The Shareholders Board is a verified online community where investors discuss the UK-listed companies they own. It combines identity verification with optional shareholding certification to reduce noise and ensure participants are genuine, while giving companies a channel to hear from their actual owners.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Traditional shareholder engagement has declined as AGM attendance falls and most investors hold shares through nominee accounts, leaving companies unable to see or hear from their real owners. Existing online forums are dominated by bots, trolls, and short-term traders who shout about daily price moves rather than offering considered, long-term analysis.
Solution
The Shareholders Board provides a verified discussion platform where every member has proven they are a real person through a two-minute photo ID check, eliminating bots and fake accounts. Users can optionally certify their shareholdings by uploading a brokerage statement, which is read only to confirm which tickers they hold and then deleted, earning them a certified shareholder badge on that company's board. The platform rewards thoughtful, long-term perspectives over noise, and when a board has questions for a company, the community puts them in writing to management. This creates a credible, low-noise environment where genuine owners can compare notes and companies can hear from the people who actually hold their shares.
Target Audience
Primary users are retail and institutional investors in UK-listed companies who want a serious, verified forum for long-term shareholding discussion, as well as the companies themselves seeking direct communication with their genuine owners.
Features
- Mandatory identity verification via Veriff, using a photo ID check that never stores user documents, only the verification result
- Optional shareholding certification that reads brokerage statements solely to mint binary "holder" claims for specific tickers, then discards the document
- Certified shareholder badges displayed on posts for verified owners of that company
- Anonymous public profiles where members appear only under a handle, with name and email held separately for private moderation contact
- Introductions feature allowing members to share a contact card with exactly one other member on accepted introductions
- Moderation system with an append-only audit log storing IDs only, never post content or personal data
- Privacy-friendly analytics via Plausible, which sets no cookies and does not track users across sites