Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

November 3, 2014 @ 8:25 am By JD Alois  |  

RCS Capital Corporation (RCAP) (NYSE: RCAP), has announced that it has terminated the agreement to acquire Cole Capital from American Realty Capital Properties. The purchase was revealed earlier this month when RCAP stated its intent to purchase Cole Capital for a base purchase price of $700 million consisting… Read More

November 2, 2014 @ 12:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

finnCap, an independent broker, has launched a crowdfunding service by partnering with InvestingZone.  The portal is a bit of a hybrid as it intends on matching professional investors but may also be used by AIM listed companies seeking to raise capital.  Following the compelling success… Read More

October 31, 2014 @ 1:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Taking time away from his usual busy schedule, CEO of Indiegogo, Slava Rubin, sat down with Kinja’s Lifehacker to share details about keeping up his duties at the global crowdfunding platform along with his everyday schedule. During his interview, Rubin revealed his “life hacks” and how… Read More

October 31, 2014 @ 1:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In celebration of its first year in Australia and New Zealand, crowdfunding giant Kickstarter shared its favorite video game campaigns from the land down under. On Thursday (October 30th), Kickstarter’s Luke Crane took to the platform’s blog and wrote, “It’s been nearly a year since… Read More

October 31, 2014 @ 11:34 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Money360, Inc, the peer-to-peer (P2P) real estate lending platform, announced that the platform has accomplished another “industry first” by closing the first tranche loan to be originated by a U.S. P2P platform. Proplend staked its claim in the UK market in May, reported Crowdfund Insider’s Samantha Hurst.  Money360’s… Read More

October 31, 2014 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has rocketed past the 100,000 investor mark.  Crowdcube recognized Vincent Carrie of London as becoming the 100,000th person to register on the site to participate in the listed companies.  Carrie will receive a gift basket that includes plenty of good stuff… Read More

October 31, 2014 @ 9:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

American Homeowner Preservation (AHP) announced today the company was able to help a Milwaukee, WI family catch up on nearly three years of delinquent mortgage payments to avoid foreclosure with a loan modification this week. AHP purchases distressed mortgages using real estate crowdfunding with a mission… Read More

October 30, 2014 @ 4:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday (October 30th), Betaworks’ equity crowdfunding platform, Alphaworks, announced that Erin Glenn is set to take the role as its brand new CEO, while co-founder and former CEO, Nick Chirls, pursues another project. According to TechCrunch, Glenn comes from four years in a CFO… Read More

October 30, 2014 @ 3:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Singapore Exchange (SGX), described as the gateway to Asia, is exploring the feasibility of incorporating an equity crowdfunding platform to aid early stage companies in raising capital.  According to multiple reports, SGX has created an internal team evaluating options to boost SME’s. Former SGX… Read More

October 30, 2014 @ 2:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The national unemployment rate fell to 5.9 percent in September, down from 7.2 percent in September 2013, according to a USA Today article released on October 30th. Doug Carroll of USA Today wrote that, “The downward trend means fewer workers getting laid off, adding to other… Read More

October 30, 2014 @ 1:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, non-profit organization Code.org launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise $5,000,000 for its new program called, An Hour of Code for Every Student. This will give 100 million students throughout the world an opportunity to have one hour per day of… Read More

October 30, 2014 @ 1:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

“PROVIDE SEED CAPITAL FOR AMERICA’S FASTEST GROWING INDUSTRY” The very first Cannabis investment crowdfunding platform has been launched by Crowdfund Connect.  CannaFundr is accepting applications from both accredited investors and Marijuana based companies for canabis related crowdfunding.  WeCanna, by the ArcView group, earlier announced a… Read More

October 30, 2014 @ 12:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

UK based investment crowdfunding platform Seedrs has announced the acquisition of Junction Investments located in California.  This strategic acquisition positions Seedrs to expand their reach beyond the borders of Europe.  Junction founders Adam Kaufman and Brian Goldsmith will be joining the Seedrs team and assisting… Read More

October 29, 2014 @ 10:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrowdLords, a new twist on real estate crowdfunding that targets landlords or “buy to let”, is crowdfunding their platform on Seedrs.  The startup is seeking a raise of £90,000 and launched yesterday quickly garnering over £27,000 from 29 investors.   We are live on @Seedrs!… Read More

October 29, 2014 @ 4:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to gain some more funding for their already successful crowdfunding project, Light Harmonic, the creators of Geek Pulse, announced on Tuesday (October 28th) that their team has decided to participate in Indiegogo’s perpetual crowdfunding program. According to its campaign, Geek Pulse is an audio digital-to-analog… Read More

October 29, 2014 @ 1:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Reddit, the online community and self-dubbed “front of page the Internet,” announced a new crowdfunding platform, known as Redditmade, on Wednesday morning (October 29th). According its recent post, Redditmade is described as a new place to turn the best designs and products by the community into reality…. Read More

October 29, 2014 @ 9:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, Fresh8 Gaming, the next generation ad-serving platform, triumphed at the Start-Up Launchpad competition held at the 2014 European iGaming Congress and Expo (EiG) in Berlin, Germany. Now in its seventh year, the Dragons’ Den-style contest was hosted by equity crowdfunding platform, GamCrowd, alongside Clarion… Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 5:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Mass Fidelity Inc.’s Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for the Core Wireless Speaker System and Core Wireless Sub has continued to gain momentum since this month’s campaign extension and has now become the top crowdfunded Canadian company ever. The campaign launched in early September when it shattered its $48,000 funding goal within 24 hours and… Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 4:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Realty Mogul Continues Expansion in Indiana With Second Investment in 3 Months. Realty Mogul, an online real estate crowdfunding platform connecting accredited and institutional investors, announced that it has successfully crowdfunded the English Village Apartments, a large multi-family community located in southeast Indianapolis. Realty Mogul’s… Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 4:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, shut down another tor router project, by the name of TorFi, just a few days after nixing the almost successful, anonabox campaign. According to Ars Technica, TorFi, a project by Jesse Enjaian and David Xu of Berkeley California, aimed to create home routers… Read More