Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

May 20, 2015 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

  It was just 2 years ago that UK based peer to peer lending LendInvest launched in partnership with its sister firm Montello to provide short-term bridge loans.  Today LendInvest claims the title of worlds largest P2P marketplace for mortgages having surpassed £300 million in… Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 9:48 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Shelvspace, aiming to transform the way US consumer packaged goods are sold in retail with   its cloud-based mobile platform, announced it has received $1 million in seed round funding.Headquartered in Scottsdale Arizona with regional sales in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Chicago, Shelvspace is a portfolio company of Tallwave,… Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 9:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an effort to help musicians make their way to the spotlight, Indiegogo announced that Spotify is now supporting multiple music projects on its crowdfunding platform. Earlier this week, Indiegogo revealed: “As a global platform focused on bringing people together to make big things happen, our… Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 8:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

P2Binvestor (P2Bi), a crowdlending platform for commercial lines of credit that serves the fastest growing companies in the United States, today announced it has been selected as a new network company by Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network Colorado (BENCO), a select group of Colorado’s best entrepreneurs. The company is one… Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 8:21 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Continuing to grow its brand, Startupbootcamp FinTech has announced Liz Lumley‘s appointment as the new managing director for London and will be responsible for the running of the accelerator programme in London. “We are extremely happy to have Liz join us,” added Nektarios Liolios, global managing director,… Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lender China Rapid Finance has originated an astounding 1.1 million in loans to Chinese borrowers in just three months time – as of April 30th. The impressive number is indicative of the demand for capital in the largest P2P lending market in… Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 4:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Berlin based global bitcoin lending platform Bitbond has received a cash infusion to grow its lending platform. The angel round of € 600,000 now brings total capital raised for the site to €800,000. The new funding was led by Bitbond’s earlier seed investor Point Nine Capital, along with a… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 2:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs has carved out a nice little niche in becoming the crowdfunding site of choice for crowdfunding platforms.  Seedrs recently added another funding platform to their growing list; LandLordInvest. Described as the UK’s first “near prime property peer to peer lending” LandlordInvest is hoping to… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 12:55 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

eProdigy, a fintech holding company with several subsidiaries serving the alternative finance space, announced today that an undisclosed private equity firm has made an agreement to provide $100 million to eProdigy through a term loan, a convertible note feature and participation rights. “This deal changes our entire… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 12:12 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Cloud Lending Solutions, an end-to-end lending solution built natively on salesforce.com, announced the appointment of  Harold Rosen to the company’s Advisory Board, bringing his more than 30 years of experience in the microfinance industry, including driving social impact investing at the World Bank. In addition, the company is expanding… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 10:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowd2Fund, a regulated “five model” crowdfunding platform, has announced the launch of the Crowd Exchange, a new site that will a holders of debt or equity in private companies to sell their investments to other individuals online.  Crowd2Fund states the primary objective of the exchange… Read More

May 18, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

FullCapitalStack, a crowdfunding platform for small to mid-size companies, has opened a new investment opportunity that will make homeownership more accessible for first-time home buyers. Vision Property Management, LLC (“Vision”) chose FullCapitalStack as its crowdfunding platform for funding a $1.3 million single-family residential, senior-debt loan… Read More

May 18, 2015 @ 8:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cogobuy Group (Stock code: 400.HK), an e-commerce service platform for the enterprise procurement of electronics manufacturing industry in China, is pleased to announce its unaudited operation summary for the three months ended March 31st. The total GMV of the Cogobuy’s operations was RMB2,491.0 million, representing an increase of 62.9%… Read More

May 18, 2015 @ 8:33 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Beepi, a peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling cars online, announced its expansion to Texas. The market launch provides residents with local inventory, vehicle inspectors and customer service resources to support its secure online car buying and selling platform in Austin and Dallas, and soon Houston… Read More

May 18, 2015 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Traditional financial executives moving over to join the innovative crowdfunding and direct lending crowd is becoming more and more prevalent. AssetAvenue, a debt based real estate funding portal has just announced the Varun Pathria, previously a Senior VP at Colony Capital, has moved over to… Read More

May 18, 2015 @ 7:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Angels Den is raising capital for a new niche crowdfunding site, WhiskyInvestDirect. The live investment offer for the new funding portal wants to capitalize on a consumable that has seen an average annual return of 5% since 1980. WhiskyInvestDirect was founded by Paul Tustain and Rupert… Read More

May 18, 2015 @ 6:31 am By JD Alois  |  

As the RateSetter peer to peer lending platform grows, so must the team that manages their dramatic growth. RateSetter, UK’s largest P2P lending platform (according to monthly volume) has announced two new hires: John Battersby will take the position of Head of Communications which also… Read More

May 17, 2015 @ 2:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Patch of Land co-founder and CEO Jason Fritton was recently interviewed about his real estate crowdfunding platform.  Patch of Land is one of the trailblazers of investment crowdfunding and they have been growing rapidly as they fix some of the challenges in raising capital for… Read More

May 16, 2015 @ 12:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

More corporations are recognizing the efficacy of capturing consumer feedback by using crowdfunding to pretail forthcoming products.  General Electric, a multi-national corporate behemoth is one of these companies. They don’t need your money – they want your advice. FirstBuild is GE’s “co-creation community”.  Described as a… Read More

May 15, 2015 @ 10:58 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“The [SyndicateRoom] model was a result of my experience. I was working with business angels when equity crowdfunding appeared. I loved the idea of a wider group getting access to investment in early stage companies, but I didn’t like how it was being done, and… Read More