Crowdfunding 101: Q&A With CircleUp CEO Ryan Caldbeck

February 16, 2013 @ 8:34 am By WSJ.com

Venture capital firms don’t have much appetite for consumer-goods products in their portfolios. .

According to Dow Jones VentureSource, venture firms invested a mere $116.6 million in food and beverage companies in all of 2012. By contrast, they invested $738.4 million in media and content companies during that period.

CircleUp Network offers “reg-D crowdfunding” for these businesses—a form of crowdfunding that allows accredited investors to back companies through an online platform in exchange for a stake in a business. (Read more about CircleUp and some of its key partnerships with industry giants in The Wall Street Journal.)

We spoke with CircleUp’s CEO and co-founder, Ryan Caldbeck, about the company’s progress giving consumer-goods businesses access to growth capital. Here’s an edited version of that interview.

How many startups have raised funding on CircleUp?

Reg A - Form 1-A Filings Beta

Beta. Initial Form 1-A only. Target raise is the stated Amount to be Raised, totaled. Compared with the same dates one year earlier.

YTD: Jan 1, 2026 - Nov 4, 2026 vs Jan 1, 2025 - Nov 4, 2025

Number of Filings134Prior 129 +3.9%

Target Raise, Total$3.45BPrior $3.59B -3.8%

	This YTD	Year prior	Change
Filings	134	129	+3.9%
Target raise	$3.45B	$3.59B	-3.8%

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Source: DisclosureQuest. Initial Form 1-A only.

Created by Crowded Media Group

This display counts initial Form 1-A filings only. It does not represent subsequent filings, including Form 1-A/A amendments or Form 1-A POS post-qualification updates filed by the issuer. Amounts are the stated Amount to be Raised on the initial filing, not capital raised and not amounts revised in later filings.

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