Rentify finally file accounts showing they are blushed with 'success'

Rentify helped themselves to £1.3m on Crowdcube, at a valuation of around £20m, last year. Their latest accounts to YE DEC16, filed late, have them technically insolvent with a large hole where projected further investment was promised.

We read recently that this blog is primarily for bashing Crowdcube. Well that only tells part of the story. All we do is follow the pitches that fund on Crowdcube - the news here is only 'bashing' because those are the real results these companies are producing. Unlike some others, we dont manipulate the numbers.

Back to Rentify. They made a £2m loss for the year, which is in fact better than the projected £3m loss. However the problem starts when you look at their funding. The £6m of new equity investments shown as coming in 2016 has not appeared and the company has so far in 2017 managed to raise not a penny.

We have warned about this type of thing on numerous occasions. Promises of future large funding events are more often than not a smoke screen for something well worth avoiding. The future of any business is entirely reliant on its liquidity. Rentify dont have any. The company has lost 4 of its Directors this year - another big red sign to stay away. One of them was Simon Grice who founded Ineed - another failed Crowdcube company.

Rentify is backed by Balderton Capital, one of Crowdcube's main backers. Any patterns appearing? Maybe they will shake their money tree once again.