July 26, 2018 @ 6:17 am By Erin Hobey  |  

European P2P platform Robo.cash, which offers automated investments in the portfolio of the lending companies, has reportedly facilitated funding of half a million loans totaling over €40 million on the heels of reaching a $4M in attracted investments milestone and entrance into Kazakhstan through its partnership with alternative lender… Read More

July 24, 2018 @ 7:38 am By Erin Hobey  |  

In the last few months, MobiKwik’s CPO Rohan Khara, CBO Vineet Singh and CMO Daman Soni, resigned from the platform. This week, CRO Puneet Agarwal also called it quits. “MobiKwik is evolving to become India’s largest digital financial services platform. We are in the process of rejigging… Read More

July 24, 2018 @ 6:44 am By Erin Hobey  |  

With the hopes of becoming an institutional-grade token sale platform and digital asset exchange, Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) officially announced its full-scale launch today. The GBX, now open to members of the public, will eventually feature fiat onboarding for customers and a number of trading pairs…. Read More

July 19, 2018 @ 3:26 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Fashioned after medication, Barcelona-based Happy Pills sells its candies primarily to adults but also to children, marketing the idea that candies are “injections of optimism and fun.” Happy Pills has partnered with Crowdcube to raise £200,000 for 6.84% equity. The campaign has quickly experienced some sweet success, collecting… Read More

July 19, 2018 @ 2:30 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The European Р2Р platform Robo.cash and alternative lender LLP Zaymer have expanded their partnership by delivering a new opportunity for investments in Central Asia on the platform – installment loans TezCredit with a repayment period up to 12 months and an expected interest rate up… Read More

July 17, 2018 @ 5:26 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Gardeners know that homegrown produce rarely look as perfect as what’s sold at Fairway, Citarella or even Whole Foods. Past successful food delivery crowdfunding campaigns like Foodist, Ooooby Grit Grocery have focused on delivering exceptional local, artisan foods… but what to do about the odd-shaped… Read More

July 17, 2018 @ 2:22 am By Erin Hobey  |  

ASE, a company founded in 2002, uses its system to scan passing trains and trucks with fully automated “video gates” and saves companies time-consuming and error-prone manual checks. The company easily surpassed its €700,000 finding goal and has reached €1M milestone. 1224 investors have participated in the… Read More

July 12, 2018 @ 9:57 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Barcelona-based Nano by Saurina, a cosmetic brand that aims to maximize the positive results from aesthetic medicine and cosmetic treatments while avoiding the need for further treatment, is seeking to raise £250,000 for 10.94% equity with the help of Crowdcube investors. To date, in the early… Read More

July 12, 2018 @ 7:28 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Ahoy! Last time we heard from Plutus the app and debit card platform has secured $1 million in a crowdsale in 2016 (before the crowdsale craze) with the intent of creating a streamlined payment system using blockchain. Now, nearly two year later, the fintech platform named for… Read More

July 12, 2018 @ 6:52 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Who are you? LendInvest, a UK marketplace platform for mortgages, and Onfido, an identity verification provider, have partnered to streamline LendInvest’s digital application process for its Buy-to-Let (BTL) product to determine identity. In November 2017, LendInvest launched its first BTL product with a digital application process; the… Read More

July 10, 2018 @ 7:41 am By Erin Hobey  |  

iwoca, a European alternative small business lender, has reached profitability in the first half of 2018 amid a doubling of revenue over three successive years. Since launching in 2012, iwoca has reported lent £500M to 20,000 businesses. To meet soaring demand from its small and micro… Read More

July 10, 2018 @ 7:32 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Launched in the UK 19 months ago, online property finance marketplace CapitalRise seeks to enable individual and corporate investors to provide finance for Prime Central London property developers with a minimum investment of just £1,000, earning returns of 8-12% per annum through its Innovative Finance ISA…. Read More

July 10, 2018 @ 7:07 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Venture capital firm Hack VC is in the midst of its bi-annual event, hack.summit(), a gathering and hackathon of some of the world’s key technical leaders in blockchain. Now live and held virtually until 11 July 2018, this year’s hack.summit() theme is blockchain, with headline speakers… Read More

July 10, 2018 @ 6:23 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The Seedrs crowd has indicated that a “dabbl” do ya. dabbl, a UK app-only share buying service, blasted by its initial £350,000 Seedrs crowdfunding target and is now nearing £600,000 – more than 60% overfunded – thanks to the more than 215 investors who are… Read More

July 5, 2018 @ 5:21 am By Erin Hobey  |  

In preparation of its Lending Challenge, the P2P investment aggregation provider Orca partnered with UK P2P Lending Knowledge Leaderboard and posted a quiz targeting investors and industry players to see how much people know about the P2P knowledge. Neither questions nor answers will be posted here to keep the quiz… Read More

July 5, 2018 @ 5:13 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Summertime is synonymous with ice cream. Readers may recall past successful global crowdfunding campaigns for delicious ice creams and treats including several successful Seedrs’ Oppo Ice Cream, Companisto’s Kyl, Gelateria Ice Wave’s Crowdcube Spain or Wefunder’s Venice Beach Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream campaigns. Crowdfunders do indeed… Read More

July 5, 2018 @ 2:12 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Licensed securities agency Finanbest partnered with Crowdcube in June to raise £175,000 for 6.22% equity. The Madrid-based platform, which offers a digital end-to-end wealth management solution for retail investors, reportedly reducing costs for clients up to 70%.  Now, just a few weeks later, the agency… Read More

July 3, 2018 @ 3:13 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Sponsored by EXIST-Gründerstipendium, Mowea’s Modular Wind Turbines aim to supplement solar/ photovoltaic facilities for an independent energy supply of private households and industrial plants. With Mowea, energy generated from the wind and sun can be injected into a common energy grid with very minor expenditure. Mowea… Read More

July 3, 2018 @ 2:33 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Plum’s second crowdfunding raise on Seedrs is proving to be just as successful as its first £925K campaign. Plum, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot for personal finance, returned to Seedrs in late June seeking an additional £850,000 in funding. Funds from the latest Seedrs round will be used to… Read More

July 3, 2018 @ 1:25 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Two years ago Cleveland Whiskey set itself apart as one of the first Reg CF investment crowdfunding offers to list following the launch date on 16 May. The spirits company  swiftly tapped over $295K in 2016 from more than 500 Wefunder investors. The Whiskey Distillery has partnered again… Read More