Be a hero. Enable liquidity with Crowd121 Secondaries.

Give your employees, early investors and founders the opportunity to realise paper returns without waiting for an exit. Join Europe’s leading private companies facilitating liquidity using our trusted marketplace today.

Funding that stands for something

We know you have multiple funding options at your disposal but raising with Crowd121 is much more than investment. It’s funding that stands for something – it’s a way of giving your community the chance to truly join you on your journey.

Reward

Reward your employees and founding team with liquidity via the Crowd121 marketplace. One-off or periodic, full or partial liquidity. All while remaining in control of your business.

Refresh

Return capital and profits to early investors, creating room for new investment. Refresh your investor base with advice and expertise befitting your next stage of growth.

Retain

Future-proof your team by making employee share incentives meaningful. Allow one-time or recurring opportunities for partial share cash-ins to boost morale, motivation and limit team turnover.

Simplify

Clean up your cap table and facilitate liquidity before institutional investment or strategic events. Reduce admin, consolidate holdings, and streamline investor relations with the Crowd121 Nominee.

Engage

Engage and build community through share ownership, driving long-term engagement, loyalty and advocacy. Access 1.2 million registered investors through Crowd121’s investment marketplace.

Recycle

Support the next generation of entrepreneurs. Facilitate liquidity for your angels and early advocates and help capital get recycled and reinvested into the next cohort of change-making startups.

£16m of secondary share sales

Crowd121 has managed secondary share sales for the likes of Revolut and Freetrade, with shareholders having the chance to realise over £16m in returns.

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Powered by Crowd121, 1,063 shareholders in Freetrade sold £5.8m of shares in 2021. The secondary share sale saw early investors celebrate a 47x (4,670%) return on their investment, with six shareholders becoming millionaires as the company valuation skyrocketed to £265m.

13,000

Shareholders

£265m

Valuation

4,670%

Return

How it works

We offer a flexible approach to secondaries to help support your business objectives; whether that’s to privately offer liquidity to your shareholders or to engage and build your community through a public secondary offering. We can also facilitate primary and secondary rounds simultaneously to provide existing shareholders with liquidity while raising capital.

Private secondary share sale

Public secondary share sale

Primary and public share sale hybrid

We take care of the admin, including due diligence, transfers, payments and settlement. All sales are company-led, meaning you remain in control of timing, structure and who has access to sell shares or invest in your business.

Why Crowd121?

Established demand

Crowd121’s marketplace comes with 1.2 million registered investors and a unique discovery and book-building tool powered by Crunchbase.

Stay in control

Our company-led solution means you stay in control from start to finish.

Share sales occur at a time of your choosing, with structure and terms that make sense for you and your investors.

No more admin

Crowd121 takes on the admin from beginning to end. We handle advisory, diligence, legal work and payments, as well as ongoing custody and administration.

Private, event-driven

Any share sale event takes place in a single transaction. Your shares don’t end up on a public exchange where fluctuating prices can undermine your equity story.

Supply and demand visibility

Through Crowd121, we can understand buy and sell-side volume and pricing sentiment, so you can forecast the sale outcome with no hassle.

Trusted Partner

We’re the world’s leading equity crowdfunding platform with over £1bn invested via Crowd121.

Want to find out more?

Apply to run a secondary share sale, and one of our team will be in touch.