Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

January 31, 2017 @ 4:55 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Zank you very much for banking online.  With one day remaining on its Crowdcube Spain crowdfunding campaign, Spanish crowdlender Zank has surpassed its 300K€ goal by 118%, raising over 356,199€ from over 153 investors for 7.62% equity offered.  The largest investment was to date has been 30,000€. Zank offers… Read More

January 30, 2017 @ 3:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

The forthcoming Fundrise IPO was revealed last week as a public filing under “Rise Companies” was uncovered. Today, the Form 1-A has been updated revealing additional information regarding the self-crowdfunding campaign under Reg A+. According to the document, Fundrise will be offering up to 2… Read More

January 30, 2017 @ 3:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

European-based lending platform Spotcap announced on Monday the launch of its New Zealand operations in Auckland. The lender also revealed it formed a partnership with Heartland, the bank that is providing Spotcap’s Australian operations with A$20million of funding. Speaking about the expansion, Lachlan Heussler, Managing Director of Spotcap Australia… Read More

January 30, 2017 @ 8:09 am By JD Alois  |  

  Zopa, the UK’s very first peer to peer lending platform, has topped £2 billion in lending.  According to information provided by the online lending platform, as of today, Zopa has matched over 246,000 borrowers to 75,000 investors to provide access to capital in the… Read More

January 27, 2017 @ 2:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, peer-to-peer business lending platform ArchOver announced it is expanding its current “Secure & Insured” lending model by launching “Secure & Assigned” business loans.  According to the lender, the first Secured & Assigned loan will be for Ergowealth, a firm of chartered financial planners… Read More

January 27, 2017 @ 12:34 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Buddy-Watcher is closing in on its final week of crowdfunding on Companisto. The startup’s solution makes it possible to communicate more easily under water, providing underwater athletes with more freedom and increased safety. 170 international specialist retailers currently sell Buddy-Watcher, which helped the startup achieved… Read More

January 27, 2017 @ 8:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Marketplace lender Lendio announced on Thursday the winner of its National Scholarship to Small Business Families. As previously reported, the scholarship national is dedicated to supporting small business owners and their families.  Lendio reported that Julian Miyata, a U.S. Coast Guard member currently attending the University of… Read More

January 27, 2017 @ 8:47 am By Therese Torris  |  

On January 25, Raffael Johnen, the CEO and co-founder of auxmoney, was on stage at the Paris Fintech Forum as the news was still under embargo: Dutch insurer Aegon has agreed to lend €1.5 billion euros over the next 3 years through the auxmoney lending… Read More

January 27, 2017 @ 7:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nearly one month after ringing in the new year, Stuart Law, CEO and co-founder of peer-to-peer lending platform Assetz Capital, provided his alternative finance predictions for 2017.  Law’s upcoming year’s predictions come just after Assetz Capital announced it originated £200 million in loans since launching in 2013. As previously reported,… Read More

January 26, 2017 @ 5:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of financial markets for 10,000 U.S. and global securities, announced on Thursday its trading statistics and news highlights for 2016. The year’s highlights are the following: Total dollar volume of OTCQX, OTCQB, and Pink securities was $192.9 billion compared… Read More

January 26, 2017 @ 4:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, BJ’s Wholesale Club announced it awarded $100,000 to all classroom projects listed by teachers from Charleston, Summerville, and neighboring communities through DonorsChoose. The funds were from the wholesale company’s foundation and reportedly fulfilled 141 projects and benefited 846 students in 65 local schools. Projects… Read More

January 26, 2017 @ 12:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendingRobot has officially launched their next big vertical: a Robo-Hedge Fund for alternative lending. Crowdfund Insider initially wrote about the forthcoming Robo-fund when we uncovered an SEC filing for a pooled investment vehicle last November. While the filing became public at that moment, the “LendingRobot… Read More

January 25, 2017 @ 5:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online angel investment platform Propel(x) announced on Wednesday its platform hit a significant growth milestone in 2016 by helping to secure $5.3 million for deep technology and science startups. Sharing details about the milestone, Swati Chaturvedi, CEO and Co-Founder of Propel(x), stated: “2016 was a successful year in connecting… Read More

January 25, 2017 @ 4:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

India’s reward-based crowdfunding platform, Wishberry, announced on Wednesday it secured an undisclosed amount during its Pre-Series A Funding round through LetsVenture. The funding portal revealed that the lead investor was Sharad Sharma from iSPIRT, along with Google’s Rajan Anandan, Amit Ranjan of SlideShare, Alok Mittal from IAN,… Read More

January 25, 2017 @ 4:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

The other day Crowdfund Insider shared that Fundrise was preparing for its “Greatest Innovation Yet”, today we may have a bit more information. Fundrise is going to crowdfund itself. True to form, the real estate marketplace will use Reg A+ to raise capital and offer equity… Read More

January 25, 2017 @ 3:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, marketplace lending platform Funding Circle announced changes as to how it prices property loans. The lender revealed that following a recent review of its property loan offering, it is increasing the interest rate on certain property loans and will begin to list some… Read More

January 25, 2017 @ 1:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Invesdor’s CEO Lasse Mäkelä announced on Wednesday that it a great 2016 and revealed during the past twelve months, funds invested and the average campaign round size on its equity crowdfunding platform doubled from the previous year. The 2016 numbers reveal comes just a couple weeks after… Read More

January 25, 2017 @ 10:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo has appointed tabletop game veteran, Nate Murray, as its new Head of Gaming. According to Venture Beat, Murray will oversee Indiegogo’s gaming team and work directly with campaign organizers on strategy and development. Murray’s previous crowdfunding experience includes working on tabletop game initiatives… Read More

January 25, 2017 @ 8:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech firm AutoGravity launched its auto finance platform today allowing consumers the ability to access auto loans from across 46 different states. The app-based service is said to provide personalized loan or lease offers “within minutes,” thus removing a painful part of the car purchase… Read More

January 25, 2017 @ 8:20 am By JD Alois  |  

EstateGuru, a real estate crowdfunding platform based in Estonia, has added an Auto Invest feature to its investing marketplace. The new feature was said to be launched due to investor demand. The application is pretty straightforward. Following activation, Auto Invest will allocate resources based on… Read More