Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

September 24, 2014 @ 1:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

AssetAvenue, a peer-to-peer lending platform for commercial real estate has announced that commercial real estate executive Eddie Prosser is joining the company as Senior Vice President of Real Estate Investments. Prosser will be responsible for expanding key lender and broker partnerships as well as utilizing… Read More

September 24, 2014 @ 12:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nearly two weeks ago, Crowdfunder UK, hosted an online crowdfunding event at the Eden Project for three foodie start-ups. They each battled it out to gain support and funding from the crowd, which were both live audience and online viewers. And now, the winner of… Read More

September 24, 2014 @ 10:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Qatar-based company Silatech announced earlier this week the launch of its crowdfunding platform called Narwi.com. The “micro-giving” platform is a new approach to financing young Arab entrepreneurs and their projects. Noted on its website, the platform is described as the following: “Youth unemployment in the Middle… Read More

September 24, 2014 @ 10:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Hale, UK based crowdfunding property investment company, The House Crowd, has announced it has fundraised more than £5 million from investors over a two year period. Since it started operations, the company has bought and refurbished 78 properties in and around the Manchester area, totalling more… Read More

September 24, 2014 @ 8:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

ReverseMergers.com, a firm dedicated to taking mid and microcap companies public through reverse mergers with public shell corporations is seeking strategic partnerships with crowdfunding consultants and crowdfunding portals. The partnerships are aimed at benefiting crowdfunding companies now and in the near future as the full… Read More

September 23, 2014 @ 3:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

During the same day that a video of Alaskan reporter for KTVA ,Charlo Greene, announcing her resignation to continue her work for the Alaska Cannabis Club, hit the internet, CBDcrowdfunding.com, a crowdfunding platform dedicated to helping medical marijuana patients and their communities, announced its official… Read More

September 23, 2014 @ 2:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

On the first anniversary of the SEC regulations allowing general solicitation for certain private placements a new accredited investor site has been launched.  Hotel Innvestor seeks to alter the business model for hotel investments with their investment crowdfunding platform. Founded by Tim Edgar, an industry… Read More

September 23, 2014 @ 9:33 am By JD Alois  |  

CrowdStreet, a real estate crowdfunding platform, shared today it had closed an $800,000 seed round led any Green Visor Capital and Seven Peaks Ventures. The funding round also saw participation by the Portland Seed Fund. CrowdStreet CEO Tore Steen said of the new funding; “CrowdStreet… Read More

September 22, 2014 @ 9:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Recently during a trip to Southeast Asia I had the opportunity to meet Tim Cheng, CEO of  FlyingV – the largest rewards based crowdfunding platform across all of Asia.  Based in Tapei, Taiwan, FlyingV was launched just over 2 years ago in 2012.  Since that… Read More

September 22, 2014 @ 12:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Netherlands based Symbid has announced a new milestone for the growing investment crowdfunding platform.  The publicly traded company [OTCQB:SBID] has surpassed €5 million (approximately $6.4 million) in investment crowdfunding.  This growth benefited from a solid Q2 in 2014 where Symbid facilitated over $1.55 during the quarter. Symbid,… Read More

September 22, 2014 @ 10:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

It’s been a busy weekend for Kickstarter! On Saturday and Sunday (September 20th and 21st), the crowdfunding leader was invited to participate in this year’s World Maker Faire, which was held at New York Hall of Science. Presented by Disney, the World Maker Faire is a family-friendly… Read More

September 22, 2014 @ 8:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform Realty Mogul Receives Whopping $73 Million Commitment from Institutional Investor. Direct Lending Investments, described as the general partner of oldest and largest short term, high yield, small business loans fund has formed a new partnership with Really Mogul, a real estate… Read More

September 21, 2014 @ 10:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding and real estate is a perfect match.  Either debt or equity the equation just works. Investors understand the asset class. The promise of higher returns on a tangible asset is a compelling proposition for investors both large and small.  The buy to let market… Read More

September 19, 2014 @ 2:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kickstarter announced on Friday (September 19th) that it has updated its Terms & Conditions. Kickstarter emailed out details about the “new improvements,” the legal team brought to the platform: Over the past year, we’ve been working to make sure every part of the Kickstarter system… Read More

September 19, 2014 @ 12:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Three years ago, crowdfunding leader Kickstarter became embroiled in a legal battle with musician and creator of website ArtistShare, Brian Camelio. Now it looks like the battle of who invented (or at least controls the intellectual property) crowdfunding is finally about to come to end…. Read More

September 19, 2014 @ 10:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Escape the City was an early equity crowdfunding success on Crowdcube. The team at Crowdcube acknowledged their unique success, of quickly raising £600,000 in just 14 days, by crowning Escape the City “Pitch of the Year” in 2012.  Escape the city is a a website that… Read More

September 19, 2014 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform EquityNet has released free interactive crowdfunding resources. The new resource center includes business valuation and risk analysis tools, interactive industry, geography, and trend charts, and a large crowdfunding glossary. EquityNet states the tools track many aspects of the business crowdfunding market using… Read More

September 19, 2014 @ 8:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

During the past couple of weeks, crowdfunding platform GoFundMe has been under fire due to announcing the update of their Content Guidelines. This new guidelines hit the web after one organizer, by the name of Bailey, launched a campaign to help fund her “necessary” abortion. The… Read More

September 18, 2014 @ 5:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

60-day 30-city Road Show to Teach Filmmakers About Crowdfunding and Distribution. Seed&Spark, the first crowdfunding and transactional VOD platform made just for independent film, is taking their show on the road with a 60-day 30-city tour to bring their ‘Crowdfunding to Build Independence’ class all over the… Read More

September 18, 2014 @ 10:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler announced this past Monday that his crowdfunding platform was opening up shop in Scandinavia and Ireland.  The expansion into Ireland was known for quite some time, but the move into Denmark, Norway and Sweden, while not surprising, was new.  The nordic countries have… Read More