Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

February 16, 2014 @ 3:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Petitious, a crowdfunding site for pets and animals has announced their forthcoming launch scheduled for March 1, 2014.  The Australia based crowdfunding platform was founded by Monika Mileva. Petitious is a new way of raising money for pet and animal projects, ventures, non-profits, start-ups, products… Read More

February 15, 2014 @ 4:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Company Claims No Credit Card Information Has Been Stolen. In a note to users of the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, CEO Yancy Strickler announced that unauthorized access to customer data had occurred as hackers had compromised the Kickstarter platform. The information was said to have come… Read More

February 15, 2014 @ 2:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

DocWeek, Australia’s international documentary film festival takes place in Adelaide, March  4-9, 2014.  The Aussie crowdfunding platform is once again slated to partner on the event with the Pozible Pitch. Four crowdfunded films have been selected by Pozible and DocWeek for the Pozible Pitch.  The… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 6:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

“The Results Have Been Inspiring”. Betaworks,  a startup studio and seed stage funding group based in New York City, launched their own crowdfunding platform earlier this week.  Appropriately called Alphaworks (it’s a progression), this is a their funding platform with a mission to: “To empower… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 12:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

GamCrowd has now opened its registration site for potential investors and start-ups for its crowdfunding service and also for buyers and sellers of services on its gambling specific crowdsourcing site.  GamCrowd had previously announced the forthcoming launch of their platform at the end of 2013. CEO… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 11:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

CircleUp, a crowdfunding platform for connecting investors with consumer brands, is partnering up with Virgin America in an initiative that hopes to generate some real-world business for consumer-facing brands and products that crowdfund on CircleUp. According to TechCrunch, Virgin America will use CircleUp as a… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 9:11 am By JD Alois  |  

“Britain is the best place in the world to start a company today”. Part of an ongoing series of London Cab rides, Jeff Lynn, CEO of equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs, shares a ride with Reuters reporter Axel Threlfall where they discuss the platform and process… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment platform focused on equity crowdfunding deals Launch Angels, is offering method for investors seeking to back women-focused startups. First, Launch Angels and co-sponsor PayPal are hosting Finding the Bright Spots: Women & Capital, a March 4th event on how women entrepreneurs and investors are… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 8:43 am By JD Alois  |  

FCA regulated AbundanceGeneration will offer 9% return on its latest low risk renewable energy debenture positioned as a better home for savers many of whom are currently earning rates less than inflation Announced today, the renewable energy investment project has a minimum investment of only… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 8:10 am By JD Alois  |  

angelMD, a private equity firm plus equity crowdfunding platform, has recently added to staff having announced the addition of 3 leading clinicians to its senior management team. Based in San Francisco, California and Seattle, Washington, angelMD is a firm leveraging a crowdfunding platform that connects… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 10:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Indiegogo’s stats show that the platform (and crowdfunding in a more general sense) is a powerful tool for directing capital toward female-founded businesses and endeavors… In fact, we’ve found that about 47% of campaigns that reach their funding goals on Indiegogo are run by women…. Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 10:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Pozible just recently moved into their new offices in Melbourne where apparently they have quite a bit of extra space.  So what better way to put that space to work than screening some really cool films that were funded on the Pozible crowdfunding platform.  Pozible… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 10:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

FundersClub has announced the launch of the FundersClub Theme Series, a series of managed funds focused on early-stage companies in specific verticals. The first three funds will focus on health & wellness, Bitcoin & payments and hardware. FundersClub is an invite-only equity crowdfunding play. Just last month the… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

PeoplesVC, an equity-based crowdfunding company headquartered in New Hampshire, wants to democratize Venture Capital and early stage investing, by creating a platform that will allow all Americans to access previously exclusive deals. Through a sponsorship with the MIT Enterprise Forum, PeoplesVC seeks to identify promising… Read More

February 12, 2014 @ 9:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Somolend, a high profile crowdfunding startup, has settled with the State of Ohio over allegations by the State the company had transgressed state securities laws.  The company was previously led by Candace Klein, who had become one of the leading champions for the fast growing… Read More

February 12, 2014 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer-to-Peer crowdfunding platform LendInvest continues to post impressive results.  The company earlier this year reported growing to £25,000,000 in loans completed since their launch in late spring of last year.  The company captured significant media cover regarding a P2P loan for £4.12 million which has… Read More

February 12, 2014 @ 10:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Australia based global crowdfunding platform Pozible has announced an interesting partnership with Arts Tasmania called Crowbar.  In this new relationship Arts Tasmania is offering approved campaigns an additional investment of up to 50% of the projects crowdfunding target – if successful.  These funds are topped… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 1:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

TechCrunch has an awards series every year called the Crunchies, and Kickstarter just won the biggest Crunchie of them all. Kickstarter is TechCrunch’s “Best Overall Startup” for 2013. Kickstarter wasn’t the only winner from the wonderful world of crowdfunding in 2013. Oculus VR took home… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 11:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Google, Bloomberg, Xiaomi, Dropbox, Netflix, Airbnb, Nike, Zipdial… DonorsChoose.org? You read that right. DonorsChoose has become a staple among the annual list of most innovative companies compiled by Fast Company, and this year the site has muscled into the top 10. DonorsChoose.org is a donation-based… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 10:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Changes of address have been one of the most painful things project creators and their backers have had to deal with on Kickstarter. Now the world’s largest rewards-based funding platform has released a new feature to help backers deal with that very problem. This comes… Read More