UNITI becomes the first Swedish equity crowdfunding unicorn
UNITI becomes the first official FundedByMe unicorn after being valued at over a billion SEK in their latest round of funding.
In October 2016 UNITI, the innovative electric vehicle company, launched their equity crowdfunding campaign on FundedByMe. The campaign was a roaring success straight from its launch, reaching their crowdfunding goal within 36 hours. The campaign raised over EUR 1,200,000 from 570 investors from 29 different countries.
UNITI have now expanded their production facilities to Silverstone UK. They state that the purpose of the move is to learn from the iconic F1
FundedByMe, Sweden’s largest crowdfunding platform, today announced that it had broken the record for most number of investments on the platform, formerly held by the day that launched success story Uniti. Driven by success stories Bzzt Stockholm, Sonician and Droshi, the previous such record was set by Uniti Sweden in December 2016.
“Over the past year we’ve been steadily growing the mindset of the crowd investor and today I am proud to see the effect that such a diverse collection of companies have on FundedByMe.” says Alina Lundqvist, Head of Business Development at FundedByMe. And
Scandinavia’s fastest-growing crowdfunding platform closes its 2016 activities with a cheer. With more than 74,000 registered members from 179 countries, FundedByMe has thus far raised almost €30 million to 461 successful crowdfunding campaigns, averaging €5,500 per investment and investments from 45 countries. This is almost double the total amount raised during the first five years up to December 2015.
“The crowdfunding trend is only going to get bigger from here, as 2016 has shown a maturity of the market while FundedByMe attracts bigger parts of the early majority than early adopters
Sweden’s first urban electric car, Uniti, today launched its global equity crowdfunding round on FundedByMe with a goal to raise €500.000 for 5,1% ownership in the company. The company, which is developing a lightweight electric city car that combines holistic sustainability, a futuristic user experience and is developed in an open-source manner, reached 63% of its investment goal from 68 crowd investors in the first 4 hours after launching to the public. The Uniti crowdfunding campaign will run until November 15, 2016 and a total of 50,000 shares are available for crowd ownership – at a