Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

February 11, 2014 @ 8:08 am By Fiona Swan  |  

Editor’s Note:  Sian’s Plan is raising £100,000 on Seedrs representing 12.5% equity in the startup.  Fiona Swan is the COO of the company.  The Belfast based company supports healthy eating for busy families with their online tools.  Sian has already completed a first round of… Read More

February 10, 2014 @ 4:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Wants to be New Funding Source for Renewable Energy Sector. Debuting with five projects,  Clean Reach, the world’s first crowdfunding platform for the ocean energy industry launched today, designed to address a lack of early-stage funding for a fast-growing part of the renewable energy sector…. Read More

February 10, 2014 @ 11:45 am By JD Alois  |  

SunFunder, a crowdlending platform that connects investors with affordable solar technology projects in off-grid communities around the world is looking to add more solar partners in 2014. To date the crowdfunding platform has  partnered with 8 solar companies that have operations in the Philippines, Zambia,… Read More

February 10, 2014 @ 9:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

TubeStart is offering to help 501(c)(3) organizations by allowing charities and nonprofits to crowdfund on their platform for free. Any organizations interested in taking advantage of this offer are encouraged to contact TubeStart. More information on how to do so is available on TubeStart’s web… Read More

February 10, 2014 @ 9:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Taipei based HWTrek (Hardware Trek) has announced their new consumer electronics community platform aimed to enhance the communication and data exchange between hardware inventors, design and manufacturing experts and financial backers to bring next-generation hardware dreams to market. The new feature enables hardware inventors in the… Read More

February 10, 2014 @ 8:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Ice-Dragons crowdfunding site will connect sophisticated investors with high quality startups. E2Exchange, which has Sir Richard Branson as its Honoray President and includes leading business figures such as Darryl Eales, CEO of leading private equity house LDC, and Dragon’s Den entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne, is working… Read More

February 10, 2014 @ 7:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Data provided by Peer-to-Business (P2B) crowdfunding platform rebuildingsociety.com indicates that small business owners continue to use their personal credit cards to finance their companies.  The UK based lending platform shared their research showing: Nearly two out of five (37%) SME’s planning to borrow in next 12 months… Read More

February 9, 2014 @ 6:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding Platform for independent media IndieVoices has announced a new structure for campaign funding in an effort to more closely align backers and campaign creators commitment to a project.  Called “Phased Flexible Funding” campaigns will now allow funding to be raised in stages thus allowing… Read More

February 8, 2014 @ 1:40 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Lending Club has announced the addition of two new statistical charts aimed at helping their investors understand trends in returns. Notably, both charts seem to actively encourage investors on Lending Club to have at least 100 notes in their portfolio for the purposes of diversification…. Read More

February 7, 2014 @ 5:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding site for causes Razoo has claimed to have helped raise more than $200 million. In 2013 alone, Razoo doubled in growth driving $100 million in donations in a little over 12 months. Razoo states this is the highest-reported monetary value for U.S. crowdfunding strictly for… Read More

February 7, 2014 @ 9:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

RealtyShares only emerged from beta recently, in November of 2013 to be precise. Now the hybrid real estate crowdfunding platform has announced a new platform feature that will allow investors to use Bitcoin to invest in real estate deals. Why? It all boils down to… Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 4:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding Platform Looks for Future Growth in Latin America as Market Heats Up. Crowdfunder, a Venice, California based investment crowdfunding platform, has raised an additional $1,000,000 in seed financing. This brings the total financing raised by Crowdfunder to date to roughly $2,000,000.  Crowdfunder lists over… Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Island Records and Indiegogo have announced a partnership that will provide a new place to discover emerging artists on a global basis.   “Fan Republic” is being marketed as the first collaboration of its kind between a music label and a crowdfunding platform. Fan Republic… Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 10:44 am By JD Alois  |  

As part of Social Media Week, held in New York this month, real estate crowdfunding site Prodigy Network will lead the conversation on, “Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding: A Social Media Revolution In Real Estate,”  Prodigy Network will explore the impact social media has on the real… Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 9:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Imagine netting over a million YouTube views in a month and getting paid as little as $50 for that accomplishment. That is the reality Jack Conte, half of the music group Pomplamoose, spelled out in a recent interview with Upstart Business Journal. Pomplamoose has over… Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform for technology and health moves from Beta to Full Launch. Edinburgh, Scotland based ShareIn has migrated from beta to full public launch.  The platform is the only equity based crowdfunding site designed exclusively for British technology and health focussed companies.  ShareIn’s crowdfunding… Read More

February 5, 2014 @ 8:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Heather Schwarz-Lopes, the co-founder and Chief Strategy Office of Miami based EarlyShares, has joined the judging panel of the 2014 Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge. EarlyShares. launched in 2011, is a crowdfunding platform that connects accredited investors to “unique opportunities”.  The platform hopes to move… Read More

February 5, 2014 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Ft. Lauderdale based Open Source Capital has announced the launch of their accredited investor platform for real estate.  CrowdBuilderFinancing wants to provide crowdfunding solutions for builders and developers.  The new portal can help raise capital when banks are not lending. Kyle Meyer, Managing Director of Open… Read More

February 4, 2014 @ 9:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Courtesy of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin hands out some brief, practical advice on crowdfunding.  In this short video Slava continues on the theme of democratizing funding where anyone and anybody may find funding for projects  of merit, “fixing a massive… Read More

February 4, 2014 @ 9:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has announced they are opening up their rewards based platform to creators based in Holland in the near future.  The US based company has steadily expanded their global reach having already announced their official presence in multiple countries.  Their first push… Read More