Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

July 26, 2014 @ 9:30 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Readers may recognize hearo.fm’s name from its two showcases and 40+ bands who played at this year’s SXSW.  Breaking into the music 5.9 Billion in annual revenue, hearo.fm has grown into a global music marketplace aiming to claim the indie artist segment of a realm dominated… Read More

July 26, 2014 @ 8:44 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, Vancouver-based Glacier Media announced the launch of its own community crowdfunding service initiative called FundAid. According to the Vancouver Courier, which is owned by Glacier Media, FundAid is will tap into its newspapers’ deep ties to its communities to help raise awareness for… Read More

July 26, 2014 @ 7:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Two equity crowdfunding platforms will be making their way to the Land of Enchantment. This announcement comes just after new rules were established by the state to allow the funding method. According to Albuquerque Business First, Kenneth Seguar Knoll is working to bring his InvestNewMexico.us… Read More

July 25, 2014 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Equitise has signaled their confidence the Australian government will move forward with the recommendations by the CAMAC report that advocates streamlining capital formation for small business.  Equitise is an equity crowdfunding platform that is already accepting registrants from both investors and entrepreneurs in anticipation of… Read More

July 25, 2014 @ 9:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Local Lift is a “main street” focused crowdfunding platform that is operating in Austin, New Orleans and just recently San Francisco.  They are taking the concept of crowdfunding down to the local level by powering funding for small businesses that need it the most in… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 6:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Green Dragon House P2P Loan Facilitates 120 New Flats. UK based peer to peer lending LendInvest has stated that its world record breaking P2P loan has now been repaid.  The £4.1 million loan on a commercial building in Croydon was noted as one of the… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 6:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

NakedWines.com, a crowdfunding platform that removes the middleman between winemakers and wine drinkers, has rolled out a same-day delivery service for wine orders from San Francisco. Wine enthusiasts who submit orders by 1 p.m. Monday through Friday can have their cases delivered the same day, making that evening’s… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Nicola Horlick is a well known name in the halls of finance in the United Kingdom.  Nicola captured the title of City “Superwoman” as she balanced on the high wire act of an elite career in finance while simultaneously raising six children. After starting at… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube offered shares in their own company this past week and quickly (as in don’t blink) raised £1.2 million.  While I am not certain if they expected to raise funds at lightening speed – I was certainly impressed with the velocity in which investors rushed… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Manny Fernandez, has been recognized as the 2014 “San Francisco Angel Investor of the Year” by Startups Showcase.  Manny is CEO of crowdfunding platform DreamFunded and founder of the SF Angels Group. “Manny Fernandez is a leader in San Francisco angel investing with the founding of SF… Read More

July 23, 2014 @ 4:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Los Angeles based Fund Dreamer, Inc., is a crowdfunding platform helping women and diversity groups fund their dreams.  A social enterprise focused on changing startup dynamics, the young platform is on a mission to provide a crowdfunding environment for women and diversity focused projects. Co-founded by Ellie… Read More

July 23, 2014 @ 11:09 am By JD Alois  |  

The below infographic is from the creative crew at Funding Circle (in the UK).  Funding Circle is one of the leaders in the peer to peer (P2P) lending space.  The platform just announced a pretty huge investment to juice their global expansion.  Founded in the… Read More

July 23, 2014 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

INVST Partners With Carillon & Bendigo. Invested.in, a crowdfunding technology company, has announced the launch of INVST, an  online private network offering institutional-quality alternative investment funds.  The company also stated they had formed two significant INVST partnerships with Carillon Capital, LLC, and Bendigo Securities, LLC. Both… Read More

July 23, 2014 @ 8:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer Lending Platform Dealstruck Appoints Chief Financial Officer, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Strategy Officer Peer to peer lending platform Dealstruck has added to its senior leadership team to help manage the company’s rapid growth and to execute on its corporate expansion initiatives.  The Dealstruck… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 10:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

West Games’ Areal, one of Kickstarter’s weirdest crowdfunding campaigns to date, hit its $50,000 goal earlier this week and then was shutdown by the crowdfunding platform today (July 22nd). The video game, created by senior ex-S.T.A.L.K.E.R. developers,  features a massive and intricately detailed open world environment… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 5:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

StarHub’s Crowdtivate, a new crowdfunding platform based out of Singapore, has officially launched with 11 projects that are from across Asia – from assistive tech products to mechanical smart watch. The platform also offers mentorship and consulting to help aspiring entrepreneurs design an effective crowdfunding… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 2:30 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Since its inception in 2005, EquityNet has operated its business crowdfunding platform; nearly a decade later,  the thriving platform has been utilized by over 42,000 individual entrepreneurs and investors, incubators, government entities, and other members of the entrepreneurial community to plan, analyze, and capitalize privately-held businesses.   Multi-patented company… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 11:29 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube is claiming a world record with their self-crowdfunding round funding in just 16 minutes.  The Series B round garnered 141 investors with an average investment of £8500 on a post money valuation of £19.5 million.  This funding round on… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 11:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Joanna Schwartz, CEO of the Miami-based equity crowdfunding platform EarlyShares, recently sat down with the Miami Herald Newspaper to discussing the crowdfunding industry and which direction she believe its heading. Founded in 2011, EarlyShares is an equity crowdfunding platform that is ready to transform how… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform Realty Mogul, along with Kittridge Hotels & Resorts, has announced that stakes in the Hard Rock Hotel in Palm Springs have sold out. The Hard Rock Hotel in Palm Springs is the first operating hotel in the United States to successfully… Read More