Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

May 6, 2021 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Streami has received a strategic investment from the Digital Currency Group (DCG), according to a release. Streami is based in South Korea and operates GOPAX, a crypto exchange. DCG is said to be the second-largest investor in Streami and previously participated in the Series A… Read More

May 6, 2021 @ 9:35 am By JD Alois  |  

EstateGuru, a Lithuania-based debt crowdfunding platform, is returning to Seedrs to raise up to €1 million in equity capital. The offering went live in private mode on May 5th and quickly topped €500,000 in funding. EstateGuru previously raised just under one million euros in June… Read More

May 5, 2021 @ 10:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Revere VC, a San Francisco and Hong Kong-based asset management firm, has closed on a $1.35 million seed round. Simultaneously, Revere said it had launched its flagship product called “the Portal”  – a curated VC platform and a fund – “the Prime Access Fund.” Revere… Read More

May 5, 2021 @ 5:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Beginning on Tuesday (May 4, 2021) Coinbase Pro (platform for professional crypto traders) are able to transfer Cartesi (CTSI), iExec (RLC), Mirror Protocol (MIR) and Tellor (TRB) digital tokens into their accounts ahead of scheduled trading. As noted by the Coinbase team: “Support for CTSI, RLC, MIR… Read More

May 5, 2021 @ 4:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ziglu, an app-based service facilitating crypto purchases and transfers, says the number of customers has doubled during the lockdown. Ziglu, founded by Starling Bank co-founder Mark Hipperson, aims to provide a digital bank-like experience for the fast-growing crypto-asset sector. In 2020, Ziglu emerged as the… Read More

May 4, 2021 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Indonesian peer to peer lender Amartha has acquired $28 million (appr. IDR 405 billion) in capital from Women’s World Banking Capital Partners II (WWB) and MDI Ventures. Amartha‘s round also received contributions from existing investors Mandiri Capital Indonesia and UOB Venture Management. WWB Capital Partners… Read More

May 4, 2021 @ 6:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Security Token Market (STM), which aims to offer the latest updates on the fast-evolving security tokens space, has released its monthly market report (for April 2021). As noted in the report, the total security token market cap stands at $696,625,920. The market… Read More

May 4, 2021 @ 3:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

As was previously reported, leading Reg CF funding portal Wefunder is raising equity capital on Honeycomb – another FINRA regulated funding portal. Last March, Crowdfund Insider reported that Wefunder had filed a Form C with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) indicating its intent to raise up… Read More

May 4, 2021 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital asset firm Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) notes that right before its recent direct listing, the company had teamed up with Pledge 1% to create a corporate giving program that would “commit 1% of Coinbase profits, equity, and employee time toward charitable activities that leverage the power… Read More

May 4, 2021 @ 11:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Periodically, Crowdfund Insider reviews the number of FINRA regulated funding portals operating in the Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) funding sector. A funding portal is a new entity created by the JOBS Act of 2012 designed specifically to issue securities under Reg CF. The last time… Read More

May 3, 2021 @ 9:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Amber Group, a crypto trading platform, has added new features for its retail-facing Amber App. According to the company, the features are designed to help users achieve optimal investment returns through interest rate products, yield enhancement, and risk management tools. Amber was founded in 2017… Read More

May 3, 2021 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

INX Limited reports that it has raised approximately $85 million in “the first SEC-registered token IPO.” INX is a digital asset company that seeks to provide a regulated trading platform for both digital securities and crypto. INX states that over 7200 investors participated in the… Read More

May 3, 2021 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Bhavik Vasa, founder and CEO at GetVantage, which is India and Southeast Asia’s first revenue-based financing Fintech platform. Vasa talked about the different challenges entrepreneurs face as they work on developing new products and services. Vasa explained how GetVantage‘s unique… Read More

May 1, 2021 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  The developers at Ocean Protocol (OCEAN), which allows software engineers to build marketplaces and other apps to privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data, have revealed that Compute-to-Data has landed in the Ocean Market. According to the Ocean Protocol team, Compute-to-Data “enables buying… Read More

April 30, 2021 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fundrise, a real estate investment platform using Reg A+ to provide access to “eREITs and eFunds,” notes that their annual letter to investors (released in January 2021) had revealed that they rang in 2021 with an updated version of their proprietary fund infrastructure, “enabling the… Read More

April 30, 2021 @ 10:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Private lending syndication platform CrowdOut Capital recently announced it closed a $20 million facility to Lane Gate Advisors.  Founded in 2015, CrowdOut claims it offers middle market and lower middle market companies ($10MM+ revenue) a better way to raise debt. The company noted it partners… Read More

April 30, 2021 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), the largest crypto exchange in the US, has acquired skew, a UK-based data analytics firm in the digital asset sector. Terms of the deal were not revealed and the transaction is expected to close next month following typical closing conditions. Founded in London… Read More

April 30, 2021 @ 7:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based MarketFinance, one of the world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) invoice finance platforms, notes in a blog post that Brexit and the COVID-19 outbreak have had “dramatic effects on the price of shipping.” MarketFinance adds that if your business uses suppliers that are based in other… Read More

April 29, 2021 @ 10:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Zipmex, a Singapore-based digital asset exchange that operates in multiple countries, says it has processed Asia’s first purchase of a Lamborghini using cryptocurrency. According to a release, Jo Chirawat used Zipmex’s mobile app to put a downpayment in Bitcoin on a 2021 Huracán EVO RWD… Read More

April 29, 2021 @ 3:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this week, OurCrowd CEO and founder Jon Medved held a virtual press briefing commenting on both the marketplace in Israel and the performance of OurCrowd in a pretty hot investment environment. Recently, it was reported that Israel has broken into the top 20 nations… Read More