Sharing economy and UK's shipping aspirations drive EIS launches in 2016

Open to investors this year

Scott Longley provides an insight into the unusual new launches in the EIS space, which are open to investors this year.

Give investors the chance to invest in a disruptive tech start-up company that is generating consumer take-up in the sharing economy, and they would likely jump at the chance. Say that the opportunity is based around a business that loans out dogs for walks and, well, investors might not be so forthcoming. Yet this is exactly what online mutt loaning start-up BorrowMyDoggy.com is offering. The company was set up in 2012 by Rikke Rosenlund - a Danish national living in London for the past eight years - and Les Cochrane on the premise that people would love to take care of a dog for sho...