General News

April 6, 2015 @ 3:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

The next Crowdfunding  Asia event, originally scheduled to take place next week in Jakarta, Indonesia, has been postponed until later this year.  According to event organizers this was to accommodate the schedule of President Joko Widodo who was expected to make an appearance and open the event… Read More

April 6, 2015 @ 12:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

He made his hit web series Video Game High School come to life thanks to backers of its campaigns, and now Freddie Wong is ready to share his very own secrets to crowdfunding success. During his interview with Tubefilter, Wong discussed the key steps of creating a… Read More

April 6, 2015 @ 11:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

OSL Holdings Inc. (“OSL” or “the Company”), a socially conscious business model dedicated to consumer advocacy, social activism and the advancement of civil liberties through the power of commerce, announced its intent to enter into a joint venture and licensing agreement with Cheryl Shuman, news personality,… Read More

April 5, 2015 @ 8:01 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

One Spark, one of the world’s largest crowdfunding festivals, is about to fill Jacksonville, Fl., with 555 projects in art, education, health and science, music, social good and technology. From April 7 to April 12, the festival gives attendees a chance to contribute to Creator Projects, and vote for… Read More

April 4, 2015 @ 10:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Beehive, the UAE’s leading online marketplace for peer-to-peer finance announced it has reached a critical milestone where over 1,000 people have registered to become investors since its official launch in November 2014. This represents an average month-on-month growth of 20% in registration numbers since the company’s inception… Read More

April 3, 2015 @ 2:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In recognizing April as Philanthropy Month, Missouri University of Science and Technology has announced campus-wide projects dedicated to serving the university’s community and also launched its crowdfunding platform, Crowdfunding.mst.edu, to encourage innovation. On Friday, the university announced: “April is Philanthropy Month at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Special events… Read More

April 3, 2015 @ 12:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With her Billion Dollar Bully documentary gaining more funds through crowdfunding giant Kickstarter and even more attention in the media, Prost Production’s Kaylie Milliken sat down with Grub Street to share her thoughts about Yelp and the past scandals that surrounds the very popular review website. While discussing how she thought… Read More

April 3, 2015 @ 10:45 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Yodlee Interactive, a unit of Yodlee  which powers financial innovation by providing its APIs to developers, entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 innovators, announced its business has grown significantly in Australia and New Zealand in 2014. This traction demonstrates financial technology as a global burgeoning space, with businesses and… Read More

April 3, 2015 @ 10:16 am By Erin Hobey  |  

OurCrowd has invested in Global Kinetics Corporation (GKC), an Australian medical IT company that has developed and is selling a proprietary tracking and analysis technology improving the management of Parkinson’s Disease (PD).  The campaign is set to close on 10 April, 2015. GKC was established in 2007 to commercialize innovative… Read More

April 3, 2015 @ 9:23 am By Erin Hobey  |  

VarageSale, the online marketplace for people to buy, sell and connect with their local communities, announced its partnership with Lightspeed and Sequoia, raising $34 million. The financing will be used to further enhance the VarageSale user experience and to continue to expand the company’s user base… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 3:15 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Regulation has provided the injection the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) industry needed to take off, according to RateSetter CEO, Rhydian Lewis. As the P2P platform celebrates almost £122 million in loans during Q1 and a year as “number one,” RateSetter cites regulation as a crucial turning point for… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 11:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Renaud Laplanche is best known for turning the world of finance upside down by launching Lending Club – the worlds largest peer to peer lending platform. What you probably did not know is that he is an avid sailor too – and a competitive one… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 10:04 am By Erin Hobey  |  

CAN Capital, a player in alternative small business finance, announced today that it secured a $650 million credit facility from a dozen leading lenders. Led by Wells Fargo Capital Finance, the transaction includes new commitments from Morgan Stanley, Barclays, UBS, J.P. Morgan, SunTrust Bank and First… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 9:52 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek and money manager BlackRock are set to buy stakes in Funding Circle in deals that could value the British peer-to-peer lending platform at more than $1 billion, reported Sky News today. Temasek plans to invest about 30 million pounds ($44.4 million)… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 9:17 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Seeking to go to the source, UBS will open a fintech innovation lab at the Level39 accelerator space in London’s Canary Wharf, according to TechWorld’s Sam Shead.  The global wealth manager hopes that the lab, set up by a UBS team of fintech specialists, will aid its understanding… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 8:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

GenYrator, a millennial focused and founded equity crowdfunding platform, has launched its private beta concentrating initially on startups from USC, the alma mater of co-founder Sean Nasiri. GenYrator looks for emerging generation-y founded businesses with revenue that are not quite ready for institutional investors, and… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 1:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Celebrating the first of April with some unusual news (or prank), global crowdfunding giant, Indiegogo unveiled a new service called Indiegogo Heat, which is dedicated to all “hot sauce” campaigns. The platform stated: “Building off the success of Indiegogo Life, we’ve decided to expand into the… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 11:22 am By Erin Hobey  |  

FinTech Sandbox announced today that risk management startup Prophis Technology has been admitted to its program. Prophis is the first startup to join the Sandbox since the program’s official launch earlier in March. FinTech Sandbox is a Boston-based nonprofit that helps global FinTech startups build innovative products… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 11:06 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The 1970 NYC Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual, by Unimark’s Massimo Vignelli and Bob Noorda, was kickstarted by Pentagram designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth and dedicated to Massimo Vignelli, Bob Noorda, and the Unimark staff, reissued in the early months of 2015 as a full-size book. Licensed exclusively from the MTA and… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 10:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

WAIT FOR IT … April Fools DAY! – It’s really a whopping 7%! Even on this day of practical jokes, it’s no laughing matter how few women can attract funding for their tech startups. Advocacy organization Women Who Tech revealed women-led tech startups attract only 7%… Read More