General News

June 24, 2015 @ 2:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

FinFair 2015 will be a gathering that discusses the leadership, products and technologies driving the crowd-centric retail alternatives market.  The event is viewed as forum for  is pleased to officially announce one of the most groundbreaking FinTech and alternative finance programs to penetrate Wall Street. Crowd-centric… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 1:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seed Equity Ventures announced today that it now has registered investors and entrepreneurs from 100 countries. An executive partner from an investment bank in the North African country of Tunisia registered as an investor today bringing the platform 100 countries. Seed Equity is a registered broker dealer… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 11:25 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this year, Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced that it was planning to launch its very own equity crowdfunding platform as a vehicle to help raise capital for entrepreneurs and small businesses. It was set to partner with Singapore’s Clearbridge Accelerator, a venture capital and incubation firms specializing in… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 10:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Boston-based endpoint security startup, Barkly, announced that it has closed a $12.5 million Series A financing round, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and including Sigma Prime Ventures. Barkly has now raised a total of $17 million since the company was co-founded in 2013 by CEO Mike… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 10:25 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Squadrone System, the company behind first autonomous flying camera, HEXO+, today announced it has secured an investment of $3 million from Living Water Investment Corp., bringing its total investment amount to date to $5 million. The funding will allow the company to finance the industrial development… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

  “A Branch-free, Paper-free and Stress-free Bank” The traditional banking industry has been rather slow to innovate.  Hundreds of years of operating branches, with tellers, is a hard thing to change.  It is also a costly and inconvenient business structure in a world where everything… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 9:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chicago-based real estate crowdfunding platform PeerRealty announced today a new agreement with leading alternative asset custodian PENSCO Trust Company. PeerRealty has joined the PENSCO Marketplace, giving individual investors the opportunity to invest in high-quality real estate crowdfunding investments using self-directed Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). PeerRealty CEO… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 11:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

The staff of the “Worlds Largest Crowdfunding Festival”, One Spark, is apparently getting smaller. This is according to a report in the Jacksonville (FL) Business Journal. Full time staff is being slashed from 11 down to 3 as part of a re-organizational push to refocus the annual… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 4:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blockchain Capital announced today the first closing of its second venture capital fund and rebranding from Crypto Currency Partners, according to Managing Partner Brad Stephens. The firm’s second fund has raised $7 million in a first close and will continue to invest in blockchain-enabled technology companies… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 3:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Today, Todd Wagner, CEO and founder of Chideo, announced the acquisition of crowdfunding platform, Prizeo. This move was to help expand his commitment to blend entertainment and technology to revolutionize the philanthropic space. Prizeo will serve as a sister company to Chideo, strengthening the cause network’s already impressive roster of… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 2:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Weighing in on Taylor Swift’s recent move to convince Apple to start paying independent artists, CEO of Indiegogo, Slava Rubin, sat down with Squawk Alley to reveal his thoughts on the situation. Recently the country-gone-pop starlet revealed her thoughts about Apple and how she didn’t… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 1:00 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Cloud Lending Solutions, the industry’s only end-to-end lending solution built natively on the Salesforce.com platform, just tweeted its multiple product updates to its loan and marketplace solutions, empowering lenders to get to market faster and simplify and automate their loan processes to drive revenue growth…. Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 12:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Indiegogo announced that it has created new and improved shipping perks for all campaigns. The global crowdfunding platform shared: “Indiegogo is a truly global platform – every week we distribute funds to campaigners in 70-100 countries. Campaigners can easily connect with contributors on… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 12:37 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Returbo is a market leader within the secondary market for e-commerce products, a profitable business which will likely generate more than €6M in revenues in 2015. Returbo garners profitably by selling customer returns and other secondary market products through its more than 30 online sales channels… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 12:08 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Indiegogo, the crowdfunding website often overshadowed by bigger and better-known competitor Kickstarter, says its users have raised “significantly above” $500 million since its 2008 inception. That’s about a third of the amount that Kickstarter users have raised in roughly the same time period, reported Inc’s… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 11:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nineteen of the UK’s hottest new producer/director teams have raised £40k through  – helping them to unlock £100k of match funding as part of Creative England’s iShorts initiative. The iShorts campaign, delivered in partnership with Crowdfunder, as part of the BFI NET.WORK, aims to promote some of the country’s… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 11:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Sharing details about his Kickstarter success Wasteland 2, video game developer Brian Fargo sat down to chat about the highly anticipated RPG and his experience with the crowdfunding giant at last week’s E3 event. According to its campaign, Wasteland 2 is described as the direct sequel to… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 9:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

IgnitionDeck, Inc., a provider of WordPress-based e-commerce solutions, has acquired the popular GIG theme for musicians and bands. GIG joins Fundify, CrowdPress, and the IgnitionDeck products in the company’s line of popular offerings for fee-free crowdfunding on WordPress. GIG empowers bands and musicians to create… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mapme, a plug and play community visualization platform, announced the completion of a seed funding round of $1 million dollars from investors Gigi Levy, Daniel Recanati , Kima Ventures and the DRW Trading Group and others. The funding will be used to further product development and… Read More

June 22, 2015 @ 3:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, lending platform Biz2Credit.com announced that it has surpassed the 200,000 benchmark of small- and mid-sized businesses registered in its client network. The company, which has now arranged more than $1.2 billion financing, also has revamped its patented BizAnalyzer™ tool, which evaluates the financial strength of… Read More