With an unheated room in an English castle, no fintech experience but a watchful eye on Kickstarter, two former colleagues decided “startup investing should not be just for the rich”. Today, Crowdcube has created a platform for the ‘rest of us to invest’ in startups, starting from £10. It’s enabled 500 startups to get passed the first fundraising hurdle and collectively raise over £200m.

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