansion into America. The group is looking to raise 400,000 pounds by the end of December via a Crowdcube campaign in return for 3.02 percent equity, so...