{"id":1230,"date":"2015-08-05T14:36:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T14:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2017-08-22T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T13:35:48","slug":"kwiziqs-crowdfunding-campaign-is-live-check-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/french.kwiziq.com\/blog\/kwiziqs-crowdfunding-campaign-is-live-check-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwiziq&#8217;s Crowdfunding campaign is live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdcube.com\/kwiziq\">launched our equity crowd funding campaign<\/a> on Monday afternoon.  Amazingly, we raised 15% of the target <strong>within the first 30 hours<\/strong> &#8211; before I even had a chance to write a blog post announcement!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-cc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1231 size-full\" src=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-cc.png\" alt=\"banner showing that Kwiziq is crowd funding on the CrowdCube platform\" width=\"937\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-cc.png 937w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-cc-300x74.png 300w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-cc-768x189.png 768w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-cc-240x59.png 240w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-cc-160x39.png 160w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-cc-80x20.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 937px) 100vw, 937px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Help us create the next generation of EdTech<\/h2>\n<p>Educational Technology (EdTech) is one of the hottest areas for investors in 2015. Our vision is that <strong>every student<\/strong> learning a foreign language should have a learning experienced <strong>personalised to their exact needs.<\/strong> Kwiziq is already helping students around the world learn and improve their French faster than ever thanks to our unique <strong>AI-based learning system<\/strong> that learns what you know and then works out what you need to do to improve.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we want to expand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-crowdcube-banner-cropped.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1239\" src=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-crowdcube-banner-cropped-1024x406.png\" alt=\"kwiziq crowdcube banner with kwizbot\" width=\"1024\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"\/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-crowdcube-banner-cropped-1024x406.png 1024w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-crowdcube-banner-cropped-300x119.png 300w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-crowdcube-banner-cropped-768x305.png 768w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-crowdcube-banner-cropped-240x95.png 240w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-crowdcube-banner-cropped-160x64.png 160w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-crowdcube-banner-cropped-80x32.png 80w, \/files\/french\/blog\/2015\/08\/kwiziq-crowdcube-banner-cropped.png 1169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have self-funded Kwiziq so far with amazing results: our first version in French has been <a href=\"\/blog\/summer-frenchtestin-happened-so-fast\/\">growing exponentially<\/a> and our customers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kwiziq.com\/testimonials\">saying some amazing things about us<\/a>. Now is is the perfect time to raise money to <strong>help us accelerate, improve the product, launch in new languages and release new features and apps<\/strong> that we have already developed in prototype form. It&#8217;s an exciting adventure!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\"><strong>Most countries in the worldd<\/strong> including the UK and the rest of Europe are embracing equity crowdfunding as a progressive way of allowing individuals to invest in the businesses they believe in and thus support innovative companies to start and to grow. However, unfortunately, equity <strong>crowdfunding is not yet open to individuals in the USA, Canada or Japan<\/strong>.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #808080\"> We also need to tell you this: <strong>Investments of this nature carry risks as well as potential rewards. 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