Investment Platforms and Marketplaces

January 23, 2014 @ 10:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ve reported on Balanced pretty extensively here at Crowdfund Insider. If there is one thing to know about this innovative online payments company, it’s that they take a really unorthodox approach to building their product, leaning heavily on the tenets of the open source software… Read More

January 23, 2014 @ 7:28 am By JD Alois  |  

PodFund Announces New Crowdfunding Platform for Podcasters, Internet Radio, Film and Video Production Now accepting submission for crowdfunding campaigns, PodFund, is a new platform for Internet audio and video content creators, The company was founded in December 2013.  Funding is scheduled to begin on March… Read More

January 23, 2014 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Well Known VC Tim Draper Points the Path for Venovate Founder Michael Raneri to Launch New Company. Venovate is an investment crowdfunding platform that is prepping to launch.  Their mission is to provide investors with unique alternative opportunities.  In the past only ultra high net… Read More

January 22, 2014 @ 9:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Multifaceted crowdfunding platform Pozible is now offering musicians the opportunity to have their crowdfunded albums, singles (yes both physical and digital) plus merchandise orders fulfilled by MGM’s retail subsidiary, Waterfront Records.  As described by Pozible this allows music crowdfunders to: Fulfill the crowdfunding orders of your album, singles (physical and digital) and/or merchandise…. Read More

January 22, 2014 @ 8:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital brand strategist Peter Thomson has joined the Seedrs team as their new Chief Marketing Officer for the investment crowdfunding platform.  Thomson was previously at the Innovation Warehouse, a startup investment fund.  He also has authored a book “Tickle” published in 2013 pertaining to targeting… Read More

January 22, 2014 @ 3:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

New York based equity crowdfunding site RockThePost has published an investor trends report looking back over the past few years in the Angel / VC scene.  The data was correlated via an online survey of 780 random investors between September and November of 2013.  There… Read More

January 22, 2014 @ 11:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Watch Me Go is a new organization giving girls living in urban slums around the world the opportunity to go to high school. It recently launched the first crowdfunding platform dedicated entirely to girls’ secondary education in developing countries, and is currently raising funds to… Read More

January 22, 2014 @ 10:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

With the number of tech accelerators globally now more than 1,500, there has been similar growth in Seed and Angel investments. Ironically, the number of venture firms making Series A and later stage investments in technology startups is actually declining, with 61% of US early-stage… Read More

January 22, 2014 @ 10:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rewards-based crowdfunding platform Indiegogo has secured a film distribution deal in partnership with VHX and Yekra. The announcement was made in a recent post to Indiegogo’s blog. Through this new program, filmmakers running crowdfunding campaigns can now rely on Indiegogo to help facilitate a connection… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 4:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo has been hosting a series of training sessions using Google Hangout.  These informative gatherings have been hosted by Indiegogo’s own John Trigonis who also is their film champion.  The next session scheduled for tomorrow (Wednesday, January 22nd @ 12pm PST) is about campaign follow… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 11:48 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Zopa is the UK’s largest peer-to-peer lending service, and one of the company’s co-founders has made a pretty amazing prediction about the size of the peer-to-business lending market in Ireland. In an interview with The Irish Times, Simon Deane-Johns predicted that peer-to-business lending throughput in… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding Platform for the Latino Community  Announces New Strategic Arrangement. Crowdismo announced the launch of a strategic partnership with the Hispanic Chamber of E-Commerce to further its mission of fueling innovation, creativity, social impact and entrepreneurship within the Latino community. The Hispanic Chamber of E-Commerce is a business… Read More

January 19, 2014 @ 3:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding platform EarlyShares, announced that it has added two executives to its senior leadership team. The new hires are Salomon Wancier, Chief Marketing Officer, and Jonatan Alava, Director of Engineering. Wancier joined EarlyShares as Chief Marketing Officer on January 2, 2014. An accomplished, creative senior executive… Read More

January 18, 2014 @ 11:49 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Remember Amex Sync? Back in 2012, American Express launched the program as a joint effort with Twitter. It offered Twitter users discounts on products for tweeting certain hashtags. The possibility of Twitter entering the e-commerce game has been the subject of a lot of prognostication… Read More

January 18, 2014 @ 8:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Happening this weekend is one of the hottest parties in the film industry.  The Sundance Film Festival has become synonymous with independent films.  Founded in 1978 by group of film industry innovators that included film legend, demigod Robert Redford, the event has turned into one… Read More

January 18, 2014 @ 8:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Posted on Friday via the Crowdcube Twitter account, the UK equity crowdfunding platform ended the week on a high note sharing that £372,000 (Over $600,000) had been invested in businesses listed in their platform in just two days.  While two days do not make a… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdlending platform Dealstruck  Raises $1.2 Million. Dealstruck, a crowdfunding marketplace that connects profitable, small- and medium-sized businesses  (SMBs) with innovative credit solutions funded by individual and institutional accredited investors announced today their successful round. The first crowdlending provider to provide multiple financing products, Dealstruck  has successfully… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 11:12 am By JD Alois  |  

From Seedrs official Twitter account the equity platform shared some exiting information regarding site momentum.  The platform has captured 86 investments for a total of £138,200 during the past day.  Average amount invested stands at £1,611.63.   Over the past day @Seedrs has had 86… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 10:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has invested $20 million in Teespring, an innovative crowdfunding platform for t-shirts. RELATED | Teespring Crowdfunds T-Shirt Preorders Teespring is a Y Combinator alum and has seen some pretty insane growth early in its lifecycle, so it is no huge surprise that… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 10:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

  Fundable is a crowdfunding platform based in Columbus, Ohio. The company released the following infographic, and it makes some pretty interesting claims regarding the economic impact crowdfunding is expected to have in 2014. It borrows data from the recent Fung Institute report, Massolution’s 2013… Read More