Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

April 7, 2014 @ 9:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Yancey Strickler, Kickstarter CEO and Co-founder, has jumped into the scrum regarding the allegations of censorship pertaining to a movie now crowdfunding on Indiegogo.  In a tweet from his personal account, Strickler shares the acceptance letter to the Gosnell Movie creators:     @GosnellMovie@BreitbartNews This… Read More

April 7, 2014 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

SunFunder, a solar crowdfunding business based in San Francisco & Tanzania, is dedicated to financing emerging market solar energy.  The platform connects social investors to solar projects that improve the lives of low income communities in developing countries around the world.  Their first projects have… Read More

April 6, 2014 @ 3:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Recently successfully crowdfunded on OurCrowd, Peer-to-peer boating marketplace Boatbound has shared they have received $2.5 million in a financing round led by Brunswick Corporation, a manufacturer of boats and engines in the marine industry.  OurCrowd also participated in this funding round for an undisclosed amount…. Read More

April 6, 2014 @ 11:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Independent media crowdfunding platform IndieVoices has been in a reflective mood of late.  Co-founder and CEO Sasa Vucinic has been sharing his thoughts and impressions on the first 100 days of his global crowdfunding platform.  Not too long ago he posted on engagement and the… Read More

April 6, 2014 @ 10:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Christian Faes, CEO and Co-Founder of LendInvest, a P2P lending platform focused on the property lending industry in the United Kingdom, was recently interviewed about FCA regulations on the FT Money Show. Faes’ segment commences about 13 minutes into the podcast.   He comments about… Read More

April 5, 2014 @ 3:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

In 2004, the Penny Arcade people thought it would be pretty cool to do a  show exclusively for gaming. Their event was a “small” 4500 gathering in Bellevue, Washington, that not only focused on gaming but also culture, music and a ton of other awesomeness…. Read More

April 5, 2014 @ 2:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

BNN Funding has announced the beta launch of their crowdfunding platform for social good. The key feature of the platform is their ability to market crowdfunding campaigns nationally across 350 cities.  They are currently accepting applications for projects now. Patrick Kitano, CEO of BNN Funding… Read More

April 4, 2014 @ 12:21 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

$1 billion in loans 3,000% growth in eight years 118,000 personal loans issued Over 75,000 investors Over 93,000 borrowers 47 states Its been a long road since the first loan in 2006. Since then the $1 billion dollars issued through Prosper went towards helping people… Read More

April 4, 2014 @ 10:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube had a great March.  The company funded 8 businesses totaling £1.6 million in investments.  Crowdcube’s own projections indicate these funded companies will generate 281 new jobs over the coming years. To make things even better it appears the momentum may be… Read More

April 4, 2014 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based rewards crowdfunding platform, Crowdfunder has confirmed that it has raised over £1.5m for UK projects – and grown by a factor of 15 in the last 12 months.  Accompanied by a report from The Crowdfunding Centre stating that Crowdfunder.co.uk has more projects than… Read More

April 3, 2014 @ 4:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

New debt and equity crowdfunding platform serving globalizing companies, TradeUp Capital Fund,  announced its launch  at the Silicon Valley Crowdfunding Conference in Palo Alto. TradeUp is the first-in-class debt and equity crowdfunding platform for globalizing companies, an outperforming and rapidly growing segment. The Los Angeles-headquartered company… Read More

April 3, 2014 @ 9:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube and hubbub have joined forces to bring crowdfunding to the education sector.  hubbub shared on a blog post that; “combining forces will enable Crowdcube-hubbub to provide the compelling additional offer of equity crowdfunding alongside hubbub’s standard reward-based crowdfunding solution. The offer means that –… Read More

April 3, 2014 @ 7:49 am By JD Alois  |  

angelMD, a medical-focused equity crowdfunding company, has shared that Oxford, Mississippi-based Medical Marketing Economics (MME) has made a strategic investment in angelMD and formed a partnership. MME clients cover a wide spectrum of growth and mature life sciences companies across the globe. MME is a… Read More

April 2, 2014 @ 3:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Former Wall Street analyst Whitney Johnson has joined the Launch Angels Investment Committee team for its Women-Led and Early Traction Funds. As co-founder and former president of Clayton Christensen’s investment firm Rose Park Advisors, Johnson brings Launch Angels her insights into disruptive innovation and start-up… Read More

April 2, 2014 @ 2:58 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Lending Club has been forced to seek the ability to originate loans on a state-by-state basis, and that map of states just filled in a bit. Lending Club has announced that the peer lending platform has received the green light to operate in the State of Mississippi. “We’re… Read More

April 2, 2014 @ 2:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

P2P Lending Booms as Banks are Cut Out. According to Zopa, the fast growing peer-to-peer lending platform has now lent over £500 million  (Over $813,000,000).  Hurdling the half billion mark clearly places P2P lending in the mainstream of finance in the UK. In the past… Read More

April 2, 2014 @ 10:46 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Alibaba.com is a giant in China, and the company has now launched a crowdfunding play for entertainment-related projects. It’s called Yu Le Bao, or “Entertainment Treasure,” and it allows anyone to invest in entertainment projects like films and games in amounts as little as 100… Read More

April 2, 2014 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdswell has claimed Seattle, Washington, as an incubator city for its new community improvement marketplace, which uses crowdfunding to generate crowdsourced solutions to local problems. The company is now officially expanding its base of operations into Seattle, and plans a national launch in the coming… Read More

April 2, 2014 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

German equity crowdfunding site Companisto has announced a platform record.  The readfy funding campaign listed on Companisto raised €100,000 in just 24 hours and half a million Euros within six weeks.  Over 1300 investors came together to back the company that offers free access to ten… Read More

April 2, 2014 @ 9:40 am By JD Alois  |  

New crowdfunding platform Seedkicks has recently announced a competition to benefit crowdfunders on their platform.  The Seedkick “Startup Crowdfunding Challenge” is accepting applications now until April 23rd.  The challenge itself begins May 1 and ends at the end of the month. Participating crowdfunding campaigns may… Read More