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First Nordic crowdfunded campaign to be listed on stock exchange - now trading

First Nordic crowdfunded campaign now listed on stock exchange

Stockholm, 19 May 2016: Swedish company reconstruction firm FrontOffice Nordic AB, which recently raised almost €600,000 from crowdfunding investors on FundedByMe, has today been listed on the Nordic Growth Market (NGM) stock exchange. This announcement makes FrontOffice the first successfully crowdfunded company in Scandinavia – and one of the first in Europe - to be listed on a stock exchange.

Crowdfunding investors into FrontOffice – who could buy shares for a minimum investment of €53 - are now able to trade those shares on this regulated stock exchange, licensed by the Financial Supervisory Authority. “With the rate of market maturation, this is very exciting for FundedByMe – but also for equity crowdfunding globally,” says Daniel Daboczy, CEO and co-founder of FundedByMe. “I personally invested in FrontOffice and following this path to NGM has been thrilling. I firmly believe that this paves the way for other crowdfunding companies while reestablishing to investors the fact that equity crowdfunding is changing the finance and investment market for the better,” Daboczy continues.

FrontOffice launched its crowdfunding campaign on FundedByMe on 25 November 2015 and closed it in mid-February 2016 after overfunding up to 111% from 183 investors. Since the company was founded in 2013, the aim had been to list FrontOffice shares on the stock market. “Both the company and the market was ready for a public listing and I believe that the visibility that comes with being listed on NGM will in turn enable us to help more customers,” says Johan Lund, Managing Director of FrontOffice Nordic AB (publ.).

This listing comes in the same week as FundedByMe has launched its own equity crowdfunding round, which confirmed more than 69% of its €800,000 goal on opening day. View that campaign here / http://fundedbyme.com/invest.

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Topics

  • Economy, Finance

Categories

  • ngm
  • nordic growth market
  • fundedbyme
  • frontoffice
  • frontoffice nordic ab
  • stock exchange
  • crowdfunding
  • equity crowdfunding
  • equity crowdfunding europe

Regions

  • Stockholm

FundedByMe is one of a few full-service crowdfunding platforms offering capital through equity and loans. In the past years, some 446 companies from 25 different countries have been successfully funded with more than €19,1 million. The member base is a rapidly expanding network of more than 65,300 investors from over 176 countries around the world. FundedByMe headquarters are in Stockholm, Sweden, with a local presence in Finland, Singapore and Malaysia. For more information, visit www.fundedbyme.com.

Contacts

Susan Sjölund

Press contact Chief Marketing Officer Marketing and communications +46723338910

Daniel Daboczy

Press contact CEO and co-founder +46736269985

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