July 21, 2015 @ 12:55 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Fintech company Revolut has raised £1.5m in a funding round led by leading tech VC house Balderton Capital, reported TechWorld’s Sam Shead. Funding will be used to launch the business’ money transfer app on iOS and Android. Revolut’s technology allows people to transfer money through a… Read More

July 16, 2015 @ 4:04 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Cocolico, an exclusive brand for children’s clothing collections made in France by Blue Poppies for international stores and department stores, recently launched its crowdfunding campaign on WiSeed seeking to raise €300,000, with a minimum €100 investment. Oohed and aahed for decades if not centuries, notable contemporary French-made children’s clothing… Read More

July 16, 2015 @ 10:14 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Beliebte Produckte! With 24 days remaining on its third Companisto crowdfunding campaign, Foodist has gained the support of over 880 Companists who pitched in over 901,415€ in entrepreneurial foodie funding. A successful campaign from the get-go, the Hamburg-based delicacy box start-up Foodist, co-founded in 2012 by Alexander Djordjevic… Read More

July 16, 2015 @ 8:22 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Cyber-security solutions, blockchain technology and behavioral analytics applications are some of the innovative services being developed by the seven financial technology entrepreneurs selected this year to participate in the 2015 FinTech Innovation Lab Asia-Pacific. Launched by Accenture (NYSE:ACN) in Hong Kong in June 2014, the FinTech… Read More

July 14, 2015 @ 12:08 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Singapore-based fintech company, fastacash, has announced today that it has raised US$15 million in Series B funding reported e27‘s Yon Heong Tung. The round was led by Rising Dragon Singapore and includes Life.SREDA, UVM 2 Venture Investments LP and Jungle Ventures. The Series B round brings fastacash’s total funding to US$23.5 million…. Read More

July 14, 2015 @ 11:29 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Started in 2001 in Old Spitalfields Market in London’s East End, Square Pie now is a leading name for gourmet pies in the UK. Supplying approximately 80 Tesco stores, Ocado.com and its own six London restaurants with its comfort foods, the fast-growing restaurant and grocery business last… Read More

July 14, 2015 @ 10:31 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Ablrate, the peer-to-peer lending platform that offers investors access to asset backed loans against aircraft transactions, has launched a new platform with a secondary market. Commenting on the new platform, CEO Ablrate David Bradley-Ward said, “The new Secondary Market is a culmination of feedback from investors and our… Read More

June 30, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  UK-based Property Partner, the residential real estate crowdfunding investment platform, allows people to invest in individual residential properties at the click of a button. Investors receive a monthly rental income and benefit from any capital growth, in direct proportion to their ownership.  Identifying locations and individual properties that are likely to be… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 1:00 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Cloud Lending Solutions, the industry’s only end-to-end lending solution built natively on the Salesforce.com platform, just tweeted its multiple product updates to its loan and marketplace solutions, empowering lenders to get to market faster and simplify and automate their loan processes to drive revenue growth…. Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 12:37 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Returbo is a market leader within the secondary market for e-commerce products, a profitable business which will likely generate more than €6M in revenues in 2015. Returbo garners profitably by selling customer returns and other secondary market products through its more than 30 online sales channels… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 12:08 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Indiegogo, the crowdfunding website often overshadowed by bigger and better-known competitor Kickstarter, says its users have raised “significantly above” $500 million since its 2008 inception. That’s about a third of the amount that Kickstarter users have raised in roughly the same time period, reported Inc’s… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 8:30 am By Erin Hobey  |  

    Known for sporting a natty brown fedora, Stewart literally wears many hats. Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dave Stewart is a producer, author, director, photographer, filmmaker, and philanthropist whose music career spans three decades and more than 100 million album sales, highlighted by his collaboration with Annie… Read More

June 18, 2015 @ 8:42 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Fresh from its successful late 2014 Indiegogo campaign for its Lantern reciever which raised more than $637K from 6,642 backers,  New York-based Outernet Hardware has returned to the crowd, this time on its private fundraise on Fundable.  Outernet, ‘Humanity’s Public Library,’ enables anyone to receive data anywhere in… Read More

June 18, 2015 @ 7:21 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Coinffeine,  an open source, peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange platform, enables users  to buy and sell bitcoins securely and anonymously without having to rely on a centralized exchange like MtGox or Bitstamp. It’s like BitTorrent for  bitcoins.  Coinffeine’s beta P2P exchange, hopes to offer the same local buying service… Read More

June 18, 2015 @ 6:31 am By Erin Hobey  |  

(EPA) announced the launch of its incubator for early stage payments companies, the Catalyst. The Catalyst provides access to investors, workspace, mentors and commercial partners in association with MasterCard and The Bancorp. The Catalyst beneficiaries – its ‘Rising Stars’ – are new entrants to the… Read More

June 16, 2015 @ 1:56 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Previously overfunded at 169%, Workabode (formerly One City) overfunded in its second crowdfunding round on Crowdcube, aiming to disrupt of the approximately £11B shared workspace market via the “Workplace as a Service” (WAAS) market. To date, Workabode has surpassed its £150,000 target goal for 5.00% equity offered, raising just over £151,045 with the help of… Read More

June 16, 2015 @ 12:38 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Washington D.C.-based Rare Genomics Institute  today announced a 30-day Crowdfunding Bootcamp to help rare disease patients raise funds for high-end exome sequencing to pinpoint the cause of their disease and map possible treatments.  The training session is an integral part of Amplify Hope, a new… Read More

June 16, 2015 @ 7:56 am By Erin Hobey  |  

In the news again, Startupbootcamp, a European accelerator, today announced the launch of the Startupbootcamp Insurance accelerator program. Based in London, the program invites global startups from across different areas within insurance, including retail insurance, corporate risk management, re-insurance, back-office efficiency and new risk models, to… Read More

June 12, 2015 @ 6:45 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

One of the companies planning to build a Hyperloop test track has begun receiving its first set of test tubes, reported Tech Insider’s Cadie Thompson. Hyperloop Technologies, which is located in the arts district of downtown L.A., tweeted dramatic images of the tubes. In March,  Hyperloop Transportation Technologies… Read More

June 12, 2015 @ 1:20 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Yesterday, the Malaysian Securities Commission (MSC) has approved of six equity crowdfunding (ECF) platforms to start their operations by the end of the year. Today updates and further comments were shared by key innovators regarding the approval. “It is timely to further widen access through innovation in financial… Read More