Crowdfund Insider | Samantha Hurst | Oct 23, 2014

By bundling up the best of the world’s crowdfunding opportunities with an equally comprehensive amalgamation of more conventional businesses for sale. BusinessAgent aims to become to investment and crowdfunding as what Rightmove is to houses and estate agents.

While sharing details about the newest equity crowdfunding aggregator in the UK, founder of BusinessAgent.com, Sacha Bright stated, “Equity crowd funding is a ‘highly disruptive’ idea whose time has come and it’s going to change the face of small business finance. So this is an exciting time - not just for crowd funding businesses and their investors but also for the world of equity investment as a whole. In response to the banks’ lending to start-ups dwindling by 8%, there’s been a quiet revolution in the last couple of years - one that we’ve been watching with great interest.

“And I can report that our observations are quite dizzying! There are already more than 500 crowd funding websites globally and the alternative finance sector as a whole has attracted investment worth £1.74 billion over the past two years in the UK , with equity crowdfunding growing by 371% between 2012 and 2013. Could this be the birth of a new stock exchange for small business?

Could small businesses raise capital in a similar vein to listed companies?”

The opportunity for businesses seeking funding is exciting, nevertheless, the size and pace of the sector’s growth, not to mention its novelty, makes it bewildering to the uninitiated. At least, until now. This is where Businessagent.com comes in as the latest portal of its kind for this sector – helping investors and those seeking funding alike by aiming to pull together a large part of the market on one platform .

Sacha added, “Just as Rightmove advertises houses for estate agents, our site aims to list equity crowd funded opportunities from every crowd funding site in the UK - and by earning commission on those listings we aim to emulate in this market the likes of Moneysupermarket, Confused.com et al.”

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So what makes the website so unique? Sacha’s points out that almost every other aggregator focuses on general financial news – rather than actually pulling together all the equity investment opportunities out there. Equally importantly, with its combination of crowd funding and peer-to-peer lending with some 10,000 businesses for sale along with the latest website design methods, an affiliate network and – perhaps most telling – a commission-only, pay-by-results advertising model, Business Agent  may be more attractive to advertisers and investors than any other website.

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