Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

December 30, 2014 @ 11:28 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Seedrs just posted its “12 Months of Seedrs” on Facebook, highlighting the platform’s monthly successes in 2014.  “From broken records to crowdfunding firsts, funding everything from great startups to established publicly-traed businesses, we’re looking back at a really transformative years for Seedrs, Seedrs-funded businesses and… Read More

December 30, 2014 @ 8:08 am By Erin Hobey  |  

In an international effort, the Malaysian media platform Vulcan Post joined forces with Swedish crowdfunding platform FundedByMe and Korean dating app Between in an effort to raise cash funds for flood victims in Malaysia; more than 132,000 people have been forced to evacuate and crowdfunders… Read More

December 30, 2014 @ 7:30 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Cloud Lending, the industry’s end-to-end lending solution built on Salesforce.com, recently added CL Marketplace, a unified cloud platform that simplifies and automates the entire loan process in marketplace lending, to its suite of cloud-based industry applications that enable non-bank financial institutions to manage loan portfolios, increase transaction volume and rapidly bring new… Read More

December 30, 2014 @ 7:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Swiss Crowd Launch to be Followed by Italy Crowd Real Estate Site The first real estate crowdfunding platform targeting Switzerland has launched.  As previously announced earlier this month, Swiss Crowd is now live with a diverse group of investment opportunities. Founded by Swiss Crowd President… Read More

December 30, 2014 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The code wizards at Kickstarter have always been pretty good at coming up with new and creative ways to display content and deliver data.  Some features are viewable to all and others are hidden to only project creators (and the Kickstarter dev team).  For the… Read More

December 30, 2014 @ 3:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Direct Lending Investments has announced that it will invest $250 million over the next three years into Biz2Credit’s expanding direct lending platform for small business owners.  The move is a continuation of Direct Lending Investments to capitalize on the expanding marketplace of alternative lending and investments platforms.  Biz2Credit network consists… Read More

December 29, 2014 @ 4:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday (December 29th), UAE real estate crowdfunding platform Durise announced that investors are now allowed to use Bitcoin as a form of payment. According to Trade Arabia, founder and CEO of Durise Waleed Esbaitah stated, “Although Bitcoin may seem revolutionary to traditional investors this… Read More

December 29, 2014 @ 10:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With only a few more days until the world rings in the new year, UK’s reward-based crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder takes a time out to reflect on the successfully busy 2014 and the constant support backers gave to its campaigns. The Crowdfunder team stated, “Thanks to… Read More

December 29, 2014 @ 9:42 am By Erin Hobey  |  

In his blog on Spend Matters Network, David Gustin eloquently highlights several themes that impact the world of business credit during 2014: “The first of course is the rise of alternative lending products that go by such categories as online receivable auctions, private pcard exchanges, and peer… Read More

December 29, 2014 @ 8:40 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Beamonte Investments, along with its affiliate, Beamonte,  a leading private investment firm in Boston, announced it has invested in Arthena, a cooperative investment platform that focuses on crowdfunding for investments in fine arts. Operated by Arthena Fine Arts, Inc., Arthena aims to lower the cost… Read More

December 29, 2014 @ 8:07 am By Erin Hobey  |  

In a recent article in aboutMoney, crowdfunding expert and Partner and ‎Head of Investor Community/Partnerships at OurCrowd Zack Miller highlights crowdfunding websites to watch in 2015, cited six rewards-based platforms for athletes including RallyMe, DreamFuel, Pursuit, SportFunder, MakeAChamp and Athlete.com.  Last week U.S. Skier Keri Herman… Read More

December 29, 2014 @ 3:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Southeast Asia’s first real estate crowdfunding platform CoAssets has said they intend on launching a print publication covering the crowdfunding space.  Crowdfunders is expected to see its first publication in January and will be available in all major Singapore bookstores. Getty Goh, co-founder and CEO… Read More

December 27, 2014 @ 8:32 am By JD Alois  |  

SoFi has had big year, according to co-founder and CEO Mike Cagney.  The funding platform is now the largest student loan refinancing company today.  Closing the year out, SoFI has facilitated more than $1.3 billion in loans for over 15,500 borrowers. The peer to peer… Read More

December 27, 2014 @ 7:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment platform AngelsDen has experienced a significant leap in business funding for 2014.  According to the crowdfunding company, 45 businesses raised over £5.5 million for the year – up 66% over year prior. In 2013 the site stated it had raised £ 3.5 million for… Read More

December 27, 2014 @ 5:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Pozible recently announced it is extending its Open Residency program into 2015.  In an update from Pozible co-founder Rick Chen, he stated they are opening up their office in Melbourne to anyone who is about to launch a crowdfunding campaign – free of charge. The… Read More

December 27, 2014 @ 4:01 am By JD Alois  |  

AutoChina International released its Q3 results along with 9 month results for calendar 2014.  Total revenues for 9 months ended in September were stated to be $591.3 million, a 40% increase over same period last year of $419.8 million.  AutoChina International Limited is a provider… Read More

December 26, 2014 @ 5:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Singapore based peer to peer lending platform MoolahSense curates the companies that seek funding on its platform.  CEO and founder Lawrence Yong recently explained the MoolahSense approach while visiting the studios of CNBC Asia during a segment of The Tech Call.  The platform made its debut… Read More

December 24, 2014 @ 9:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Traditionally, while independent film has an alternative means of distribution and profit, television has been kept under lock and key, with many gatekeepers along the way, preventing truly independent television from ever flourishing. That’s about to change. CrowdedReality.com, the niche crowdfunding platform, created by award… Read More

December 24, 2014 @ 4:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Kiwi equity crowdfunding site Snowball Effect started offering investments online this past August launching with crowd favorite Renaissance Brewing followed by film project The Patriarch and CarbonScape.  Each crowdfunding campaign successfully surpassed its minimum funding target closing over-funded.  The three investment offers raised in aggregate… Read More

December 23, 2014 @ 4:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to give aspiring filmmakers a chance to see the ins and outs of crowdfunding, global platform Kickstarter has announced its upcoming workshops and discussions for film campaigning. The crowdfunding giant’s team explained,”Kickstarter has played a pivotal role in uniting audiences and filmmakers. Since it launched in… Read More