February 10, 2015 @ 12:22 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Upper Street, the luxury made-to-order shoe firm,  has already secured over £46,750 of its £200,000 fundraising goal round on Seedrs for the 6.6% equity offered. Valued at £2,822,490, the London-based shoes label founded five years ago by Katy Chandler and Julia Elliott Brown aims to  revolutionize the way women shop for shoes… Read More

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

CircleUp announced a new partnership with the leading online financial advisor, Personal Capital. Members can track their CircleUp investments in the Personal Capital app, across both desktop and mobile devices. The integration aims to allow investors to centralize their public and private market investments for the… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 10:57 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has released the Guidelines on Regulation of Markets under Section 34 of the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007 to introduce new requirements for the registration of equity crowdfunding (ECF) platforms and provide governance arrangement for the operator of such platforms…. Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 8:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Cloud Lending Solutions, the industry’s only end-to-end lending solution built natively on Salesforce.com, today announced its new customer LendingPoint, a non-bank direct lender that aims to meet consumer demands for online borrowing options. LendingPoint has successfully used Cloud Lending as a foundation to go from concept… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 1:47 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Monexo recently launched its peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform in Hong Kong.  Co-founder, Mukesh Bubna, enters the space with 20 years experience in consumer banking throughout Asia,  including 18 years at Citibank in Asia where he spent 10 years in product and marketing. Prior to that he was CFO, and… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 1:11 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Yinfu Gold Corporation (“ELRE”) (OTC PINK:ELRE) today announced that it is in the process of acquiring Dongguan YouDai Financial Information Services Co., Ltd (YouDai), a P2P lending platform, from Eternal Fairy International Ltd., (EFI), a British Virgin Island corporation. ELRE has executed an agreement to acquire… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 12:57 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

BorrowersFirst, a next-generation lending platform that provides personal consumer loans, announced that seasoned financial services executive Dave Tomlinson has joined the company as president and CEO, as well as appointed to the company’s Board of Directors. Tomlinson chose to join BorrowersFirst because of its unique value… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 12:31 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Today EBS Technologies launched the crowdfunding campaign on Companisto, already surpassing 22,710€ of its minimum 100,000€ goal with the help of over 60 backers. The innovative tech company is valued at 6,800,000 €. Already backed by three major investors, namely the German venture capital company Earlybird, the High-Tech Gründerfonds (high-tech… Read More

February 5, 2015 @ 8:43 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Marcus New, the Founder and Chief Entrepreneur of InvestX, is an experienced entrepreneur; he founded and served as chairman (and previously the CEO) of Stockhouse, Canada’s leading financial community and a global hub for affluent investors, with up to 1 million unique monthly visitors. Prior to… Read More

February 4, 2015 @ 10:33 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Wil Schroter,  Startups.co Founder and CEO, today announced what’s in store for Fundable in 2015: the acquiring of Clarity.fm and launching of Startups.co. Clarity was founded by well-known serial entrepreneur Dan Martell to help Founders get personal advice from startup experts in every field, from marketing to fundraising to… Read More

February 4, 2015 @ 10:08 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Leah Stern has joined OurCrowd’s team as CST: Chief Story Teller for the global hybrid VC / crowdfunding platform. The University of Miami grad also currently serves as producer and anchor for the Israeli Government Press Office News in Jerusalem, as well as acting as a multi… Read More

January 30, 2015 @ 10:40 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“PEER-to-peer lender P2P Global Investments yesterday saw its C-shares rise from 1,000p to 1,057.50p, an increase of 5.75 per cent on their first day of trading. The investment trust raised £250m in a heavily over-subscribed C-share issue, giving the rapidly expanding peer-to-peer lending sector a further… Read More

January 30, 2015 @ 10:09 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“USAA’s recent entrance into the bitcoin space may have been driven, in part, by interest in the technology among its own membership,” reported Stan Higgens from CoinDesk.  “The Fortune 500 financial services company, based in Texas, was among a diverse group of investors that took part in… Read More

January 30, 2015 @ 9:48 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The peer-to-peer lending industry in the UK lent just over £1.2 billion in 2014 according to new figures released today from the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA). The sector has now lent more than £2.1 billion in total, doubling in size since the end of 2013, says the… Read More

January 30, 2015 @ 9:37 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Elsen has closed a $400,000 round of funding for its financial technology platform, the company announced today. Elsen plans to use this capital to accelerate growth and add additional resources to its engineering team. Elsen offers a platform for bringing massively-parallel processing to financial data. Complex… Read More

January 30, 2015 @ 9:26 am By Erin Hobey  |  

This week’s blizzard created havoc in the northeast, an in particular for the Tall Ship Sloop Providence which experienced excessive damage during the storm.  To pay for damage not covered by insurance, Tall Ship Providence Captain/Owner Thorpe Leeson and International Performance Artist Nichole Raab looked to raise 900K… Read More

January 23, 2015 @ 10:59 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The Good Egg has successfully raised over £216,400 with the help of over 205 investors through its Crowdcube equity crowdfunding campaign, overfunding by 120%. As previously reported by Crowdfund Insider’s Samantha Hurst, The Good Egg which was inspired by Californian deli Wise Sons, has not only drawn the… Read More

January 23, 2015 @ 10:29 am By Erin Hobey  |  

With just over two weeks left on the campaign, Freezy Freakies “high tech” gloves are back on Kickstarter… it’s about time.    Alas, my beloved I ♥️ Snow gloves are not making a comeback, but unicorns, turbo cars, alpine skiers and fighter jets are back to warm… Read More

January 23, 2015 @ 9:45 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Fintech BlueVine Capital secured $18.5 Million from investors reported Lizette Chapman reported for Dow Jones VentureWire.  Based in Palo Alto, Calif., BlueVine was founded in 2013 by Chief Executive Eyal Lifshitz while he was a principal at venture firm Greylock IL, and currently employs 18 people. “Other companies, such as Kabbage Inc…. Read More

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

As many Crowdfund Insiders know, when The University of Cambridge teamed up with EY and launched the European Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey, the largest study to date on crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and other forms of alternative finance in Europe was initiated. This benchmarking survey, which closed on 6 January 2015,  seeks to capture the size,… Read More