Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

May 24, 2014 @ 3:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

The CEO of global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo continues to talk up the possibilities of equity crowdfunding in the United States.  Slava Rubin, recently interviewed by CNBC, once again expressed his interest in Title III retail crowdfunding while he chatted up the Indiegogo gospel.  Slava stated;… Read More

May 24, 2014 @ 2:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Described as the  “the definitive list of the United Kingdom’s 100 most exciting and innovative new companies launched in the last three years.”  The Startups 100 is a prominent group of young companies that are viewed having great potential for their innovative ways.  Crowdcube is part… Read More

May 24, 2014 @ 12:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Philanthropist List, owned and operated by Fusta Group LLC, is dedicated to changing lives through philanthropy and is pleased to announce the official launch of its new philanthropy website that serves as a giving platform where philanthropists can connect with organizations, non-profit charities, and needy… Read More

May 23, 2014 @ 5:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Google spawn YouTube made a major announcement today about their future product roadmap.  As part of the announcement where they discussed forthcoming new tools, apps and more, they recognized the importance of advertising revenue generated by the global video megalith (of which they make tons… Read More

May 22, 2014 @ 1:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

indieFilmFunding.com (iFF), a crowdfunding platform exclusively based in the indie film sector, announced on Thursday morning its top three winners of their video promo contest. The contest, which opened on January 15th, used both a panel of qualified judges and promotions on social to choose… Read More

May 22, 2014 @ 11:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Craig Newmark’s craigconnects and Crowdrise launched the second annual Veterans Charity Challenge on Thursday morning, expanded to benefit police and fire fighter nonprofit, in addition to veterans and military charities. This year’s “Veterans Charity Challenge 2” is a follow-up campaign, which raised more than $445,000… Read More

May 22, 2014 @ 10:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Gambling-focused crowdfunding and crowdsourcing company GamCrowd has a new resource for site users. Their new infographic, which updates once a week shows users various statistics around the investors and start-ups in the crowdfunding area of the site as well as details of the buyers and… Read More

May 22, 2014 @ 3:00 am By JD Alois  |  

At the Lendit 2014 conference the peer to peer crowd came from across the globe to share notes and discuss how the banking and financial industry will never, ever be the same again.  As part of that event, Ron Suber, Prosper President, gave a keynote… Read More

May 21, 2014 @ 9:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Barnraiser, a new social community and crowdfunding platform for sustainable food and farms, had their soft launch last month on April 22nd (yes – Earth Day).  They started the platform with a select number of projects but now they are opening it up to a… Read More

May 21, 2014 @ 2:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pozible just celebrated their 4th birthday and their best gift was the fact they have now surpassed $20 million (USD) in pledges.  The crowdfunding platform based in Australia has tallied more than 6100 projects since they entered the crowdfunding world way back in 2o1o.  During… Read More

May 21, 2014 @ 12:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

As was widely reported this past weekend on these pages, and just about everyplace else, porn star Eden Alexander launched a crowdfunding campaign on GiveForward for a dire medical situation only to encounter the ban hammer as she allegedly transgressed the platforms terms of service…. Read More

May 21, 2014 @ 9:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Sir Richards Branson is on an investing roll as he is one of the big names that have participated in the most recent funding round for peer to peer fashion marketplace Tradesy.  The most recent funding round raised $13 million for the 2 year old… Read More

May 21, 2014 @ 8:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Lending Club founder and CEO Renaud Laplanche recently visited the studios of Bloomberg (once again) to talk about his fast growing peer to peer lending platform.  In this brief discussion Renaud touches on the fact that Lending Club creates a more efficient market where both… Read More

May 21, 2014 @ 8:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

London-based Crowd for Angels, which is considered the first debt and equity crowdfunding platform to be directly regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and provides funding for businesses at seed stage, launched on Tuesday morning. Created by entrepreneur Tony De Nazareth who has over… Read More

May 20, 2014 @ 6:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

SunFunder, the solar crowdfunding platform for impact investing, has announced a new milestone as they  now have 1000 investors from 41 countries participating on their platform.  Over the pas 22 months, SunFunder has captured $214,000 from non-accredited investors and 9 accredited investors who have added… Read More

May 20, 2014 @ 11:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs has shared their equity crowdfunding term sheet revealing some additional insight into how their platform operates.  Investment structure and the understandings between entrepreneur and investor may be pretty dry stuff but it is exceptionally important.  Having a well structured term sheet that protects both… Read More

May 20, 2014 @ 10:29 am By JD Alois  |  

The recently re-launched US Angel Investment Network site wants to target the US market and leverage crowdfunding to match entrepreneurs with angel investors.  The network was founded in London 2004 and now claims over 30 different networks in 80 different countries – including the United… Read More

May 20, 2014 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo has announced a new round of investors, coming just a few short months after their $40 million Series B round.  Many of the new investors include well known, high profile names including iconic billionaire Sir Richard Branson.  Specific details of the… Read More

May 20, 2014 @ 7:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Realty Mogul has shared that it has successfully closed the crowdfunding offer for the Barstow Shopping Center, a 110,100 square foot Vons-anchored retail center located in Barstow, Calif. “With the completion of this offering, the company has enabled individual investors to participate in another significant… Read More

May 19, 2014 @ 2:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdtilt, the crowdfunding platform that prides itself in its ability to pool money for “literally anything” has just announced a new feature for their growing application.   Sell Something, is a new tool that allows brands and individuals to pre-sell products, tickets, or whatever to their networks through… Read More