General News

November 13, 2015 @ 12:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate crowdfunding company, CoAssets Pte Ltd, (“CoAssets ” or the “Company ”) (NSX code: CAX), announced this week it received principle support from the government of East Java, for its upcoming EPIC event to be held in Surabaya, Indonesia. The government run East Java… Read More

November 13, 2015 @ 11:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Biz2Credit, an online platform for small business funding, released its October small business lending index that showed the highest spike in big bank lending since the Great Recession. The company shared the monthly analysis of 1,000 loan applications revealed continued growth for institutional lenders and big banks,… Read More

November 13, 2015 @ 10:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, crowdfunding platform, Tilt, announced it is making the final preparations to launch globally starting in November by hitting five additional international markets by early 2016. Tilt, which was founded in 2012 by James Beshara and Khaled Hussein, recently placed a foothold in the European market… Read More

November 12, 2015 @ 4:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

AlliedCrowds has published a new report about how developing countries have raised a total of $37.4 million through the crowdfunding method during the month of October. The data analysis company stated: “While equity crowdfunding currently makes up a relatively small portion of crowdfunding activity in… Read More

November 12, 2015 @ 3:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Cogobuy Group (stock code: 400.HK), an e-commerce platform that serves the electronics manufacturing industry in China, announce its unaudited operating results for the three months ending on September 30th.  During the quarter, the Cogobuy’s three major businesses achieved robust growth. The total GMV of… Read More

November 12, 2015 @ 1:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Last week, the organizers of the World Islamic Banking Conference (WIBC) announced that it will be adding crowdfunding into the topic of discussion during its annual conference that is being held under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister… Read More

November 12, 2015 @ 12:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With the holiday shopping season upon us, small business owners overwhelmingly express optimism that sales will meet or surpass 2014, according to a survey of small business retailers released today. Although larger retailers routinely offer Black Friday and Cyber Monday specials, small businesses continue to… Read More

November 12, 2015 @ 11:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cyber security software company, Panaseer, announced on Thursday it has successfully raised $2.25 million through a syndicated seed investment round. The investors include Albion Ventures, Notion Capital, Winton Technology Ventures, C5 Holdings, and Elixirr. Panaseer was founded in 2014 by Nik Whitfield and a team… Read More

November 12, 2015 @ 11:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Sherwood (Woodie) Neiss, one of the early proponents of equity crowdfunding, visited with MSNBC to explain what changed with the advent of final rules under Title III of the JOBS Act. Neiss talked about how technology is changing the capital formation process as you may… Read More

November 12, 2015 @ 11:30 am By JD Alois  |  

The Crowdfunding Centre in the UK has released an infographic on the state of crowdfunding in advance of UK Crowdfunding Week, which is scheduled for next week (November 16-22nd).  The platform tracks rewards based crowdfunding projects and has created an interesting compendium of projects from… Read More

November 12, 2015 @ 10:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

3D 2.0 Ltd, the company behind Kickstarter success Retouch3D, the unique hand-held, heated tool designed specifically for finishing 3D prints, announced on Thursday the appointment of Brian Gale as executive director and chief executive officer. Gale will head-up commercial development as well as oversee roll-out of… Read More

November 12, 2015 @ 8:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Adding more excitement towards Crowdfunder UK’s Crowdcube initiative, managing director of the reward-based crowdfunding, Phil Geraghty, announced Creative England has offered up £200,000 towards the campaign. Geraghty shared on Wednesday: “A huge thank you to Creative England who were one of the first to pledge on our… Read More

November 12, 2015 @ 1:05 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, cult classic Mystery Science Theater 3000 is rapidly nearing its fundraising goal of $2M, with the show’s original host and creator Joel Hodgson at the campaign’s helm. Together with Shout! Factory, Hodgson is seeking to bring back the series, “which ended in 1999, ran for 11… Read More

November 11, 2015 @ 5:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, New Zealand-based Snowball Effect announced it has made a few changes after $10 million was raised through its Kiwi investment crowdfunding platform.  While sharing details about its updated website, the platform shared: “The new website incorporates your feedback and our learnings from the first… Read More

November 11, 2015 @ 3:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Star Trek legend George Takei took to the Broadway stage to present his Indiegogo project, Allegiance. The famous actor hit the global crowdfunding platform earlier this year with a mission to raise funds for the musical. The musical is described as an “epic’ multi-generational story about Japanese… Read More

November 11, 2015 @ 3:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

CrowdRise Calls All U.S. Nonprofits to Participate in Holiday Challenge offering $250,000 In Prize Money to Organizations that Fundraise the Most During Holiday Season CrowdRise, the crowdfunding platform for good, announced on Wednesday its second annual Giving Tower campaign for #GivingTuesday, on December 1, 2015. The Giving Tower,… Read More

November 11, 2015 @ 12:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Direct Lending Investments LLC, a marketplace lending and private investment firm that makes short-term, small business loans available in fund form to accredited investors looking for high income and growth without interest rate risk, announced on Wednesday it has surpassed $350 million dollars in assets… Read More

November 11, 2015 @ 12:39 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

HAX, formerly known as HAXLR8R, shared 13 new global hardware startups and their products from HAX’s seventh Accelerator Demo Day and 10 new graduates of its first Boost program Demo Day. Since its founding in 2012 the global hardware investor  has accelerated 90 hardware startups. To… Read More

November 11, 2015 @ 12:19 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

SyndicateRoom, the investment crowdfunding platform that received “Best Investment Platform”  at the recent 2015 Growth Investor Award, changed its direct shareholding model in favor of a nominee structure on 7 November. Seedrs  has been a forerunner in this approach noting that “aggregating” shareholders generates better outcomes versus one to… Read More

November 11, 2015 @ 11:37 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Ynext, the division of Yodlee, Inc. (YDLE) that incubates, delivers and commercializes new business opportunities for the company, today announced its newest Incubator class. The company will connect these startups with the resources and tools necessary to take their ideas to market – including free… Read More