Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

April 7, 2015 @ 12:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lender RateSetter is now offering a Self Invested Personal Pension Option (SIPP) in collaboration with London & Colonial and European Pensions Management allowing savers to invest in P2P assets for retirement. “We are delighted that RateSetter is now available via SIPPs. SIPPs were… Read More

April 4, 2015 @ 12:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Jordan based WeziWezi has claimed the most funded status on investment crowdfunding platform Eureeca.  The Arabic language “social entertainment platform” raised $242,957 from 35 investors.  The projected topped the second highest funding amount on Eureeca by over $80,000. WeziWezi sold 6.25% equity in the young… Read More

April 4, 2015 @ 10:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Beehive, the UAE’s leading online marketplace for peer-to-peer finance announced it has reached a critical milestone where over 1,000 people have registered to become investors since its official launch in November 2014. This represents an average month-on-month growth of 20% in registration numbers since the company’s inception… Read More

April 3, 2015 @ 2:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In recognizing April as Philanthropy Month, Missouri University of Science and Technology has announced campus-wide projects dedicated to serving the university’s community and also launched its crowdfunding platform, Crowdfunding.mst.edu, to encourage innovation. On Friday, the university announced: “April is Philanthropy Month at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Special events… Read More

April 3, 2015 @ 10:45 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Yodlee Interactive, a unit of Yodlee  which powers financial innovation by providing its APIs to developers, entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 innovators, announced its business has grown significantly in Australia and New Zealand in 2014. This traction demonstrates financial technology as a global burgeoning space, with businesses and… Read More

April 3, 2015 @ 8:01 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Australia’s real estate crowdfunding scene has been a hot topic in recent news, including the launch of real estate crowdfunding platform, CrowdfundUp, offering both debt and equity investment opportunities to investors of all types. But the Outback is also home to another online real estate… Read More

April 3, 2015 @ 6:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lending platform Lufax has sold equity in the company valued at  3 billion yuan or approximately USD 483 million.  This is according to a report in China News that quoted Lufax Chairman Gregory Gibb on the transaction.  The private placement was said… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 7:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

SoFi (Social Finance), a peer to peer lender that disrupted the student loan refinancing market, has announced passing the $2 billion funding milestone. SoFi announced that it had topped $1.3 billion in loans in December indicating $700 million in loans for Q1.  If the trajectory… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 6:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Venovate is ready to onboard issuers leveraging the new Reg A+ rules announced by the SEC.  The alternative funding platform that has embraced investment crowdfunding recently indicated they had partnered with CrowdCheck to immediately support companies looking to utilized the new rules.  Title IV of… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 3:15 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Regulation has provided the injection the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) industry needed to take off, according to RateSetter CEO, Rhydian Lewis. As the P2P platform celebrates almost £122 million in loans during Q1 and a year as “number one,” RateSetter cites regulation as a crucial turning point for… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 11:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Renaud Laplanche is best known for turning the world of finance upside down by launching Lending Club – the worlds largest peer to peer lending platform. What you probably did not know is that he is an avid sailor too – and a competitive one… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 9:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowd2Fund, a UK based investment crowdfunding platform that offers a range of funding options, has announced a Series A funding round of £2 million giving the company a “notional market value” of £10 million.  According to the company interest from Chinese investors boosted the valuation… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 9:52 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek and money manager BlackRock are set to buy stakes in Funding Circle in deals that could value the British peer-to-peer lending platform at more than $1 billion, reported Sky News today. Temasek plans to invest about 30 million pounds ($44.4 million)… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 8:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

GenYrator, a millennial focused and founded equity crowdfunding platform, has launched its private beta concentrating initially on startups from USC, the alma mater of co-founder Sean Nasiri. GenYrator looks for emerging generation-y founded businesses with revenue that are not quite ready for institutional investors, and… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 4:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Perhaps this is in recognition of the multiple Mars Mission crowdfunding campaigns that have circulated in the past few years. Fundrise, a real estate crowdfunding platform, has posted an offer to invest in a Mars Colony.  So if you looking for some preferred equity in… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 1:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Celebrating the first of April with some unusual news (or prank), global crowdfunding giant, Indiegogo unveiled a new service called Indiegogo Heat, which is dedicated to all “hot sauce” campaigns. The platform stated: “Building off the success of Indiegogo Life, we’ve decided to expand into the… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 9:19 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a peer to peer lender that targets real estate mortgages, has announced a partnership with Plentific, an online property marketplace. LendInvest has facilitated over £269 million in short and medium term mortgage loans to date making it the largest in the world. Plentific was… Read More

March 31, 2015 @ 4:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Since its inception in 2013, Reality Crowd TV’s (RCTV) goal has been to teach and help people learn about the many nuances involved with crowdfunding. In 2014, The Company engaged in a nationwide multi-state tour in an effort to promote the nascent crowdfunding industry and has posted… Read More

March 31, 2015 @ 2:24 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

In a release, InvestUp MD and Co-Founder James Tuckett opined on Massolution’s Crowdfunding Report.  An excerpt follows: It’s not often that we get to write about the only global report on crowdfunding worth talking about. And this one’s doubly special, as we’ve waited for over two… Read More

March 31, 2015 @ 2:05 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

CAN Capital, a leading player in alternative small business finance, has named David Dart to the position of Chief Technology Officer. Dart will oversee the company’s continued development of technology focused on providing small businesses with fast, efficient access to capital.  He will be based in Kennesaw, Georgia and… Read More