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Libertine to Close Round
As expected, Sheffield-based Libertine has indicated a closing date for their funding round of April 12th. Having secured more than £700k from a ...
We are Shadow Foundr.
Shadow Foundr offers a fast and simple investment model for companies seeking to raise funds. With our FCA-compliant, automated platform, the support of our dedicated, world-class team and access to our global investor network, we are perfectly placed to help you raise funds, whatever stage your business is at. Shadow Foundr has become one of the UK’s leading equity investment platforms and through our private investor network and successful collaborations, we have helped raise huge sums for many early-stage, high growth businesses.
Founders we’ve shadowed
Chayora
Oliver Jones
Developing a series of hyperscale, fully licensed data centre campuses in key locations across China.
Oliver Jones
Chayora CEO
Oliver originally qualified as a chartered surveyor and, after completing his MBA at London Business School in the late 1980s, specialised in corporate finance, complex outsourcing transactions and property operating-related investment deals. As a co-founder of Chayora, Oliver’s principal areas of focus include team leadership, investor management, securing tenants and raising the profile of the venture with key stakeholders.
£2,153,056 raised
500%
Increase in company valueDrenl
Jim Brathwaite
Delivering affordable, low carbon renewable energy solutions for local communities across the globe.
Jim Brathwaite
Drenl CEO
James is an internationally-recognized business leader with operational experience in the media (CEO of Epic Interactive Media plc) and environmental industries (Chairman of SEAL Ltd and former Board Member for the Environment Agency). Jim has been a key proponent of the Innovation and Environmental Industry sectors in the South East region throughout the last decade, as Chairman of SEEDA and Pathway to a Circular Economy in the South East, the successor to European Pathway to Zero Waste for London and South East England Regions.
£4,391,449 raised
300%
Increase in company valueFuture Earth
Isobel Biora
Future Earth Energy is an innovative clean energy infrastructure platform delivering distributed energy solutions to commercial and industrial end-users.
Isobel Biora
CEO
Isobel is the CEO and Founder of Future Earth Energy, a technology agnostic partner for local renewable energy projects. FEE combines technological and market insights, project development skills, corporate finance and private equity expertise to deliver solid returns in a rapidly growing renewable energy industry. Isobel holds a PhD in Energy Policy and is also the author of many publications including a Financial Times Management Report on ‘The Electricity Industry in Spain. She is an experienced leader with exceptional skills in delivering sustainable solutions in complex infrastructure projects. Isobel has significant world-wide experience advising utilities, developers, lenders, investors, investment funds, governments and regulators.
£632,906 raised
300%
Increase in company valueSynapse
Brian Donnelly
Synapse has re-engineered the spreadsheet you have on your desktop to connect to powerful cloud databases.
Brian Donnelly
CEO
Brian founded his first major business, Constellar, in the late 1990s. In the process of growing the business, he migrated to Silicon Valley after being offered US VC funding. Brian took Constellar to a total of 70 major customers and 160 staff before it was profitably sold to IBM. Brian has seen companies, large and small, struggle with spreadsheets to automate business critical operations. The fundamental solution to this problem became the basis of Synapse.
£391,967 raised
500%
Increase in company valueHow Shadow Foundr works.
We find disruptive scalable opportunities, we undertake extensive due diligence, we offer the opportunity out to our professional investor network, we then allow everyone the chance to follow the experienced investors and invest.
Exits we’ve achieved
Drenl A
Delivering affordable, low carbon renewable energy solutions for local communities across the globe using the best in class technologies – bringing power to the people.
£250,000 raised
Get StartedPeerBrief Tax Credit
PeerBrief is a job and talent referral system that makes it easy and rewarding for the right talent and opportunities.
£60,000 raised
Get StartedHoneycomb Merger
'Who's Who' of the Advertising World Join Forces to Disrupt Television Commercial Delivery.
£304,748 raised
Get StartedENDING SOON
ABBS
Advanced Blast & Ballistic Systems Ltd (ABBS) has developed patented platform technology...
£69,517 raised
About ABBS
COMING SOON
Green Light Change
GLC Insight gives trusted, real-time control of profitability back to Construction Company...
£0 raised
About Green Light Change
COMING SOON
Moltex
Currently there are two major and related issues facing nuclear energy –...
£0 raised
About Moltex
COMING SOON
Perfectly Spoken
In response to the surge in global demand for learning English, Perfectly...
£0 raised
About Perfectly Spoken
FUNDED
LIfT BioSciences
A biotech company with an innovative breakthrough therapy for pancreatic cancer...
£345,000 raised
About LIfT BioSciences
FUNDED
Convert Technologies
Highly specialized and disruptive company with a mission to design and develop...
£301,689 raised
About Convert Technologies
FUNDED
Chilltech
Small-scale, low-cost cooling technology using the waste heat from diesel generators, gas...
£429,400 raised
About Chilltech
FUNDED
Honeycomb
Disrupting the television commercial ads delivery via programmatic ad buying, recently merged...
£304,748 raised
About Honeycomb
FUNDED
Salad Box
Healthy fast food franchise which has grown revenue from €0.5m to €8m...
£377,746 raised
About Salad Box
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Shadow Foundr in the media.
Shadow Foundr Funds Assisting In Cancer Cell Research
BBC South East on 13th February 2017: "A Sussex man who lost his mother to cancer is raising money to pioneer a breakthrough treatment."
Last year, socially-minded Biotech LIfT BioSciences caught the headlines with the news that it had made an astonishing breakthrough in its research into finding a cure for cancer...
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Shadow Foundr showcased in the National Business
The scene is straight out of Silicon Valley: bean bags litter communal areas; jeans are the norm; and there’s a canteen offering everything from fresh fruit, herbal teas, energy drinks and fine coffee.
But this isn’t a workplace in California’s tech hub, nor in London’s so-called "Silicon Roundabout". Instead, it’s the office of Shadow Foundr, one of the many fintech start-ups that have set up shop by the seaside, in Brighton, south-east England...
What’s happening..
ABBS Progressing Armoured Vehicle Patent Licensing Deal
ABBS’s significant patent licensing deal with “a major armoured vehicle industry player” (parties are currently under NDA) is proceeding well.
Moltex Energy secures multi-million pound funding
Great news for one of companies soon to be raising via the platform, Moltex Energy, which this week took in a multi-million pound investment from multinational engineering, architecture and consulting company, IDOM. The investment further ...
Foresight Investment Readiness Event
Shadow Foundr will be sharing insights to entrepreneurs at two upcoming investment readiness events in Nottingham and Milton Keynes, hosted by Venture Capital firm, Foresight. The events are ...
Five Things Investors Look For
The world of start-ups sounds very exciting, and it can be if you back a winner; but the reality is most start-ups fail. With a plethora of opportunities being presented to us daily via various crowdfunding platforms, how does one find the time to understand the deals in order to make a sounds investment decision. Here are five keys things you should look for before investing into any start-up:
Are You Investor Ready?
So, you’re thinking about putting your business in front of investors to encourage a cash injection. It looks great… on the surface. New concept, obvious market, scalable… but apart from the brief, what do your investors really know about your business idea? What questions will investors ask and need answered before they are truly confident of hitting the “invest” button? These...