General News

July 30, 2015 @ 1:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

While backers continue to wait for the highly anticipated Kickstarter project, Exploding Kittens, the creators of the project have announced exciting news. Exploding Kittens is a highly strategic kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players take turns drawing cards until someone draws an exploding kitten and loses the… Read More

July 30, 2015 @ 12:24 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has backed the UK FinTech 2020 manifesto created by FinTech trade body Innovate Finance, according to a release. The manifesto, which was released as Cameron leads a trade delegation of British FinTech leaders to South East Asia this week, aims… Read More

July 30, 2015 @ 11:52 am By Erin Hobey  |  

This week Crowdfund Insider featured Chris Tyrell’s post “Crowdfunding is Impacting the Global Economy” and Rodrigo Niño’s post “Crowdfunding: From Impossible, to Improbable to Inevitable in less than 10 years,” James Tuckett, CEO of investUP adds to this exciting conversation below as he shares his insights in a release regarding… Read More

July 30, 2015 @ 11:28 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Startupbootcamp FinTech, a global accelerator focusing on financial innovation, hosted its first Demo Day in Singapore on 29 July for the top 11 FinTech teams selected out of 300 applications earlier this year. “Startupbootcamp FinTech is the first FinTech accelerator in Singapore and the only… Read More

July 30, 2015 @ 10:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Beauty brand, Revlon, announced on Thursday the second phase of its new philanthropic platform designed to have a greater impact on women’s health initiatives with the Revlon LOVE IS ON Million Dollar Challenge. The Revlon LOVE IS ON Million Dollar Challenge is inviting charities dedicated to three leading health… Read More

July 30, 2015 @ 9:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

SoFi, a marketplace lender, announced it has priced a securitization of $417.6 million in refinanced student loans. It also announced SoFi was considered the first fintech company to receive an “AAA” rating from DBRS and an “AA2” from Moody’s for the senior notes, which equaled $387.3 million. Nino Fanlo, SoFi CFO/COO,… Read More

July 29, 2015 @ 2:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs revealed this week that it has raised £10 million during a Series A round led by Woodford Patient Capital Trust plc (WPCT) and Augmentum Capital. The funds will reportedly be used to launch into the U.S. market. According to TechCrunch, the platform previously captured $7.2… Read More

July 29, 2015 @ 1:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Credibly, an emerging Fintech platform that leverages data science and analytics to improve the speed, cost and choice of capital available to all small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has launched a new educational platform, In.Credibly.com, to help businesses evaluate working capital needs. The resource hub is… Read More

July 29, 2015 @ 9:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UpCounsel, an online marketplace for legal services, announced it has secured $10 million in Series A funding to accelerate further adoption of its on-demand legal marketplace. New investor Menlo Ventures led the funding round with participation from previous investors including Homebrew and Metamorphic Ventures. The company has raised $13.9… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 3:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

DICK’S Sporting Goods (NYSE:  DKS), along with The DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation, announced today a partnership with DonorsChoose.org, a crowdfunding platform for U.S. public schools. For the first time ever, DonorsChoose.org will feature a dedicated “Team Sports” section supporting public school athletic programs. The DICK’S Sporting… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 2:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Amazon today announced Amazon Launchpad, a new program that makes it easy for startups to launch, market, and distribute their products to hundreds of millions of Amazon customers across the globe. The program offers a streamlined onboarding experience, custom product pages, a comprehensive marketing package,… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 1:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, fundraising platform Innovairre, and crowdfunding provider Fundly announced a strategic partnership to deliver a funding solution as a part of Innovairre’s first of its kind software platform. This new crowdfunding module will be offered to Innovairre’s clients and prospects through Innovairre MC, the fully integrated fundraising… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 12:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Onevest announced on Tuesday it is about to reach $2M in financing for its Series A round after self–crowdfunding on its own platform. The company’s round of funding has five days left on the platform before it closes. The platform launched the 506c offering to celebrate the implementation of Title IV… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 12:45 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Established in 2012 and based in the UK and Hungary, Powered Now focuses on developing software for business owners. Co-founders are the serial entrepreneurs and e-commerce trailblazers Chris Barling (who set up Actinic in 1996) and Benjamin Dyer, a software developer and former director at… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 11:55 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced the formation of a new Fintech & Innovation Group (FTIG) to be headed up by former Citibank executive, Sopnendu Mohanty. Effective August 1, FTIG will be responsible for creating development strategies and regulatory policies around technology innovation… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 11:35 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Payments startup Stripe landed a new round of funding from investors including American Express, Visa and Sequoia Capital, valuing the San Francisco-based company at $5 billion. According to the announcement, Stripe signed an agreement with Visa to work on digital transactions such as website ‘buy… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 10:58 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Mambu, the SaaS banking platform provider, today announced that Reparo Finance, an independently-owned business finance company  specializing in SME business lending, has selected Mambu to launch a new business line offering loans to small-to-midsize enterprises (SMEs) in the UK.  The company chose Mambu’s cloud-based platform… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 9:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, LitCap, a litigation funding technology platform that connects preeminent attorneys with lenders to facilitate case cost financing, announced its technology release 4.0.1. This release is considered an alternative asset funding of litigation financing for lenders. Britton Holland, COO and President stated: “LitCap’s release 4.0.1 significantly enhances… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 9:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Cash Genie, operated by Ariste Holding Limited, has agreed to pay over £20 million to over 92,000 former customers for unfair business practices. According to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Cash Genie charged fees and interest which were unfair. The FCA gave the example of Cash… Read More

July 27, 2015 @ 3:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Remedy Partners, a developer and manager of bundled payment programs for government and private health insurers, announced it has raised $50 million from Bain Capital Ventures during a Series B financing round. The capital will be used to support Remedy’s dramatic growth in new customers and partnerships…. Read More