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Mitra: The UK leads global crowdfunding market growth over the US
“If you look at the crowdfunding sort of growth across the world, and I think you'll find UK is actually leading the market in that way before SEC.”
Mitra: Gojimo will become a unicorn company
“Me as a personal investor in it I think that I'm tipping that for a unicorn, so we'll see if he gets there, but I think, yeah.”
Mitra: Major consumer brands will eventually adopt equity crowdfunding
“You would need the idea to be easily understandable, and that's the reason why big consumer facing brands might end up going down this route more often than not which we haven't seen yet. So, so really big brands, brands still haven't picked that up, but I thi…”
Mitra: CrowdBank will deploy £1B annually to UK SMEs within five years
“Well, well, our vision at CrowdBank and kind of my vision is that in the next five years, we'll be supporting UK SMEs with a billion pounds of growth capital every year.”
Index Ventures participated in Crowdbnk's fundraising round for Gojimo
“We just finished raising money for Gojimo, which had index ventures as their principal investors In the earlier round, and part of their next partners followed on in the round that we did.”
Mitra: Total UK crowdfunding volume remains under £10 billion
“The entire of crowdfunding in the UK is, is, is less than ten billion, I mean, depending on whose numbers you go by”
Mitra: Average seed-to-IPO timeline has expanded beyond nine years
“On average from seed to IPO, the tenure of company or how long it takes has actually gone up. It used to be Around five to seven years, and I think it's actually north of nine now.”