Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

January 24, 2019 @ 1:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform Crowd2Fund has launched their third equity offering providing outside investors the opportunity to own shares in the company. Crowd2Fund says it hopes to grow its private ownership base from 121 high net worth individuals to 450. According to the campaign page, Crowd2Fund… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 12:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Huobi Global has dropped their fees “in order to better serve the needs of institutional and professional traders.” As of yesterday, transaction fees are as low as 0.015% for “makers” and 0.025% for “takers” for very high volume transactions. Before the drop in fees, all… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 8:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chinese fintech Pintec Technology Holdings Limited (PINTEC) announced on Thursday its President, Zhou Jing, is now set to lead its international business expansion efforts. According to PINTEC, Zhou has served as the president of the Company since January 2018. From May 2016 to January 2018, she served as the CEO of the Dumiao… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 8:00 am By Therese Torris  |  

French SME crowdlending platform Credit.fr has announced the acquisition of Homunity, a real estate crowdlending platform. The acquisition is a welcome move in a fragmented marketplace. The acquisition of Homunity, France’s leading independent real estate crowdfunding platform, enables Credit.fr to strengthen its position in the… Read More

January 24, 2019 @ 7:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lender Albrate is raising growth capital on Crowdcube. The asset backed online lender recently opened up the offer privately raising just shy of £100,000 from 58 individual investors. Albrate has a crowdfunding target of £350,000. Ablrate is a peer to peer lender… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 3:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

tZero, a subsidiary of Overstock (NASDAQ: OSTK) and part of Medici Venture’s blockchain portfolio, is expected to go live within days. This is according to multiple reports of Overstock CEO and founder Patrick Byrne stating he was “ready to hit the button and go live”… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 1:13 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Spain’s finance regulator, The Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), has blacklisted a purported crypto and Forex brokerage called FX Trading corporation after the CNMV determined the company was facilitating “asset” trades for Spanish investors without being licensed to do so in the country,… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 1:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Templum Markets, a primary issuance and secondary trading platform for blockchain based securities, and IPwe have partnered to launch a patent finance market. Templum Markets and IPwe claim they are creating an entirely new financing framework, enabling companies to efficiently finance their patented intellectual property,… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 12:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

CrediFi, a fintech and commercial real estate finance platform, on Wednesday it has raised an additional $6 million in funding. This funding comes on the heels of the $13 million previously raised in Series B funding. The company reported that the total amount it has… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 10:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Finland based peer to peer lender Fellow Finance is now operating in Denmark. The company says it will offer Danish consumers access to credit while Fellow Finance investors will be able to fund Danish loans. Currently, Fellow Finance provides consumer loans in Finland, Germany, Poland, and… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 10:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week RateSetter reported over £3 billion in online lending. Today, RateSetter says more than 75,000 people have invested on the P2P Platform. RateSette reports that investors have earned returns of £120 million with an average interest rate of 4.4% per year since RateSetter launched in 2010. Mario… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 10:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Stripe has formed a partnership with leading online SME lender Funding Circle  (LSE:FCH). According to a release, Funding Circle is now a “verified extension partner” thus allowing the lender access to Stripe user data to assess the creditworthiness of the business. Funding Circle will provide… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 8:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Leading investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd is jumping into the hot cannabis sector. OurCrowd has launched a $30 million cannabis tech fund called 7thirty Opportunity Fund. OurCrowd said it will build the “world’s leading global cannabis technology venture capital fund.” The new fund is said to… Read More

January 22, 2019 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Verseon (AIM: VSN), a company that provides a “computer-driven approach to drug discovery” says it is trying to change the capital markets landscape by bringing regulatory certainty to the blockchain with the goal of connecting a global investor community with innovative companies in biotech and more. Last… Read More

January 22, 2019 @ 7:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Online lender creditshelf has shared the results of their “Financing Monitor 2019.” According to their research, Germany-based SMEs are feeling the consequences of international trade conflicts and questions. “Every second company reports that access to credit has deteriorated compared to the previous year.” creditshelf states… Read More

January 22, 2019 @ 3:41 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Barcelona-based Santafixie Group, a brand and e-commerce of bicycles and components,  has released its own brand of bicycles, with nearly 90K orders and counting. Aiming to be the go-to global brand for bicycles, Santafixie is seeking an investment injection in order to release new models… Read More

January 22, 2019 @ 2:31 am By Erin Hobey  |  

  vanilla bean, claiming the title as “the world’s first packaging-free restaurant delivery service,” offers CO2-free, fair, and 100% vegan packaging. The Regensberg, Germany based company aims to help solve the problem of packaging waste: almost 50% of the plastic waste produced worldwide comes from packaging…. Read More

January 21, 2019 @ 10:03 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

2018 was another great year for Invesdor, according to management. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Helsinki with a branch office in Stockholm, the award-winning Nordic market leader in digital fundraising and investing connects European growth companies with global investors. Named Best Nordic Fintech Startup 2018 and regulated… Read More

January 21, 2019 @ 7:42 am By JD Alois  |  

The once red-hot UK property market has cooled a bit. As Brexit fears persist, London property prices have declined dramatically from their peak more than a year ago. Headlines have done little to assuage concerns with one recent publication claiming housing sales are facing the worst… Read More

January 21, 2019 @ 4:39 am By Erin Hobey  |  

UK fintech business lender MarketInvoice has raised £26M in new equity funding during a Series-B funding round led by Barclays and Santander’s $200M fintech fund InnoVentures with significant participation from European venture fund Northzone, an existing investor in the company. Technology credit fund Viola Credit, who… Read More