General News

September 4, 2015 @ 10:53 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The International insurance firm Hiscox has released its seventh annual ‘DNA of an Entrepreneur Report’, with the firm using its global network of 268,000 small businesses in order to calculate entrepreneurship and business innovation within six countries, including the US, UK, Germany, France, Holland and… Read More

September 4, 2015 @ 10:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

More than 130K students have turned to GoFundMe, seeking crowdfunding to help pay their tuition costs,  CNBC reports in the short video embedded below.  More than $20M dollars has been raised this year. With the average cost of tuition and fees for private institutions exceeding $31K,… Read More

September 4, 2015 @ 9:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to add some new features to its platform, online public-records website MuckRock announced this week that it’ll be offering a crowdfunding-like option to its users. According to The Boston Globe, the option will give news consumers a chance to pledge money to ongoing reporting projects…. Read More

September 3, 2015 @ 4:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Harmonix, the developer behind Guitar Hero and Rock Band, announced that it has formed a partnership with new crowdfunding platform, Fig. Last month, Double Fine’s Tim Schafer, inXile’s Brian Fargo, and Obsidian’s Feargus Urquhart, launched Fig, which focuses exclusively on games. The platform allows the reward-based… Read More

September 3, 2015 @ 11:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bubl Technology Inc., creators of the Bublcam, the world’s first fully spherical consumer camera, announces that following the close of its $4.6M Series Seed funding round including Samsung Ventures, J-Tech Capital and other strategic investors, it will perform organizational changes to its executive management team… Read More

September 3, 2015 @ 10:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, real estate crowdfunding platform EarlyShares launched a new equity investment opportunity available to accredited investors. The offering is for the redevelopment of the Shoppes at Godwin, a mixed use retail center in Midland Park, New Jersey. Accordia Realty Ventures LLC, the sponsor of the… Read More

September 2, 2015 @ 2:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, CouProm Travel announced that it has teamed up with TravelStarter offer its mobile app to all the travel agencies worldwide that wants to create an extension of their services pre-during and after visiting the destination at no cost to the agency, giving the travel agencies and independent hotel… Read More

September 2, 2015 @ 11:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday,  Indiegogo announced a new feature on its other platform, Indiegogo Life: A fundraising page dedicated to medical projects. The global crowdfunding platform declared: “Though the uninsured rate among US adults has dropped more than 4 percentage points since passage of the Affordable Care… Read More

September 2, 2015 @ 8:23 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) will be hosting big name global leaders alongside disruptive entrepreneurs at its World Capital Markets Symposium taking place in Kuala Lumpar in next week, September 3-4. Many of the speakers are internationally recognized names. Entitled “Markets and Technology: Driving Future… Read More

September 2, 2015 @ 1:04 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

    A recent national survey in the UK found that 7 per cent of over-65s, about 728,000 people, will consider peer-to-peer lending, according to Yorkshire Building Society, which conducted the survey, and FT Adviser. Yorkshire Building Society is among the largest building societies in the UK, with… Read More

September 1, 2015 @ 4:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following its never-ending legal battle with Kickstarter,  crowdfunding platform ArtistShare has moved on and announced that it submitted recording for consideration to the 58th Grammy Awards. ArtistShare offered up seven new fan-funded recordings for consideration in the 58th Grammy Awards. Its previous recordings have received… Read More

September 1, 2015 @ 3:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Armello backers, the wait is over! The game, which was first introduced on Kickstarter last year by League of Geeks, is now available for PS4, Windows, Mac and Linux. The description of the game reads,”The King, once Armello’s wise and benevolent ruler, has fallen ill to a… Read More

September 1, 2015 @ 1:23 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

The problem: As coach travel (traveling via bus) becomes increasingly more popular in Europe, comprehensive information on itineraries, available seating and current ticket pricing have not been as readily accessible as information for airline tickets and rental cars. As a result, not only do roughly 65,000 European coach… Read More

September 1, 2015 @ 12:30 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

It’s meal time, a time when Zomato’s site is likely swarmed with hits.  If you are not yet familiar with Zomato, click here to see if the platform services your city. From Vancouver to Auckland, Zomato is used by millions of hungry people every day to decide… Read More

September 1, 2015 @ 11:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Women Who Tech, which is on a mission to showcase and fund women-led startups, announced it will host the second Women Startup Challenge in New York City on November 9th at Microsoft in Times Square. Women Startup Challenge NYC, in partnership with Craig Newmark of craigslist… Read More

September 1, 2015 @ 9:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Beehive, the UAE’s leading online marketplace for peer-to-peer (P2P) finance, has been certified as a Sharia-compliant P2P finance platform by the Shariyah Review Bureau (SRB). The certification makes Beehive the first P2P platform in the world to have a third party independently confirm its processes… Read More

September 1, 2015 @ 8:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Victory Park Capital (VPC) announced today it is investing up to €230 million in loans originated on the Zencap platform over a 3 year period.  German publication Handelsblatt called the investment “a record deal for a German startup” and “the most ever for a continental… Read More

August 31, 2015 @ 4:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to share details about the newly launched bitcoin-powered crowdfunding platform, Gok!llo, the site’s Business Development Manager Ram Budime sat down with Coin Telegraph to discuss how it stands out from the competition. According to the media outlet, Gok!llo is a crowdfunding platform that uses bitcoin as… Read More

August 31, 2015 @ 12:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Apparently, an exciting and epic experience is in store as One Spark’s “World’s Largest Crowdfunding Festival” prepares for its fourth year. The board of directors of One Spark, along with its key staff leadership, announced today details of the upcoming festival, which will take place Thursday,… Read More

August 31, 2015 @ 9:58 am By JD Alois  |  

In a recent write-up on the Orchard blog, the FinTech company profiled Don Davis, Managing Partner of Prime Meridian Capital Management. Davis launched the Prime Meridian Small Business Lending Fund in the summer of 2014. The objective was to lend to high quality SME loans… Read More