General News

November 20, 2014 @ 10:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Joanna L. Schwartz, the CEO and Co-Founder of EarlyShares, enables individuals and companies to leverage the JOBS Act to capitalize on new investing and capital raising opportunities. An award-winning executive, Schwartz has over 20 years of experience as a successful leader, advisor, and entrepreneur. Prior to… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 3:18 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

LexShares, a crowdfunding platform founded by Jay Greenberg and his business partner Max Volsky,  launched today.   Investors buy a stake in the outcome of a lawsuit by giving businesses the cash they need to operate while their cases go forward. “There’s really an education… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 3:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdfunding gets simplified today (November 19th) with the launch of Krowdster, which has been dubbed the world’s first crowdfunding analytics, research and supporter discovery tool. Taking the guess work out of decision making, campaign creation and supporter engagement, the unique Krowdster web app is powered… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 12:12 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

With the support of over 23 investors, Bitreserve, a money service that makes using digital money easy, fast and free, quickly posted over £4,6M of its £6M goal in funding for 10.70% equity offered through Venovate Marketplace, a U.S.-based brokerage platform for alternative investing, and London-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. Bitreserve,… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 11:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo, announced on Wednesday (November 19th) its reduced fees and added support for nonprofit and social-change campaigns linked with the third annual international #GivingTuesday initiative. #GivingTuesday encourages people worldwide to celebrate generosity. Cause-related campaigns that launch through the #GivingTuesday partnership page on Indiegogo before December 2nd will receive fee discounts of at least 10%… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 11:29 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PENSCO has expanded The PENSCO Marketplace with the addition of four new crowdfunding portals – LendZoan, Equity Round, EarlyShares and SilverPortalXchange. The new participants join the original five sites, which are CircleUp, HealthiosXchange, I-Bankers Direct, RockThePost and Zanbato, in the online marketplace, a first-of-its-kind network of crowdfunding providers, products and services, giving individual accredited investors unparalleled access to… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 11:24 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Lending Club, the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, today launched a new “SuperPrime” loan product offering that expands the options available to borrowers with the highest credit quality.This new product line provides a two-year AA term loan for $10,000 or less (with… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 10:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Spindle, Inc., a provider of mobile commerce solutions, announced that Tony VanBrackle has been appointed to its board of directors effective immediately. In this capacity, VanBrackle will help Spindle refine and execute its strategy for delivering a comprehensive mobile commerce solution that serves the needs… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 9:16 am By Anthony Zeoli  |  

While just recently uploaded, sometime in October David Tatman, the administrator of the Division of Finance and Corporate Securities, filed a “Statement Of Need And Fiscal Impact” with the Oregon Secretary of State proposing , what he refers to as, “Community Public Offerings” (CPOs) …… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 8:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ganjapreneur, a website dedicated to cannabis business news and culture, recently published an interview with Matt Gray, CEO of The Stoner’s Cookbook, a resource for marijuana culinary enthusiasts to find and share infused recipes. In the interview, Gray discussed how he became involved in the project over… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 8:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Lauded by Thomas Power, Founder of Ecademy and pioneer of UK social media, citing Deep Impact as “the most important debate of a lifetime. It’s time to set capital free of governments and banks,” Crowdfund Insider readers have the opportunity below to read highlights from the… Read More

November 18, 2014 @ 6:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Taking time away from their successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, the Arx Pax labs team invited professional skateboarder, Tony Hawk, to check out and test ride the already famous Hendo Hoverboard at the company’s headquarters in Los Gatos, California last Wednesday (November 12th). As previously reported,… Read More

November 18, 2014 @ 1:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

  PENSCO Trust is a leader in the self-directed IRA industry holding around $11 billion in assets under custody today.  The company received a dramatic boost in 2012 when they acquired the IRA business of Lincoln Trust, described as a “game changer” by the financial… Read More

November 18, 2014 @ 11:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Petcube, the company that keeps people connected with their pets, announced today that it has begun shipping its highly anticipated self-titled camera just in time for the holiday season. The Petcube Camera, launched on Kickstarter in September 2013, is considered the first product that allows… Read More

November 18, 2014 @ 10:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this year, online recruitment marketplace, Hiring-Hub launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on VentureFounders to raise £425,000 for expansion. The company successfully hit its goal and has announced it appointed a new chairman and non-executive director. Hiring-Hub is described as “an award-winning, online recruitment marketplace, revolutionizing… Read More

November 18, 2014 @ 10:49 am By JD Alois  |  

CEI Report on Crowdfunding Tells Congress & Regulators to End ‘Millionaires Only’ Rules for Investment During Global Entrepreneurship Week, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) released a new report on how regulation threatens entrepreneurs and their abilities to start businesses, create jobs, and bring new products… Read More

November 18, 2014 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

The “Worlds Largest Crowdfunding Festival” One Spark has shared the lineup for their 2015 Speaker Summit scheduled for April 7, 2015 at the Florida Theatre in Jacksonville. Headliners for this year’s One Spark Speaker Summit presented by Community First Credit Union include; Jeff Hoffman, founder… Read More

November 18, 2014 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Estonia based Buildit is the first hardware accelerator in the Baltic States and Nordic countries.  The program is currently accepting hardware startups worldwide.  During the 3 month program teams use their prototyping facilities. Startups are offered free open office space at Tartu Science Park and can… Read More

November 17, 2014 @ 6:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

At Crowdfund Insider, we have investigated some diverse crowdfunding projects and platforms – you name it, we have more than likely seen it. But never have we heard anything like this. Deep Dot Web has reported that pornographers have created a new, hidden platform that allows… Read More

November 17, 2014 @ 11:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last Friday (November 14th), Caterham F1 announced the exciting new that it will making its way to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix this upcoming Saturday (November 22nd) all thanks to its 7-day crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, raising £2m of the £2.35m target. Unfortunately, during the same… Read More