When we started Co-Funding, we didn’t just want to make it easier to fund property investments, we wanted to create a whole new paradigm in the industry that would give power back to the developers and their own network of private investors.
Read on to discover more about the story, the values and the core principles that drive Co-Funding.
After comprehensive market research, we discovered there was no affordable market software that provided automated property investment capability for private investment networks. The alternative that included crowdfunding had excessive fee structure and required costly regulatory certification — so we decided to build a platform ourselves, and Co-Funding was born.
In 2020 we released our first version and onboarded our first client subscriber. Co-Funding gives control of private investment networks back to developers by creating a transparent, secure and user friendly environment for investing in real estate.
Moving forward, our goal is to transition the platform to a SaaS model that would make the platform significantly more scalable and automate the developer subscription setup. Currently we are limited to the number of developer subscribers, however SaaS will allow us to scale allowing an unrestricted number of property developers from all over the UK to easily self-manage their projects without the need for expensive visits to the solicitors, regulatory headaches or inflexible processes.
Co-Funding was designed from day one to give power back to property developers and their private network of investors from; onboarding your own investor network; managing investor funds for the full project lifecycle; to leveraging automated digitally signed legal contracts, while ensuring you maintain regulatory compliance. At the core of our philosophy lies the idea that developers and their investors should be able to control their own hard-earned relationships. You already have the expertise, the knowledge and the investor network to get your projects off the ground. We’re just giving you the freedom to work the way that makes the most sense to you, without handing over any control to third parties.
Co-Funding was designed from day one to give power back to property developers and their private network of investors from; onboarding your own investor network; managing investor funds for the full project lifecycle; to leveraging automated digitally signed legal contracts, while ensuring you maintain regulatory compliance. At the core of our philosophy lies the idea that developers and their investors should be able to control their own hard-earned relationships. You already have the expertise, the knowledge and the investor network to get your projects off the ground. We’re just giving you the freedom to work the way that makes the most sense to you, without handing over any control to third parties
As the creators of Co-Funding, our background is in property development and financial technology, making us all too familiar with the rigid structure, high interest payments and punishing late fees that have come to define traditional methods of development finance, including bridging and crowdfunding amongst others. We knew from the start that we wanted our platform to be fair, instill confidence, save time and above all remove punitive costs which is why we have no hidden fees, no expensive trips to the solicitors and no fine print when it comes to regulatory compliance. With Co-Funding, what you see truly is what you get
From day one, our goals have been to disrupt, simplify and empower the private funding industry. We believe that if you’re a seasoned developer with your own network of investors, there’s no reason you should have to pay high fees just to manage the investment process. That’s why we designed Co-Funding to be a unique concept that leverages the best of technology to give you the freedom and control you deserve over your own projects. Say goodbye to the heavy lifting and long lead times associated with manual investor management; take advantage of your private investor networks while dispensing with the inflexibility of traditional finance, and say hello to an automated property investment workflow that actually makes sense for you and your investors.
Focusing on transparency in investor relations and project management has always been a key aspect of Co-Funding’s philosophy. That’s why we’ve integrated features such as full project disclosure and due diligence, a dashboard view of digital contracts, direct links between investments and projects, and a simplified communication flow that makes it easy to keep investors up-to-date on how the projects are progressing.
Your investors have a transparent view of how and where their money is being used, while from your end, getting in touch to discuss any delays or developments only takes a few clicks with our customisable newsletters. If it sounds simple, that’s because it is. update and I'll send it over.
Shaun has been involved in property for over 10 years, managing HMOs and single lets. In 2015 he started property developing, focusing on investment financing and development project management. He is a Property Investor Network Master Mind graduate (PIN MM26) having completed the years training during 2018/19. Shaun’s passions include technology, automation and property, combining the two and making them work in harmony is not always easy but his goal is to create products that people recognize and enjoy while driving business sustainability.
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