Pleuni Jacobs has been working as an editor for Eurolutions, the owner of this website, since 2019. She mostly writes news and background articles. For Investment Platforms, these articles are focused on trading platforms and investing. She also is the person responsible for adding advertisements to the website. If you have questions about advertising, chances are that she will be the one answering them. Do you want to read more of Pleuni’s work? Check out our other websites: Ecommerce News Europe, Ecommerce News Nederland, Crowdfundmarkt, Investeerders and Ondernemen en Internet.
Before writing for Investment Platforms, Pleuni studied Psychology and obtained a Master’s degree in Gender Studies. After that, she started out as a freelance writer but soon noticed that she wanted to work with colleagues. Then she found Eurolutions, where she has been working ever since. Nowadays, she mostly writes news and background articles. She also manages advertisements and edits texts by other editors.
Latvian lending platform Mintos is launching a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube today. By doing so, the platform hopes to raise additional growth capital. It has plans for further international expansion and to launch new investment products.
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Crowdfunding platform Seedrs has announced that an unnamed Championship football club will soon fundraise on the platform. The company wants to target more sport teams and expects that it will add more of these campaigns in 2024.
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CoinMart, a Dutch cryptocurrency broker, has raised 2.8 million euros. The funding comes from IDG Capital, which is also announcing a partnership with the crypto broker. This brings the platform’s total funded amount to 14.3 million euros.
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Lithuanian agricultural investment platform HeavyFinance has raised 50 million euros in funding. This will be used for a private credit fund to advance agricultural decarbonization in Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal.
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The French crowdfunding market has recorded a decline of 11.3 percent. In total, more than 2 billion euros in funding was collected last year. The decline was mostly caused by the real estate crisis, as real estate crowdfunding dropped 28 percent.
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In early 2023, international crowdfunding platform Invesdor merged with Dutch sustainable crowdfunding platform Oneplanetcrowd. In November, the technical steps involved with the merger were completed. We spoke with Maarten de Jong, one of the founders of Oneplanetcrowd, about the merger and plans for the upcoming year.
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Lithuanian property investment platform InRento has reached the milestone of 20 million euros in investments raised. Currently, users profit from an average annual return on investment of 11 percent. “In just a few years of our history, we have managed to earn a high level of investor confidence with an increasingly strong investment performance”, says Deividas Urbanovičius, Head of Investor Relations at InRento.
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UK-based crowdfunding platform Seedrs is laying off 15 percent of its European workforce. The company is closing offices in Spain and Sweden. However, the company is not withdrawing from those markets. It will still offer its services there.
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Online broker Trade Republic has generated its first net profit in its financial year to September 30th 2023. The milestone comes five years after the platform’s launch. According to the company’s founder, Christian Hecker, it now has 35 billion euros in assets under administration.
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Latvian lending platform Mintos has launched a new product: Mintos Core ETF. The platform curates a collection of ETFs, personalized to user’s profiles. By doing so, it wants to simplify the process of investing in ETFs and ensure accessibility for all types of investors.
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