May 27, 2015 @ 2:37 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Australia’s H2 Ventures, a newly-established fintech-focused digital design and investment firm, plans to raise a A$10 million war chest to fund the launch of 100 early-stage fintech startups over the next three years. The firm, set up by former AWI Ventures alumni Ben and Toby… Read More

May 27, 2015 @ 2:23 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Bookstores at each of Simon Fraser University’s three campuses in Vancouver, Burnaby, and Surrey, will now accept bitcoin for the payment of retail transactions, and virtual currency machines will be installed in these locations, allowing the student body to purchase the virtual currency. “As a… Read More

May 27, 2015 @ 2:01 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

UNYTE: Yoga for everyone! launched its Companisto equity crowdfunding campaign, quickly raising over 101,470€ of its 200,000€ goal with the help of over 73 backers. Funding will be used to open the first UNYTE flagship studio in Berlin. Additional funding will be tapped by several sources, including the initiators’ own… Read More

May 22, 2015 @ 11:40 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Financial technology is going to revolutionize the banking industry,” Lawyer Christine Duhaime told the Georgia Straight over coffee in downtown Vancouver. “It’s really important to encourage women to be involved in tech, and then fintech especially—we’re 50 percent of the equation—so that we’re not left out at the… Read More

May 22, 2015 @ 11:24 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Russian fin-tech venture capital firm Life.SREDA has announced that Victor Chow, former senior cloud computing business leader of Huawei Technologies, has been brought on board as the CEO of InspirAsia Accelerator, its Singapore-based Asia-focussed accelerator. Chow’s also served as a mentor for the fin-tech accelerator Startupbootcamp fintech. According to a statement by the company, Chow’s… Read More

May 22, 2015 @ 10:03 am By Erin Hobey  |  

In a release by James Tuckett, Managing Director of investUP, he shares his about the  crowdfunding supermarket, investUP, a potential ISA for the crowdfunding industry and what this could mean for the current state of the crowdfunding market. Below please find his unabridged commentary:  The crowdISA… Read More

May 22, 2015 @ 10:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“We are extremely excited by the possibilities of the next decade in the alternative finance market… OnDeck’s vision is to transform how money flows to small businesses by leveraging our platform to provide capital on demand for small business owners. The data flowing through a small… Read More

May 21, 2015 @ 4:10 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

The Catalan company ZeClinics, supported by the University Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona and and Barcelona Biomedicine Research Park (PRBB) reached its crowdfunding campaign goal  on Capital Cell,  a campaign that set the record for the the year’s largest biotech crowdfunding investment in Spain.  The company is prevalued at 1M€.  After 88… Read More

May 21, 2015 @ 10:46 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The European Crowdfunding network (ECN) released a Joint Declaration on the Capital Markets Union, together with seven other significative European federations representing capital market players and SMEs including AFME, EBF, Eurochambres, EBAN, EBN, European Issuers and Business Angels Europe and the European Crowdfunding Network. “Joining forces for the first time with other organizations representing capital market players… Read More

May 21, 2015 @ 10:33 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The Latvian P2P lending marketplace Mintos announced its both its expansion and new offering of  P2P loans, secured by cars as collateral to borrowers in Lithuania,  the third country Mintos operates in addition to Latvia and Estonia. Mintos is open to international investors from Europe.  The platform’s website… Read More

May 21, 2015 @ 10:11 am By Erin Hobey  |  

FreeAgent, the multi-award winning cloud accounting provider, today launched a £1M crowdfunding round with Seedrs to accelerate its vision of “Democratising Accounting” for UK micro-businesses and freelancers. The cloud accounting pioneer will use funding to to accelerate development of its  product and introduce more micro-businesses and freelancers to… Read More

May 21, 2015 @ 9:33 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Adzuna, the UK-based job search engine today launched its £1.5 million crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube for its mission to “get Britain working.” In just a few hours, the campaign has raised over £659,330 of its £1,500,000 targeted goal for 5.89% equity offered. Nearly 70 investors helped Adzuna hit 43% of its goal…. Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 9:48 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Shelvspace, aiming to transform the way US consumer packaged goods are sold in retail with   its cloud-based mobile platform, announced it has received $1 million in seed round funding.Headquartered in Scottsdale Arizona with regional sales in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago, Shelvspace is a portfolio company of Tallwave,… Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 9:25 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Financial services giant MasterCard made its official entrance into the person-to-person payments business, according to Natalie Gagliordi for ZDNet. The company announced the launch of MasterCard Money Send, a near real-time P2P digital payments service that securely transfers funds domestically and internationally. Shopping site FreeShipping.com and Berkshire Hathaway Travel… Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 9:08 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Retailer loyalty App Loyalzoo has raised over £251,395 in funding on its equity crowdfunding on Seedrs, having raised £170,000 in just three days in late April. To date 157 investors have helped the small company exceed its £250,002 goal for 12.15% equity in the company.  This campaign marks the second time… Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 8:43 am By Erin Hobey  |  

In an article posted today in the Luxumburger Wort, Luxembourg Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna commented that FinTech is the engine driving new financial services business models, promoting the Grand Duchy as a location for the burgeoning ICT sector. “What Silicon Valley has in Tech, we have in Fin,”… Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 8:21 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Continuing to grow its brand, Startupbootcamp FinTech has announced Liz Lumley‘s appointment as the new managing director for London and will be responsible for the running of the accelerator programme in London. “We are extremely happy to have Liz join us,” added Nektarios Liolios, global managing director,… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 12:55 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

eProdigy, a fintech holding company with several subsidiaries serving the alternative finance space, announced today that an undisclosed private equity firm has made an agreement to provide $100 million to eProdigy through a term loan, a convertible note feature and participation rights. “This deal changes our entire… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 12:32 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

OurCrowd set a new Australian funding record, closing out a $1.5 million round of funding for Global Kinetics Corporation (GKC), an Australian medical IT company . To recap from an earlier post, GKC was established in 2007 to commercialize innovative technology developed by Professor Malcolm Horne, from the Florey… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 12:12 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Cloud Lending Solutions, an end-to-end lending solution built natively on salesforce.com, announced the appointment of  Harold Rosen to the company’s Advisory Board, bringing his more than 30 years of experience in the microfinance industry, including driving social impact investing at the World Bank. In addition, the company is expanding… Read More