General News

September 15, 2015 @ 10:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Rare Genomics Institute (RG), announced that it is launching ten separate crowdfunding campaigns to help patients with rare diseases pinpoint the causes of their illnesses. All amounts raised will go towards exome sequencing, which is a method of partial genome sequencing to find… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 10:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdventure, a real estate crowdfunding platform, has today agreed to a landmark joint venture partnership with Campbell, CA based Equipoise Capital Partners. Collaborating closely with Equipoise management and their highly experienced real estate development and project management team, Crowdventure is now able to offer accredited investors… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 10:27 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Silicon Valley can’t compete with London in terms of Fintech, says UK Treasury special Fintech envoy Eileen Burbidge: “Wall Street Talent doesn’t come to Silicon Valley.” UK Treasury special Fintech envoy and partner at tech VC Passion Capital, Eileen Burbidge took the stage at Fintech Week and discussed… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wealth Migrate, the tenth-largest global real estate crowdfunding platform as reported by research firm Massolution, today announced that it has raised $3.99 million (USD) in a seed round of funding from real estate, technology and other investors. The funds raised will help Wealth Migrate to… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this summer, Patch of Land announced the release of its long-anticipated secured debt investment structure, effective for all its offerings in the past and into the future. Although the new structure took Patch of Land over a year of extensive research and consultation to… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 8:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform, iFunding, announced on Tuesday that it had its best month in its 3 year history, offering investors over $14 M in real estate investment properties. iFunding revealed that August is typically one of the quietest months of the year, with investors… Read More

September 14, 2015 @ 11:19 pm By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  PCH, which designs custom product solutions for startups and Fortune 500 companies, today announced that it will host a dedicated Hardware Hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015. The event will form part of TechCrunch Disrupt’s popular 24-hour hackathon, running from Saturday, Sept. 19 to Sunday, Sept…. Read More

September 14, 2015 @ 4:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

uSens, Inc., a Silicon Valley pioneer providing full 3D interactive solutions for virtual reality and augmented reality, announced today that it completed a $5.5 million round of pre-Series A financing co-led by IDG Ventures, Lebox Capital and Maison Capital in June. Also participating were Stone… Read More

September 14, 2015 @ 12:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

One Spark has claimed a significant success story. One Spark is described as the “world’s largest crowdfunding festival” and hosts an annual event in Jacksonville, Florida that features business creators seeking crowdfunding support.  Naturally Smart Foods, launched in 2013, entered the One Spark crowdfunding festival… Read More

September 14, 2015 @ 10:21 am By JD Alois  |  

It may be Fashion Week in New York City, but it is FinTech Week in London.  Fashion Week claims an origin from way back in 1943. FinTech Week is a bit younger having been launched just last year and perhaps a bit more important. Created… Read More

September 14, 2015 @ 8:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Autism Society, an organization celebrating 50 years of improving the lives of all those affected by autism through education, advocacy, research and support, selected crowdfunding platform Kimbia to help maximize the success of The Big Give for Autism, its first-ever giving day event to… Read More

September 14, 2015 @ 7:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PeerIQ, a financial information services company that connects peer-to-peer (“P2P”) lending to the capital markets by helping institutional investors analyze, access and manage risk, today announced that it raised $2.5 million in a seed-extension round. Participants in the round include new investor and customer Victory… Read More

September 13, 2015 @ 3:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Data analysis company AlliedCrowds has published an updated report on the growing sector of crowdfunding and developing nations. The most current data indicates that developing countries raised over $30 million during the month of August. Some of the “key” findings include: Brazil led the developing… Read More

September 13, 2015 @ 2:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Finance Magnates is preparing for its 4th consecutive London Summit to be held in early November.  The event organizers state that over 1500 FinTech and FX executives will convene to discuss the financial industry and the fast pace of change with the advent of internet… Read More

September 12, 2015 @ 12:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

The UK’s Innovate Finance has partnered-up with Hartree Centre to create the FinTech Blockchain lab.  Hartree Centre is a “high performance” computing and data analytics research facility which was founded by the UK government.  Innovate Finance is a not for profit group that was created… Read More

September 12, 2015 @ 9:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, New Zealand crowdfunding platform PledgeMe announced that it has hired Mikey Clarke as its new “Tech Wrangler.” The PledgeMe crew shared: “Mikey is a developer extraordinaire who joins us from working for Globa.li, a hotel booking data aggregation app, where he was the… Read More

September 11, 2015 @ 10:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

SoFi, the second largest marketplace lender, today announced Arthur Levitt, the longest-serving chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), will become an advisor.  Levitt served at the SEC from 1993 to 2001. The firm also announced it has surpassed $4 billion in funded… Read More

September 11, 2015 @ 9:37 am By Georgia Quinn  |  

Despite a hot and rainy New York City morning, there was a great turn-out at LendTech Angels’ first LendLab event.  Hosted by Kiran Lingam, managing director of LendTech Angels, the event gave aspiring marketplace lending startups an education in the regulatory landscape they are entering…. Read More

September 10, 2015 @ 4:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday,all-in-one data management software solution NonProfitEasy shared details about the acquisition of crowdfunding platform, Fundly. NonProfitEasy stated in a press release that it and Fundly are setting out to redefine the industry, delivering an innovative and easy-to-use platform to thousands of individuals and organizations. By integrating with… Read More

September 10, 2015 @ 3:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Airtame’s co-founder and CEO Jonas Gyalokay revealed to Indiegogo backers and campaign organizers tips and tricks to running not only a successful crowdfunding initiative, but also how to raise a million dollars using the funding method, Gyalokay wrote in a Indiegogo Blog’s guest post: “Crowdfunding… Read More