Jeff Lynn is Executive Chairman and co-founder at Seedrs, an equity crowdfunding platform headquartered in London, UK.

We talk about:

• Why and how Jeff and his classmate, Carlos Silva, turned their classroom project at Said Business School (University of Oxford) into a very successful business

• How does it work? Seedrs is based in London and Lisbon and around Europe

• Is the same idea as the outset, or did they pivot?

• What kind of start-ups can raise funds at the platform (pre or post-revenue, UK based or pan-European)?

• What sort of due diligence do start-ups go through?

• FinTechs the most significant sector on the platform

• A secondary market for your investments in start-ups, how does it function?

• Start-ups who took a chance on Seedrs when it was an early-stage start-up itself

• How vital were partnerships for the growth of the platform: from Andy Murray to the British PE and VC association 

• An impact of the pandemic on Seedrs business and thoughts on the fundraising prospects for start-ups this year

• Money raised and how fees work.