Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

September 17, 2015 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Prestamos Prima, a Spanish finance group, has announced a new platform, Viventor, which will launch soon.  Viventor will be providing peer to peer loans secured by mortgages.  According to the website, no loan will be higher than 50% LTV. Andris Rozenbahs, CEO of the Prestamos… Read More

September 17, 2015 @ 2:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Launched in June, InvestDen, an innovative equity and debt crowdfunding platform operating in the UK, and KPMG, one of the leading global professional services firms, today announced their new alliance to support UK business, particularly KPMG’s support for UK SMEs. “This alliance is important because it provides companies raising… Read More

September 16, 2015 @ 11:43 pm By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Orange Collecte, a service to enable private individuals and charities to finance their projects, has added a mobile twist to crowdfunding by launching one of Africa’s first mobile crowdfunding platforms. Launched in Côte d’Ivoire last week in partnership with French charity-giving site HelloAsso, Orange Collecte is linked to Orange’s existing… Read More

September 16, 2015 @ 4:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Rare Genomics Institute (RG), announced that the launching of ten separate crowdfunding campaigns to help patients with rare diseases pinpoint the causes of their illnesses. All amounts raised will go towards exome sequencing, which is a method of partial genome sequencing to find… Read More

September 16, 2015 @ 3:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrossLend, a young peer to peer lending platform, has launched its direct lending platform in Germany, Spain and the UK.  Originally reported in Lending School, CrossLend was founded by Oliver Schimek, Marie Louise Seelig and Daniel Schlotter last year. The new platform will offer services… Read More

September 16, 2015 @ 1:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

NonProfitEasy (NPE) announced on Wednesday that it has formed a strategic alliance with Points of Light to offer their 250 Affiliates its latest cloud-based volunteer management system, Fundly Connect, formerly known as VolunteerEasy. This news comes just one week after the all-in-one data management software solution acquired the… Read More

September 16, 2015 @ 12:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Giftfund, a free crowdfunding gifting application, is now available for iOS andAndroid devices. Giftfund is the solution for the more than 65 percent of consumers that are interested in a totally mobile path to purchase. The app allows users to easily contribute money toward joint… Read More

September 16, 2015 @ 11:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bizfi, a fintech company that combines aggregation, funding and a participation marketplace on one platform for small businesses, announced it has launched both an API (application protocol interface) and a white label solution which will enable partner companies to offer direct lending solutions to their… Read More

September 16, 2015 @ 10:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Connected Investors, a real estate investors network and marketplace, today announced the launch of centralized real estate investment funding portal, CiX.com. The technology allows real estate investors to quickly and easily submit their deals to a network of asset-based lenders, ensuring the best terms for… Read More

September 16, 2015 @ 10:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Prosper Marketplace, an online marketplace that connects borrowers and investors, today announced that Radius Bank, a full-service bank serving consumers nationwide through an industry-leading virtual banking platform, will now offer a new personal loan option through the Prosper platform. The partnership integrates the Prosper marketplace… Read More

September 16, 2015 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

  Real estate crowdfunding platform Fundrise is going global.  While not surprising, Fundrise has taken a dramatic step in leveraging existing technology and investment opportunity to provide investor access in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Fundrise is one of the leading online real estate… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 4:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Open Energy, a debt finance firm that provides solar project loans to solar developers and project owners through its unique marketplace lending model, today announced the launch of its new online platform, designed to streamline the loan application process. This is considered the first comprehensive… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 3:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

P2Binvestor, a crowdfunding platform for working capital, recently welcomed a new client to its special financing program for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies: 7 Medical Systems LLC, a provider of cloud-based digital imaging, electronic medical records and revenue-cycle management solutions for healthcare. 7 Medical selected P2Bi as… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 1:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

CircleBack Lending, Inc., a marketplace lending platform, has completed a $17.4 Million Series A round of equity financing led by Pine River Capital Management, a global alternative asset manager with over $15 billion under management. Wicklow Capital, an early investor in CircleBack, also participated with… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 10:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdventure, a real estate crowdfunding platform, has today agreed to a landmark joint venture partnership with Campbell, CA based Equipoise Capital Partners. Collaborating closely with Equipoise management and their highly experienced real estate development and project management team, Crowdventure is now able to offer accredited investors… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Country by country all aspects of finance are moving online.  Žltý melón is the first peer to peer lending platform to set up shop in Slovakia and has set it sights on expansion around the region. Originally reported in P2P Banking, Žltý melón has closed on… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wealth Migrate, the tenth-largest global real estate crowdfunding platform as reported by research firm Massolution, today announced that it has raised $3.99 million (USD) in a seed round of funding from real estate, technology and other investors. The funds raised will help Wealth Migrate to… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this summer, Patch of Land announced the release of its long-anticipated secured debt investment structure, effective for all its offerings in the past and into the future. Although the new structure took Patch of Land over a year of extensive research and consultation to… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 8:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform, iFunding, announced on Tuesday that it had its best month in its 3 year history, offering investors over $14 M in real estate investment properties. iFunding revealed that August is typically one of the quietest months of the year, with investors… Read More

September 14, 2015 @ 2:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

SyndicateRoom recently introduced a new concept to the equity crowdfunding space. “Lift Rounds” are effectively crowdfunding rounds that have already hit their minimum investment funding target and are now being opened up to new investors as an extension to the offer. SyndicateRoom is a platform… Read More