Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

February 17, 2020 @ 2:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase Commerce has added major stablecoin DAI as a new payment option for its merchant client base. As mentioned in a press release from Coinbase’s management, merchants using the Coinbase Commerce platform will be able to take payments made in the DAI stablecoin. Vendors can… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 1:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic, an investment crowdfunding platform that is an offshoot of AngelList and affiliated with digital asset issuance platform CoinList, is one of the leading sites in the US providing access to equity capital for early-stage firms. It is also democratizing investment opportunities by allowing non-accredited… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 11:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

European peer to peer lender Robo.cash announced on Monday it now has 10,000 investors on its platform. Founded in 2017, Robo.cash describes itself as a fully automated investment platform operating within an international financial group comprising loan originators from Spain, Russia, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Vietnam, and… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 9:29 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PeerStreet, a leading platform for investing in real estate backed loans, announced on Monday it celebrated being named one of the top 25 fastest growing companies by Deloitte. The platform revealed the exciting news last fall the ranking is based on fiscal-year revenue growth over… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 8:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Propifi, a UK-based peer-to-peer lending platform, announced on Monday the launch fo its new innovative Finance ISA (IFISA) eligible investment opportunity. Propifi revealed that this is the first investment opportunity launched through its P2P platform that is eligible for IFISA investment and will enable individuals… Read More

February 16, 2020 @ 10:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

India-based CoinDCX, a leading digital asset exchange and liquidity aggregator, recently confirmed that it has teamed up with major multinational crypto-asset trading platform for futures and derivatives, OKEx.  As noted in a press release shared with Crowdfund Insider: “With this partnership, OKEx will gain access… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 11:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Small business lending platform and fintech Numerated announced this week an expansion of its platform to support banks’ full suite of business banking products. The platform will now be offering pre-filled digital applications across business banking products, and a range of digital lending and account… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 1:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

U.S.-based online lending platform Lendio announced on Thursday it is set to host its inaugural Women in Business Empowerment Workshop. According to Lendio, the workshop designed to address the challenges faced by female entrepreneurs and will provide insight into what it takes to set up a… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Smartlands, a blockchain based Fintech that lays claim to tokenizing the first real estate offering in the UK, says it will revise and expand its legal framework by basing future projects on Lichtenstein law. Lichtenstein has created digital asset friendly regulation as it attempts to… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 9:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Liquid.com, a globally accessible digital asset exchange, confirmed on February 11, 2020, that Two Prime’s inaugural FF Token, the FF1, will be officially introduced and be available for trading “exclusively” on the exchange, beginning February 25, 2020. According to Liquid’s website, the company has facilitated… Read More

February 14, 2020 @ 9:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digix, the developer of the first asset-backed digital gold token, recently upgraded its online marketplace and website. The company’s new marketplace and digital platform aim to simplify the process of buying and managing Digix’s native DGX token. The token was launched to meet the increasing… Read More

February 13, 2020 @ 3:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pod Point, an issuer that raised capital, totaling £3.71 million, multiple times on Crowdcube with offerings in 2015, 2016 and 2017, has been sold to EDF. Without revealing details, Crowdcube reported that early “investors via the platform will see positive returns on the initial investment.”… Read More

February 13, 2020 @ 5:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle Internet Financial is reportedly looking for a buyer for SeedInvest, its crowdfunding division, as the Boston-headquartered crypto firm aims to focus more on its stablecoin business, according to the Block. This is notably Circle’s latest downsizing move, which began in 2019 when the firm… Read More

February 13, 2020 @ 1:25 am By JD Alois  |  

OurCrowd is arguably the leading investment crowdfunding platform in the world. Based in Israel but listing offerings from companies around the world, OurCrowd has seen approximately $1.4 billion in committed funding since inception. Of the 212 portfolio companies, 138 are based in Israel. Since its… Read More

February 12, 2020 @ 11:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform PledgeMe has announced a new CEO. The platform revealed its intent to select a new Chief Executive in a blog post last September. The platform was founded by Anna Guenther in 2012 and remains the only female-led crowdfunding operating in New Zealand… Read More

February 12, 2020 @ 8:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazilian Fintech firm IOUU, which offers a peer to peer (P2P) marketplace solution, has managed to secure funding from several venture capital firms. IOUU has acquired R$6 million (appr.$1.3 million) in funding from DOMO, which led the firm’s latest investment round. Indicator Capital and Devas… Read More

February 12, 2020 @ 11:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OurCrowd, a leading crowdfunding investment platform for individual and institutional investors, is accelerating its incubator and early-stage investment activities in order to help build a nascent technology ecosystem of promising companies.  OurCrowd is a globally accessible crowdfunding venture investing platform and one of Israel’s leading… Read More

February 12, 2020 @ 2:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, the largest equity crowdfunding platform in Europe, is reporting a record quarter, its 8th in a row, according to a company release. During 2019, Crowdcube reports topping £8 million in revenue for the first time (£8.22 million) as a record 220 were funded versus… Read More

February 11, 2020 @ 12:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

BlockQuake is a digital asset exchange that hopes to launch at some point in 2020. Sure, they may appear late to the game but the company has been founded by a group of Wall Street veterans who are focused on the need to be compliant… Read More

February 10, 2020 @ 2:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bricksave, a UK-based property investment platform, will be closing its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs later this evening with nearly £775,000 in funding raised. The initiative has attracted 375 Seedrs investors. The company launched the funding round in December and quickly secured its initial £600,000… Read More