Republic Europe (2025 Update) – still on fire after 5 years?
Republic Europe offers investments in crowdfunded Private Equity for innovative startup. Is it as cool as it sounds? Yes. Can I recommend it? Well… it depends.
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Lendahand.com: New partners after defaults – updated review for 2025
Lendahand focuses on social impact projects in developing countries. I’ve been invested since 2019 – but can I recommend an investment I’ve lost money with?
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Trine in 2025 – Review after 7 turbulent years of investing
Trine is how my impact investing adventure started. It’s still one of my favourite platforms, but it wasn’t all smooth sailing. Could Trine be a worthwhile adventure for you too?
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Abundance Investment: innovative UK companies and city councils
Crowdfunded loans with a focus on a wide range of energy projects.
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Seedrs: Crowdfunded Private Equity for innovative startups
Are you still dreaming of investing in the next big thing before it becomes big? Me too! But unless you had a friend of family member with a really good idea, an equity investment (meaning you own part of the company) in a non-tradeable company was all but impossible – until the likes of Seedrs,…
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Lendahand.com
You’re looking at an old review of Lendahand.com. For an updated version, including long-term performance report, check out the 2025 update. Crowdfunded loans for small businesses in developing countries. How sustainable investing through Lendahand creates Impact Lendahand.com is a Dutch platform for crowdfunded impact investing and not to be confused with lendahand.co.uk, also known as…
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Trine: Crowdfunded loans in solar energy for developing countries
Since this post was published, Trine has undergone some major changes. I have posted a comprehensive 2025 update to reflect this. How investing through Trine creates Impact Trine.com is a Swedish for-profit impact investing start-up that crowdfunds loans to African Asian companies, which then use the funds to develop their projects, often solar installations. After…
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An Intro: It’s not hard to Invest For Change!
If you have arrived on this page it was probably by googling a term such as “sustainable investments”. Maybe you were trying to find out your money’s “footprint”. Or, getting frustrated you might have typed “why can nobody tell me how to invest my savings sustainably?”. With this blog I hope to help you to…
