Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

March 8, 2017 @ 5:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

LoanHero, a retail Fintech and loan origination platform for automated lending to consumers at the point of need, has announced a strategic partnership with Quorum Federal Credit Union. Quorum is a full-service financial institution currently serving over 70,000 members across all 50 states. The partnership with… Read More

March 8, 2017 @ 4:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, SyndicateRoom announced a recent investor study revealed 2017 diversity trends for platforms, products, and people. The research surveyed over 1,000 retail investors and revealed 45% of UK investors use an online platform, which is a clear and strong nod towards technology. The funding portal… Read More

March 8, 2017 @ 3:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, crowdfunding giant Kickstarter announced the games that are participating in its Game Castle at this year’s PAX East, which will take place on March 10th-12th in Boston. The funding portal revealed: “Featured tabletop games include Elan Lee’s Kickstarter record-smashing Exploding Kittens — which raised… Read More

March 8, 2017 @ 2:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Indiegogo and Arrow announced it has awarded Chris Richter of WaterBot $75,000 to help improve water quality nationwide. While sharing details about Richter’s progress, the duo revealed: “Since his father started the water treatment business in 1982, Chris has worked alongside of him for the… Read More

March 8, 2017 @ 1:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On International Women’s Day, Crowdcube celebrated female entrepreneurs that have previously or currently participated on its equity crowdfunding platform The funding portal stated: “We’ve previously written about how crowdfunding is redressing the balance of traditional finance and this still rings true for 2016 and 2017,… Read More

March 8, 2017 @ 12:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online lending platform Kabbage announced on Wednesday it priced $525 million of fixed-rate, asset-backed notes in a private securitization transaction for a facility that will enable expansion of large business products. The company stated that the facility is expandable to $1.5 billion and the notes will… Read More

March 8, 2017 @ 11:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Helmed by CEO and Co-founder Gonçalo de Vasconcelos,  SyndicateRoom continues to pioneer the “investor-led” crowdfunding model in the UK. A serial entrepreneur and Judge Business School grad who was awarded the Best Dissertation prize and the Benavitch Scholarship for academic and professional achievements, de Vasconcelos cofounded SyndicateRoom with a… Read More

March 8, 2017 @ 10:08 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Dr. Zhengyu (Zane) Wang, founder, chairman and CEO of China Rapid Finance Limited, revealed at the 2017 LendIt USA 2017 conference the challenges to expanding consumer finance in China’s population. According to Wang, the country has emerged from being a market that in 2000 featured… Read More

March 8, 2017 @ 8:29 am By JD Alois  |  

RealtyShares, a real estate crowdfunding platform, has published data on real estate projects located in the midwest that have been financed via their online marketplace. To date, developers, sponsors and borrowers in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois have raised $32.9 million from investors on… Read More

March 8, 2017 @ 8:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Property crowdfunding platform, The House Crowd, announced on Wednesday it has appointed Manoj Varsani as its first CTO to spearhead digital innovation and product development. The funding portal revealed Varsani spent more than ten years transforming the digital practices of businesses that range from high growth start-ups… Read More

March 7, 2017 @ 2:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

New York-based fintech startup StackSource launched its real estate loan marketplace product during the 2017 LendIt conference, as part of the PitchIt @ LendIt competition. The company revealed: “StackSource’s new marketplace product lets commercial real estate owners and developers easily connect with bank and non-bank lenders…. Read More

March 7, 2017 @ 11:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Biz2Credit announced on Tuesday that its latest study revealed that the average annual revenues of women-owned businesses increased 47 percent and average annual earnings jumped 61 percent last year among companies that applied for funding through its online credit marketplace. The company reported the average… Read More

March 7, 2017 @ 11:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Commerical real estate marketplace lending platform, Money360, announced on Monday it has provided a $3.25 million bridge loan to the owner of the Regency Business Center, a four-building office property in Jacksonville, Florida. According to Money360, the loan was secured by a first-lien deed of trust and… Read More

March 7, 2017 @ 8:35 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“The ONESIXONE brand was created with the aim of being a global niche brand of handbags, internationally positioned in the luxury sector through a single, exclusive, personalized and limited collection. We created only 161 units numbered and customized with just two collections a year, which… Read More

March 7, 2017 @ 8:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Invesdor announced on Tuesday it is teaming up with Mesenaatti and the Nordic Crowdfunding Alliance to bring the biggest crowdfunding event of the year to Finland. According to the crowdfunding platform, the event’s speeches will focus on such topics as the different forms of crowdfunding, its rapid… Read More

March 7, 2017 @ 7:04 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Global Alternatives, an owner-operator of marketplaces for alternative investments,  announced the appointment of Brendan Bradley as Non-Executive Chairman as it prepares to launch Prop-X, a cross-border property trading exchange. All securities originated by Global Alternatives’ Property Crowd platform will be listed on the exchange, along with private equity… Read More

March 6, 2017 @ 4:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ron Suber, the President of Prosper and a perennial keynote speaker at the annual LendIt conference, delivered a rousing update on the status of marketplace lending.  Directly addressing the challenges that impacted all online lenders in the past year, Suber stated; “Success this past year required… Read More

March 6, 2017 @ 1:48 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform, PeerStreet, announced on Monday it has integrated with Betterment, an independent online investment advisor through Quovo. The portal stated that customers of both it and Betterment may now view their PeerStreet positions within the context of their investment portfolio on the… Read More

March 6, 2017 @ 12:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, AlphaFlow announced the launch of its new investment platform, AlphaFlow Managed Portfolios. While sharing details about the platform, CEO of AlphaFlow and fintech entrepreneur, Ray Sturm, stated: “Today AlphaFlow is excited to launch a revolutionary investment platform unlike anything on the market. For the… Read More

March 6, 2017 @ 11:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, the Innovative Lending Platform Association (ILPA) and the Coalition for Responsible Business Finance (CRBF) they are joining forces and will now operate as one new trade organization that represents a diverse group of online lending and service companies serving small businesses. It was… Read More