General News

February 16, 2016 @ 1:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Crowd Valley Inc. announced it has teamed up with Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA) to work together in a certified partner program. This partnership is aiming to bring digital finance applications to cleantech worldwide. Crowd Valley’s digital back office is a centralized online… Read More

February 16, 2016 @ 10:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Protonet, a  European provider of project management and collaboration solutions, today announced it is entering the U.S. market with the opening of its new office in the San Francisco Bay area. The company, which was awarded the Crowdfunding World Champion by Seedmatch, with an investment… Read More

February 16, 2016 @ 8:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Zoopla (LSE:ZPLA) has invested an undisclosed sum in peer to peer mortgage lender Landbay.  The announcement was revealed in a corporate filing by Zoopla as well as a statement on the Landbay site.  Zoopla also announced partnership/investments in PropertyDetective, FixFlo and Trussle, each representing an important vertical… Read More

February 16, 2016 @ 7:25 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Every dog may have its day, but not many have an equity crowdfunding venture loan campaign.  Sure, we’ve seen Exploding kittens and BorrowMyDoggy fetch success; the pet sector is booming with interesting ideas and hot products. Now Hundemaxx, Germany’s largest chain of dog supply store, with approximately 35,000 products sold… Read More

February 16, 2016 @ 6:37 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Kwanji, the emerging market payment specialist, has closed its first crowdfunding round, exceeding its initial target and finishing 123 per cent overfunded having raised £496,682 on the UK equity crowdfunding platform,  SyndicateRoom. “Kwanji is a fantastic UK-based fintech business, which helps SMEs save significant amounts of money… Read More

February 16, 2016 @ 6:10 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Spanish Bank BBVA is banking on fintech’s success. Having launched the BBVA Ventures fund in 2013 with $100 million to invest in digital fintech startups, the bank recently added $150 million in funds. The bank will be partnering with Propel Venture Partners, according to Money Market UK…. Read More

February 16, 2016 @ 5:49 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The KU Endowment Association is trying to raise money for smaller projects across campus with a new crowdfunding campaign called Launch KU. The School of Engineering’s first crowdfunding project is seeking $100,000 to recruit and support minority and female engineering students. Because it is by far the… Read More

February 15, 2016 @ 10:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

One Spark, previously labeled as the world’s largest crowdfunding festival, has revamped and restructured for 2016. At a press conference held early today in Jacksonville, the One Spark’s board outlined their vision for 2016.  It was just last month that One Spark announced a new… Read More

February 15, 2016 @ 1:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Israel Secondary Fund (ISF), a secondary fund that provides liquidity to the private equity and venture capital market by acquiring stakes in Israel, announced on Monday it is in advanced stages of raising $100 million for its second fund, ISF II. The majority of the… Read More

February 15, 2016 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Rich Ricci, a former senior banker at Barclay’s who spent almost 20 years at the bank, has migrated over to the future of finance by joining freemarketFX, a fintech startup that offers currency exchange.  The FT called the former head of Corporate and Investment Banking… Read More

February 13, 2016 @ 7:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Independent research firm Autonomous has published a report on “Digital Lending” that estimates that online lending has an addressable market in the US and Europe of $2 trillion dollars.  This outsized opportunity (that others have estimated at being far larger) is married with many opportunities… Read More

February 13, 2016 @ 11:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kickstarter co-founder Charles Adler recently shared his thoughts on finding the portal and life since leaving the crowdfunding industry. Kickstarter is one of the largest and well known reward-based crowdfunding platforms in the world. It was founded by Adler, CEO Yancey Strickler and Perry Chen… Read More

February 12, 2016 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

In a recent PIPEs report from The Deal, the observation was made the Regulation A+, an updated exemption under Title IV of the JOBS Act, is picking up steam.  So far over 70 companies have filed a Form 1-A with the SEC and, according to the… Read More

February 11, 2016 @ 3:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School in the UK, has received the backing of the CME Group Foundation to the tune of a $1 million grant to  support research on new forms of finance such as… Read More

February 11, 2016 @ 1:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, marketplace platform Lendio announced it has appointed Edward Angstadt as senior vice president of marketing. He reportedly joins the website during its fast-paced growth phase highlighted by nearly 100 percent year-over-year revenue growth. Angstadt joins Lendio from Web.com, a provider of Internet services and… Read More

February 11, 2016 @ 9:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

LendingArch, an emerging Canadian marketplace lending platform, announced on Thursday it has appointed Paul Hadzoglou as Head of Credit & Risk. Hadzoglou notably comes to LendingArch with a track record of high performance and value, and his detail to data science, credit risk and underwriting… Read More

February 11, 2016 @ 5:45 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“As the first regulated equity crowdfunding platform in the world, Seedrs has always focused on doing equity crowdfunding the right way. Our mission is to build a sustainable industry with a business approach focused on a combination of scale and professionalism. We create a world-class… Read More

February 11, 2016 @ 5:10 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Y Combinator announced that the five year partnership with Imagine K12 has taken its next step on its Posthaven blog, the original edtech accelerator, has joined Y Combinator to form an edtech vertical within YC. Agreeing that 2016 was the right time to create YC/Imagine K12, the team decided to… Read More

February 11, 2016 @ 4:34 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Mumbai-based P2P lending fintech startup, Capzest, has raised $200K in seed funding from LionVentures, a seed investment and innovation platform founded by Anurag Mehrotra founder of LionVentures; Varun Dua, co-founder and CEO of Coverfox; Amit Tambe, former senior partner of Trilegal India and Vikas Jhunjhunwala, a Mumbai-based textile businessman reported VC Circle…. Read More

February 10, 2016 @ 2:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

One of the longest ongoing crowdfunding events in this very young industry is taking place once again in the heart of Silicon Valley. The 4th Annual Silicon Valley Crowdfunding Conference returns to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View on March 3rd & 4th this… Read More