Governance & Investor Relations for Crowdfunded Companies (ECF)
Closing an equity crowdfunding round changes a company overnight. A founder who answered to two co-founders and an angel now has hundreds of shareholders, a platform that expects regular updates, and, where the platform runs a secondary market, a share price that moves when news does. Most founders are ready for the raise and not for what follows it, and the gap shows up as missed updates, awkward AGMs and investors who stop trusting the company long before the numbers justify it.
This one-day course is built for companies that raised through ECF, and platforms can commission it for a cohort of their funded companies. Companies financed through P2P notes or property crowdfunding benefit too: they answer to hundreds of small lenders or investors rather than shareholders, and the governance, reporting and bad-news disciplines are the same. It covers the governance and communication a crowdfunded company needs, not full board directorship: directors wanting the complete picture of statutory duties and liabilities should attend Board Directorship: Duties & Liabilities. With the Capital Market Masterplan 2026 to 2030 pushing venture capital and private equity growth, and the SC's March 2026 MyCIF scheme rewarding PE and VC firms for exits, the companies that govern well after an ECF round are the ones positioned for the next one.
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Programme Agenda
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Welcome and Programme Overview
Introduction to the session, objectives, and housekeeping.
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM
Life After the Raise: What Changes
Your new shareholder base, nominee structures, and the continuing obligations to the platform and investors that come with an ECF raise. What investors reasonably expect, and the common post-raise mistakes that erode trust.
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Right-Sized Governance for a Growing Company
Board composition, independent input, board meetings that actually decide things, minutes, delegations and related-party discipline. Directors' core duties under the Companies Act 2016 in the context of a crowdfunded company, and when to bring in a company secretary and auditor you can rely on.
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Investor Updates, AGMs and Difficult News
What a good periodic update contains, publishing financials investors can read, running a useful AGM, and communicating bad news, missed targets and pivots early and honestly. Workshop: draft a quarterly update from a case company's numbers.
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Price-Sensitive Information and Secondary Trading
When your shares trade on an ECF secondary market: treating price-sensitive information carefully, consistent disclosure to all shareholders at once, founders and staff trading their own shares, and corporate events such as follow-on raises and share splits.
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Break
3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Follow-On Funding and Exit Readiness
Cap table hygiene, investor rights in later rounds, due diligence readiness, and the exit routes available: trade sale, secondary sale, PE or VC entry and a public listing. What the SC's MyCIF co-investment and PE/VC exit scheme means for crowdfunded companies. Action plan and certificates.
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Wrap-Up and Q&A
Key takeaways, next steps, and close.
Key Outcomes
- Explain the continuing obligations that follow an ECF raise
- Set up proportionate board governance for a crowdfunded company
- Produce clear periodic investor updates and run an effective AGM
- Handle price-sensitive information fairly where shares trade on a secondary market
- Prepare the company for follow-on funding and an eventual exit
Training Mode Physical / Online / Hybrid / e-learning
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Level Foundation. For founders, directors and finance leads of companies that have raised, or are preparing to raise, through equity crowdfunding, and of P2P borrowers and property crowdfunding issuers with an investor base to report to.
Duration 1 Day (8 Hours) | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Venue In-house at the client's premises, or delivered via the client's preferred platform (Microsoft Teams, Zoom, or equivalent)
Assessment A draft investor update and governance action plan for the participant's own company, with facilitator feedback
Certificate Certificate of Completion issued to all participants upon full attendance