Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

December 17, 2014 @ 1:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Making money with podcasting shouldn’t be hard. With Joyride for Podcasts, it won’t be. On Wednesday (December 17th), the monetization and distribution website announced its new platform that makes it dead simple for podcasters to bring creative shows to their listeners, and just as easy for those listeners… Read More

December 17, 2014 @ 1:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

The next peer to peer lending platform to publicly trade, OnDeck, hit the screens of the NYSE today trading under the symbol ONDK.  The company filed its S-1 with the SEC this past November catching the wave of Lending Club’s IPO success earlier this month…. Read More

December 17, 2014 @ 1:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

GreenRushReview.com, a reputable general medical marijuana news website reports that marijuana crowdfunding is one industry to watch closely in 2015. According to the Cannabusiness Funding & Financing Handbook of Marijuana Business Media, a survey of cannabis business owners revealed that more than 60 percent of entrepreneurs who… Read More

December 17, 2014 @ 12:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lending platform Proplend has stated they are now approved for inclusion in pension funds.  Proplend is a direct lending platform that targets the secured commercial mortgage market.  In a company note, management states it has recently been approved by pension providers to accept… Read More

December 17, 2014 @ 11:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Developer Morf Media, Inc., announced on Wednesday (December 17th) FirstFunding has selected its e-Learning cloud system to help them train their correspondent lenders to perform at their best in 2015. FirstFunding is adopting Morf Media GILS on mobile devices to train their lenders to meet key regulatory requirements… Read More

December 17, 2014 @ 10:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Scottsdale, Arizona based American Solar & Roofing has disclosed a partnership with Mosaic, a leading peer to peer lending platform for financing solar energy projects.  The agreement will assist American Solar in financing projects while generating a new deal flow pipeline for the young P2P… Read More

December 17, 2014 @ 10:45 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based peer to peer lending platform Lendable has raised approximately £2.5 million in a seed round. Lendable states their new platform, only launched at the beginning of 2014, can  deposit funds in your bank account in “minutes” – once a quote is accepted.  The… Read More

December 17, 2014 @ 10:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Invest4Justice, a new online financial platform that upends this historical inequity by creating what’s considered the first online market for justice, leveling the playing field between litigants, globally, regardless of their financial resources. The platform attacks this historical unfairness by combining two tools that have… Read More

December 17, 2014 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Coincides with New State Crowdfunding Regulations in Texas. MassCatalyst has announced its investment crowdfunding platform, handling both debt and equity financing, will launch in January targeting both startups and mature companies in need of capital. The MassCatalyst platform was previewed this past Fall at TechCrunch… Read More

December 16, 2014 @ 4:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lending Club (NYSE: LC) an online marketplace the connects borrowers and investors, announced on Tuesday (December 16th) the closing of its initial public offering and the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase an additional 8,700,000 shares from Lending Club. After the underwriters’… Read More

December 16, 2014 @ 1:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With only nine more shopping days until Christmas, crowdfunding giant Kickstarter has announced its 2014 holiday gift guide. Kickstarter’s Julie Wood took to the platform’s blog and wrote, “When you put a gift under the tree, it’s fun to know where it came from. Who made it?… Read More

December 16, 2014 @ 11:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

First Crowdfunded Real Estate Project in Detroit  Fundrise, a leading real estate crowdfunding platform, today announced it is partnering with Larson Realty Group to develop the former Tiger Stadium in Corktown, Detroit’s oldest neighborhood.  It will be Fundrise’s first project in Detroit. The Economic Development Corporation… Read More

December 16, 2014 @ 10:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Initial USD $5.2 Million Seed Round Secured From Prominent Investors  InvestX Capital announced on Tuesday (December 16th) the beta launch of its cross-border private equity crowdfunding marketplace for U.S. and Canadian investors, opening up an asset class previously only accessible through larger (USD $1 million or… Read More

December 15, 2014 @ 3:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to reveal the ins and outs of being a successful business leader, founder and chief development officer Danae Ringelmann sat down with Fortune’s 40 Under 40 network last week. When asked the big question: As a leader, is it better to be feared or… Read More

December 15, 2014 @ 10:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Jon Medved, CEO and founder of global investment crowdfunding site OurCrowd, hit the screens of CNN last week to talk about the Israeli political scene but more importantly to chat up his innovative funding platform.  The video was presented just prior to OurCrowds global investor… Read More

December 15, 2014 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo co-founders Danae Ringelmann and Slava Rubin explain why they released Indiegogo Life – a new feature on their crowdfunding platform to raise funding for charity based campaigns. The new approach is 100% free for individuals launching a campaign creating a new option for donations… Read More

December 15, 2014 @ 9:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo, is happy to announce the launch of Indiegogo Life, a service that brings the power of Indiegogo to anyone raising money for emergencies, medical expenses, celebrations or other life events. Indiegogo Life does not charge a platform fee, enabling fundraisers to keep more… Read More

December 15, 2014 @ 9:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs, a leading investment crowdfunding platform, announced this past summer the feature of allowing companies to raise capital by using convertible securities.  In the VC and Angel world offering convertible securities allows a company to push back the date of applying a valuation on a… Read More

December 15, 2014 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Insikt has Raised $100 Million to Date plus $70 Million Credit Facility. Insikt (pronounced “in-seekt”), described as a  Lending as a Service (LaaS) company, has now raised  over $100 million having just closed a Series B led by Revolution Ventures. The company has also secured… Read More

December 14, 2014 @ 11:01 pm By Dara Albright  |  

Marking another watershed moment for crowdfinance, the initial public offering of Lending Club (NYSE: LC), the world’s largest online P2P (“peer-to-peer “) marketplace connecting borrowers with lenders, was priced on Wednesday at $15 per share (a $5.4 billion valuation) – far above its pre-roadshow expected… Read More