REG-Augmentum Fintech plc: New investment into investment platform RetailBook

Augmentum FintechAnnouncement

12/05/2025 07:00

12 May 2025

Augmentum Fintech plc

New investment into investment platform RetailBook

Augmentum Fintech plc (LSE: AUGM) (the "Company" or "Augmentum"), Europe's
leading publicly listed fintech fund, announces that it has led a funding
round of £4.5 million(1) into RetailBook.

RetailBook addresses the challenge of limited retail investor access to
primary capital markets by providing a platform for participation in
investment opportunities, including IPOs, follow-on placings, and bond
offerings, on the same terms as institutional investors. The service is
accessed through established retail investment platforms.

Augmentum joins existing investors Peel Hunt, Jefferies, Rothschild & Co, and
Hargreaves Lansdown in supporting the next stage of RetailBook’s growth,
which will see the company focus on expanding its product across new asset
classes, growing its platform capabilities, and forging new partnerships with
retail brokerage platforms.

Augmentum Fintech CEO Tim Levene, who will join the RetailBook board, said:
“We have had a relationship with the RetailBook team for some time, and
their work to democratise investment access directly reflects Augmentum’s
core mantra. With recent market reforms focused on enhancing UK market
liquidity and the government's emphasis on unlocking diverse capital pools,
RetailBook is poised to play a crucial role. Their excellent team, strong
network, and best-in-class solution will enable them to become the key channel
for retail participation in public markets.”

James Deal, Co-CEO of RetailBook, added: “We are delighted to welcome
Augmentum and look forward to utilising their extensive expertise and network
in the fintech sector. Our goal remains the delivery of comprehensive public
inclusion. Retail investors are a crucial component of vibrant capital markets
and we are excited by the pipeline of truly exceptional companies that are
considering London as their listing venue.”

Enquiries

 Augmentum Fintech                                +44 (0)20 3961 5420      
 Tim Levene (Portfolio Manager)                    georgie@augmentum.vc    
 Georgie Hazell Kivell (Marketing and IR)                                  
 Quill PR                                         +44 (0)20 7466 5050      
 Sarah Gibbons-Cook (Press and Media)              augmentum@quillpr.com   
 Peel Hunt LLP                                    +44 (0)20 7418 8900      
 Liz Yong, Huw Jeremy (Investment Banking)                                 
 Singer Capital Markets                           +44 (0)20 7496 3000      
 James Moat, James Fischer (Investment Banking)                            
 Frostrow Capital LLP                             +44 (0)20 3709 8733      
 Paul Griggs (Company Secretary)                                           

About Augmentum Fintech

Augmentum invests in fast growing fintech businesses that are disrupting the
financial services sector. Augmentum is the UK's only publicly listed
investment company focusing on the fintech sector in the UK and wider Europe,
having launched on the main market of the London Stock Exchange in 2018,
giving businesses access to patient capital and support, unrestricted by
conventional fund timelines and giving public markets investors access to a
largely privately held investment sector during its main period of growth.

About RetailBook

RetailBook (www.retailbook.com) is an FCA regulated platform that enables
retail investors to participate in primary capital market transactions on the
same terms as institutional investors.

RetailBook pioneered retail access to primary markets in the UK, launching its
first IPO to retail investors in 2015(2), and has collaboration agreements
with Crowdcube, Hargreaves Lansdown, Jefferies, Deutsche Numis and Rothschild
& Co.

RetailBook has created a strategic alliance among key market participants.
Current shareholders include Hargreaves Lansdown, Jefferies, Peel Hunt, and
Rothschild & Co.

Over the last twelve months, RetailBook(3) has provided retail investor access
to the UK’s two largest IPOs, Applied Nutrition and Raspberry Pi, and
generated record Treasury-bill demand.

Notes:
1. Subject to regulatory approvals.
2. RetailBook previously operated as REX
3. RetailBook was still operating as REX when it executed Raspberry Pi



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