Tagged: accredited investors

Capital Ideas With Omi Bell of Black Girl Ventures On Empowering Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

On the latest episode of Capital Ideas, an interview series hosted by Nick Morgan and Dara Albright of Investor Choice Advocates Network (ICAN), Omi Bell, the CEO of Black Girl Ventures, shed light on the critical challenges faced by black and brown female entrepreneurs in… Read More

CoinList Introduces Staking Fund, Enabling US Accredited Investors to Earn Returns on Digital Assets

CoinList, the crypto launchpad and exchange that provides access to  established crypto assets, has launched a family of staking funds that “allow U.S. accredited investors to earn rewards through investment in a fund whose strategy is to stake digital assets.” At launch, the funds will… Read More

Real Estate: Pacaso Introduces New Opportunity for Accredited US Investors

Pacaso announced the launch of an opportunity for accredited U.S. investors to invest in a technology-enabled real estate marketplace “that helps people buy and co-own a luxury second home.” The new investment opportunity with Pacaso is “a two year, 10% annualized promissory note backed by… Read More

Real Estate Firm Neighborhood Ventures Launches NV REIT Welcoming Non-Accredited Commercial Investors

Neighborhood Ventures, which claims to one of the country’s largest real estate crowdfunding companies, announced the launch of NV REIT, its first nationwide offering which provides “a unique real estate investment opportunity to accredited and non-accredited, individual investors of all income levels.” Previously, participation in… Read More

SEC Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee Tells Commission to Add Sophistication Option for Accredited Investor Qualification, Cautions on Undermining Reg D, More

  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee (SBCFAC), has posted two letters advising the Commission on key policy goals that impact capital formation, especially for smaller – private firms. The Committee is the creation of the SEC Small Business… Read More

Equitybee Introduces Second Quarterly Fund

Equitybee, the employee-focused stock options funding solution, announced its second quarterly fund, the VC5 Fund, which “leverages Equitybee’s unique deal flow and inherent advantages to offer accredited investors a new and unique investment channel.” The latest fund will “follow VC firms Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Founders… Read More

JOBS Act 4.0: Improving the Regulatory Environment for Entrepreneurial Capital Formation

Passed with large bipartisan majorities and signed into law by President Obama, the 2012 JOBS Act was a bipartisan achievement of consequence. The JOBS Act substantially improved the laws governing entrepreneurial capital formation and has had a measurable positive impact on entrepreneurial capital formation. But… Read More

YieldStreet Explains How it Offers Investors Diverse Investment Opportunities

Peer-to-peer lending has become an increasingly popular strategy among online investors. Platforms like Prosper have brought the P2P lending model “into the spotlight,” according to an update from YieldStreet, a multi-asset alternative investment platform that’s focused on reducing friction and offering “previously unattainable” access to alternatives… Read More

Cass Sanford from OTC Markets Comments on SEC Amendments that May Eliminate Public Quoting in Securities that Don’t Make Current Info Publicly Available

Cass Sanford, an Associate General Counsel who supports regulatory and policy-making initiatives at OTC Markets Group, notes that the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) amendments to Rule 15c2-11 may eliminate public quoting in securities of issuers that don’t make current information “publicly available.” Sanford,… Read More

iCapital Network Announces Expansion of Product Offering for Accredited Investors with iCapital KKR Private Markets Fund

iCapital Network, a fintech providing access to alternative investments, announced on Wednesday that iCapital RF Adviser, a registered investment adviser and a subsidiary of iCapital,has been appointed investment adviser of the iCapital KKR Private Markets Fund. iCapital reported that the appointment expands the scope of… Read More

Zoe Adamovicz, CEO at Neufund, Reveals how Blockchain or DLT enabled Crowdfunding Platforms can Streamline Investment Process

Zoe Adamovicz, CEO and Co-founder of Neufund, recently explained how a blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT)-powered fundraising platform actually works. Neufnd was established in 2016 and its main value proposition involves democratizing access to funding for  entrepreneurs and also to make it more convenient… Read More

SEC Chairman Jay Clayton Tells House Committee that Fewer Public Companies is a Troubling Trend, Shares Insights on ICOs

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton spent much of today visiting with the House Financial Services Committee. This was his first hearing before the Committee since he took the helm of the regulatory agency. Much of Clayton’s prepared remarks echoed his visit to the… Read More

FundedHere Involves Professional Investors to Crowdfund Two Singapore Startups

FundedHere, a Singapore-based crowdfunding platform, has successfully raised S$ 505,500 for two local startups. Both campaigns included the pairing of professional investors with individuals not classified as Accredited Investors (AI).  This is a first for FundedHere and follows a recent global trend where investment crowdfunding… Read More

Q&A: David Behin, CEO of CityFunders, Talks Title III And Real Estate Crowdfunding

For David Behin, co-founder and CEO of CityFunders, proving real estate investment opportunities for accredited investors, his goal was to help bring real estate investing to the masses. Fast forward to now, and the pool of real estate investors has noticeably increased, with the passage of the JOBS Act, Title III. The… Read More

Brief: Bondora Opens European Personal Loan Marketplace Platform to U.S. Accredited Investors

Bondora, a pan-European marketplace lender, opens to accredited investors from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Australia. The platform now allows global accredited investors to invest directly into personal unsecured loans across three European markets including Spain,… Read More

SEC Advisory Committee on Small & Emerging Companies Scheduled to Tackle Secondary Markets, Accredited Investor Defintition

The SEC has shared the agenda for the next meeting of the Advisory Committee on Small & Emerging Companies.  This committee was recently re-animated by SEC Chair Mary Jo White.  The Committee provides insight and advice to the SEC on privately held small businesses and publicly… Read More

Private Equity Crowdfunding Marketplace for Retail Investors InvestX Announces Beta Launch

Initial USD $5.2 Million Seed Round Secured From Prominent Investors  InvestX Capital announced on Tuesday (December 16th) the beta launch of its cross-border private equity crowdfunding marketplace for U.S. and Canadian investors, opening up an asset class previously only accessible through larger (USD $1 million or… Read More

Crowdfundraiser Launches New Initiative For Both Accredited and Non-Accredited Investors

Crowdfundraiser, a crowdfunding platform that is focused on both debt and equity crowdfund investing now offers investment options for both accredited and non-accredited investors alike. The company provides both private and public equity investments for crowdfunding deals across all platforms in the crowdfunding ecosystem. This means all… Read More

Prodigy Network Launches New Transactional Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform

Prodigy Network has announced the launch of its new real estate crowdfunding website, which will feature a secure transactional platform to permit accredited investors – certain investors who have regular income of over $200,000 or net worth, excluding their primary residence, of over $1 million… Read More

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