Crowdcube's Shamba Technology has no news, no money and no assets.

Shamba Technologies raised £112k on Crowdcube in 2014. From the accounts most of this is now spent and the company has no fixed assets.

It is quite literally an extraordinary business. Its balance sheet suggests it is dormant and has been for some time. The website news section has had no news for over 12 months.

Yet it won a Siemens award in 2016 - small but still an award.

It was supposed to help get electricity to the poor in Africa, using a combination of small time solar powered units and their IOsolar system, which being modular, allowed it to be built in stages as and when it could be afforded. To be fair it is not a bad idea and its for a great cause.

We have no idea what has gone wrong. It was,according to Crowdcube, to be making around £1m profit in 2016 and almost £2m in 2017. In fact it made a small loss on negligible trading. A £400k loan was supposed to be in place for 2016 according to Crowdcube but this has not appeared. The turnover was projected to go from £40k to £1.7m in the twelve months post funding. Clearly that didnt happen either.

We hate to say it but we have been telling you for years that the kind of businesses Crowdcube supports will, in the round, go nowhere.