The Anthologist in The Square Mile is a beautifully trendy venue with a crowd that is winding down from a days work blending in nicely with the smart restaurant goers.

Tuesday night’s TableCrowd dinner saw Jonathan Keeling, Head of Partnerships, talk to his fellow diners about the importance of partnerships for new businesses with limited resources, as well as how to maximise this for your growth strategy. Jonathan worked previously at Pavegen as part of the founding team that eventually raised through the CrowdCube platform itself so he had a lot of first-hand experience to share with the group.

Jonathan kicked off the talk with a summary of his background and moved on to speak about CrowdCube. He covered where it started (a Devonshire garage!), where it is now (taking up the majority of the crowdfunding investment market) and where it is going (looking at tackling some of the growing issues with this new type of investment).

As predicted the Q&A took the night all the way to close, as everyone took turns in getting out their views on the subject. Jonathan spoke of the platforms growing base of VC investors and how they increase the necessary due diligence required in valuing a team and overall business. He spoke of the growing amount of investors and mentioned that many new investors are brought in by particular pitches. It will be interesting to see how CrowdCube can convert these one-off investments into long-term regular investors.

The night’s most notable point was that:

Special thanks to our speaker who was joined by PixelPin, Barclays Capital, Buto, Solely Original, Techspace, OneLane app, Treniq, Inkpact, Dental Capital Partners, JobLab, Accomable.com.