Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

February 24, 2015 @ 8:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lender Assetz Capital recently listed a a convertible offer on investment crowdfunding platform Seedrs. The financial firm was seeking a crowdfunding round of £2 million and as of today the round is fully funded and appears to be in over-funding.  The P2P… Read More

February 24, 2015 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Visio Financial Services, a residential real estate lender, has announced it has raised $6.7 million in a Series B round of funding. According to the company, Visio has raised more than $100 million in debt and equity capital to provide real estate loans to investors in 34 states…. Read More

February 23, 2015 @ 2:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just when backers were starting to forget (not forgive) Kotkin Enterprises for not shipping the open source gaming gun Delta (and with no information at all about its whereabouts), the creators have officially announced a new date and a new catch. For those who haven’t heard… Read More

February 23, 2015 @ 2:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, founder of Linked Finance, Peter O’Mahony announced that the peer-to-peer lender has received a €2.5m investment from Ireland-based Frontline Ventures. According to The Independent, the lending platform is looking to expand its operations and is seeking to double the maximum amount businesses may… Read More

February 23, 2015 @ 1:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a peer to peer or “marketplace” lender that focuses on the commercial and residential mortgage industry, has lowered its investor minimum to a nominal £1000.00.  This is in stark contrast to the £50,000 minimum that was established when the platform launched in 2013.  The… Read More

February 23, 2015 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Renewable energy financing platform SunFunder has stated that since its launch in July of 2012 the crowdfunding site has financed $1.75 million in loans for 39 different projects.  Of those 39, 19 loans have been fully repaid for a total of $421,000. SunFunder is a… Read More

February 23, 2015 @ 10:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

10 Best Production recently released its Best Kickstarter Video Production awards for February 2015. For each list, the company examines various criteria in order to judge the individual production companies. The company’s panel of judges is comprised of video production experts that collectively have decades of industry… Read More

February 23, 2015 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

ProHatch, a diversified alternative capital platform, has announced a strategic shift into real estate crowdfunding. Real estate crowdfunding, for both debt and equity, is one of the hottest sectors in the crowdfunding industry. “We are differentiating ourselves in the burgeoning market of crowdfunding by offering… Read More

February 23, 2015 @ 9:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

truCrowd Texas, officially announced its application has been approved by the Texas State Securities Board. They are now legally registered as a Texas equity crowdfunding portal (TCP) and open for business. truCrowd enables local startups and businesses from any industry to raise up to $1 million per… Read More

February 23, 2015 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to business lender Ablrate is now offering an investment opportunity that is expected to return 11% per annum.  Ablrate, a niche P2P lending platform, is doing a refinancing on an ATR 42 500 aircraft looking to raise £2.475 million. The loan represents a 71%… Read More

February 23, 2015 @ 7:51 am By JD Alois  |  

According to peer to peer lender Zopa, the number of Britons consolidating credit card debts using long-term loans through Zopa has increased by 57 per cent year on year, while the value of these consolidation loans has increased by 62 per cent in January compared… Read More

February 22, 2015 @ 4:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has formed a partnership with the Maryland / Israel Development Center (MIDC) to boost investment in Maryland companies while aiding OurCrowd portfolio companies.  MIDC will now assist OurCrowd companies with their market entry in the US.  OurCrowd founder and CEO… Read More

February 21, 2015 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Ryan Feit, co-founder and CEO of SeedInvest, joined Jim Cramer on Mad Money yesterday to pitch his service and explain a company that is raising capital on the equity crowdfunding platform. Cramer gives SeedInvest a pretty strong endorsement noting investors may back highly vetted startups… Read More

February 21, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This past fall, Abbeville, Louisiana woman by the name of Fallon Mouton raised $4,600 through GoFundMe campaign supposedly for a Texas man, Moses Perez, who recently lost his fiancée, Jessica Rodriguez, due to giving birth complications. The funds were to help the family “make ends meet.” Unfortunately, Mouton… Read More

February 20, 2015 @ 1:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday (February 18th), Fairway America, a Portland-based company, launched a new crowdfunding platform dedicated to small balance real estate (SBRE). According to Portland Business Journal, Fairway America’s SBREfunds.com allows SBRE entrepreneurs to obtain practical tools, resources, and insights on how to build and run… Read More

February 20, 2015 @ 10:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Return on Change, an early entrant into the equity crowdfunding space, has launched a new investment platform: DarcMatter. Return on Change (RoC) was founded by Lee Sang, a reformed investment banker with a degree in financial engineering.  An early advocate of the power and potential… Read More

February 20, 2015 @ 9:18 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Led by the former CEO of the YO! Group and CEO of The Crowd Jim Woods, The Crowd’s mission is to change the way companies draw up their sustainability strategies with a knowledge sharing revolution in how companies approach social and environmental issues. The London-based… Read More

February 20, 2015 @ 8:10 am By Erin Hobey  |  

 Azimo, the online money transfer service, has announced the launch of its world-class money transfer service to China, enabling customers to send money to friends and family at low-cost. The company introduced its wiring service to Thailand earlier this month.  The new service will provide Azimo’s potential 350… Read More

February 20, 2015 @ 7:53 am By Erin Hobey  |  

To paraphrase Alicia Keys, those cats are on fire.  Exploding Kittens Kickstarter campaign came to an booming finish last night hitting $8,782,571 from 219,382 backers…and secured a record in Kickstarter history.   Booming Cats is “The Most-Backed Kickstarter Project of All Time,” dethroning  Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere! campaign…. Read More

February 19, 2015 @ 7:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Venovate and Capital Hedge have announced an agreement that seeks to provide “better, faster and broader access to quality alternative investments. Capital Hedge’s FINTRX Investor Platform is a family office “intelligence tool and asset-raising CRM solution” for the alternative investment industry. Venovate Marketplace a new age investment platform for… Read More