Monzo have just announced the terms of their new crowdfunding round, for Monzo customers only via the app.
Investment begins on 5th December at 10am GMT, but existing investors get a two-day headstart, from 10am on 3rd December. The round has a 20 million cap and the max investment is £2000 per customer.
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Why do you think they’re unlikely to reach it?
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I think they’re unlikely to reach £20m invested.
It’s possible I guess at £20 per customer but seems unlikely. Max investment is £2,000 per customer, so they won’t benefit from whales investing a lot, and instead will be relying on a lot of small investments. I was thinking of their previous rounds (on crowdcube), which had 6485 investors on round 2 then 3417 investors on round 3 which was only offered to existing investors. Both of those numbers are a long way away from 1 million investors, and the amounts raised were in the low millions (2.4m and 800k). Anyone have numbers for their first round?
So I guess the two extreme scenarios are:
Interesting that they’re doing it in-app and customer only - I imagine that will boost the participation massively compared to requiring crowdcube registration, allow them to manage traffic better and not rely on crowdcube, and also boost their customer numbers a little.
10k customers investing sounds a reasonable aim, but I doubt they’d get £2000 per customer, I’d guess around 20k customers investing with a range of values from £10-£2k each… maybe raising around £10m? If they get above £8million they’d be doing very well.
The max available to existing crowd investors is 14,790,000 so even if they all max out their allowance which is unlikely, there’ll be some left over for new investors.
It’ll save in transaction costs as it’ll come straight out of the available funds.
Edit - according to the prospectus this crowdfunding round will still cost Monzo 800k 
The reward is the future potential. That’s enough for me. Won’t ask for a card as there’s nothing wrong with the one I’ve got
Don’t know why people focus on investor rewards… 
Penny wise, pound foolish, IMO.
Missed all the other rounds. I ain’t going to miss this one.
I looked in the prospectus, and this crowdfunding offer will cost Monzo £800,000.
My guess is it’ll be pretty much right in the middle of those extremes - 100,000 investors, investing £200 on average but who knows 
100k seems really high number of investors, but then they are doing this in-app which is a bit of a game-changer - exposes it to the 1.3 million banking customers who wouldn’t dream of investing or opening a crowdcube account normally…
I’ll be really interested to see how this pans out, it would be great if they hit their cap of £20m raised. The highest UK crowdfunding raise I could find is £8.2m for crowdcube itself but that includes a single £4m investment, but someone told me on the Monzo thread the largest crowdfunding raise is £26.2m by Brewdog (after a series of other raises), so £20 million has been done before.
We’ve been talking about that in the office today, after that news, we’d love to do it 
Just to be clear, this is not on offer, only Freetrade Alpha for life (for Founding Members) which offers free US trades and 50p UK instant trades (still free end-of-the-day forever) 
Tbh I don’t think they need incentives, people are more than willing to invest. I’d take even just one share
I’m in the same boat!
I think these rounds, like all previous rounds, are not so much about attracting investment (they already did that) it’s about letting Monzo customers feel part of the company.
I can’t wait until my Freetrade shares are worth £7.7145 each 
There is one problem with this Monzo fund raise - I won’t have any money to buy stock in my Freetrade account 
Sell your Revolut shares if you have any 
/s
Don’t have revolut shares - and also, some insight on future of revolut?
Of course not, I was kidding. Otherwise that would constitute illegal insider trading activity… 
