Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

April 2, 2014 @ 7:54 am By JD Alois  |  

P2P Firm Sees Great Opportunity for Growth. LendInvest, the first peer-to-peer (P2P) crowdfunding platform specifically for residential and commercial mortgages, has confirmed they have passed the £50 Million mark in lending transactions on their platform.  LendInvest passed the £25 Million hurdle just this past January… Read More

April 1, 2014 @ 9:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

First Equity Crowdfunding Offering in Italy Closes Overbooked. The equity crowdfunding portal Unicaseed has announced the first ever, successful share offering following the legalization of investment crowdfunding in Italy.  Unicaseed, a subsidiary of Unicasim, is the first Italian crowdfunding portal to be authorized under the… Read More

April 1, 2014 @ 2:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform AssetAvenue has officially launched its online marketplace, providing pre-vetted investment opportunities with real estate operators from across the country. The platform will allow real estate operators to promote offerings based on rules enacted last fall and legalized under the JOBS Act…. Read More

April 1, 2014 @ 7:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Australia based rewards crowdfunding platform Pozible continues to pound the table with their data that indicates they have an exceptionally high success rate for projects on their platform.  In a recent note, Pozible claimed that in Asia Pacific they boast a 56% success level for… Read More

April 1, 2014 @ 7:31 am By JD Alois  |  

MyFundingPlace believes that charities have been left out of the crowdfunding equation.  With he industry having raised an estimated $3 billion in 2013, MyFundingPlace believes there is a niche to be filled since “most crowdfund portals lack support options for larger organizations”. Quincy, Massachusetts based My Funding… Read More

April 1, 2014 @ 7:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs has had a great month.  With March just closing the UK based company has shared that in terms of companies funded this has been the most active month ever. In total 18 businesses were crowdfunded on Seedrs in March with each… Read More

March 31, 2014 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Vivid Sydney is an annual event in Australia featuring some of the worlds most relevant creative industry forums.  There is music, ideas, lights and and plenty of others things for people to enjoy as art, technology and commerce all come together.  In fact it makes… Read More

March 31, 2014 @ 8:00 am By Georgia Quinn  |  

Fresh from my trip across the pond, I can tell you I have seen the light. Crowdfunding can and is working and we (the United States) are behind the eight ball on this one. When describing the US regulatory regime to crowdfunding professionals in the… Read More

March 31, 2014 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform RealCrowd has received an additional $1.6 million in seed funding to aid in the growth of the young company.  The  San Francisco based startup  received the investment from multiple investors including: Data Collective, Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian, Paul Bucheit and several… Read More

March 30, 2014 @ 4:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sasa Vucinic, CEO and co-founder of IndieVoices – an independent media crowdfunding platform, recently posted a reflection on the platform’s first 100 days. Sasa states that their biggest achievement to date is the fact they are still in business. IndieVoices was launched with the hope… Read More

March 30, 2014 @ 3:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

2014 Celebrates the Biggest Earth Hour in History Headquartered in Singapore, Earth Hour is a global movement of the World Wildlife Federation (WWF).  The organization has grown from a symbolic event in one city to global movement crowdsourcing and crowdfunding causes, innovation and creativity for… Read More

March 29, 2014 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

A new crowdfunding platform is preparing to launch and they have ambitious plans.  Xeelion is a crowdfunding site only for US students.  Apparently you will need an @university.edu to even start a campaign.  While there are great entrepreneurial communities within the universities, young entrepreneurs typically… Read More

March 29, 2014 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Reacting to George Osborne’s suggestion that banks may be required to release information on SMEs that they reject for finance to alternative credit suppliers, Andrew Holgate, MD of Assetz Capital, one of the UK’s fastest-growing P2P lenders, commented: “When a bank says “no” to a… Read More

March 28, 2014 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

TipTV did a 30 minute segment talking about the crowdfunding industry recently and one of their guests was Kieran Garvey, Business Development Manager of equity crowdfunding site Crowdcube. In the interview Kieran shares that Crowdcube grew over 500% in 2013 raising funds for over 100… Read More

March 28, 2014 @ 11:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

CircleUp has announced a $14 million Series B round that will introduce a new venture capital firm into their existing mix. Canaan Partners has led the round, which also includes investment from previous CircleUp investors Google Ventures and Union Square Ventures. This is the second… Read More

March 28, 2014 @ 11:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve probably been exposed to some of the promise everyone found in the Veronica Mars Kickstarter campaign. The democratization of film finance! People funding films they want to see made! We don’t need the studios! A new accredited-only crowdfunding platform… Read More

March 28, 2014 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

The real estate industry in the United States is enormous.  Entrepreneurs who understand real estate finance see an industry that is prime for disruption by incorporating crowdfunding into the financing process – creating a more efficient and transparent model for both investors and developers.  Patch… Read More

March 28, 2014 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Kiva has announced their newest partnership – Kiva City Pittsburgh.  This is an initiative that brings crowdfunded microloans to small business owners and entrepreneurs to the Pittsburgh area.  This is similar to other city partnerships that Kiva has initiated over the past several years..  Kiva… Read More

March 28, 2014 @ 7:30 am By JD Alois  |  

SunFunder, a crowdfunding platform that allows social investors to finance high impact solar projects in off-grid communities has announced their first project in India.  Previously all of their projects had taken place in Africa. In India alone 400 million people live without access to electricity…. Read More

March 27, 2014 @ 11:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Realty Mogul has raised a $9 million Series A round led by Canaan Partners. This news comes on the heels of an announcement that Realty Mogul has funded properties totaling $100 million in value. “Our goal is to bring the $11 trillion commercial real estate… Read More