12-05-2025
RetailBook investment platform wins funds to survive downturn
A platform enabling retail investors to take part in share issues normally reserved for institutional investors has raised fresh capital to tide it over until more favourable conditions return to the moribund stock market.
Augmentum Fintech, an investment trust, and other investors have sunk £4.5 million into the platform, RetailBook, whose existing backers include Rothschild & Co, Hargreaves Lansdown, Jeffreys and Peel Hunt.
RetailBook recently hired the equity capital markets team at Primary Bid, a rival that pioneered the practice of giving investors the chance to invest in flotations and secondary share issues alongside professionals.
• 'In the UK there's a lot of growth to be had, a lot of opportunity'
For years, private investors have missed out on share issues as companies omitted retail
