Crowd Investor is a weekly newsletter edited by Matthew Lynn, a financial commentator for the Daily Telegraph and Money Week.

Every week we will bring you the latest news and opportunities from the major crowdfunding platforms.

Crowdfunding is one of the most exciting areas of investment for sophisticated investors.

With SEIS and EIS tax breaks, it offers generous tax breaks.

But more importantly, it offers the opportunity to buy shares in companies right at the very start.

And that is when the really exceptional gains can be made.

But how do you know which start-ups to back?

And once you have invested, how do you know how they are progressing?

That is where Crowd Investor comes in.

Every week we will look at some of the exceptional investments open to private investors.

We will interview the major players.

And we will track the performance of the companies we write about.

Some of them will be the stars of the future.

And you will hear about them first from Crowd Investor