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Cornish startup xigxag opens £250,000 funding round

Audio visual reading app xigxag has opened a £250,000 public funding round on the crowdfunding platform Seedrs with over 72% already raised.

Xigxag, available on Google Play and the App Store, is the first app to offer customers audiobooks and ebooks in a single format called the x-book, which indexes human-voiced narration to the corresponding text so users can listen and read...

Insider tips: How Stratiphy smashed its crowdfunding target by 220%

Nikki Hawkes, co-founder of investment app Stratiphy , discusses the recently-closed crowdfunding campaign that saw her company raise more than £440,000 from 700 investors in 53 countries.

Stratiphy, which came through the South West’s SETsquared accelerator programme, lets users build trading strategies according to their risk appetite and sustainability criteria.

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Investment app Stratiphy launches crowdfunding campaign

An investment app founded during lockdown by two graduates who had never met each other is seeking to raise funds via Crowdcube.

Stratiphy , which came through the South West’s SETsquared accelerator programme, lets users build trading strategies according to their risk appetite and sustainability criteria. Its aim is to democratise access to the sort of trading analysis that would...

Luke Lang leaves Crowdcube 12 years after co-founding the business

One of the South West's most prominent tech entrepreneurs has left the Exeter start-up funding platform he co-founded 12 years ago.

Luke Lang, co-founder of Crowdcube, stood down from the business at the end of last week. In an email to contacts, he said: "After emerging from the pandemic even stronger, hitting profitability and with exciting plans in place for further growth, I feel...