Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

December 14, 2015 @ 10:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing its new 7-week How to Crowdfund series, crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder UK revealed the second step to using the funding method on Monday. The Crowdfunder UK team declared: “The most important part of the crowdfunding process, is that people need to understand your idea, why it means… Read More

December 14, 2015 @ 10:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lender Abundance has just paid investors, an bi-annual event with one payment occuring towards the end of each year. The renewable energy funding platform states it paid £312,000 to 1700 investors in 6 of 15 projects financed to date. This brings the… Read More

December 14, 2015 @ 9:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, CEO of Singapore-based real estate crowdfunding platform CoAssets, Getty Goh, sat down with CNBC to discuss how the website’s growth. Goh revealed that the CoAssets offers projects in the regional markets and serves the funding gap of between $1 million to $5 million…. Read More

December 14, 2015 @ 9:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, Singapore-based real estate crowdfunding platform, CoAssets Pte Ltd, hosted its first EPIC (Expo for Property, Investing and Crowdfunding) event in Surabaya, Indonesia. The event was organized in conjunction with its Indonesian joint venture PT Java Land Promosia Indonesia. This was an expo over two days… Read More

December 14, 2015 @ 8:33 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, the world’s largest P2P mortgage platform, has published its UK Buy to Let (BTL) Index tracking the changes in yields, gains and trends. LendInvest is incorporating data since 2010 to help highlight perspective.  According to the company, there persists interesting differences within regional UK markets…. Read More

December 11, 2015 @ 4:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Naya Coin, a positive impact currency, is launching to help organizations incentivize social issues. The digital currency may be awarded to for verified employee volunteer work and used to purchase unique services from the App’s marketplace.  Naya Coin states its objective to help organizations create… Read More

December 11, 2015 @ 3:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, a group of Clemson University fans launched a crowdfunding platform dedicated to collegian athletes called UBooster. According to the New York Times, UBooster is on a mission to help athletes achieve their dreams by soliciting payments for high school recruits from fans, and delivering the… Read More

December 11, 2015 @ 8:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Microfinance platform Kiva announced the launch of Kiva NYC this week to provide access to capital to small business owners in New York City.  Every dollar lent to a small business owner in NYC will be matched up to $1.1 million provided by the MetLife Foundation, Deutsche… Read More

December 11, 2015 @ 7:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Former Senior Advisor to President Obama, Dan Pfeiffer has been appointed as Vice President of Communications and Policy at GoFundMe the donations based crowdfunding platform. Pfeiffer is a veteran of the Obama Administration having served in different communications roles since Obama’s Presidential campaign in 2008…. Read More

December 10, 2015 @ 5:22 pm By Midori Yoshimura  |  

For David Behin, co-founder and CEO of CityFunders, proving real estate investment opportunities for accredited investors, his goal was to help bring real estate investing to the masses. Fast forward to now, and the pool of real estate investors has noticeably increased, with the passage of the JOBS Act, Title III. The… Read More

December 10, 2015 @ 4:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced the completion of its latest project called the Creator Basics video series. Kickstarter Creator Basics is made up of 56 videos that feature dozens of creators from all the campaign categories on the platform. The videos provide specific/helpful advice on… Read More

December 10, 2015 @ 3:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

There was much chatter regarding the origin of the $28,500 transfer into the accounts of Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the San Bernardino terrorist that brutally killed 14 innocent people. It quickly came to light the loan had originated from Prosper, a leading marketplace lending… Read More

December 10, 2015 @ 1:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Works released a new report that revealed a large proportion (27%) of its customers didn’t know how much interest they were paying on their debt before taking out a debt consolidation loan with the peer-to-peer lender. Of those respondents that were… Read More

December 10, 2015 @ 12:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

CommonBond, a marketplace lending platform that lowers the cost of student loans for borrowers and provides financial returns to investors, announced on Tuesday it is set to provide each company employee up to $100 every month, or $1,200 each year, to help pay down their loans…. Read More

December 10, 2015 @ 11:52 am By JD Alois  |  

In the midst of the Fundrise eREIT offer, a $50 million raise that allows non-accredited investors access to participate in crowdfunded offers on the Fundrise platform, the Real Deal criticized the offer as “cherry picking” its numbers. This comes as Fundrise just closed its second funding… Read More

December 10, 2015 @ 11:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Back in October, UK-based equity crowdfunding platform, Seedrs, announced plans to expand in the U.S. in early 2016. The website declared one year ago its intent broaden its investment crowdfunding platform into the US with the acquisition of US-based Junction Investments.  Junction, at least initially, had… Read More

December 10, 2015 @ 8:21 am By JD Alois  |  

In a sign of a more vigilant approach by Chinese authorities regarding questionable peer to peer lending platforms, Ezubo (Ezubao) saw 1.1 billion yuan frozen by the government  and the Chairman, Din Ning along with other top executives were said to be in police custody according… Read More

December 9, 2015 @ 4:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing its new crowdfunding series “Campaign Prep Calendar,” Indiegogo shared the four things that every organizer should do a month before a campaign launch. The global platform shared: “Creating a compelling, informative and engaging campaign will help your potential backers learn more about your idea and… Read More

December 9, 2015 @ 3:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, commercial real estate marketplace lending platform, Money360, Inc., announced the appointment of John Maute, co-founder of Helios AMC, and Jon Barlow, founder and former CEO of Eaglewood Capital Management, to its Board of Directors. Evan Gentry, CEO and founder of Money360, stated: “We… Read More

December 9, 2015 @ 3:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

RealtyMogul, an online marketplace for real estate investing, announced on Wednesday it has provided a mezzanine loan to assist in the acquisition of Kearny Office Park along with Cathay Bank, who provided the senior debt. Kyu Mahn Hwang, a San Diego-based individual is the sponsor… Read More