General News

January 30, 2015 @ 9:48 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The peer-to-peer lending industry in the UK lent just over £1.2 billion in 2014 according to new figures released today from the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association (P2PFA). The sector has now lent more than £2.1 billion in total, doubling in size since the end of 2013, says the… Read More

January 30, 2015 @ 9:37 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Elsen has closed a $400,000 round of funding for its financial technology platform, the company announced today. Elsen plans to use this capital to accelerate growth and add additional resources to its engineering team. Elsen offers a platform for bringing massively-parallel processing to financial data. Complex… Read More

January 30, 2015 @ 9:26 am By Erin Hobey  |  

This week’s blizzard created havoc in the northeast, an in particular for the Tall Ship Sloop Providence which experienced excessive damage during the storm.  To pay for damage not covered by insurance, Tall Ship Providence Captain/Owner Thorpe Leeson and International Performance Artist Nichole Raab looked to raise 900K… Read More

January 29, 2015 @ 8:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

TweelX, a Nashville-based startup that launched its patent-pending Music Stock Exchange in 2013, has raised $200,000 in series A funding. Three investors participated in the transaction last month, including La Ragazza & Associates and Atlantic Merchant Capital Investors. Co-founder and CEO of TweelX, Chase Tweel… Read More

January 29, 2015 @ 12:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Running a crowdfunding campaign, be it for rewards or other, takes a ton of work. The team at Crowdfund Insider continues to see promising products that fail in their crowdfunding venture mainly due to lack of preparation and the fact that too many creators believe:… Read More

January 28, 2015 @ 2:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Real estate startup accelerator program, elmspring, announced this week that two participants of its program, PeerRealty and ReaLync, are set to featured at the January 2015’s Technori Pitch. Technori Pitch is described as “a monthly showcase of innovative starters, showcasing what they have just launched.” The series has brought over… Read More

January 28, 2015 @ 1:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fund Wisdom, an equity analytics firm analyzing online equity offerings, released its first annual Investment Insight report for 2014. The report details industry-wide online private equity offerings from top investment platforms including AngelList, SeedInvest, WeFunder, Onevest, Fundable, EquityNet, Return On Change, CrowdFunder, and EarlyShares for… Read More

January 28, 2015 @ 1:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, Crowdfund Insider reported on Alchemiya, a premium online subscription-based video on demand platform for Muslim entertainment, which launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £60,000 so that it may expand its already growing services. It was known as the first Muslim media company… Read More

January 28, 2015 @ 12:02 pm By Richard Swart  |  

Last week the UC Berkeley case study on Sanovas Inc., the San Rafael California Life Science accelerator was presented  at the JP Morgan Chase OneMed conference to a packed audience of over 120 investors.  I presented the case study, which is the first in a… Read More

January 28, 2015 @ 11:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Debrett‘s, an online source on British social skills, etiquette and style, recently announced its annual Britain’s 500 Most Influential List. This list features very well known people in British society and is carefully complied by independent panels of specialists in each field who has provided… Read More

January 28, 2015 @ 9:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

One week down, nearly three more weeks to go! The Oatmeal’s Matthew Inman has been super busy continuing to promote his already Kickstarter success card game, Exploding Kittens.Now the project is nearing $4.3 million on the crowdfunding giant’s platform and has been dubbed the “The Most… Read More

January 28, 2015 @ 9:12 am By JD Alois  |  

This is a bit of an interesting story of the disruption occurring in the UK real estate market. The internet is improving all forms of commerce.  Real estate is one of the industries in dire need of innovation.  A company called theiPropertyCompany launched last year… Read More

January 28, 2015 @ 8:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seed&Spark, a crowdfunding and distribution platform for independent filmmakers and Wemo.io, a virtual reality technology and platform company, today jointly launched a diversity-minded grants program to empower independent filmmakers to become part of the growing virtual reality (VR) industry. During the Sundance Film Festival, Wemo.io… Read More

January 28, 2015 @ 8:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With the increasingly competitive landscape of the toy development and retail industries, crowd funding has emerged as a gateway for toy innovators to display and gather support for ideas that may have been passed up by large toy companies. ToyBacker announced on Wednesday (January 28th)… Read More

January 28, 2015 @ 4:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Luxembourg based Mangopay, a payment solutions provider that works with a broad variety of transactional sites including crowdfunding platforms, has opened up an office Level 39, Canary Wharf in London positioning the company for further growth.  The Mangopay API was released in 2013 and today has… Read More

January 27, 2015 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

The United Kingdom led the way in venture capital for Q4 of 2014. The UK led Europe for both number of deals and amount raised. Germany took second place under both these metrics with the Netherlands in 3rd. The UK received € 524 million across 69… Read More

January 27, 2015 @ 11:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Oppenheimer & Co.  was hit by a significant fine by the SEC for violating federal securities laws. Oppenheimer has agreed to admit wrongdoing and pay $10 million to settle the charges, according to the SEC.  Oppenheimer will pay an additional $10 million to settle a parallel… Read More

January 27, 2015 @ 11:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Green Party has pioneered a new path for British politics by using Crowdfunder to raise money, campaign and bring greater choice to voters in 2015. Over the last three months 64 Green Party parliamentary candidates have used Crowdfunder, gathering the support of over 2,500 backers and… Read More

January 27, 2015 @ 10:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Investors have been given a chance to profit from the popularity of sailing, after the company behind a new round Britain yacht race that’s open to all listed on the crowdfunding platform, Funding Tree. Circular Sailing, which has already attracted substantial equity investment, is now seeking… Read More

January 27, 2015 @ 9:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

MobileCause, a mobile, social and online fundraising platform, has released its newest service, crowdfunding for nonprofits. This new product empowers organizations to conveniently raise donations through volunteers, board members, donors and staff. Differing from traditional crowdfunding for projects, MobileCause crowdfunding pages can be setup on a… Read More