Givealittle's ownership switches to Perpetual Guardian from Spark Foundation

Givealittle's ownership switches to Perpetual Guardian from Spark Foundation
Jenny Ruth
Ownership of the Givealittle crowd-funding platform has shifted to Perpetual Guardian from the Spark Foundation on confidential terms.Andrew Barnes, founder of Complectus, which owns Perpetual Guardian, told BusinessDesk that price wasn't the issue in the ownership transfer."Givealittle is not a for-profit business and therefore really the price wasn't the issue. The big issue was around making sure Givealittle was going to the right home" and an owner that would invest in the platform, Barnes said.He has been looking at the ways in which peopl...

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