March 13, 2015 @ 11:23 am By Erin Hobey  |  

FinTech Sandbox, created to foster innovation in financial services by streamlining access to data for financial technology startups around the globe, plans to launch from beta on March 26th at the District Hall in Boston’s Innovation District.  Headlined by Jeff Maggioncalda, the Founder of Financial Engines, who… Read More

March 13, 2015 @ 10:58 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Cloud banking platform provider Mambu, has signed up to the SaaS Assured service from global information assurance specialist NCC Group, providing an additional layer of confidence for its customers. SaaS Assured provides an interim cloud continuity service which acts as a safety net, giving SaaS customers… Read More

March 13, 2015 @ 10:01 am By Erin Hobey  |  

2005: A Zopa Odyssey In these weeks, Zopa has celebrated a decade as a innovative and disruptive alternative financial leader.  Led by CEO Giles Andrews,  Zopa has lent over £750 million and predicts it will top £1 billion within the next couple of months.  To recap, in… Read More

March 13, 2015 @ 9:24 am By Erin Hobey  |  

BitGiving, a social crowdfunding platform for individuals and organisations in India, has promoted Ishita Anand as its new CEO. Ishita, who co-founded the company, was serving as its chief operating officer (COO) since its inception in 2013. An erstwhile freelance film-maker, Ishita holds a BA (Hons) degree… Read More

March 12, 2015 @ 12:42 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

EVEN Financial today announced it has raised $2.8M in seed funding. The round was led by Canaan Partners, who also led the first venture-backed investment rounds for Lending Club and Orchard Platform in the P2P lending market. Other investors include Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Ron Suber of Prosper, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Conversion Capital, Social Leverage, 555… Read More

March 12, 2015 @ 12:14 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Luxury wine brand Yao Family Wines, founded and owned (25%)  by  retired Houston Rockets basketball star and  humanitarian Yao Ming, has raised over $2,020,000  toward its  $3 million crowdfunding goal on Crowdfunder.  Pre-money valued at $15M, Yao Family Wines develops, produces, markets and sells Napa Valley wine brands in… Read More

March 12, 2015 @ 12:00 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Not just child’s play…Tangible Kids and Osmo, the breakout kids hardware tech device that was named one of the best inventions of 2014 by Time Magazine, announced its next experience, Masterpiece. With this launch, the company again seeks to revolutionize the way we learn and think about… Read More

March 12, 2015 @ 11:41 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Designed around Krowdster’s big data approach, the new outreach option is a high quality yet affordable media promotion service. It allows those running crowdfunding projects to connect with journalists and bloggers in their niche. With over 500 journalists and dozens of authority publications including Mashable,… Read More

March 12, 2015 @ 11:31 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Freygeist has developed a globally unique e-bike that combines all advantages of a modern e-bike with the design and weight of a conventional bicycle for the first time. Freygeist is one of the first companies to focus on the promising global market of urban mobility…. Read More

March 12, 2015 @ 9:31 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Celebrating the tenth anniversary in finance,  Zopa, world’s first peer to peer lender has made significant achievements since its founding  “in a barn in Buckinghamshire.”   Zopa, led by CEO and Co-Founder Giles Andrews, launched a disruptive financial industry that enables consumers and businesses to bypass banks. Since… Read More

March 11, 2015 @ 11:02 am By Erin Hobey  |  

As a solution to delivering IT projects faster, with better quality, and more cost-effectively, Aries TCO developed ACE, a rapid application generator that builds screens, data structures, and entire applications for as many platforms as templates provided. From one configuration, consumers can create iOS, Android, and web applications with just a click… allowing a… Read More

March 11, 2015 @ 10:39 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Study of 15,000 Companies Finds Average Revenues of Women-Owned Businesses Increased Nearly 40% in a Year-to-Year Comparison. Analysis shows that a gender-gap still exists, despite the increased profitability that we are seeing with women-owned business in recent years. Average annual revenues and loan approval percentages of… Read More

March 11, 2015 @ 10:18 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Realty Mogul, one of the leading pioneers in online peer-to-peer real estate investing, will be only real estate-related business chosen to present at the West Coast’s premier conference for technology investors. The Montgomery Summit, presented by Macquarie Capital, selected Los Angeles-based Realty Mogul from more than… Read More

February 27, 2015 @ 11:01 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Mambu, a cloud banking technology platform provider that works with more than 100 financial innovators worldwide, including Banco Macro, Opportunity International  and Yale University, uniquely sits at the nexus of the transformation and financial inclusion markets, where new applications and the cloud’s agility offers a particularly compelling value proposition for… Read More

February 27, 2015 @ 10:21 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Innovate Finance, the independent membership organisation that represents the voice of Britain’s global fintech sector, is hosting its first global summit on Tuesday, March 9th, 2015 at the Guildhall in London.  The major event will explore the impact of fintech on the financial services sector… Read More

February 27, 2015 @ 10:08 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Illuminate Financial, a fintech venture fund focused on the capital markets industry, has made its first investment since its launch last year, taking a stake in collateral management outfit CloudMargin. Originally backed by a group of senior financial market executives, CloudMargin’s collateral and margin management technology… Read More

February 27, 2015 @ 9:45 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Last December, Partner and ‎Head of Investor Community/Partnerships at OurCrowd Zack Miller highlighted crowdfunding websites to watch in 2015, citing six rewards-based platforms for athletes:  DreamFuel,  Pursuit, SportFunder, MakeAChamp,  RallyMe and Athlete.com. Montreal-based MakeAChamp, one of the six platforms cited by Miller,  provides an example of this rising trend: started in late 2012, the platform raised… Read More

February 22, 2015 @ 7:01 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Newly opened Centre for Alternative Finance of University of Cambridge Judge Business School reports European Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey study results.  The European market could top €7 billion in 2015 The European alternative finance market grew 144% last year to €2,957m The UK is the largest European country for alternative finance,… Read More

February 20, 2015 @ 6:59 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

  Venture Funding Hubs, a new project by Barry James and his CrowdfundingCentre, hopes to take financial democracy not to just London but to Manchester and Sheffield and across the north. Venture Funding Hubs are seen as the key to fixing the struggling engine room of… Read More

February 20, 2015 @ 9:18 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Led by the former CEO of the YO! Group and CEO of The Crowd Jim Woods, The Crowd’s mission is to change the way companies draw up their sustainability strategies with a knowledge sharing revolution in how companies approach social and environmental issues. The London-based… Read More