Financial Times: Professional investors join the crowdfunding party
An FT article on investment and crowdfunding features two people with Cambridge Judge connections - Gonçalo de Vasconcelos, Cambridge Judge MBA alumnus and CEO of crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom, and Robert Wardrop, executive director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.…
Business Weekly: Antonio Banderas stars in Cambridge crowdfunded movie
Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas has accepted a role on the “Salty” movie production, which raised £1.9 million via Cambridge equity crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom, writes Tony Quested. Gonçalo de Vasconcelos, co-founder of SyndicateRoom and an alumnus of Cambridge Judge, said: “Our…
Cambridge Network: Cracking the code of crowdfunding
Gonçalo de Vasconcelos (MBA 2011) co-founded SyndicateRoom, a crowdfunding platform, with Tom Britton (MBA 2012) in July 2013. Now the team has grown to nine full-time staff, based in the heart of Cambridge. Gonçalo took time out to talk about…
Business Because: Fast-growing peer-to-peer lending market adds to MBA careers
The alternative finance sector is creating new career opportunities for our MBA alumni. Goncalo de Vasconcelos (MBA 2010), co-founder and CEO of SyndicateRoom, comments on crowdfunding and says that his company "places great importance on sustainability." Read the full article [businessbecause.com]…
MBA alumni triumph at Business Weekly awards
Two start-up businesses founded or led by Cambridge Judge Business School alumni have carried off titles at the Business Weekly awards held in Cambridge this week. MBA alumnus and Honorary Fellow in Health Management at CJBS, Dr Richard Mason, lifted…
Entrepreneurship is a way of life
It is said that entrepreneurship is a way of life. Goncalo Vasconcelos, a Cambridge MBA entrepreneur, talks about the life and business choices that led him to growing his idea, the Syndicate Room, in Cambridge. An interview with Conrad Chua,…
