October 14, 2022 @ 3:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Real estate investment platform Fundrise is out with its Q3 investor letter profiling its performance. Fundrise is a platform that offerings fund like vehicles that invest in various real estate or property assets.  The offerings are available to both non-accredited and accredited investors as they… Read More

October 14, 2022 @ 3:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

NYDIG, a Bitcoin gateway platform providing various crypto services, has quietly reduced its employee account, according to a recent report. WSJ.com writes that about one-third of its staff, or 110 individuals, have been let go. The move follows a change in executive leadership that was… Read More

October 14, 2022 @ 12:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Exodus Movement (tZERO: EXOD, Securitize Markets: EXOD), the first company to reach the funding cap under Reg A+ – raising $75 million, has scheduled its earnings call for November 9 at 330PM ET. Exodus, a firm that trades a digital security, raised capital from over… Read More

October 14, 2022 @ 12:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Valour Inc. has partnered with Valour to list its first “multi-asset crypto exchange-traded product (ETP). The fund will trade on the Boerse Frankfurt Zertifikate AG (ISIN: CH1149139623). Valour is a firm seeking to bridge digital and traditional capital markets, including DeFi. Vinter is a Sweden-based… Read More

October 14, 2022 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Legion M, a media company that aims to have one million investors. has returned to crowdfunding for the 9th time, according to a statement from the company. Legion M has listed a Reg A+ securities offering on StartEngine seeking to raise up to $20.7 million… Read More

October 14, 2022 @ 9:37 am By JD Alois  |  

  This past week, Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) revealed it had received regulatory approval to provide services in Singapore, the leading Fintech hub in Asia,  At the same time, it was announced that Coinbase founder and CEO Brian Armstrong is expected to participate at the annual Singapore… Read More

October 13, 2022 @ 10:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

finbots.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI) firm for credit modeling, has signed an agreement to partner with Proptech Tanaku, expanding their services into Indonesia. According to a company statement, finbots.ai platform will help Tanaku quickly create a high-quality customer risk assessment model to streamline pre-mortgage financing… Read More

October 13, 2022 @ 4:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Today the SEC’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee (SBCFAC) held a meeting to address two important topics. The sagging initial public offering (IPO) market and access to capital for vital entrepreneurial markets. Both, are key policy ambitions – more so during a time of… Read More

October 13, 2022 @ 2:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), the largest company in the world by market cap, is becoming more like a digital bank. Apple announced today that it will soon offer interest-bearing accounts alongside its highly popular Apple Card. The service will be available in partnership with Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS),… Read More

October 13, 2022 @ 12:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

SeedInvest, a full-stack investment crowdfunding platform, reports that a current securities offering is the largest Reg CF issuer ever on its platform. While many offerings on SeedInvest are listed under Reg A+ and Reg D, SeedInvest also leverages Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding), an exemption that… Read More

October 13, 2022 @ 12:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Anchorage Digital, a federally chartered digital asset bank, has announced a partnership with the Provenance Blockchain Foundation to offer the staking of HASH tokens. Anchorage will provide access to its institutional clients to participate in the Provenance blockchain to collect rewards for securing the network…. Read More

October 13, 2022 @ 11:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Pillow, a Singapore-based crypto investment platform that currently reports serving 75,000 users in over 60 countries, has raised an $18 million Series A funding round. The capital injection was led by Accel, Quona Capital, Elevation Capital, and Jump Capital. Pillow notes that Elevation Capital was… Read More

October 13, 2022 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Global economic reality is impacting everyone and everything. Sky-high inflation, interest rates rising, the war in Ukraine, and more, are hobbling economic activity. Fintech is not immune to this fact and a report distributed today by Finch Capital states that Fintech is entering a period… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 4:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

QED Investors is one of the most prolific venture capital firms focusing on Fintech in the world. With more than one hundred portfolio companies and over a dozen exits, QED has touched almost all sectors of Fintech. Big Fintech names have received the backing of… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 2:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin reward app Lolli says its new version app on iOS and Android will incorporate “Lolli Card Boosts” – a feature designed to allow users to earn up to 10%  in Bitcoin rewards for in-store purchases. Lolli explains that with Boosts, anyone’s credit or debit… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 11:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Grayscale Investments, a large digital asset manager with listed products trading on OTC Markets, has sued the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) due to the agency’s refusal to approve a Bitcoin-based Exchange Traded Product (ETP) or spot Bitcoin ETF. According to a release, Grayscale filed… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 11:36 am By JD Alois  |  

SettleMint, a low-code platform for blockchain app development, has raised €16 Million in a Series A round led by Molten Ventures and OTB. Other investors include, Fujitsu Ventures, Allusion, and Bloccelerate and existing investor Medici Ventures. Settlement aims to remove the complexity currently intrinsic to… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 11:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Nickels, a Michigan-based Fintech, has raised $4 million in Seed funding in a round led by Flyover Capital and Reseda Group, with participation from Detroit Venture Partners and Michigan Rise, according to a company statement. Nickels is a firm that provides a white-labeled product to… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 10:10 am By JD Alois  |  

The periodic report assessing teen trends produced by Piper Sandler has been distributed this past week. While skipping over digital payment preferences, as outlined in their previous report, the authors did address the crypto trends of teens. The research surveyed 14,500 teens across the country… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Zerion, a non-custodial crypto wallet, has raised $12.3 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Wintermute Ventures. Additional include Placeholder, Mosaic, Polymorphic Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Alchemy Ventures. 1inch Network’s Sergej Kunz, Anton Bukov, and Orest Gavryliak also participated alongside Yunt Capital… Read More