Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

March 26, 2014 @ 5:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding site Invesdor  has shared that they have been selected as a Finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe award,  honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the European business region. The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from… Read More

March 26, 2014 @ 12:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

UK based real estate crowdfunding platform CrowdPower is raising capital on Seedrs.  The company is seeking £150,000 in shares representing 19.1% equity in the small company. CrowdPower states they want to “Revolutionise” property development. The startup intends on offering a platform where developers may list… Read More

March 26, 2014 @ 10:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Chicago Based, NIN Ventures, wants to transform the VC fund industry and the are publicly crowdfunding to achieve their goal.  Generally speaking venture capital funds accept investments from individuals or entities willing to pony up amounts in the 7 figures.  With the new legislation enacted… Read More

March 26, 2014 @ 8:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Britain’s Next Bestseller, a crowdfunding platform for books, wants to revolutionize the way books are published.  Their simple mission – to shake up the way the publishing industry works. The platform follows the Crowdfunding model but states they do not risk the supporters’ investment. The… Read More

March 26, 2014 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Based in the North Carolina Triangle but launched in Atlanta – real estate crowdfunding platform Groundfloor, described as a peer-to-peer lending marketplace, has announced the successful closing of its first two crowdfunded real estate transactions. According to the company Investors who backed the transactions are accruing interest at… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 1:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

Freightos, the global online freight network, today announced the completion of a $4.6 million Series B funding. The series was led by Aleph and ICV, with follow on investment from crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. Global trade has expanded by 400 percent in the past two decades,… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 9:00 am By Georgia Quinn  |  

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…and within the UK equity crowdfunding market two platforms have emerged as the clear leaders. However, they are quite different in both philosophy and operation and it took little time (the timespan of a… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 7:56 am By JD Alois  |  

While some angel investor groups have been slow to adapt to the changing world of capital formation for small businesses, SyndicateRoom, a UK based equity crowdfunding platform, recently had two different angel networks turn to their platform to funding Demonstrating a growing willingness to work… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 6:30 am By JD Alois  |  

As regulation to legalize investment crowdfunding takes hold PledgeMe, based in New Zealand, will be ready to offer equity crowdfunding to Kiwi’s. In a statement on their site that presently offers rewards based crowdfunding the company stated;  Yes, New Zealand is finally making the long-awaited move… Read More

March 24, 2014 @ 2:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer (P2P) lending will be the vehicle that pulls saving back from the brink of extinction, thanks to a recent boost from government linking P2P with ISAs, says Madiston LendLoanInvest. This follows recent commitment from the Treasury that P2P lending will now be… Read More

March 24, 2014 @ 10:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Indiegogo was all over SXSW this year as evidenced in part by our recent breakdown of Indiegogo campaigns represented at this year’s festival. Indiegogo has now also released an album of pictures from their time in Austin. The photos are below. For the full Facebook… Read More

March 24, 2014 @ 10:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rodrigo Davies writes regularly on the topic of civic crowdfunding at the MIT Center for Civic Media blog, and his most recent post raises an important and interesting question: is crowdfunding participatory citizenship or a sign of institutions in decline? He frames the question in… Read More

March 24, 2014 @ 9:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Based in India, Milaap.org, an online crowdfunding platform joined hands with IndusLadies.com, the largest online community for Indian women with the launch of ‘Change a Life this Women’s Day’ campaign on the occasion of International Women’s Day. “As the largest online community for Indian women,… Read More

March 24, 2014 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Luke Lang, co-founder of equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube commented on the recent closure of start-up business Ovivo Mobile, a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) that uses Vodafone’s UK network to provide competitive mobile phone packages: “We’re extremely disappointed that Ovivo Mobile has had to announce… Read More

March 24, 2014 @ 8:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Running an effective crowdfunding campaign is a ton of work.  Not only must you have 30% committed up front but a successful campaign takes weeks, if not months, of planning.  Once a campaign launches you have to be on every day promoting, communicating and dealing… Read More

March 24, 2014 @ 7:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Pozible is introducing some new social tactics to help crowdfunders on their platform.  In a recent statement the Australia based company have asked all “past, present and future” crowdfunders to use the #PoziPics hashtag on instagram and twitter for campaign photographs. Each Friday Pozible will… Read More

March 23, 2014 @ 7:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yancey Strickler has only recently become Kickstarter CEO taking the place of his best friend Perry Chen.  Strickler has been doing the media rounds of late touting the crowdfunding gospel.   This past week he visited Charlie Rose where he was interviewed by august journalist…. Read More

March 23, 2014 @ 6:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a recent profile on Seedrs written by Georgia Quinn she touched on the position of this equity crowdfunding platform and their approach in using a nominee structure for shareholders.  Last week on the Seedrs site they published a brief titled “Protecting Small Investors in Equity… Read More

March 23, 2014 @ 10:00 am By Georgia Quinn  |  

Darren Westlake of Crowdcube knows what it is like to start a business. It was the very same process now faced by many of his customers that was to be the genesis of Crowdcube. After experiencing the difficulties of obtaining financing first hand as an… Read More

March 22, 2014 @ 9:03 am By JD Alois  |  

P2P Crowdfunding Platform Sees Exponential Growth. DealStruck is a P2P crowdfunding platform that is focused on loans for small businesses.  They want to combine the best of crowdlending with the best of traditional finance.  Dealstruck states that more than 82% of small businesses seeking loans… Read More