Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

November 12, 2014 @ 3:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Announced this past September, the Big App Fund, sponsored by Worth Capital with the assistance of Facebook, has ventured to discover the next big thing in Apps by organizing a pan-European competition.   The contest was joined by an investment crowdfunding round on Seedrs where… Read More

November 12, 2014 @ 1:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform Takes Just 24 Days to Raise Quarter Million for Williamsburg, Brooklyn Apartments. Fundrise, a real estate crowdfunding platform, announced it has raised $250,000 from 10 investors in 24 days for 136 North 8th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Investors are reported to receive a… Read More

November 12, 2014 @ 11:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

In September, Cincinnati’s Braxton Brewery hit Kickstarter to raise $30,000 to  create what the brewhouse called “the Taproom of the Future.” The project not only hit its initial goal within just 34 hours and raised $71,885 from over 600 backers. It also surpassed previously record… Read More

November 12, 2014 @ 10:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

DreamFund.com, the circle giving platform for important dreams, announced on Wednesday (November 12th) the launch of a family-friendly crowdfunding platform that also offers the benefits of an insured savings account. DreamFund.com allows “Dreamers” of all ages to not only raise – but also save  –… Read More

November 12, 2014 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

The worlds largest peer to peer lending platform Lending Club has introduced new products leveraging their acquisition of Springstone.  The Lending Club subsidiary will now offer a new “education and patient financing product”.  The new product and practices are “designed to raise standards for transparency… Read More

November 12, 2014 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lending platform Ablrate has announced an agreement for investment company Synthesis to use its P2P Sub-Fund to invest via the Ablrate site.  Ablrate is a unique “P2B” operation in that it is asset backed, leveraging commercial aviation leasing.  Ablrate launched in 2014… Read More

November 11, 2014 @ 2:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, the University of Alabama in Birmingham launched its own crowdfunding platform, called Crowdfunding at UAB, as a way to help students, faulty, and staff secure funds for special projects. According to the University’s student-ran media outlet, UAB News, director of annual giving… Read More

November 11, 2014 @ 10:54 am By JD Alois  |  

PENSCO Study Shows Desire to Increase Investment Allocation to Alternatives within IRAs Including Investment Crowdfunding Opportunities. According to a report from PENSCO trust company,  a majority of clients (71%) state that they want to invest more in non-traded, alternative assets if they had a better… Read More

November 11, 2014 @ 9:29 am By JD Alois  |  

GroundFloor, described as a “micro-lending community for real estate”, has announced a complete redesign of their crowdfunding portal while simultaneously dropping entry level investment from $100 to $10.  The new version of GroundFloor is said to provide tools that make it easier  for “micro-lenders” to… Read More

November 11, 2014 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Partnership Expected to Deliver Marketing Expertise to SMEs Seeking to Raise Capital.  Cutting Edge Capital (CEC), an investment crowdfunding platform, has announced a partnership with Mercury360 based in San Francisco.  The alliance will allow CEC to offer its clients marketing support in seeking capital via… Read More

November 10, 2014 @ 9:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer to Peer Lending Platform Achieves “A” Rating from S&P and “A2” from Moody’s Social Finance or “SoFi”, a leader in P2P or marketplace lending, today closed a $303 million+ securitization of refinanced student loans for graduate borrowers. The senior notes were rated “A” by… Read More

November 10, 2014 @ 6:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

OnDeck, an online platform for small business lending, has  announced that it has filed an S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. OnDeck has applied to list its common stock on the New… Read More

November 10, 2014 @ 3:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In 2012, Dresden Dolls bandmate, Amanda Palmer, took to Kickstarter to raise $100,000 for a new record; her new book, The Art of Asking; and a tour. Not only did she surpass the initial goal, by the end of her crowdfunding campaign’s run on the platform, she… Read More

November 10, 2014 @ 1:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

First Investment Crowdfunding Platform to Stumble on General Solicitation Requirements. Eureeca, a Dubai based investment crowdfunding platform, ran afoul of the Securities and Exchange Commission as a Cease and Desist order was filed today against the young company.  Regulators instituted proceedings based off of findings… Read More

November 10, 2014 @ 12:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Sharing some details about global crowdfunding giant, Indiegogo, Danae Ringelmann discussed what the platform has done in the past, where its going and the failures she has seen. According to CNET, during an interview at the Web Summit Tech Conference last week, Ringelmann discussed how… Read More

November 10, 2014 @ 11:59 am By JD Alois  |  

In a recent report China peer to peer (P2P) lending platform Jimubox disclosed it expects to triple its lending business to $1.6 billion in 2015.  The company lent a total of 100 million Yuan ($16.3 million) in 2013 after launching in August. Former Wall Street… Read More

November 10, 2014 @ 9:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tintag, the first wireless rechargeable item tracking device, was invited by crowdfunding giant, Indiegogo, to continue its funding campaign on the platform by being a part of the “Forever Funding” program. The startup ran a successful two-month crowdfunding campaign, which surpassed its initial goal of $50,000 in… Read More

November 9, 2014 @ 10:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

During her time at September’s Techonomy Detroit Conference at Wayne State University, Indigogo’s co-founder, Danae Ringelmann, discussed the serious diversity divide in the tech industry, which appears to be dominated by white males. According to Techonomy, after Google released the demographic data of its employees in May,… Read More

November 8, 2014 @ 4:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bondora, a fast growing peer to peer lending platform based in Estonia recently shared some comparison data on how their platform matches up agains some of their peers.  Granted this is their perspective but it is interesting none the less. Bondora, previously known as isePankur,… Read More

November 7, 2014 @ 2:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

FundedByMe, an investment crowdfunding platform based in Sweden but with operations in Finland, Denmark, Singapore, Spain, Germany, Italy & Norway, recently launched a self-crowdfunding campaign to raise capital for their expansion.  In March of 2014 the campaign hit the pages of the funding platform with… Read More