General News

November 9, 2015 @ 10:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

NextGen Crowdfunding has announced that reward-based crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo, will be participating in its November 19th Equity Crowdfunding Conference in Santa Monica, California. Amanda Hat, Senior Director of Growth Innovation at Indiegogo, will join other industry leaders discussing current and future directions in crowdfunding.Aubrey Chernick, founder… Read More

November 9, 2015 @ 10:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, Indiegogo alum and connected smart luggage startup, Bluesmart, announced its first retail partnership with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Design Store. Bluesmart’s suitcase is now on sale online at  for $399 and a limited supply will be on store shelves, in both the… Read More

November 8, 2015 @ 7:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Karen Mills, former Administrator of the Small Business Administration and current Senior Fellow at Harvard University, co-authored a study on credit markets and SMEs back in 2014.  She recently presented at LendIt Europe on the state of Marketplace / Peer to peer lending. While at… Read More

November 8, 2015 @ 7:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Ray Lane, a Partner Emeritus at Kleiner Perkins, was interviewed by CNBC’s Kelly Evans last week during an excursion to Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh.  Lane, a graduate of Carnegie Mellon, is now Trustee at the university.  The discussion was largely about Carnegie’s engineering expertise including… Read More

November 7, 2015 @ 10:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Title IV of the JOBS Act breathed new life into a securities exemption that no one utilized. Congress asked SEC to fix old Regulation A and they did so by removing the onerous and costly state Blue Sky Review requirement – the one issue that… Read More

November 7, 2015 @ 8:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing to remain irritated about TLC’s “keeping fans in the dark about the Kickstarter album” tactic, the campaign’s backers have unleashed a new hashtag that shows their frustration about the situation. As previously reported, the girls shared some details about the album’s delay at the… Read More

November 6, 2015 @ 4:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Sharing details about their successful startup, Savvy Foods, Jonathan Drury and Katie Owens sat down with Crowdcube to discuss the company and its growth. The brand, which was launched in 2013 by Jonathan Drury and Katie Owens, is described as a delicious and nutritious food source, designed… Read More

November 6, 2015 @ 11:55 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Artificial intelligence, cryptography and biometrics were the winning fintechnologies at the London-region final of UBS’s Future of Finance Challenge, a start-up competition aimed at helping the bank source innovative fintech solutions, reported Financial News‘ Anna Irrena.  The competition is open to international entrepreneurs and startups with… Read More

November 6, 2015 @ 11:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, KXTER, Inc. launched a new crowdfunded Silicon Valley venture fund that is designed to offer individual investors the opportunity to access multiple venture investment strategies and managers in a single closed-end fund. The Kxter Fund One LLC (the “Fund”), which already holds positions in several… Read More

November 6, 2015 @ 11:05 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Milan-based Assiteca Crowd, one of the first platforms equity crowdfunding authorized by Consob, launched “Assiteca Crowd Startup Showcase,” a contest offering startups and innovative SMEs the opportunity to finance itself on the platform also receiving assistance with accompanying free path.  The crowd will help determine the… Read More

November 6, 2015 @ 10:36 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Toronto has all the ingredients necessary to become a major fintech hub but is failing to compete with the likes of London and New York because it has not developed a proper ecosystem, according to the new report, “Current State of the Financial Technology Innovation… Read More

November 6, 2015 @ 10:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this fall, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced it became a public benefit corporation (PBC). This type of corporation performs a specific function for the benefit of the public. Now CEO and co-founder of the famous website, Yancey Strickler is ready to share details about the business’ change and… Read More

November 6, 2015 @ 10:05 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Andy Murray remains committed to backing British entrepreneurs by making two more investments through the crowdfunding platform Seedrs, according to a release. The two-time Grand Slam winner, current world number two tennis star and Seedrs Advisory Board Member has invested an undisclosed sum in London-based Shavekit and… Read More

November 6, 2015 @ 10:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kickbooster, a network for crowdfunding campaigns, has recently launched its services that pays campaign backers so share their favorite funding projects. According to Tech Crunch, Kickbooster users can share links to interesting campaigns, and receive a 10 percent referral fee when someone clicks their link and… Read More

November 6, 2015 @ 8:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Offering up an insight on Indiegogo’s equity crowdfunding future, CEO Slava Rubin published a post on Linkedin titled How Indiegogo and Title III Are eliminating Gatekeepers. Rubin shared: “Before we started Indiegogo in early 2008, a select group of elite gatekeepers were responsible for determining which… Read More

November 5, 2015 @ 12:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Indiegogo unveiled its latest infographic, Technology Crowdfunding Stats: 7 Insights from 29,000 Campaigns The global crowdfunding platform stated: “Though crowdfunding can be used to raise money for nearly any type of idea or project, one of the most popular uses is to fund the… Read More

November 5, 2015 @ 12:06 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

  Crowdfunder easily surpassed its 2014 Crowdcube raise this week, securing over £551K with the confidence of over 347 investors. Crowdcube, the UK’s leading investment crowdfunding platform, and Crowdfunder the UK’s #1 rewards and community shares crowdfunding platform have also recently formed a strategic partnership to… Read More

November 5, 2015 @ 11:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube announced that research firm Beauhurst has dubbed it top equity investor. The UK platform stated: “In their review of equity investment in the third quarter of 2015, Beauhurst, the provider of deep data on growing companies, have declared Crowdcube… Read More

November 5, 2015 @ 11:29 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“Major non-traditional financial services companies have been investing in fintech payments in China for the past year.” According to Accenture, fintech investments across Asia-Pacific experienced a boom in 2015 – from about $880 million in 2014 to nearly $3.5 billion in just the first nine months… Read More

November 5, 2015 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

VPC Specialty Lending Investments (LSE:VSL) is a portfolio company that intends to generate an attractive return for holders consisting of dividend income and capital growth via investments in a diverse portfolio of specialty lending opportunities across the marketplace / P2P lending sector. This includes credit… Read More