Spreds
Rue des Colonies 11, Brussels, 1000, Belgium
Overview
Spreds is a “Venture Capital” investment platform which uses crowdfunding techniques to allow individuals to select and invest alongside professionals in European start-ups and SMEs. Individuals can invest (from 100 euros) in companies listed on Spreds in conjunction with investment professionals and under the same financial conditions. Individuals combine their resources to select, invest in and support the companies of tomorrow with industry professionals. Spreds can be considered to be the main showcase for Belgian entrepreneurship to the rest of the world, as no less than 15k people from 163 countries use the platform every day to give advice and invest in our entrepreneurs. Spreds is industry leader, since more than 150 million euros have been raised since its commercial launch in September 2012 and it has more than 45,000 members. Spreds was also the first crowdfunding platform in the world to develop a system allowing young companies to make a public offering for Belgian savings by establishing a relationship of trust with the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA). This is because Spreds published a FSMA approved prospectus to be able to raise unlimited amounts of funds using crowdfunding.
- Total investments
- 1
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 7
Sector focus
- Crowdfunding
- Crowdsourcing
- Finance
- Financial Services
- Funding Platform
- Impact Investing
- SaaS
- Venture Capital
Investment portfolio
- Digiteal
Participated · Equity · Jan 2019
Digiteal provides a personal assistant for Europeans to manage electronic invoices and online payments, positioning itself in e-invoicing and payments. The company is PSD2-compliant and operates as a payment institution approved by the National Bank of Belgium, subject to strict equity and IT-security rules. Founded in 2015, Digiteal plans to use new capital to scale across Europe and be the first to support the PEPPOL European standard for electronic invoicing for individuals. The startup emphasizes trusted payments and further deployment of its solution across markets. Its recent raise included both equity and loan components to fund growth and market expansion. The company reinforced ties with strategic investors while adding new private backers via crowdfunding.