RetailBook

RetailBook is a financial technology company that specializes in facilitating capital raising for public companies by leveraging a network of retail brokers and wealth managers. The platform enables public companies to access a significant additional pool of capital during fundraising transactions, allowing them to shape the retail audience and maintain control over allocation. RetailBook collaborates with major retail intermediaries such as Hargreaves Lansdown, Interactive Investor, and AJ Bell, providing access to over 2.5 million retail investors for IPOs, follow-on placings, and retail bond offerings. The company operates in the financial services market, specifically focusing on capital markets transactions. RetailBook's business model involves partnering with retail brokers and wealth managers to distribute follow-on transactions to existing retail shareholders or a broader retail investor audience, including non-holders. The company generates revenue through these partnerships and the facilitation of capital raising activities. RetailBook is currently in the process of establishing itself as an independent entity, with collaboration agreements in place with firms like Jefferies, Numis, and Rothschild & Co, which have the right to take up an equity stake in the company alongside Peel Hunt.

Keywords: capital raising, retail investors, IPOs, follow-on placings, retail bonds, financial technology, wealth managers, retail brokers, public companies, equity offerings.