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by lucasabia

Microsoft Backs a Brand-New Equity Crowdfunding Platform

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A spinout. “Leveraging the expertise of investors to increase investment growth in the technology sector. Stakeholderz Ltd is a spinout from Intramezzo Ltd which concentrates on working with High net-worth Investing Directors and building exciting early stage technology ventures, Investor Relations Director Stephanie Calveley says.

A new equity crowdfunding platform, to help early-stage technology companies, has been launched in the UK supported by Microsoft.

A spinout of the recruitment agency Intramezzo, a boutique executive, non-executive and interim search firm focused on high-growth tech businesses, Stakeholderz adopts an angel-led approach.

Stakeholderz’s logo. “Stakeholderz is a unique equity funding platform that introduces high quality, early stage investment opportunities to Investing Directors and further experienced investors and executives.” (Source: LinkedIn)

Warwick Hill, managing director at Microsoft For Startups, said:

We like the Stakeholderz approach and see the platform as a way of helping our incubated companies attract both the senior skills and the extra funding they need to see them into the scale-up phase.

Dermot Hill, CEO of Stakeholderz stated:

Stakeholderz finds exceptional lead investors with domain expertise to work with the CEOs during the fund raising. The profile of the lead investors and their experience in bringing in investments removes a lot of the time-consuming fund-raising activity from the CEO.

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