Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

October 25, 2016 @ 2:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

ICONOMI, the globally licensed and regulated bitcoin exchange, announced on Tuesday it is distributing all ICN apptokens among its investors less than a month after its successful Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The company reportedly issued 100 million ERC20 compliant apptokens, which represented 100% ownership of ICONOMI, to the… Read More

October 25, 2016 @ 1:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU) and BlueVine have partnered to enable QuickBooks users access to credit of up to $100,000.  Intuit explains that small businesses may allow their data to be accessed to get fast approval for lines of credit from BlueVine’s Flex Credit.  The service is said… Read More

October 25, 2016 @ 1:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Loan matching platform Lendio has raised $20 million led by Comcast Ventures and Stereo Capital.  The investment will be utilized to expand lending options for SMEs and to boost marketing.  The announcement was delivered at the Money20/20 conference taking place in Las Vegas this week…. Read More

October 25, 2016 @ 10:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, PeerStreet celebrated its one-year anniversary by revealing that it has funded $150 million investments with zero losses in the last twelve months. The real estate crowdfunding platform also declared it is offering investors average annualized returns between 6% and 12% to date and… Read More

October 25, 2016 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Downing Crowd has successfully raised £1.25 million to fund its first ever “Hydro Bond” for a newly opened ‘run-of-river’ power station developed by Nightjar Sustainable Power Limited in Argyll, Scotland. Downing Crowd is an offshoot of Downing LLP, an investment manager founded in 1986. Downing… Read More

October 25, 2016 @ 9:27 am By Erin Hobey  |  

A new program partnership between AngelList and the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC),  is now available to investors in Ontario, reported BetaKit. Eligible investors can now invest in Creative Destruction Lab and NEXT Canada startups raising capital through an AngelList Syndicate, provided the startups are headquartered in, or have significant… Read More

October 25, 2016 @ 7:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club (NYSE:LC) has entered a new credit vertical with the launch of an auto loan refinancing product. The marketplace lending platform pointed to the fact that for most consumers an auto purchase is their second largest following their home. Initially only residents of California will… Read More

October 25, 2016 @ 7:13 am By Therese Torris  |  

La Banque Postale, one of the top 10 French banks, announced that it was taking a 10% equity stake in WeShareBonds, a new French alternative SME financing platform, at an undisclosed valuation. The deal validates WeShareBonds and the French crowdlending sector. La Banque Postale is… Read More

October 24, 2016 @ 10:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Australian online lender DirectMoney (ASX: DM1) has secured institutional funding for loans originating on its platform, according to the company’s board of directors.   The specific details were not immediately available but reportedly contractual terms on the wholesale institutional loan funding agreement was made with… Read More

October 24, 2016 @ 10:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

CoAssets Limited (ASX: CA8), a Singapore-based crowdfunding platform and even organizer, is partnering with the Linca Group, with the support of the Fuzhou district government, to bring their EPIC series to Fuzhou, China. Entitled “One Belt, One Road – Infinite Possibilities”, the Expo in Property, Investing and… Read More

October 24, 2016 @ 3:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, Indiegogo and Arrow Electronics announced the final flash funding recipient for the month of October. The duo revealed Andy Karuza and the FenSen team were selected to receive $75,000 in the funding prize.  The companies explained the FenSens team is hoping to transform… Read More

October 24, 2016 @ 1:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bruce Davis is a founder and Joint Managing Director at Abundance, a peer to peer investing platform focused on renewable energy projects. He is also part of the original team that launched Zopa – the very first peer to peer lending platform to set up… Read More

October 24, 2016 @ 11:38 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, UK-based alternative finance lender for SMEs, LendingCrowd, announced the launch of its new P2P deal to investors. The platform stated that by investing £5000, investors will get a 2.5% joining bonus allocated to their accounts and access to a lending platform that achieved… Read More

October 24, 2016 @ 10:45 am By JD Alois  |  

OnDeck (NYSE:ONDK), CAN Capital and Kabbage, have joined together to launch a loan comparison tool to help small businesses better compare finance options. As part of their participation in the Innovative Lending Platform Association (ILPA), the three online lenders have created “Straightforward Metrics Around Rate… Read More

October 24, 2016 @ 7:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club (NYSE:LC) has scheduled third quarter earnings release for Monday, November 7, 2016. The conference call will take place at 8AM ET that day. A live webcast of the call will be available at on the Lending Club website under the Events & Presentations menu…. Read More

October 23, 2016 @ 6:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investing in early stage companies is a risky venture. The advent of internet finance has made it easier than ever before to gain access to purchasing securities in startups.  Correspondingly, the debate regarding risk versus return has always been a very hot topic. Recently Crowdfund… Read More

October 21, 2016 @ 4:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a brief update, real estate crowdfunding platform RealtyMogul.com reported the platform has now returned over $50 million in principle and interest to investors. RealtyMogul.com called the accomplishment a “significant milestone for the company and the category. Investors have had zero principle loss since the… Read More

October 21, 2016 @ 1:41 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bondora, a European peer to peer lender based in Estonia, announced on Friday it is removing the Primary Market View feature from its user interface. This change will go into effect on November 1st. Bondora stated it was removing the feature because the speed of their… Read More

October 21, 2016 @ 9:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder UK announced it has teamed up with London Sport for a new mission: to make London the most physically active sporting city in the world. Through the #MostActiveCity partnership, London Sport is seeking to get 1 million Londoner to become… Read More

October 21, 2016 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Irish born but Asia based, First Circle has received $1.2 million in seed funding led by Key Capital and IMJ Investment Partners.  The online lender is targeting SME in the Philippines first but plans on expanding across Southeast Asia. Speaking with Businessworld.ie, Patrick Lynch, the… Read More