Crowdfunding for tech companies with job creation potential

Where there’s funding for a tech start-up, jobs will surely follow, so as Global Entrepreneurship Week is upon us it’s worth considering that a €26m investment pool is available for tech start-ups from crowdfunding outfit Seedups.

Seedups was founded by Michael Faulkner in 2010 as a means of connecting the best tech-startups with tech-savvy investors.
Faulkner explains while tech companies are the ones with the greatest scale, most ideas stall in their infancy. Crowdfunding can help this, he says.
“It’s impossible to underestimate the importance of entrepreneurial activity: most new jobs are brought about by new companies, not larger ones. They really are the lifeblood of the economy, yet they are the ones that struggle to raise the working capital they need to grow.”
Since going live in February of this year, Seedups has attracted nearly 900 entrepreneurs and nearly 400 investors from the USA, UK and Ireland.