Lendahand is a Dutch Crowdfunding platform that focusses on providing funding for SME companies in upcoming economies like The Philippines, Ghana, Colombia etc. A positive social impact and at the same time financial return to for investors
Peter Stolze of Lendahand: “With this crowdfunding campaign we could give a large group of Lendahand ambassadors the opportunity to become a shareholder of our company”
For rolling out the concept internationally and to apply for an AFM license, Lendahand decided to start a crowdfunding campaign with Symbid, and managed to raise €400.000. The company had already successfully raised €60.000 in an earlier crowdfunding campaign with Symbid.
GoalGorilla is a digital agency that designs, develops and markets websites and web applications. They are an established business working for a wide variety of clients. They had developed an award winning social business community software called Drupal Social.
Mieszko Czyzyk was happy with the crowdfunding campaign: “The Symbid team was very proactive during the campaign supporting us. They are clearly aiming for a shared success. Because of the campaign we were also able to generate some good PR”
For rewriting the software and bringing it to market they required €150.000 to €200.000. In a very successful crowdfunding campaign they raised a total of over €210.000
Bohemian Birds is a Dutch touroperator with a mission to help 100.000 people empty their bucket list by 2025. They do this by offering custom made trips to 100+ countries worldwide.
Jasper Mutsaerts van Bohemian Birds: "Wij hebben intensief samengewerkt met Symbid omdat zij veel ervaring. Bovendien hebben zij er ook belang bij dat de campagne een succes wordt."
Bohemian Birds focusses on (1) lustrum trips for students & alumni, (2) business trips and (3) group trips for individuals. In a first crowdfunding campaign at Symbid Bohemian Birds raised €60.000. In 2017 they returned for a second round, after hitting all the targets communicated with the first crowdfunding round. For starting up a new business unit focusing on the segment for business trips, Bohemian Birds raised a total of €250.000. €100.000 from business angels and €150.000 via a crowdfunding campaign at Symbid.
Chordify wants to make it as easy as possible for everyone learn to play your favorite music. They have developed an e-learning platform that transforms any song into chords.
Gijs Bekenkamp of Chordify: “By successfully completing the crowdfunding campaign we could hire more people to realize our ambitions."
Affordable and personal products based on innovative music technology revolutionize music education: Chordify makes it easy to learn to play your favorite music. It’s service was popular from the start and they already generated a healthy revenue.
To accelerate the product and market development Chordify started a crowdfunding campaign at Symbid. The target amount of €180.000 was reached in no time and in overfunding they eventually reached over €215.000 from 228 investors.