Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

July 26, 2018 @ 6:17 am By Erin Hobey  |  

European P2P platform Robo.cash, which offers automated investments in the portfolio of the lending companies, has reportedly facilitated funding of half a million loans totaling over €40 million on the heels of reaching a $4M in attracted investments milestone and entrance into Kazakhstan through its partnership with alternative lender… Read More

July 25, 2018 @ 11:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

FundersClub, an online capital formation platform that uses Reg D 506b to back promising young firms, has just provided an update on the status of their operations after six years of business. According to FundersClub, to date they have booked 30 exits – IE companies… Read More

July 25, 2018 @ 1:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

SharesPost, a FINRA-registered broker-dealer and ATS, has partnered up with OKCoin a digital asset exchange. The two firms will be working together on SharesPost’s Global Liquidity And Settlement System (GLASS) as exchange nodes. GLASS will provide OKCoin with compliant access to the U.S. investor market. GLASS is… Read More

July 25, 2018 @ 12:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crypto marketplace Coinbase has added a new feature. According to a blog post by Coinbase CEO Zeeshan Feroz, their users may now spend their BTC, ETH and more on e-gift card. Coinbase has partnered with WeGift to enable gift cards accepted at retailers like Uber… Read More

July 25, 2018 @ 12:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, Republic – a Reg CF crowdfunding platform founded by AngelList veterans – announced that it was celebrating its second birthday. How time flies. Republic announced its intent to enter crowdfunding sector as a FINRA regulated funding portal back in 2016 – the same… Read More

July 25, 2018 @ 9:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

DBS announced on Tuesday the launch of Southeast Asia’s largest bank-led property marketplace. DBS claims it is also the first bank in the region to launch an online property marketplace that offers listings from both agents and owners. According to DBS, the DBS Property Marketplace… Read More

July 24, 2018 @ 4:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdstacker, a UK-based peer-to-peer lending platform, is now seeking £800,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. Founded in 2014, Crowdstacker describes itself as an award-winning FCA regulated online alternative investment platform that provides ISA eligible P2P loans, bonds, and loan notes. According to the… Read More

July 24, 2018 @ 10:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Proplend, a UK based peer to peer lender in the property space, recently announced that its platform lending has surpassed 40 million. The company also noted that it also retains a maximum rating from specialist P2P lending rating agency, 4thWay. PropLend reported that 4thWay recently revised… Read More

July 24, 2018 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Waves has announced that Waves Client decentralized exchange (DEX),  is now stable after 53 beta versions. The Waves DEX is said to offer a completely new interface, new APIs and improved stability. The release also offers night mode and an asset manager, which allows searching… Read More

July 23, 2018 @ 10:33 am By JD Alois  |  

A report from the Politecnico Milano School of Management in Italy, indicates that the volume investment crowdfunding is picking up pace in Italy. In Italy, as is with the rest of Europe, crowdfunding denotes investment in both debt and equity. According to the numbers provided… Read More

July 22, 2018 @ 1:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

British Pearl, a property crowdfunding platform offering both debt and equity investments, is reporting a £7 million investment led by Lord Stanley Fink. British Pearl says the investment is indicative of a resilient property market even as Brexit looms. Lord Stanley Fink , has been engaged… Read More

July 20, 2018 @ 12:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

  EnergyFunders, a crowdfunding platform in the oil and gas sector, is raising capital on SeedInvest. The company has listed a side by side Reg CF – Reg D offering (accredited only) so the firm can raise beyond the CF cap. Under Reg CF, EnergyFunders… Read More

July 19, 2018 @ 4:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

StartEngine. a full stack crowdfunding platform including ICOs, is now accepting Bitcoin. StartEngine becomes the first FINRA approved Reg CF funding portal to accept cryptocurrency from investors. The addition of Bitcoin is just further indication of the merging of the two sectors of more traditional… Read More

July 19, 2018 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Germany base Neufund has announced an extended partnership with Binance and the Malta Stock Exchange that is predicted to become the first “end to end primary issuance platform” for security tokens. The partnership will enable the issuance and secondary trading of blockchain based securities while… Read More

July 19, 2018 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

P2Binvestor (P2Bi) has formed a new partnership with Amalgamated Bank to allow businesses a new way to access growth capital. Amalgamated Bank is described as a “socially responsible bank” which is based in New York. Amalgamated  recently acquired New Resource Bank – a financial firm that already… Read More

July 19, 2018 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Raize, a peer to peer lender, became the first initial public offering out of Portugal this week since 2014. The small cap online lender IPOed at €2.00 yesterday (July 18th) having gained 1400 new shareholders. Trading on the Euronext Access exchange under ticker MLRZE shares increased the… Read More

July 18, 2018 @ 3:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Multi-chain blockchain network aelf announced on Wednesday it named crowdfunding platform Republic as its first official funding partner of its Innovation Alliance, which is described as a coalition of industry “superpowers” working to accelerate mass blockchain adoption through open-source, community-driven practices. According to aelf, Republic will… Read More

July 17, 2018 @ 3:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tripoint Global, a boutique investment bank based in Manhattan, and its online capital formation platform Banq – have been leaders in the Reg A+ crowdfunding space since the beginning. When the  rules were quite new, Mark Elenowitz, CEO of Tripoint, was quick to recognize the potential… Read More

July 17, 2018 @ 2:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Marketplace platform for mortgages, LendInvest, announced on Tuesday the release of its latest LendingInvest Buy-to-Let Index report, which ranks 105 postcode areas around England and Wales based on the combination of four critical metrics, capital value growth, transaction volumes, rental yields, and rental price growth…. Read More

July 17, 2018 @ 11:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Russia based Boomstarter.Network, a “cryptofunding platform” has raised $1 million in early financing from venture funds and private companies as part of its ongoing token offering. The blockchain based crowdfunding platform stated that DTI, an investor in Telegram and Dropbox, are participating in the funding of… Read More