I really donāt see why they need to justify the lower price, take a look whatās going on in the world.
Public market traded companies such as HL are 50% down from their highs, VC arenāt handing out money at crazy high valuations. Freetrade have offered everyone the same deal as the VCās got, a person investing Ā£10 is effectively getting the same deal as people investing millions, seems more than fair to me!
You may not see why but the enthusiasm is low this round, and they are asking what people think so people are saying why. Of course, people would like to know a bit more about why the price has gone how it has when not all competitors have gone the same.
FT keep saying we raised record numbers, our KPIs beat our competitors and many other positive things and kinda ignore the negative. Personally, I have invested again but that is something I feel and know others do as well.
It is clear as day lots feel the trajectory is not good and that information is poor, rightly or wrongly, they can ignore peoples fears but not be surprised when they do not get more investors.
Saying that I like this round but would have more respect for a company that acknowledged a bad raise. Of course, they do not need to or are expected to do that.
r.e. re-pricing. I didnāt take that interpretation. I just assumed the board/exec management wanted a better understanding of where the recipients of the survey are so that can figure out whether they will hit their goals or not.
To me it is āobviousā what the issues are. However, I think it is very good that the CEO wants some data.
What competitors are you referring to?
Big-g I think it is terrific that you are asking questions. You should ask questions. No matter what the investment. And even more so for crowd funded investments after all as the strap line goes Investing in startups carries significant risk.
One potential danger that people have (including me!) is to fall in love with an investment. We should always stand back and ask what makes sense now. Previous investment(s) in any share(s) are a sunk cost.
I donāt think that the issue is as a previous respondent says getting the same deal. Honestly totally irrelevant. The CNL deal was struck at the end of last year (or perhaps at the beginning of the year). You and I have no idea what deal would be struck today. Earlier this year I heard time and time again people say words that say or imply āit will be better by Septemberā. Well it aināt so. The market climate is worse and as we can we see the economic indicators arenāt getting better.
Now people can make their own judgements about the general market, the specific broker market and finally Freetradeās own performance.
On the positive side, you could take the view that high risk implies high reward.
I have (only in my opinion) a rather good view of what happens in the community and what people say. I know the the fan boy and fan girl type comments and the comments that imply someone has been drinking a great of Kool-aid. I also see the comments that are 180 degrees different.
My own opinion about whether this is an investable company or not is not relevant to you. It is improbable that my appetite for risk is the same as yours. I get it that you are ābigā but maybe I eat bigger steaks than you do. You have no idea :-). I wrote a comment today Funds, Trusts, and other things Baillie Gifford - #19 by bitflip about information. Implicit in that comment is that we donāt have and donāt get all the information that ābig investorsā perhaps get. This is where the rubber hits the road we need to make the call by ourselves.
Well for starters the company you mentioned may be down 50% but FT is quite a lot more than that down on the last round. I donāt want to get into the negative too much but the point I was simply making is that FT are asking what people would like to invest more and many feel they need more information to give them confidence in the general direction of the company.
Some of those people think that includes a bit more about why the decline is so severe and what the plans to deal with the whole situation is. Again, rightly or wrongly, like it or not X amount of people will hold off due to this.
@bitflip agree but
the forum would be pretty quiet if we didnt exchange our opinions 
Not here to be argumentative but the new VC investment was agreed in May, Freetrade have shared that Series C was agreed at a higher valuation than the last crowdfund but markets went south.
They pulled the term sheet in December. You have no idea when the next steps were agreed in principle. The lawyers did their thing afterwards.
So are you implying the negotiations went from an up round to the current CLN before the end of 2021?
Freetrade Crocs are looking good!
Thank you ever so much for explaining this! I wouldnāt have decided to invest at all unless I could have the key terms laid out simply so I have a full grasp of the possible outcomes.
Invested approx 10x what Iāve previously invested on two occasions, 3-4 years ago. Preferred shares are a selling point, as well as the upside/downside protection.
Iām glad it helped.
Hope it helped others make their decision too.
I ended up putting a very small amount into the raise. Unless they start to actually ship products I cant see myself doing it again.
Hi @JL3 
CTL, CPH2 and MC Mining have now all been added to your app!
Thank you so much for the hard work! Really appreciate the effort that goes into getting this done. 
Crowdcube takes payments today
Yup mine has gone 
Myself included today
No my money my moneyyyyyyy